[livingwith]

My mom was diagnosed with Parkinsons about six months ago. I noticed about two years ago she started having trouble with the quivering in her bottom lip and ringing in her ears. She also suffers (horribly) with insomnia. She has had the insomnia for years. She was prescribed medicine for the insomnia, but that doesn’t even seem to help her. She wakes up in the middle of the night and cannot get back to sleep. After several tests and visits over the past year, she was told she had Parkins...Read the full article

[edukasia]

I wonder if you have found anything to help your mother sleep. I have the same problem. I was diagnosed with Parkinsons a couple of years ago but suspect that I had had it for some time. I wake up every night between 1 and 4 am. If it is late I get up and do some work. If it is early I sometimes take half a Zopimed which does work but I do not want to use them on a regular basis. Very occasionally I can doze off and get some light sleep.

Have you ever looked at Ayurvedic medicine?

I'm new to this, do we use our own names or our username - Edukasia?