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Raj A very wise move and a wife who is very observant. If you take a sleeping pill the brain may not be able to wake itself nor the body enough to make it breathe a situation that you may not want to put your family through. "The individual should avoid the use of alcohol, tobacco, and sleeping pills, which make the airway more likely to collapse during sleep and prolong the apneic periods." Quoted from http://www.apneanet.org/factsapn.htm Don On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:58 AM, Brightline wrote: > Hi! Rita: > Thanks for the info about the pillow. No! I have not started using > CPAP > yet. I might soon, though. Anything to discourage my brain cells to > commit > suicide. > Again, I must say that I have not started taking any prescription > medication yet for my PD. So I cannot blame any of my medicaton for > this > touble. > But, I have another lingering doubt in my mind. Occasionally, I > do take > melatonin a fraction of 1 mg to help get a good night sleep. My wife > tells > me that I have sleep apnea highly pronounced, when I take melatonin. > Does > anyhbody have such experience. I have stopped taking melatonin, > completely. > Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts. > Raj > [log in to unmask] > **************** > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:08 PM > Subject: Re: Sleeping Better to Raj re sleep apnea >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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