Regina Finan wrote in a message to Mark Probert:
 RF> Haven't been in the Newsgroup lately.  I am currently
 RF> getting a new provider and do not have my mail.address on
 RF> file yet.  Will be back there when I get it.  We are also
 RF> currently beta testing a software and my BBS took a fall. So
 RF> I have been too busy to read and post here.
 RF> Would like to throw this at ya though.
 RF> Jeremy has been doing good on Ritalin.  Although his
 RF> behavior is getting out of control (much worse) when it
 RF> wears off about 9 pm.  Still is having sleeping problems.  I
 RF> did twice give it to him late in the day and that did seem
 RF> to help him get to sleep earlier than 3am.  Two questions
 RF> for ya: 
 RF> Can Ritalin help some sleep?  He is only still on a very low
 RF> dosage. 
Actually, I think Jeremy is experiencing what I call a "rebound".
The Ritalin keeps him calm during the day, enabling him to function normally.
When the Ritalin wears off, it seems like all the hyperactivity that didn't 
happen during the day is now released in the evening hours.
When we had my son on drugs to help control his hyperactivity, he reacted the 
same way.
I could tell it was wearing off as his activity level would increase, until 
at about 10 PM he would be running back and forth accross the ceilings.
And he would finally fall asleep around 2:30 AM and wake up at 5 AM rarin' to 
go again.
During the periods when we did not do drugs, he reacted normally and went to 
sleep at 9 or 10 PM and wake up at 6:30 to 7 AM.
He spent more time not taking drugs than taking them, because there were side 
effects of each drug that I did not want to put him through
 RF> I heard that sometimes when first starting Ritalin when it
 RF> wears off the behavior can get worse until the Ritalin
 RF> stabilizes in the body.  Is this true?
Probably.
It usually took several weeks for the drug to stabilize in my son's body when 
we gave him some.
 RF> 5mg twice a day is all he takes and it is doing a fairly
 RF> good job.  With no side effects, unless he forgets and eats
 RF> something with Tyramine.  That did happen once and he got a
 RF> severe headache for several minutes.  I believe it was a
 RF> banana. The headache lasted for 15 minutes and then gone. 
 RF> I'm thinking that if it helps him sleep maybe 3 times a day
 RF> on that dosage would be good.  Just wondered if you heard of
 RF> that.
 RF> Regina
 RF> ... Do what you will with this tagline, just don't bother me
 RF> about it! ---
 RF>  - Origin: Nite Lite BBS (1:2410/534)
Alan
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