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What is the diet? My mom has a Difficult time with sleep.

At my wife and my daughter’s suggestion, I got an Apple watch over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mine is the simplest version, and one thing it does is keep track of the amount of sleep I get and the various sleep stages. This information is automatically transferred to my Iphone.  The increased awareness has me going to bed earlier and sleeping…[Read more]

What is the diet?  My mom has a very difficult time with sleep.

As an update to my prior input on quality of sleep, the disturbances have become routine: I wake after 4 hours and take 1/2 each of the ER C/L with 1/2 of the IR C/L, and experience hard unstoppable shaking until the med kicks in. Drinking water in the middle of the night necessitates a bathroom trip which  increases the tremors. All in all, it…[Read more]

My goals:
1. Get over/around/under/past some “brick walls” with my family tree (genealogy).
2. Learn to play a few tunes on me SSP’s (Scottish small pipes).
3. Increase my amount I exercise each week.
4. Try to get on top of this wretched REM-SBD

For me, its the tremors. If I don’t take my lecithin each morning, I will be shaky to the point I can’t use a fork or hold a cup of coffee. With the lecithin? I’m good for 7-8 hours. I take it morning and night.

Hi there! I’m sorry to hear about your dad’s struggle with sleep disturbances. I can relate to how challenging it can be to wake up feeling exhausted even with a consistent sleep schedule. A few years back, I too was having trouble sleeping. But I stumbled upon Sleep Underground and started reading the reviews of different sleep products. I…[Read more]

My husband was diagnosed with REM sleep disorder 15 years ago. He was put on 1 mg of Klonopin. It has worked for all these years. He doesn’t have the violent dreams and sleeps well. He was diagnosed with PD 1 1/2 years ago.

Hey Barbara F… thanks for your informative forum post.  My RBD journey has prompted acting out behaviors like thrashing my limbs about, resembling a carp on a hot sidewalk, shouting out, punching, kicking, and rolling violently out of my bed.

I’ve been lucky not to injure myself, but my spouse has run for the hills at bedtime.

You mention the…[Read more]

I think it all starts with being grateful for what we do have, and focus on the positive. Then optimism can flow. Every day my husband and I talk to each other about how lucky we are, and try to find joy and humour in our situation.

Just adding my two cents to this revived thread.

My PD Doc prescribed 2 3 mg melatonin capsules and two carbidopa/levodopa CR 50/200 tablets at bedtime.  Most nights this works for me.  Before this I found my self too frequently still trying to get to sleep in the AMs.  I still never feel really rested or refreshed in the morning.  But I have at…[Read more]

I would have the most disturbing dreams that would wake me and then I’d be up for hours.  I was on 1 50 mg Trazadone but taking 2 makes a huge difference.  I usually sleep 8 hours now.