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Hi Rick One thing we PWPs tend to do is initially believe everything we read, or everything that is told to us by someone who's in the medical field - and that "medical field" TODAY seems to include the the lovely blonde TV anchor on the 6:00 pm news, your newspaper delivery person, the waitress at the neighborhood Denny's, and the manager of your local fluff 'n fold laundry) - tells us about OUR disease and OUR very own body. I ask you, m'friend, does ANYONE, including your wife AND your neuro, and the author of that book, or ANY book know it feels to be in YOUR body along with YOUR version of this oft described "designer disease?" I suggest ya read that book, and then pick and chose the most relevant part of it (presuming there IS any relevance in it), then mull what ya read around for a while, and THEN read something else .... something such as the wonderful "children's" book, "Stuart Little," by E.B. White. Better yet, rent the video version of "Stuart Little," and you'll see or rather "hear" everybody's favorite Parkie, Michael J. Fox, in action as a master voice-over actor.... WHAT a treat - both book AND video!o!! I swear, Rick, you'll get as much, if not more, useful information about how to live with a bizarre condition such as PD and to STILL enjoy life as you would from a year's supply of Paxil! (And I've got the book, the video AND the Paxil to back up what I've stated!) <rueful grin> The worst that could happen to ya from reading or watching"Stuart Little" is you'll have a big smile and a warm heart every thing ya think of him, and you won't have a drug hangover as ya might with the Paxil. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hermann <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: antidepressants and PD >Hi all, > >My wife brought home a book from the library yesterday about different >medications, all across the board, that the author tried to classify as >"good" or "bad"--bad meaning having side effects or inducing symptoms that >might be worse than the condition or disease being treated. (Sorry, I >didn't bring the title of the book with me to where I'm writing this >message.) Anyway, he notes antidepressants as being potential contributors >to parkinson symptoms, and quotes nearly unbelievable statistics from the >journal Lancet that indicate a correlation between antidepressants and PD. >Oh man, this kind of thing wears me out. I take Paxil, have been for three >years, dx PD for two, but had symptoms prior to Paxil. > >One thing that gave me pause was the author's listing of "writhing, >twisting movement of the limbs" as being a Parkinson's symptom, when in >fact it is a medication side effect. > >Anyone else have anything to say on this? Personally, I don't think my PD >symptoms have much if anything to do with taking an SSRI antidepressant. > >Rick >49, dx 1998