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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.   Thanks everyone for your insights.  A little about why we are on Intuniv vs. stims.  She used to have ticks, so we wanted to avoid stims which could worsen them.  She has been on Intuniv for about 6 weeks and the ticks are finally gone.  We have been playing with dosages, so that may be causing the sleep disturbances.  Honestly before we started meds, she was a SOLID sleeper.

We still have the baby gate at the top of our stairs and she has a hard time opening it.  Last night we closed the gate so that she would not be able to go downstairs without making a lot of noise.  Not sure if she slept through or not, but she stayed in bed (because she had to).  Maybe this will get her out of the cycle of resorting to screens if she awakens and can't get right back to sleep.  She does have a hard time with impulse control, so this is probably more about that than anything else.  But when it comes to losing that much sleep, it is alarming to me.  Hoping it is more about breaking the cycle and that will be the end of it!

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Intuniv (actually Tenex, the generic) resulted in disturbed sleep in our DC.  It's not an unknown side effect.  Maybe something to bring up with her doctor ...
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Thanks for this.  We actually were doing great for a while with this medication but because of it seeming to wear off toward the end of the day, we split the dose, and that is when we got into trouble with the sleep.  She would fall asleep during the day too.  So now we have her back on just the evening dose (as of two days ago) and hope that will get her back on track.  It has made a world of difference with her behavior and with impulse control, but we still are not quite where we would like to be.  Considering adding stims now that her ticks are under control.
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