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i'm 51 yrs old, dxed about 13 yrs ago and also the mother of two very active teens. my daughter is 15 and my son is 13. they have never known me any other way than as a pwp. i started sinemet when my son was nine months old and had to stop breastfeeding him. thankfully, when i started in on the graveyard shift (as my husband calls it); no sleep at night and laying out in a near catatonic state for most of the day, i had a compassionate doc. i told him that this sleep deprivation was killing me and that i was not able to be the kind of mom that i wanted to be. he asked me if i thought sleeping aids would help and i said that anything would be better than living in this zombie-like state. so we started experimenting with sleeping pills. at first i thought it might be a bad idea. most of the pills didn't allow me to dream my own dreams (which is very important to me),they would knock me out for 7 hrs-sure, but then i awoke w/ a drug hangover which was worse than the zombie mode. finally, he tried me on ambien. halleluia! now every evening around 7 pm, i take a 350 mg. of carisoprodol (a muscle relaxer/generic soma) and then at bedtime a 5mg ambien. i know that i am addicted to these drugs just as i am addicted to sinement, mirapex and clonazepam, but i fall asleep for 7-8 hrs of restful sleep with my very own dreams and wake up refreshed and with ony the norrmal, minor cobwebs to shake out in the am. i feel rested and clear headed and able to cope with the coming day with almost everything it has to throw my way. while i'm not suggesting to anyone to get hooked on yet another drug (my mom won't even take a tylenol for a headache). i'm saying that this has been my solution to that dilemia and i wouldn't go back to the days of not sleeping for anything. if and when a cure comes, i'll worry about detox. -- Joan E. Blessington Snyder 50/11 http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm <[log in to unmask]> "Hang tough...........no way through it but to do it." Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn