Re: sleep medications, EPD

[Guest guest]

My son is on a comb. of Tenex, Chlonidine, and Trazadone, we also use

melatonin for the nightly wake up session. He was originally on Chlonidine

but he grew too much and it did not work anymore, we could not increase the

dosage anymore and tried different things, this was our last resort... and

thank goodness it worked, and has for 3 years now. Dawn in Alabama

sleep medications, EPD

> I have a few questions. First, my son has a major sleep problem -

difficulty falling asleep but much more difficulty staying asleep. If he

wakes up- he is wired and up the rest of the night. OI've had no success

with behavioral strategies. I've tried melatonin, chlonidine,

calcium/magnesium, zinc and finally respirodol. He takes 0.5 cc before bed.

He still wakes up but does go back to bed without a major problem.

> Last week I went to a new doctor who suggested L-Tryptophan. I tried 1/2

tab thrn 1 tab but he still woke up wired and couldn't sleep past 3:00 am. I

guess I'm back to respiridol which I have mixed feelings about and concern

about the long term effects. Does anyone have any suggestions of someting I

may be missing. has been GFCF for about 6-8 months (many setbacks)

Yeast and sugar free for close to it for 5 weeks. He takes SNT,

TMG,probitoics, yeast control, CLO. He still wakes up anxious with huge

sugar cravings.

> Lastly, has anyone had success with Enzyme potentiated Desenstization. My

doctor recommends we try this for . it seem like an overwhelming

undertaking. We are testing for heavy metal toxicity as well

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[Guest guest]

has had sleep problems off and on ever since he was born. It seems

like he would sleep decent (not good) for a few nights or a week, then swing

back to staying up at night for a few nights or a week. However, when we

started SNT he started waking up between 12 and 2am and staying up until 5

or 6 every morning. We stopped the SNT yesterday (he also started hand

flapping on SNT which he had never done before) and hopefully we'll get some

sleep at least some nights. We'll continue with melatonin/magnesium and

epsom salt baths.

Pat in Ohio

[Guest guest]

What is SNT?

My daughter has very chronic sleep problems. Unfortunately, we use meds

and still struggle. A non-medicinal help was a weighted blanket. You can

get a perscription written and probably covered by insurance. Ours was about

$125 two years ago.

There is also a book out called Sleep Better by...Mark Durand, I think

out of Albany NY.

[Guest guest]

SNT is Super Nu-Thera. It's a supplement from www.kirkmanlabs.com that's

specially formulated for asd kids. I think it adversly affected '

sleep habits even though we only gave him 1/3 of the recommended dose and

gave it to him first thing in the morning.

Pat in Ohio

[Guest guest]

I know people who swear by SNT, but I have spoken with others where there

child appeared to become hyper. I don't know if it has to do with dosage, or

if the hyperness would wear off as they get used to it. My child is 10 and

we tried it when she was much younger. I could never get much of it in

her...but I would like to try it again soon.

April-Simona's mom

[Guest guest]

I think I can say for the majority of us that this is a comon occurance. My son

also has sleeping problems. Normal bed time 1-2 AM and then he will wake at

about 3:30, go back to bed at 5. Then re-wake at 9. Anyway, point I'm getting at

is, have you tried epsim salt?(sorry spelling is wrong) We started this last

week and by gosh! It's working! I now know the beacause we ran out 2 days ago

and last night he woke up again at 3:30. You may want to give it a try, it's

vary cheap, like $2 a box. This lasted us almost a week.

I have heard others talking about a specific SNT and how it was causing

hyper-activity. If I can remember right, you may want to try the

?hypo-alergenic? SNT. There was a guy here a while ago named Dave from Kirkmans,

he was always helpfull when it came to vitamin questions. Maybe if you put

SNT-Dave in the subject, it would catch his eye :-)

The sugar thing sound like the yeast beastie's going nuts, so to say. My son

also went through masive sugar cravings when we started yeast treatment.

hopefully this won't last to long for your little guy! Can't tell you much more

about the yeast issue, we stoped treatment after a couple weeks of vary bad bm's

and other problems. We have yet to re-start.

Hope some of this helps.

Mom to " Robby 5 " 4 and 1

sleep medications, EPD

I have a few questions. First, my son has a major sleep problem - difficulty

falling asleep but much more difficulty staying asleep. If he wakes up- he is

wired and up the rest of the night. OI've had no success with behavioral

strategies. I've tried melatonin, chlonidine, calcium/magnesium, zinc and

finally respirodol. He takes 0.5 cc before bed. He still wakes up but does go

back to bed without a major problem.

Last week I went to a new doctor who suggested L-Tryptophan. I tried 1/2 tab

thrn 1 tab but he still woke up wired and couldn't sleep past 3:00 am. I guess

I'm back to respiridol which I have mixed feelings about and concern about the

long term effects. Does anyone have any suggestions of someting I may be

missing. has been GFCF for about 6-8 months (many setbacks) Yeast and

sugar free for close to it for 5 weeks. He takes SNT, TMG,probitoics, yeast

control, CLO. He still wakes up anxious with huge sugar cravings.

Lastly, has anyone had success with Enzyme potentiated Desenstization. My doctor

recommends we try this for . it seem like an overwhelming undertaking. We

are testing for heavy metal toxicity as well