hi to brenda sparrow and will johnston and all will johnston wrote to me privately in re the medications used for the stress test that brenda sparrow is concerned about i felt it was important to share his experience, but first, this: i'm flattered by the trust implicit in the questions and am happy to 'do the digging' for anyone who asks [however, my digging domain is limited [hah!] to the internet] but i feel the need to re-iterate my qualifications: 1. i am indefatigably nosy; i love 'digging' for information 2. i love to mull and wonder and think things through 3. i have parkinson's disease in other words in re medications and medicos and especially cardiology my qualifications are: 1. zip 2. nada 3. zilch At 12:34 1999/01/02 -0500, will wrote: >My experience with Persantine was a real downer... >but it was temporary. I was given O2 and then an >injection of "???" which brought me back to >functioning. I asked what it was I was given but >never got a straight answer. Would atropine counter >the effects of the persantine? >Will gee will, i don't know... but i'll go dig! love janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada [log in to unmask]