Molly z.'s PLMD story Page 3

Index

Section one

PLMD personal experiences including family history, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

FAQ
will give you a good start in learning more about sleep disorders, including some types, causes and treatment.

Odds and Ends includes my opinions about PLMD and miscellaneous.

Section two

Answer my Sleep Poll and also see the results so far.

Section three

Links to sleep disorder websites plus a short list of books I found at the local library when learning more about sleep disorders. [Not for sale - these are listed for your reference purposes only!]

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My husband's personality gradually changed. He was very difficult to get along with. Due to the poor quality and amount of sleep that I was getting, I was probably much the same!
He was short-tempered, moody, absent-minded and hostile. He didn't look well, his face was drawn and he had poor skin color. A couple of years before he was finally diagnosed, he began taking afternoon naps on his days off from work, because he was very sleepy during the day.

The doctor who had suggested the problem was all in MY head made my husband think that maybe I was imagining things, and that he really didn't have a sleep disorder at all. We had arguments about this, and I'm amazed now that we didn't get divorced, with all that went on through these difficulties.

Finally we moved 'back home' to a large city, and went to a doctor we used to see several years before. He sent my husband to a neurologist. Klonopin (clonazepam) was prescribed. This medication, and some others, should apparently not be taken by anyone who has been diagnosed with or who may have sleep apnea. [We learned of this much later].

The clonazepam seemed to help a little, but the jerking was still bad enough that we had to sleep separately.

We went to a new doctor and asked that a sleep study be arranged at a sleep center.

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