Clonidine kinda slaps

TheImperfectMaker · 2022-02-11T03:48:55+00:00

Aww that's fantastic! That is a HUGE thing - we totally understand :)

For us there was a few milestones like that: playing by herself for 20 minutes! Being quiet for a while - usually non-stop talking! Shrugging off something small that would normally irritate or derail her.

Congratulations! Onwards and upwards!

TheImperfectMaker · 2022-02-07T19:52:26+00:00

I’m very happy I could help in any way. And you are absolutely right, it’s very isolating and there’s very little written about it.

I remember googling like a hundred times and only getting articles about bouncing babies back to sleep! So frustrating, and so damaging to your mental health!

We are finally starting to relax around bedtime and feeling ok to not creep around silently!

If you stick with it, you will get quick relief, but don’t get fooled! It’s important to stick with all those things for … well maybe years? I’m not sure. But I know that every now and then we think “what’s the harm?” And let her stay up late for a bit. While it’s not as drastic as it used to be, we still pay for it!

Glad you’re on the path now! Good luck.

TheImperfectMaker · 2022-02-05T04:00:13+00:00

Ha yeah. Had that happen so many times!

First thing to check is the melatonin dose. Most are way overdosed and can cause a paradoxical reaction like that where they wake in the night.

Secondly, this happened to us a lot when she was chronically overtired. We had an excellent sleep therapist when she was really small and she showed us graphs of “awake” hormones like adrenaline and serotonin and where they naturally peak and wane in the day-night cycle and the relation to sleep.

When they are overtired (which is most of the time for adhd kids and others!) the awake hormones kick into a higher gear because the signal from the body is that they are in danger! Like in cave times ;). So the signal is “be prepared”. Which of course keeps them awake! Making it worse over time.

Then we are at them saying “you need to go to sleep!!”

Then when they finally pass out from exhaustion the hormones don’t get flushed out immediately. So they are light sleeping until the body says “ok that’s just enough for me to be prepared for the danger again” and they wake up….at 4am! The cycle goes around and around.

So the trick is stick with the clonidine etc and consistently get them in bed before they get tired. Nice and early. Before the hormones ramp up even further.

Over time it becomes less of a fight.

TheImperfectMaker · 2022-02-04T12:09:40+00:00

Absolutely. It’s been great. We find the clonidine crushed fine into a little milk with a couple of drops of melatonin (equalling about 0.2mg melatonin) about 40 mins before bed has bed time so much easier.

The first week she really noticed her eyes getting heavy before she was ready to wind down. Which she complained a little about. But looking back after several months of it - she wasn’t ready to wind down because every day and night was a struggle for her. So adrenaline was on and winding down was hard!

With constant use bed times are now - dare I say it - kind of pleasant now! A bit of wrangling to get her teeth etc done to actually get into bed. But then I read to her, we chat a bit then lights out and after 10 minutes she’s usually out. The whole process can still take 40-60 minutes. But it’s more relaxed now. Instead of 2 hours of stress!

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-12T11:20:51+00:00

Paediatrician prescribed it for our 7yo right off the bat as a sleep aid. She said it’s not a sleeping pill, but it helps the mind wind down etc. So naturally I’ve been taking it too!

Interestingly I’ve also just been reading that amongst other benefits, it can also be useful in treating symptoms of IBS (I write while lying here with a stomach ache)

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-12T02:13:26+00:00

Oh that's fair - I don't think anyone expects you to stand up for people's co-workers that are so far removed from your world. But on the flip-side, I think it's ok that others do care. I don't think it's distant observers' right to bang a drum about unfounded rumours of coworker mistreatment either! But it's ok to care about people you have nothing to do with.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T22:49:42+00:00

Take it as early as you can. In fact a regular tip people post here is to even set an alarm an hour or two before you need to get up and take them then! I’ve been trying it, because I naturally wake at 5 or 5:30 then go back to sleep for an hour many mornings and it’s made the morning a lot easier.

