sleep disruptions

[jsimms615]

I have a 8 year old boy who has both diabetes Type I and ADHD. He never seems to want to go to bed at night and it is always a battle. Then, in the morning, he is hard to wake up and basically sleeps until the car pulls up to the school. His blood sugars are doing okay.
I was wondering if anyone has found a trick to getting their kids in bed and ending this nightly battle. He always wants to sleep in our bed or on the floor near our bed and never in his own room. If I put him in his room, he will toss and turn and come back out of his room numerous times. I work full time and so does my wife and we are both tired and I would like to get to bed at a decent hour also.

 

[Knightlock]

I have a 8 year old boy who has both diabetes Type I and ADHD. He never seems to want to go to bed at night and it is always a battle. Then, in the morning, he is hard to wake up and basically sleeps until the car pulls up to the school. His blood sugars are doing okay.
I was wondering if anyone has found a trick to getting their kids in bed and ending this nightly battle. He always wants to sleep in our bed or on the floor near our bed and never in his own room. If I put him in his room, he will toss and turn and come back out of his room numerous times. I work full time and so does my wife and we are both tired and I would like to get to bed at a decent hour also.

First of all I am sorry to hear that your son has diabetes as it must be tough on the little guy. With that there is no advice that I can give.

As for the ADD, since I have it I can tell you from personal experence that it will not be easy. But there might be a treatment.

For years I have had trouble sleeping and most nights I only get about three hours or so. However I discovered a pill called sleep MD which gets me to sleep and I sleep for about eight hours. It is all natural so there are no risks of dependency from what I can tell.

However this is for adults. I would think that the best thing that you can do is get some sort of sleeping aid for children and give it to your son and see how it works.

Hope this helps.

 

[Kareen]

I used to go through the same thing with my 9 year old. It got to be so bad that I was living on 1 hour's sleep a night until my doctor prescribed melatonin for him about a year ago and it has been a lifesaver. He now sleeps most nights and is now normally sleeping by between 9pm and 10pm as opposed to 4am in the morning like he used to be. He takes 2 x 3mg capsules about half an hour before going to bed. I would certainly ask your doctor about this.