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Hello all, and thank you for the support and answering my questions-

First off 28 yr male, nonsmoker, non alcohol or caffeine user, not overweight. Here is the gist of what I am wondering about. I have always had trouble sleeping, but about a month ago I would wake up at night and not be able to go back to sleep. Shortly there after I began to gasp for breath every time that I entered the seep state. Now currently, one month after the initial symptoms began to increase I experience jerking in my neck and torso when I am about to enter the sleep state, and am having hand and head tremors along with mild daytime muscle contractions and twitches.

Other information – I have tried miraprex and it had no effect positive or negative, but tradazone 50mg increase to 100mg along with Ambien to sleep and that knocks me out enough. It is not the apneas that are awakening me to my knowledge, but I am 100% sure that I can not get to sleep due to the jerking. I am currently starting requip today, building from .25mg to a final dosage of 2mg. Additionally, I’ve had 2 sleep studies the first came back with possible Periodic leg disorder or mild sleep apnea. In the second study I did the twitching thing, and had 104 episodes of “periodic leg movement” although they were not associated with my legs. My apnea scores in both were very low, 5-7 July 2013 and .5 Dec 2014.
There is a video that shows my exact symptoms (not me in video, but exactly what I experience if I do not take the trazadone and Ambien).

My question is this: Can jerking be a sign of Parkinson’s? I also have read that poor sleep can be an early indicator of Parkinson’s which I have had for the past 2- year (Poor sleep is what got me into initial sleep study in July 2013). If so, is it completely out of the ordinary for the jerking to manifest in my neck/head area and abdominal region? Also, are there any other ways to tell if I may have Parkinson’s such an MRI, or other neurologically based methods? Would the progression of the symptoms come on so quickly/ what could cause the tremors AND bodily jerks. Lastly, if there any significance to trazadone helping me out initially, then becoming less effective?

Sorry for so many questions, but have a lot of things going on and no real guidance one way or the other. Thanks in advance –

Matt