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Sharon

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Posted - 17 Jul 2012 11:30

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Hi all

Flo, you mentioned the sleep Q&A. For anyone else who hasn't seen this and is experiencing similar problems, we ran a Q&A session with Kevin Morgan, a sleep researcher with expertise in conditions such as Parkinson's.

Kevin did an excellent job at answering people's questions - you can read the transcript of the session at http://bit.ly/Nw5Cvt

I hope this is helpful.

Sharon

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Posted - 14 Feb 2013 21:48

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Hi all. Un update on my husband's sleep problems. After several incidents he discussed it with his neurologist, who prescribed Clonazepam. After reading the leaflet, he panicked and wouldn't take them. Then recently, during one stressful dream, he bent to pick up something to hit a rat with, and woke after finding himself out of bed and he had banged his head hard against the radiator.He hit the radiator so hard it woke me up, I was in another room. I was horified and insisted that he talk to someone about this before he ended up killing himself.
We now have a Parkinson's nurse, and after talking to her he decided to give Clonazapam a try. It is early days yet but he says he is sleeping better and I haven't heard anything in the night, so fingers crossed.flo