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I couldn't have said it better myself. As a person who had practiced psychiatry for 20 years I agree with you 100%. . Charlie At 04:44 AM 6/24/00 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Rick: Listen to Barb on this one. Don't give up your >anti-depressant. You'll need it...especially if you keep >reading books of this kind. Depression is a very real, >TREATABLE disease about which my misinformation abounds. My >experience, both personal and in the field, and current >literature does NOT support the notion that your S.S.R.I. >will cause or worsen your PD. > Carole Hercun, RN,C. >P.S. Incidentally, those "writhing" motions you describe, >called a dystonic reaction,when associated with psychiatric >medications, are a relatively uncommon reaction to >anti-psychotic meds, NOT anti-depressants. > > >--- Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/