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How does Parkinson’s affect your quality of sleep?
Parkinson’s can affect sleep patterns in different ways. For example, some folks struggle with falling asleep or staying asleep, others experience sleep disorders like REM sleep behaviour disorder and restless leg syndrome, and others struggle with tremors, stiffness, or urinary symptoms that interrupt them at night.
Do you experience any of these challenges? What helps you get a better night’s sleep?
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My sleep is definitely changed since having Parkinson’s. I wake up several hours after falling asleep, and then I’ll stay awake for most of the rest of the night. I’m having bad dreams that I don’t even remember. My wife tells me I’m thrashing around during the times that I do sleep. The only thing that really has helped me is to take a small amount of melatonin and then when I wake up after a few hours, take another small amount of melatonin so I’m taking about 2 mg of melatonin each each night.
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I have improved my sleep to a good degree with blue light therapy. My sleep is not back to normal but it is improved.
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Yes, I often had trouble getting to sleep. If I did get to sleep, I would generally wake up between 2 and 3 AM. I would not be able to get back to sleep until 5 or 6 AM. Then, up at 7 AM. I have solved this with cannabis gummies and/or Trazodone (Prescription, see your doctor).
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BTW; This trouble sleeping was while I was on 5mg (and later 10mg) of melatonin, magnesium, zinc, and zertek.
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I have improved my sleep with blue light therapy. Not back to normal but definitely improved.
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Hi Mike, can you share more about how you’re using blue light therapy to help with your sleep? Have you noticed a changes to any other symptoms because of it?
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