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Clonidine - any experiences with this?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 449317" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 10px">It really helped in keeping rages at bay or at the very least, lessening their severity. It also helped her to sleep at night. Falling asleep wasn't so much of a problem, but <em>remaining</em> asleep was and the clonidine helped. In regards to therapy, I would say that the clonidine kept her calm enough so that during a therapy session she was able to stay present and not fall to pieces (and rendering the session useless). She was on it for approximately 3 years. Due to her low blood pressure and other issues, she was switched off of it and onto risperdal instead, which was also helpful in the same regards, however, it had adverse side effects for my difficult child and had to be discontinued.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 449317, member: 2211"] [COLOR=#008080][SIZE=2]It really helped in keeping rages at bay or at the very least, lessening their severity. It also helped her to sleep at night. Falling asleep wasn't so much of a problem, but [I]remaining[/I] asleep was and the clonidine helped. In regards to therapy, I would say that the clonidine kept her calm enough so that during a therapy session she was able to stay present and not fall to pieces (and rendering the session useless). She was on it for approximately 3 years. Due to her low blood pressure and other issues, she was switched off of it and onto risperdal instead, which was also helpful in the same regards, however, it had adverse side effects for my difficult child and had to be discontinued.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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