Night time anxiety
My 7 year Asperger, ADHD, OCD son has been CF for 4 months and GF for 2 weeks. It is so amazing to see the change in him! Im getting my boy back. He is onceagain silly, smiling, and best of all actually happy.
My questions are:#1) Is it a “normal” reaction to become even more hyperactive? He has becomemore fidgety and restless….(but I’ll most certainly take that over sedated anddepressed). I was just wondering if it might actually be a withdrawl?????
#2) His night time anxiety has become a little more noticeable. We have triedthe Melatonin which made no difference. Warm baths with Lavender, lotion rubs,his favorite music (Enya), even moved his little sister in his room because heended up in her bed by morning anyway. Use a nightlight…..everything we canthink of. He still has anxiety over “bed time night” (as he calls it). Thereis not one defined thing he is afraid of like the dark or monsters under thebed. That would be too easy!Has anyone tried anything like aromatherapy or some sort of homeopathic “remedy”for peacefulness. I know that sound somewhat insane, but I have exhausted everyother possibility and my husband and I are zombies!!
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Adan Mcguirl said,
Wrote on April 16, 2007 @ 1:35 am
There’s quite a few homeopathic remedies, but would need morespecifics. For instance, is it when he is in bed? Is he wakingfrom dreams? In the dark? After a bath or is even when he doesn’tbathe?or is it just right before he goes to sleep? Does he desireyour company? Etc. Lots of remedies. The one that worked for myson was stram, but another friend of mine’s son required Arsenicum.Lots of variables with homeopahty. Let me know.