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The weird part of your poster is that it sounds like we are both married to the same woman, except that my wife does not believe in bigamy. Nonetheless, this describes my wife rather well. I am also afraid that she may have her own support group that no one else can see or hear; after dropping Seroquel now for a week, she hallucinates big time, but now she may not realize it. Michel CG Barb (67,11) AnitaJo Page wrote: > My wife for over thirty years was a quiet sleeper (little movement & > no noise). > > Diagnosis of Parkinsons about eight years ago. Many medications > that needed to be increased in potency as symptoms increased. > > Side effects of various medications include insomnia and drowsiness. > No, they do not cancel each other out. Great fatigue for a woman who > was always alert, energetic, and strong. > > Now my wife has difficulty getting to sleep, thrashes around during > sleep, makes noises, and sometimes will speak a whole sentence in a > strong, loud voice. > > What she says does not make sense. "Did you put the cat in the > garage?" (We have never had a cat.) "Someone is pounding on the > bedroom door." (No one is pounding anywhere.) > > The information that comes with the prescription(s) mention that > visual and auditory distortions sometimes occur. I'm pretty sure that > her vivid dreams come and go because of the mixture of medications. > Her doctors do not attach any significance to her having frequent dreams. > > Sometimes in the middle of the afternoon, while napping half > upright in the recliner, she will say something aloud and wake herself > up. > > We have finally become accustomed to her noises, and have agreed > that I am not to be growled at for things that I have done in her dreams > (such as parking the car on the grass which she dreamed that I did but > which I did not do).