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List Friends, Just possibly we are overlooking the obvious here! More medications on top of medications are not always the answer. Quite often I have found that the prescribed meds have caused other problems that we as PWP's weren't counting on. For me, Requip was a bad offender causing "sleep attacks" during the daytime hours. PD is a problem that is known for fatigue....... when we let the doctors add drugs to this situation to mask symptoms during our waking hours, quite often we make this problem worse .... By eliminating things which disturb our already mixed up systems, we can work at getting back to normal rhythms. One thing that I found of great help was 5mg. of melatonin before normal bedtime. By the way, Melatonin is a very powerful antioxidant ! - Melatonin also has many other beneficial uses. Caution: it may not be FDA approved, but it works for me .... Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Debra Sutton [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:42 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: I'm becoming nocturnal! > > > Is this a crazy disease or what? I take meds all day that make me sleepy. > I often feel like a Pepsi that someone shook up and popped the top on. I > have no trouble getting to sleep but staying asleep is another story. > Sometimes I lay awake and fight to get back to sleep, sometimes I just get > up. A Quiet Time takes on a whole new meaning at 2am!! Eventually sleep > comes again and then the sun comes up, I'm tired from not sleeping, and then > I take my meds that make me more sleepy and the cycle starts again. If I > could find a nearby mall that was open all night that would be great. But > then there's that driving issue! Oh Well.... Sound familiar anyone? > Debra > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn