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On 12 May 2000, at 18:21, Beverly Forte wrote: (in part) How many of us were night owls before our illness? Hi Beverly, Which came first? The chicken or the eggg?? I've always been a morning person - born on a farm - rose at 5AM with my dad to do chores - first one on the jobsite every morning in my adult life... The manager where I worked came in one morning around 7AM and caught me making coffee and starting my daily routine. Surprized, he said "How come you're here so early?" I'm not early was my response. He looked at his watch, checked the clock and said "What do you mean you're not early? It's not quite 7AM." I'm not early I said, I'm here every day at 7AM. It's the first time I've ever seen you before 8 tho! I've never slept more than 5 - 6 hours in my adult life so 11:30 to midnite is my normal (usual?) bedtime, always has been. I still rise early. The difference in the last ten years is that I now seldom sleep more than 2 or 3 hours at a stretch and am often up prowling wide awake in the middle of the night. Like you I find this a great time for creativity. So I would have to say my night owl habits came as part of PD... All the best ...... murray On 12 May 2000, at 18:21, Beverly Forte wrote: I have been taking PD meds for 9 years (now age 49) for mainly stiffness. I take my last night meds (sinemet and sinemet cr and Mirapex about 10pm. I am a natural night owl, way before my illness. I am often up til 2am sometimes later. I seem to have almost perfect flexibility, clarity of thought, and creatively. I am a psychologist now working as a writer. I fee so good this time of night I don't want to go to bed and lose the time...I get up about 6am to take meds and go back to bed so that I'll be flexible when I get up about 7 am because of my work demands (although I am blessed to have a 10 second commute to my home office). I'm usualy very very rigid when I wake up but can get up enough to take meds and sleep another hour. I'm sleepy during the day some and take power naps which recharge me. In recent years, energy has not been a problem. I've figure out that my alert cycle is about 6 hours off my day/nights in Texas. Guess I could straighten that out by moving to Hawaii!!! How many of us were night owls before our illness? I would love to chat with some of you late at night because there is generally no one to call that late! Beverly Hi again, The computer I use is relatively antiquated and doesn't permit chat software capabilities.... Maybe when I upgrade... regards ... murray [log in to unmask] View the Parkinson's Awareness Links at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html