Helen, thank you for your response. I do have an excellent support group here in Monterey, even though they have one of the worst Medicare programs along the Calif coast. My wife and I are reluctantly making plans to move to the Research Triangle in NC, even though I've spent my whole life by the sea. But today she told me that maybe we shouldn't leave because I've set up roots here in Monterey. I'll check out the Benzo derivative (thank you for that information), but since I'm in the late stage of life, I'd like to get free of as many drugs (and I've been prescribed so much over the past decades that the world has gotten foggy), so I'm working to titrate off as many meds as I can. My wife has a medical background and knows some excellent pharmacology connections, so I won't have to keep popping down all the pills my (unfortunately) quack physicians advise me to take. I have an upcoming appointment at Stanford neurology coming up soon. The neurologist's I got through the VA are useless and I can't believe they even went through medical school. It seems as if none of the better doctors have stayed in this high-cost area or aren't accepting new patients. Again, thank you for the info, and I wish you well.