My mother is 83 she lives with me and my children and has done for the last 2 years, she has a diagnosis of vascular dementia and is totaly unable to care for herself although she is quite mobile and continent, a few months ago she had what seemed to me like a fit it, was in the morning before she could get out of bed she was uncontrolably shaking, i called the doctor out who said it was a rigor due to a urine infection and prescribed antibiotics (no urine sample was taken) I queried this as she had no raised temperature ect and was apart from this very well, it happened again the next day, i phoned gp and was told to see how she went throughout the day, she was fine after falling alseep and waking, althought this happened for several mornings it then stopped, recently however it has started happening again, the GP wont come out as he says it is just rigors, she has no temp which i understand is the cause of rigors, now it is happening daytime as well as mornings and yesterday she fell when getting into bed, I was just wondering if anyone had had a similar experience as i am finding it very hard to cope with. thanks jane