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As the wife of someone who falls alot, I think you need to remember another major cause of falling in PWPs. Ken was falling for almost a year whenever he got up at night to go to the bathroom. The neurologist we had then said it was his balance and prescribed benedryl at night as well as brighter hall lighting. On our own, we decided he should use a urinal at night, and things seemed a little better. We attributed day falls to balance also until he fell in a campground and hit his head on a cement table resulting in cranial bleeding and emergency hospitalization. It was then that the doctors discovered that Ken's blood pressure falls to an unmeasurable level when he stands and rises to 220/110 when he lies flat. This was true even when the PD meds were removed. He now has a second diagnosis of Shy-drager syndrome and takes florinef, midodrine, and salt tablets to keep his BP up in the daytime and he sleeps with his head elevated at night. This was the almost sole cause of his falling, and it was not properly diagnosed for several years. Needless to say, we do not go to the original doctor anymore. Barbara Smith, CG/Ken/70/17