Ah, yes. Lack of sleep is huge! Napping during the day if possible. I have been thinking about putting a recliner by the bed so if it is a bad night for Alan, I can sleep in the chair. It seems important to him to have me close by and sometimes he needs help getting his legs to move. Alan will get up, urinate in the bathroom but his muscles do not allow him to completely empty his bladder so he returns to bed for a few minutes and needs to return to the bathroom. He usually needs help getting in and out of bed.

Thanks!!

There is a report called "Sleep in Parkinson's Disease" that you might be interested in. It gives an understanding about contributing factors to sleep disturbance for PWP and some recommendations that may help improve sleep. It's a free download that you can find here: http://www.dbs4pd.org/surveydetail.php?ID=20

I either sleep too little (a couple of hours or none at all), the right amount (like last night when I slept six hours), or too much (I call it Parkinson's Hibernation) like 12 hours or more.

Dadums56 (Bill Yardley)

SLEEP! So important. Everything goes so much better when I am rested and Alan is rested. Recently Alan has been getting up about 4am, going to the kitchen, eats and piddles around for several hours. I sleep like a log during that time. When he is in bed with me, I do not get the deep sleep we need for rejuvenation.