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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 329358" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>So here's a question I have...</p><p> </p><p>Once somebody's triggered into a little cycle, so to speak, how long can it take to get back to baseline? </p><p></p><p>difficult child 2 is now on his fourth, possibly fifth night having trouble sleeping. At first, I thought it was all the excitement over Christmas. But we've kept things low key here the past few days. We weren't out late Christmas Day, only spent 3 hours at my uncle's and got home by 6:30pm. Sent difficult child 2 to bed by 9pm. Let him sleep until noon the next day. Despite giving him his evening medications at the same time, he's going to sleep later each night it seems. And this morning he got himself up earlier than he normally would... about two hours at least.</p><p> </p><p>I'm wondering if this is just going to get worse on its own and whether I should bump up his evening Seroquel XR to see if that helps... Our psychiatrist is closed until Jan. 6th.</p><p> </p><p>The week of 12/14 psychiatrist had us lower the evening Seroquel XR by 100mg (to 600mg) and increase the afternoon dose by 100mg (to 500mg) -- so he's getting the same amount each day, just distributed differently to manage symptoms better (he was too sedated in the morning and not focused enough in the afternoons).</p><p> </p><p>Why, oh why is stability such an elusive and fragile thing for this kid?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 329358, member: 3444"] So here's a question I have... Once somebody's triggered into a little cycle, so to speak, how long can it take to get back to baseline? difficult child 2 is now on his fourth, possibly fifth night having trouble sleeping. At first, I thought it was all the excitement over Christmas. But we've kept things low key here the past few days. We weren't out late Christmas Day, only spent 3 hours at my uncle's and got home by 6:30pm. Sent difficult child 2 to bed by 9pm. Let him sleep until noon the next day. Despite giving him his evening medications at the same time, he's going to sleep later each night it seems. And this morning he got himself up earlier than he normally would... about two hours at least. I'm wondering if this is just going to get worse on its own and whether I should bump up his evening Seroquel XR to see if that helps... Our psychiatrist is closed until Jan. 6th. The week of 12/14 psychiatrist had us lower the evening Seroquel XR by 100mg (to 600mg) and increase the afternoon dose by 100mg (to 500mg) -- so he's getting the same amount each day, just distributed differently to manage symptoms better (he was too sedated in the morning and not focused enough in the afternoons). Why, oh why is stability such an elusive and fragile thing for this kid? [/QUOTE]
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