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Dear Charlie, Would you send me your phone # or address. I just responded via a long letter, & the computer froze. It concerns Dr. Salinger who is on vacation. I am the Mary who lives south of Rockford. I need to talk with you very very much. 1-815-824-2361. Mary [log in to unmask] --- "Charles T. Meyer, M.D." <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mary, > > I haven't taken Paxil but I have prescribed it on > a number of > occasions. It does not as a rule cause > extrapyramidal side effects but I > guess it can in PWPs I had the same thing happen > with aciphex, a drug for > stomach ulcers. I tried 3 times to start it and > wound up with dystonia > each time. I doubt that the feeling of pins and > needles is an > extrapyramidal side effect but it may be caused by > Paxil any way. > Extrapyramidal side effects of drugs are usually > to anti-psychotic drugs > that block dopamine. They usually cause a dystonia > which comes on > suddenly. Paxil should not cause Extrapyramidal > side effects to my > knowledge- But my personal experience with aciphex > is that even drugs that > are not usual offenders almost any drug must be > considered as > possibly guilty in any person especially in PWP. > What problems with > Paxil are you having now? > > For Beryl- the pins and needles feeling is probably > not related to > extrapyramidal side effects unless it is a feeling > that you have got to get > up and move around . > > Paxil is a good antidepressant (and recently was > approved for use with > social phobia) but there are a number of others that > can be used. > > Charlie > > At 06:30 AM 4/8/01 -0700, you wrote: > >Thank you for your helpful information. To me I > think > >they are pins & needles all up & down my arms & > legs. > >I'm not sure these are extrapyramidal symptoms. I > >hope we hear from more people who are or have used > >Paxil. > > > >Mary > > > > > >--- Beryl Pine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Message text written by "Parkinson's Information > > > Exchange Network" > > > >I have just started Paxil among my other meds. > I > > > have > > > read that it causes extrapyramidal symptoms, & I > am > > > experiencing some. < > > > > > > Mary > > > I tried it for two days, felt strange. Please > tell > > > me what extrapyramidal > > > symptoms are. > > > Beryl > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > > > mailto:[log in to unmask] > > > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > Charles T. Meyer, M.D. > Middleton, WI > PD DX 12 years (at age 44) > Age 56 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn