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Pat: Your comments about melatonin are most interesting. I would like to know which PD drugs your doctor felt would interfer with melatonin. I am unaware of any and I am on eldepryl, sinemet, permax and paxil. Your story of giving the drug to your mother, reminds me of Erica Proserpi in Sacramento. Her husband is 73 and has had PD for 23 years. I May of 1993 he had a pallidotomy in Sweden the week after mine. She called me sometime ago and I taped her. This is what she said about her husband's pallidotomy: "When we go someplace, I always had to allow a half hour or an hours time to get him ready. Well, I don't have to do that any more. I tell you what I don't have to do so you know how good he does. He walks much easier. He walks twice a day. He didn't do any walking for a whole year. Not even to the mailbox. It was such an effort for him to drag himself out there. "Another thing he does at night. Like I said, for years, I had to get up, for years, 2 or 3 times average, sometimes 4 times, to get him in or out of bed. I don't do that at all. Since he is home (from Sweden), I SLEEP. So, I tell everybody, my husband had to go to Sweden so his wife can sleep at night." Regards, Alan