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Dear Perry, First, I am sorry to hear about your accident, and glad no one was hurt worse. I am also a young pd'er, dx'd age 39, 1997. When I first started Mirapex, I had a reaction where my hands swelled to abnormal sizes at night (to the point the skin would split open). Fortunantely that stopped relatively quickly, but I have had the same problems with falling asleep that you describe. I call them "sleep attacks" because it is not a normal "I'm kinda sleepy, I'm a little sleepier, I'm falling asleep" type scenerio. It's I feel sleepy, bam, I'm asleep. I have driven for 25 years, and over 120,000 miles per year, and NEVER had a problem staying awake until I got on the mirapex. I fell asleep driving twice before I figured out what the problem was. Now I can feel the "sleep attacks" coming on, and I pull over IMMEDIATELY. They are not something you can say, well,"I'm only 5 min from the house etc" with, I have to stop the min I feel one coming on. Usually I will sleep about 15 min and be fine, but I don't drive until the feeling has totally passed away. I wish I could describe it for you, but other than to say it doesn't feel like a "normal I'm tired" and it does feel like "I'm falling asleep", I really can't describe it any better. I hope this helps some, and wish you the best of luck bob aka tex ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com