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Hi, My wife, Win, 72, is the PWP in this family. Briefly - she was Dx in Jan '97, fell and broke her sacrum damaging the nerves that serve the pelvic organs and area in Feb '99, resulting in both bladder and bowel retention, as well as continuing general pelvic area pain. She had to self-catheterise at least three times a day, and have water enemas (usually twice a day). This became a real problem, particularly as PD progressed, so she had a cystectomy, urostomy and colostomy performed last September. This has made urine and faeces management much simpler, but she still has a lot of pelvic area pain. Her specialist urologist diagnosed this pain as the pelvic floor muscle going into spasm, and prescribed Valium as a muscle relaxant. This helped initially, but she feels that her PD symptoms have worsened (some of the things she has noticed are listed as side effects of Valium). Her Neuro said the Valium would not affect PD, but she believes it has. She discontinued Valium after about a month. She has sleeping problems, and had been using Temazepam (1 or 2 10mg per night) prior to taking Valium. Valium helped her to sleep better than the Temazepam. She has now recommenced taking Temazepam. Has any other list member had any experiences with Valium (Diazepam)? Good, bad or indifferent? Ditto Temazepam? We would appreciate any and all feedback, Regards, Lionel R. Modra Phone: +61(0)8 8251 3091 Fax: +61(0)8 8251 1618 Mobile: +61 0421 841 191 [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn