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My mom also has trouble sleeping at night. Her hallucinations/ delusional/obessive tendencies were really helped for a while by taking aricept (Alzheimer's drug). She is also limited in the amount of sinemet she can take(5)because of hallucinations and takes 4 seroquel a day (1 in morning and 3 at night). We don't really have any answers to the night time problem. She gets up to go to the bathroom a lot and detrol hasn't really helped. However, when you sleep a lot during the day, you aren't really tired at night. My dad (82 years old) is having trouble (memory problems/generally grouchiness) due to lack of sleep but both of them do not want to get a night helper even though it wouldn't break the bank. I thought I'd try the vitamin B suggestion (couldn't hurt, right?) From a side-line perspective, it seems that she is going to have a bad fall and break something and then get instituitionalized earlier than necessary (which perhaps could be avoided if they would get help) They don't listen to us kids and we can't afford to pay for it ourselves. I'm hoping someone else has great ideas to share. Thanks Jane daughter of Jessie 78/69 PS Have they ever done a study to discern differences between people who get Parkinson's but are only mildly impaired for years and those that progress relatively quickly and/or get dementia? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn