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Sleep Part 5 !!!
   Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:08 am
Sleep Part 4
   Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:02 am
Sleep Part 3 and Parkinson's medication effects
   Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:28 am
Sleep part 2
   Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:57 am
Sleep
   Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:58 am

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Sleep Part 5 !!!

Permanent Linkby asphinx on Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:08 am

(I can't write about what happened next as it was a new low).

Suffice to say that I have to go to bed early every night if I want to sleep in the bedroom at all.

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Sleep Part 4

Permanent Linkby asphinx on Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:02 am

Well, my idea of staying up late at nights has backfired. I would do this because:

- I'm a night owl anyway
- I like to think that I will get something constructive done in that time
- I'm in no hurry to go to bed when my husband is likely to read with the light on, type loudly into his tablet, or give me a look of disgust as I stagger in with Parkinson's symptoms.

Recently there was a night where I stayed up late because he did, but I was pretty useless because of having symptoms and being tired and dozing.

The next night I was determined to stay up and achieve something (and also I felt functional). I felt that he was waiting for me, but I stayed up anyway. I heard a different noise to the door shutting and sure enough when I was ready to go to bed, I found the door locked. (The reason for a lock being on the bedroom door would be the subject of another blog.)

As you have gathered, this is not the first time I have been locked out of the bedroom. The last time a series of lockout occurred, I slept in the couch with the dog's blankets (and the dog too one time).

I made my way to the couch, but since then my hoarder husband had piled boxes where the dog slept, so the blanket was hard to get and also I risked an avalanche of boxes. It was not as comfortable as before.

The following night the door was also locked, and possibly it was locked as soon as he turned the light out way before midnight. This time I chose to sleep on my computer room floor. I did get 2 or 3 hours sleep but I knew I needed more, especially as I took advantage of the early wakefulness by going to my cardio class. Later in the day I went to the bedroom for a nap (he was working outside), and had gone to sleep when......

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Sleep Part 3 and Parkinson's medication effects

Permanent Linkby asphinx on Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:28 am

Yesterday I had about 7 hours sleep for a change, and that night I didn't waste it dozing. Also I noticed that my Parkinson's symptoms were not as much a problem between medication doses as usual. In fact, I forgot to take the little blue pill that is supposed to help me get up in the morning to take more medication.

I am a believer that my Parkinson's medication is on a big sine wave, and it is therefore possible that I was on the top of it last night.

There is also the possibility of my having over-medicated during the day (I tend to take my next pills as soon as I notice myself going "off"), especially as I would have started in late on my tablets, as I woke up late.

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Sleep part 2

Permanent Linkby asphinx on Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:57 am

When I say catching up on sleep in the car, I mean that I have parked off the road safely, taken the keys out of the ignition and hit the lock button. NOT that I regularly try to catch up on sleep at traffic lights!

Be aware when doing this that you do not run your car battery down. I have done that twice now, and do not want to have to call my car insurance again about it!

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Sleep

Permanent Linkby asphinx on Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:58 am

I have started the practice of taking naps in the car while I'm out. That way I am out of the house longer and I feel better for having had the nap.

This afternoon I dozed off twice in the car while waiting at traffic lights. They were longer drop-offs than usual.

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