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Tips for daily activity adjustments.
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Tips for daily activity adjustments.

This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease. Here he discusses the difficulties around sleep, how it is planned, and how he overcomes the potential insomnia.

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Ironically now, because of Parkinson's, you know, I eat healthily, don't drink very much. I'm probably more healthy now than I ever was, apart from Parkinson's, obviously. Now, it makes you feel really tired. Sometimes sleep is a big issue. Sleep is a big issue because getting into bed is difficult because it's almost like, where you have to throw yourself on the bed and hope you land in the right position. Hope you land in a comfortable position. It sounds really silly, but there's lots of things that you think that people take for granted, like shelling eggs, putting washing out, planning your day, I have to plan my day around my medication. If I want to go to the store, which is a 10 minute walk away, I have to do it either at around 10 o'clock or around two o'clock when the medication's working so I can do it properly and safely. And also, in the midday, 40 degree sun, I don't want to be shuffling along like a snail because when I got back here, I'd be like a crisp. So, so there's that, but sleep is a big problem because when you wake up or you fall asleep, when you wake up, you can't move. You're so stiff and it's painful. It takes ages to get out of bed. And so I take sort of a nocturnal sort of cinema, which is a controlled release. So that takes me to that, I sleep comfortably until about four in the morning. And then after that, it's hit and miss as to whether I can go back to bed or not. I often get up and go and watch TV. Oh, and yeah, and then as my morning medication works, then I can start getting back to normal. Sometimes I go back to bed.

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