Have you tried taking the clonidine at night instead?
What dose are you taking now? Is it a high one?
Clonidine also lowers blood pressure, which may be the reason you have
the lightheaded/dizzy feeling.
Clonidine is used for Tourette's, ADHD, blood pressure, and addiction control.
It is a pretty complex drug.
It will cause sedation in most people. And for that reason it is typically taken at night. A rare paradoxical irritablility may occur with is too. It has made some
patients --about 2% --hypomanic. This happened to me when I was on it for
blood pressure. In about 3 weeks, I could no longer sleep. I had to discontinue it. That experience was horrible for me...never had anything like THAT from a blood pressure tablet!
http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/11/1/58/T5
It is not wise to stop clonidine cold turkey if you have been on it for at least 2 weeks. It can cause a rebound hypertension. So a taper off it advised when you decide to stop it.
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