This was something we always said we wouldn’t do, but we are so sleep deprived ourselves that it’s taking it’s toll on the whole family. I want to discuss the possibility of starting serotonin with my sons pead. He finds it very difficult to settle in bed, and needs us to go in, try to calm him down, put him back into bed over and over again. He gets very hyper at night, and laughs hysterically and then flips into a violent meltdown and then flips into hysterical laughter again. It is hours before he finally settles and goes to sleep. We also have to check several times he hasn’t soiled himself (he stool withholds and when he finally relaxes it often leaks) and so we have to check for this so we can clean it up right away, if we don’t get to him straight away it annoys him and he starts smearing it. During the day he can be extremely hyper and jumpy, or extremely irritable. It’s very hard to do any therapy/schoolwork/activities with him meaningfully when he is like this, so I have been looking up Risoerdone and also want to discuss this with the doctor as if it could just calm him enough even so he could focus just a little bit more. I never ever wanted to medicate him and I know medication should be a last resort and there long term effects of taking it but I’m at the stage where I just want to help him any way I can. Has anyone on here any experience of medicines for your autistic child, what made you do it and how did you find it?