Dear Cindy-

The usual rule --if there is a usual rule in all of this--concening
spasticty/spastic CP at night is that there is actually less spasticity at
night/when sleeping.  This is one reson that TES is used at night because
spaticity is less durring sleep.  The same is also true --usualy-- of
athetoid CP--that there is less uncontrolled movement at night/when sleeping.
 Of couse we all know that there are no "rules" that hold all the time in any
one case of cerebral palsy no matter what type.

It could be something elce that you can not determin besides the CP
(something as simple as bad dreems or maby she is just going through a
"stage", or a undetected medical problem not related to CP)  or it could be
the CP, after all Lizzy at this stage probably dose not have adaqute
vocabulary to tell you exactly what is wrong (I am assuming that she can
talk--if she can't ignore what I just said).  Have you talked with her
peditrition about these lastest developments?

Yours,

Anee Stanford
Webmaster of CPIC
http://www.geocities.com/aneecp/CPIC.html

In a message dated 9/28/1999 12:15:34 AM Central Daylight Time,
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<< Hi all.
 I have a question for any and all of you, As some of you know, my daughter
 Lizzy Jo is 20 mo and has mild spastic CP.  Hopefully this does not sound
 stupid or really dumb.  But I was wondering...... When you are sleeping ...
 can or does the CP cause pain( tightening up....)?  She use to sleep through
 the nite, but when she hit a year old, we have periods where she wakes up 3
 or 4 times a nite.  She has all of her teeth so it can't be that.... alot of
 the time its her cry, like shes in pain.  We are in one of these modes now,
 so out of desperation to try to figure it out, the other nite gave her a dose
 of motrin before bed and she slept straight through, not wanting to drug this
 poor child all the time, this question acured to me.  have asked her docs and
 therapist this before, but was not satisfied with answers, Doc said no( the
 same ones that it took 6 months to convience something was wrong) and the
 therapist said she didn't know.  So I'm now asking the experts.(gigggle)  Any
 ideas??
 Thanks
 Cindy Bushnell and Lizzy Jo >>