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Walter... What you said doesn't seem at all crazy to me. Via the "stumbling-on-it method, I recently discovered I no longer felt the tranquil feeling I always tried to have while preparing to go sleep each nite. A coupla-three months ago I noticed I felt a subtle, physically uncomfortable agitation while brushing my teeth and washing up. It took me longer to unwind each nite which I did by reading in bed for half an hour to 45 minutes, accompanied by a radio talk show or country-western music. I noticed a similar agitation when I got an unexpected incoming phone call which was from someone I hadn't thought about for a few days and/or expected to speak with at the moment they called. It took me a a while to put two and two together (heck - I never WAS any good at math!) <smile>, but once I did, I began to experiment on ways to fine-tune my SUBCONSCIOUS reaction to the EXTERNAL cues that appear to be the cause of this unwanted and annoyoying aggitation which in turn bring on some PD symptoms at a time I'm trying to drift off to sleep. The phone problem was lessened by subscribing to my local phone company's "Caller I.D" program and buying a phone that permits me to see who's calling me in most cases. This permitts me to chose NOT to answer a phone call if I knew the caller would disturb my tranquility. I REALLY like this feature... and it gets a "two thumbs up" from me. The other few relatively small, but positive, changes I made was to tune in to classical music instead of a talk show or country-western music as I was preparing to go to bed. WOWIE!! *THIS* brought significant relief of the aggitation I'd been subjected to. I found when I no longer listened to the talk shows, I no longer got the stimulous of hearing each day's negative news... the tragedites, the governmental problems, the climatic disturances, the street shooting, well, you name it. When I replaced the country-western music with classical music there was a calm feeling... an emotional relaxation.. AND a physical relaxation as well. Finally, I stopped reading "who-done-its" and other lively books when I was trying to relax in order to sleep since I became very involved with the plots, and felt a compulsion to continue reading all nite till the book had beem read from cover to cover. I'm now saving the exciting books for day-time and early evening reading (and still continue reading the last chapter after compleating the third chapter!) <giggle> These small changes in my life have made a significant change in my daily comfort level, and all it took was some thought on the initial problems and a little change of habit. The purchase of a new phone service for $6.50 a month and a phone that indicated who was calling was a relatively minor expense and was well worth it. Sooooo.... if you're crazy then so am I! ( Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Walter Ervin <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Leg cramps & wear off shaking >I know this sounds crazy, but with me its real. > >Any stress at all cancels out my medication. When I watch TV, (at the >end of the day), if the program is stressful, I too will go incredibly >OFF!. Even reading a stressfull book can render me immobile. > >For me, just talking with me wife or a friend on the phone makes all the >difference in the world. (As long as it isn't a stress inducing >friend!) > >Its worth a try to just listen to music one night and see if there is >any difference. > >p44d >