Clonidine and bed wetting

[stephanie726]

My five year old son has high functioning autism and ADHD. He is now potty trained but can be quite hyperactive before bedtime and has a hard time winding down at night. We have tried everything to calm him down and have a good bedtime routine. He gets plenty of fresh air and exercise. He is on 20 mg of ritilan during the day. His psychiatrist prescribed 1 tablet of clonidine before bedtime to help him fall asleep and stay asleep. The medication has worked for this. However, he has begun bedwetting recently twice a night. I try to limit the liquids and have him go potty before i go to bed at 11:00 but he still goes at 3:00. I don't know if the clonidine makes him too groggy to get up and use the potty or not and I am not sure what to do about this. Please help!

[mom2387]

My son is ADHD and was having alot of trouble sleping at night and was prescribed clonidine. It had not affect on him and he continued to wake up and wander during the night. I discovered that this medication is a blood pressure medication and our pediatrician was not monitoring him while he was on this. We also have tried the melatonin and he was up to 3mg a night and it had no affect.

[SupermomNC]

Our doctor had us try 1 mg of melatonin and it works well.  Natural, so no side affects, we have had to increase to 2 mg on occassion, but it doesn't knock him out like the clonidine did.  Maybe you could try that?