Dear Arth, now there is something about Eldepryl I want to tell - maybe you = remember - that I was so depressed when I took Eldepryl.=20 I remember my neuro told me "nonsence" it can`t happen, THEREFORE I = never forget how glad I became becaouse you told me that I could bee = depressed. I never forget my neuros face when I shoved your e-mail. = THANKS A LOT :-)) Arth. Best wishes Sonia NEVER GIVE UP -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Arthur Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> Til: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN = <[log in to unmask]> Dato: 11. marts 1998 21:12 Emne: Demerol/Eldepryl >At 07:40 AM 3/10/98 -0500, Mary Ann (Bent Willow) wrote: >>We had a conversation with our Neurologist in which he poo-pooed the >>Demerol/Eldepryl concern. He claimed that the evidence concerning the >>danger was poor to non-existent - which is why I asked the question. >>------ >Mary Ann, hopefully the evidence is poor because everybody heeded the >warning, not because the warning was incorrect. > >I started on this list in March, 1996, and armed with the one piece of >information on the drug interaction, went to my first DAPS meeting, = where I >met Marianne Lichtenstein, whose husband, Abe, had recently undergone >surgery. Abe had been on Eldepryl; and when he suffered pain after his >operation, they gave him Demerol. > >I was not there to witness the results, but I am told that he went = wild, >climbing the walls, as it were, until they could introduce drugs that = would >calm him down. > >If your neuro has such doubts, let him take Eldepryl and Demerol = together >and see what happens for himself. He won't. Time to find a new nd. > >Art > >Arthur Hirsch [] [log in to unmask] [] Lewisville, TX > ____________________________________________ > > Always Remember This: > Happiness Is Right, So Choose Happiness > ____________________________________________