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At 15:13 20-11-98 -0600, you wrote: >Bill, > >I'd like to hear more about the development of your Obsessive compulsive >symptoms. I am a psychiatrist and have treated a number of OCD >patients. When did it start in relationship ti the pallidotomy and were >there any changes in other meds around the same time? >> >Bill Harrington wrote: >> I'd also like to echo tthe request for people who've developed >> obsessive/compulsive behaviour to share their knowledge/expeience. >> This may be a side effect more common than we know and not talked >> about due to embarassment. In my case it contributed greatly to >> the breakdown of my 18 year marriage. >> Bill Charlie Bill and others I too had a pallidotomy . The neuro-psychologist, who tested my functions, before and a few months after the surgery, asked me when I came for the second testing, whether I had some emotional disturbances after the surgery. My first reaction was to say no, and asked him why he asked. He said that it was his impression that it happened regularly, people being emotional disturbed after the surgery. And that was why he asked, though this question was not a part of the research project. I thought this over and it was clear that I had been emotional disturbed, beeing more labile and crying more than ever before. I had untill than supposed that it had a psychic cause,because the results of the pallidotomy, which seemed first to be wonderfull turned out to be less so. Besides I had "lost" the hope of the time before the surgery that after it all would be better. Of course I can't know for sure whether this was the right diagnosis. But a fellow patient that I met in the hospital suffered after his surgery of not being able to stop eating, a symptom that was totally new for him. He was very embarrassed about it and I tried to convince him, it was a temporary effect of the surgery to make it less embarrassing. After a few months theses symptoms ameliorated Though I can't prove it I feel it must have been a symptom of nerve damage. But he got a second pallidotomy, and after that he had a more serious symptom, which was told to me by his wife and children. He had fits of rage which he could not control, Though he managed to be only verbally abusive and not physically. He had not told this to the surgeon, which in part is because he lives here as a refugee and man do have in his native culture another role. Their marriage was in danger. When I saw once such a fit of rage, I was convinced it was a symptom of brain damage. Without support this are really terrible symptoms, but because they may ameliorate within a foreseeable time, some guidance of the whole family might make a big difference, because it can prevent the breaking up of the marriage.I can't understand why such symptoms , who in another context are attended to are in this context so neglected Ida -------------------------------------------------------------- Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards, Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask]