I agree Anee.  I was told that when I'm asleep, my spasicity ceases.  I
just wish that this can happen during the day.

Christina

Anee Stanford wrote:
>
> 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,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << 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 >>