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Richard V. Fisher wrote: > > According to my wife, I was surprised to hear that I have had 3 or 4 > episodes of rather violent shaking of my entire body as I sleep. The > vigorous vibrations do not wake me up but they wake my wife. I am well aware of this condition but my neuro said all Parkinson's shakes are not apparent when sleeping. As my wife disagreed I began researching and in a book entitled Caring for the Parkinson Patient, edited by J. Thomas Hutton MD, PHD and Raye Lynne Dippel,PHD I found reference to Night Shakes or Nocturnal Myclonus and the medication used to relieve the symptoms is Clonzapam. It is normally prescribed for Myclonic Eplepsy but if it works who cares. It is commercially known here as Rivotrel and since telling my neuro I've had no problems. Good luck, Peter Dawkins