Pain/tightness in chest

I had a problem with tightness in my chest. The cause was muscle spaciticy caused by related dystonia. I would experience muscle tightness in my diagphram - resulting in difficulty breathing and eating. Baclofen solved the problem for me. As for sleep, most neurodegenerative disease are notorious for causing major sleep problems. Has you physician ordered a sleep study to check exactly what is causing your ongoing sleep issues. I was told my atypical Parkinson's affected my ability to go into REM sleep. There is no way to correct it = so you just have to adjust your lifesyle around the fact that you prabably will not be sleeping 6 or 7 hours in a row. I get about 3 stints of 2 1/2 hours and am thankful for that.

Ann

I too suffer with poor sleep and when I get desperate, say after 2 or 3 nights of very poor sleep I take Amitryptyline 1 tablet of 10mg.  This is prescribed by my GP who tells me it is absolutely safe and non addicting.   It certainly gives me a very good unbroken sleep if taken a couple hours before going to bed.

The only downside is that it makes me feel a bit sleepy the following day but after a few sleepless nights I put up with that. 

God Bless

Billy