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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 254915" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>I'm with you, Janet. </p><p> </p><p>Susie, we've tried melatonin, tenex, and clonodine for sleep. Melatonin does nothing. Clonodine and tenex do nothing when he's manic. When he's not manic, we can't get the doses down small enough to not knock him out for hours and hours and hours - we were using 1/8 of .1mg tablets and still making him sleep for 13 or 14 hours. Plus he seemed to be a lot more aggressive on the clonodine and really groggy on the tenex.</p><p> </p><p>If he is overly tired, his behavior will be worse, but there's been plenty of nights that he'll have stayed up all night long and be fine all the next day. In fact, one of his best days at this public school was a day that he went to bed at 6pm, got up at 10pm, stayed up all night, all day the next day, and went to bed at 9 the next night. Now, had he gotten tired in there, it would have probably not been very good, but he didn't; he was fine. </p><p> </p><p>He used to stay up all night on a regular basis and it was awful cause someone had to stay up with him (I don't know how I survived this child - when he was 14 months to age 4.5, he slept about half the nights). Now its occassional, and he's old enough he'll just veg in front of the tv (which is not something he normally does, either - he's not big a tv watcher). The worst thing he'll do now is eat whatever he wants and maybe string legos all over the living room floor and not pick them up until morning. The last time he was up all night, he drank 1/3 of a 2 liter bottle of root beer and ate chips and dip. I slept on the couch so he wasn't completely unattended, but I can't keep his hours and apparently missed the whole root beer thing, but really, in the scheme of things, that's not exactly hideous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 254915, member: 1848"] I'm with you, Janet. Susie, we've tried melatonin, tenex, and clonodine for sleep. Melatonin does nothing. Clonodine and tenex do nothing when he's manic. When he's not manic, we can't get the doses down small enough to not knock him out for hours and hours and hours - we were using 1/8 of .1mg tablets and still making him sleep for 13 or 14 hours. Plus he seemed to be a lot more aggressive on the clonodine and really groggy on the tenex. If he is overly tired, his behavior will be worse, but there's been plenty of nights that he'll have stayed up all night long and be fine all the next day. In fact, one of his best days at this public school was a day that he went to bed at 6pm, got up at 10pm, stayed up all night, all day the next day, and went to bed at 9 the next night. Now, had he gotten tired in there, it would have probably not been very good, but he didn't; he was fine. He used to stay up all night on a regular basis and it was awful cause someone had to stay up with him (I don't know how I survived this child - when he was 14 months to age 4.5, he slept about half the nights). Now its occassional, and he's old enough he'll just veg in front of the tv (which is not something he normally does, either - he's not big a tv watcher). The worst thing he'll do now is eat whatever he wants and maybe string legos all over the living room floor and not pick them up until morning. The last time he was up all night, he drank 1/3 of a 2 liter bottle of root beer and ate chips and dip. I slept on the couch so he wasn't completely unattended, but I can't keep his hours and apparently missed the whole root beer thing, but really, in the scheme of things, that's not exactly hideous. [/QUOTE]
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