Hello
Does this happen to anyone else,I have had a bit of a difficult time recently things have been going wrong in some very unpleasant ways, some to do with PD others on a more personal level, lets just say that the very tiny miniscule amount of luck handed out to me each year was used ,in about one minute of2014 I am not grumbling about that , ,well maybe a little bit,,,I am not feeling sorry for myself or any other similar emotions so now you know my frame of mind, no what I am curious about is this, I will be sitting reading a book I have just finished a very Interesting history of arguably the best of the big V Bombers the Handley Page Victor, or watching TV or on this laptop, anything at all in fact, then I suddenly experience a very powerful feeling of ELATION its almost as if I have been possessed by a very happy spirit,and of course once I feel that feeling I dont want it to leave, I want it to stay with me as it completely alters my outlook on life I feel I could do anything achieve any goal, but annoyingly I Immediately begin trying to find out why this strange occurance occurs, my normal mood is more down than up but I dont let it get me down if you see my meaning then in a instant I am transformed into this Happy funny contented secure Elated person, who is he where has he come from,and please wont you stay I desperately try to stop him leaving but as you will have guessed very slowly the feeling drains away and I return to my normal NON-ELATED mood , what is it, is it my Brain playing tricks, it does that many times a day, is it another form of hallucination of which I often experience , its most odd, I like it when it happens but worry in case its a sign of something more sinister hiding within, gaining access uninvited, like a virus into a PC, has anyone else had this happen to them, I would like to know, 
Kindest Regards Fed
I am the opposite Fed i find i can be in a normal frame of mind one minute then for no apparant reason i can feel really down and teary and just cannot be bothered with anything , maybe it is to do with having such low dopamine levels and then suddenly were giving our brains dopamine and it doesn't know what to do , mine certainly doesn't some days 
Sorry Shel I posted a reply and when I pressed save it vaporised this has put me in a very bad frame of mind so I shall give a calmer reaction later today, I am now going to kick seven bells out of the punchbag no thats not my wife, ??????????????????????????????????????????????///Fed
Hi folks, I seem to get both those feelings though mainly down atm and haven't started on my meds yet so can't blame them, maybe you're right Shelly and it's the low dopamine levels in my brain causing such mixed feelings as it's not sure what to do!!!
Cheers
Hello Ninja61 and wellcome , Shelly is right in pointing out that fiddling with the bodies Dopamine levels is a risky business, the Ddopa system does wonderfully well but its feeding steady flow of Dmine all through my waking hours and cannot react to sudden exitement or anger or extreme fun, there is a boost button which is effective at pushing parky back in its box but its flexibility is very limited these feelings of Elation which occur have me baffled, my normal tendancy moodwise is down, still mustnt smack a gift horse in the gob as they say.
Kindest Regards Fed
Hello Shel , I sat here for some time in the early hours and composed a lengthy post about the strange feelings i am having, it was detailed and suggested a few reasons ,I feel I am slowly changing Shel,and I neither have the mental capacity or agility to remember the content of the missing post which is a pity however I am going to have 40 winks, and I may recall the theme of the vapourised post., its so annoying when you have composed a decent post and when you press save it just dissapears, I am going now as I am so tired
Best wishes Fed
Good morning Fed
i have the same problem i am awake half the night rarely sleep before 4am can wake up at midday afer what has been a restless nights sleep and i find i am exhausted at 3pm and need to go to bed for a few hours , although i suspect the meds my gp gave me for sickness are the culprit , i am awaiting a call from my neurologist my gp gave me cyclizine for the sickness i went back to get a repeat prescription and a locum doctor tells me my neuro will throw his arms up in the air as cyclizine can cause parkinsons symptoms so to say he confused me is a under statement so i guess the best person to ask would be my neuro
Ninja i must admit i felt like that when i first found out about the pd , so down and would burst into tears for no reason , dont get me wrong i still have the odd day where i feel teary and down and even grumpy to the point that i could fall out with myself if i was the only person in the room but things have been much better since i started on Sinemet , it might be worth giving the meds a try
Hi Shel, having read so many times the difficulty PD people have trying to sleep I have learnt to stop trying, my sleep patterns have changed I am going to bed when I know I am so tired I will immediately fall asleep, this of course often results in a fragmented get it while you can method of sleeping,but at least I am sure of at least five or six hours of unbroken slumber , providing the night terrors stay away, I am just about ready to go now I am tired and cant keep my eyes open, so good night to all.
1.34 am Fed
Hi Fed
my apologies for the late reply , what with the constant nausea which i hope has gone now i have changed from sinemet to madopar , and me not being able to log on the forum for a few nights dont know what happened there but i am back on now and its nearly 2.30am and i am still wide awake i take your view now i sleep when i need to sleep whatever time of day or night that may be
