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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 158523" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Hi Christy.</p><p> </p><p>I can't seem to find the posts, but there were others who had similar reactions to Clonodine. Perhaps post a threat with a subject of "clonodine and aggression?" or something to that effect.</p><p> </p><p>My son was originally prescribed the Clonodine 1/4 of a .1mg tablet twice daily for hyperactivity. The first problem we had with it was that we not able to titrate the dose down far enough to not knock him out. I was giving him literally a few crumbs of a pill and he'd fall asleep. The next suggestion was to use it at night and hope he had enough effects of it the net day to calm him some. That's when we noticed he was just plain <em>mean </em>all the time. His babysitter noticed it, too, so we did a little testing of the theory. A few days without Clonodine, and he was "normal" - intermittent bouts of aggression. Add the Clonodine back at night, you had a mean little boy the next day, <em>all</em> day. We did this several times over the course of a month with the same results, so I tossed the Clonodine and told his doctor. She had heard of this.</p><p> </p><p>We tried Tenex recently with the same problem...it just knocked him out. When we were not able to give him a dose that didn't knock him out, we didn't bother trying other dosing times, etc, like we did with the Clonodine, I just trashed it. </p><p> </p><p>We keep Clonodine on hand for sleep to use on the nights that he absolutely can't sleep, but we use it very sparingly, tiny little doses, we don't wake him up, we let him sleep til he gets up on his own, and school is a play-by-ear call after he wakes up. The effect doesn't seem as bad, but he's definitely less patient, even with a tiny dose once in a while.</p><p> </p><p>Hope this helps. There was very definitely a relationship between the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 158523, member: 1848"] Hi Christy. I can't seem to find the posts, but there were others who had similar reactions to Clonodine. Perhaps post a threat with a subject of "clonodine and aggression?" or something to that effect. My son was originally prescribed the Clonodine 1/4 of a .1mg tablet twice daily for hyperactivity. The first problem we had with it was that we not able to titrate the dose down far enough to not knock him out. I was giving him literally a few crumbs of a pill and he'd fall asleep. The next suggestion was to use it at night and hope he had enough effects of it the net day to calm him some. That's when we noticed he was just plain [I]mean [/I]all the time. His babysitter noticed it, too, so we did a little testing of the theory. A few days without Clonodine, and he was "normal" - intermittent bouts of aggression. Add the Clonodine back at night, you had a mean little boy the next day, [I]all[/I] day. We did this several times over the course of a month with the same results, so I tossed the Clonodine and told his doctor. She had heard of this. We tried Tenex recently with the same problem...it just knocked him out. When we were not able to give him a dose that didn't knock him out, we didn't bother trying other dosing times, etc, like we did with the Clonodine, I just trashed it. We keep Clonodine on hand for sleep to use on the nights that he absolutely can't sleep, but we use it very sparingly, tiny little doses, we don't wake him up, we let him sleep til he gets up on his own, and school is a play-by-ear call after he wakes up. The effect doesn't seem as bad, but he's definitely less patient, even with a tiny dose once in a while. Hope this helps. There was very definitely a relationship between the two. [/QUOTE]
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