Re: Re epsm slt, not so amazing,Pat

March 26, 2001

We are up to .2 mg. clonidine...I also discovered that the GABA I got at

the hfs had some unwanted ingredients...next time i'll get it from Kirkman's

...but she was only on the GABA 10 days or so...sleep probs much more

chronic.

April in SE Pa

March 26, 2001

My daughter has always slept for 3-4 hours nightly since birth (usually 3).

She is 3.5, the Dr. put her on Chlonodine as well. I found that a full pill

makes her crazy, it is like she is too high to sleep. She weighs about 35

pounds. So I started giving her half a pill (which are the .1 mg size) at

around 8:00pm and then I give her another 1/4 pill around 8:45. By 9:00 she

is ready for bed and will sleep until around 5:00am. If she does wake in the

middle of the night she will go back to sleep so much easier than she used

to. Sometimes I will give her another 1/4 pill to help her get back to sleep.

When I was giving the whole pill she would fall asleep by 9:00 and then be up

by midnight either screaming or trying to crawl out of the bed and just

really acting bizarre down on the floor. We deal with bizarre daily but this

is like really higher than a kite behavior. another thing that I think helps

is to turn the TV on when she wakes up, I watch FOLATE volume low, otherwise

she will talk to her hands and try to burrow under the covers playing around.

I too tried the Epson salt bathes and didn't see any difference. Another

thing that I thought helped was the addition of the brainchild nutritionals

vitamins, as long as she doesn't get too much...... on and on

March 26, 2001

It sounds like you do a pretty good job of keeping track of your child's

sleep, and I recommend everyone on the list whose children have sleep issues

to keep a sleep diary. We keep a very detailed one for . When we

start crunching the numbers we really start to learn. (Of course we keep a

food diary too, which I also highly recommend for every using the diet.) If

anyone wants info on sleep diaries, e-mail me privately and I'll be glad to

share.

Pat in Ohio

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