Cannot sleep nights Help

[nicolaas6]

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join the club !!!!!

Which side of the pond are you?

I suggest BBC Radio 2 to at least make your insomnia a bit more pleasant.

As with all BBC, it is interactive with our texts, email,facebook and twitter that they really want us to use them. you can get all BBC shows online if you aren't in the uk.

[Carrigan]

Hi classic fm works for us in between cramp turning over an toilet trips hitting or missing whatever it

O always appears worse at night. take care and good luck xx

[jupiterjane]

I haven't sleep more than an hour or two at a time for over 2 years. I can accomplish much with a burst of energy and a little free time!

[parkie-Al]

welcome to our world, its the pits but its our pits , i have not had any more than 2 hrs per night for over 4 years now . i tend to haunt the house at the wee small hrs and watch movies on netflix with earphones in , some times i escape if laraine has not loked the back door and shuffl to the pond and watch the ducks swim , get some weird questions asked by the Police at 3 in the morning , so what do we do ? just get on with it, my doctor gave me sleeping tabs last week , what a waste of time and money they were, any way we are all here through out the night to keep you company

takecare

Al.

[christinemc]

I am with the others - anyhow sleep is overrated !!Don't go down the sleeping pill route if you can help it, try talking books or music, or reading. I have also been known to do online shopping in the wee small hours! Take care, and if you fancy a nap during the day - take one xx

[Hidden]

I refuse to sleep during the day If I take a nap it is a mistake.

As for night, well I think we are all in the same boat regarding sleeping.

I just take piles of books to bed

Pity I can't take my workbench as well.

[hilarypeta]

Get your digestion right..mexican red yeast rice for high cholesterol, magnesium supplement...read gut reaction..gudrun jonnson

I sleep better since improving..going to the toilet properly every day. Prunes,fibre,apples,water...

Camomile tea also helps and regular routine, eat less in evening, read...calm down ..breathing practice

[haydn74]

My brother in law has had parkinsons for about ten years. Night sleeping very erratic, but in the day cant keep awake. As he sits down, it,s as if someone presses a switch, and he is asleep in seconds. My sister takes him out so they go for coffee, asleep in cafe sometimes, and so sad to see as he was always on the go. Has monthly check ups and looking to up the dose of one pill. Any ideas for keeping awake

[raveneaux in reply to haydn74]

I did that on one of my earlier meds. Day sleeping sitting up - may be med related.

[JohnPepper]

I have slept for an average of 4 to 5 hours a night since 1974. I find that if I sleep in the daytime, which is very easy, I sleep less at night, so I avoid that.

I have found that whatever sleeping pills I have taken, they cease to work after four or five days.

What I have found is that if I take a Calmag (Calcium & Magnesium) tablet at night, it helps.

I also do hard walking for an hour every second day. That helps me to sleep, because if I don't do that, I can't sleep for more than 2 hours.

I do Su Doku puzzles, before bedtime and I read a lot.

When I wake at 3-00am, I turn the light on and read an interesting but not exciting book. My reading light points away from my partner, so that it does not wake her up. Then I can sleep again until 6-00 or so.

John

[snorre]

If you are taking dopamin agonist (neupro) you should try taking it of the skin when you go to bed.

The resoult is dramatic

put on a new in the morning

all the best.

[Hidden]

ah, sleep .... i used to sleep, and i sleep very well between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. then i am in and out. If i get up to use the bathroom, it's over. Pretty much awake at that point. Needless to say my day begins between 5 and 6 a.m. which is ok since after my first round of meds I can get a lot done. I figure i can sleep when i am deceased.

[raveneaux]

I am having good results with 3mg Melatonin at bedtime. I tried sleeping pills. Worked 1st nite - 2nd I was in the old pattern. Melatonin works better.

[PatV]

I'm on klonopin, plus melatonin and valerian plus herbal teas, plus a routine especially at bedtime. light reading and if that doesn't work, move to the couch and old movies!

[Melodysam1890]

Alteril works for me - all natural

[froggatt55]

Oh how I remember sleep!

To be honest, I have taken Zopiclone tablets (up to 15MG) for longer than I have had Parkinson's - which is 10 years this June. I can get a good night's sleep but my average is 6 hours and then the pains in my legs waken me up. The most restful sleep I can have is if I'm asleep by 23.30 and sleep until 03.00 then get up, walk about a bit, go to the loo and play online Chess until around 05.30/06.30 then go back to bed - I have been known to sleep until 11.00 and boy, when I waken up, I am soooo refreshed.

I had a discussion with a number of our kind and it was remarkable that two-stage sleep seemed so beneficial to many of us. We have a rule in our house that if my partner wakens up - she can sleep for England (but I am a Scot) - and I am asleep with my dressing gown on, se leaves me to sleep on This routine upsets her own sleep less, gives me a big boost but does impact social events! I am also lucky that I can pretty much manage the mornings without medication - well up to 11.00

But, like everything to do with this particular elephant, it is not consistent