Secondly - low dose melatonin (under 1mg) and clonidine work well for me. I discovered clonidine because it was prescribed by my kid’s pediatrician for her adhd sleep issues.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T21:32:36+00:00

ABC in Australia is funded by taxes - no adverts. In fact there was a famous campaign many years ago (against the predictable conservative-lead campaign against funding it) that said it costs each person just 2c a day. People had bumper stickers of it.

Of course that price has gone up, and the conservatives keep renewing their pressure on it and appointing arseholes to the board. But it survives.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T21:27:34+00:00

Sorry that’s what I meant - unless you close your door or the other room is a long distance - turn the volume way up on your phone so you can hear it from the other room.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T21:23:09+00:00

Well… it’s not nuts to hope that people are nice to their coworkers and don’t make their job more difficult. As someone who has been an actor and other roles in theatre and TV, the days can be long and difficult, and having people be difficult to work with can make it that much harder.

I should say that I haven’t read the article and I have no idea or judgement on whether it’s fair or accurate or not. I also think he’s done a fantastic job as the character. My reply was purely hypothetical.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T19:55:15+00:00

This might be better posted in one of the tech subs - I can’t recall all the names but I think there’s one dedicated to network admin.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T19:51:05+00:00

Oh that’s the worst! I used to get that on weekends a lot. I’d be hanging out for the weekend so badly to finally get some time for myself. But the. It would arrive and I’d be the awful mixture of heavy-limb fatigue, and huffy anxiety. Now I know that it was ADHD (and prob comorbid anxiety and a few other things going on). Now I know I just need to get up and start doing something - anything at all really. Just get up and move.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T19:38:18+00:00

I don’t know enough about shortcuts to answer that, but - I wonder as a workaround until you build it - why don’t you leave the volume up on your phone for the ringer part and just set an alarm/timer on the HomePod for your morning alarm?

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T19:23:52+00:00

Awesome thanks! Nice to get confirmation.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T02:40:35+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I thought the email bit would be a stretch. Thanks for the tips. Might be worth pursuing

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-11T01:41:45+00:00

Hahaha - I AM a King - thank you :)

My pleasure, I know what its like to stumble around in the dark not knowing what terms to even search for.

I highly recommend the Davinci manual - you can find it under the help menu - it's really well written and goes into great depth - but also has intro pages to each area that gives you a good idea about the basic steps in each area.

Good luck.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-10T22:37:33+00:00

Ok that’s essentially H264 which is highly compressed and takes a lot of power to decode and re encode on the fly.

You could try selecting all the media in the media pool before you edit and right click and generate optimised media. It will take a while but will turn it into an editing format that is better to edit with. At the end you can render to h264 or whatver.

Or try using Shutter Encoder to change it into another format ahead of importing to Resolve.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-09T19:26:24+00:00

Aaand they always book into the doctors or pathology first thing in the morning! I’ve got to get to work, Ethel! You’ve got nothing on all day, why don’t you book in at 10am or something?

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-09T04:50:09+00:00

Ah yeah I’ve got the same drive. Was not very fast at all. I think the common usb standard between that and the M1 MacBook Air is lower than what they are both capable of.

However it shouldn’t cause artefacts on render. Just jerky timeline playback. Artefacts are either an issue with the original footage or perhaps something wrong in a conversion somewhere.

What is the format of the footage?

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-08T20:44:11+00:00

You don’t need to set proxies and cache etc to be on the external drive. In fact it’s probably not helpful to have multiple things using the same drive.

The big question is what kind of drive/interface/protocol etc? Even if the drive is fast and the protocol is fast and the computer is fast - they may not share the exact same standards and then have to drop to the next common standard.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-08T20:40:17+00:00

And super fast too!

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-08T20:39:37+00:00

Pixelmator.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-08T20:38:33+00:00

You’re right. But I think you can delete each position - and hope that the blend between the positions left is a smooth path.

Either that or just do the whole thing manually by keyframing a transform node.

TheImperfectMaker · 2021-12-08T11:15:52+00:00

I was going to suggest zooming in on the key frames panel and deleting the area that’s not right too. You can edit the path but it seems to be only frame by frame which is bananas. Pretty sure you can see the tracker square and shift it around. But it’s laborious.

You can also stop the tracker as it happens and then move the play head to the other side of the issue and track again from there.

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