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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

GPs and internists have problems with psych meds.  There should alsways be 
consutations with a Psychiatriast in such situations.  Any number of 
psychotropics can cause tremors.............................

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--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-Doctor
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:57 AM
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:34 AM, <Bunjov AT aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > But I can't let the 'anti-doctor' comment
> pass by. So glad to meet another!
> 
> 
> Count me in for all but real emergencies.
> 
> >
> > I can't begin to recount how many times I've
> been prescribed conflicting
> > medications...by the same physician - sitting right
> there in front of me,
> > consulting his dog-eared edition of the PDR...
> 
> 
> True story. My husband's father was diagnosed with
> Parkinson's 7/2007. He's
> been taking a fistful of meds several times a day ever
> since, on top of his
> regular meds for BiPolar, which he was diagnosed with 20
> years ago. He's had
> numerous complications and have not been able to get the
> Parkinson's under
> control.
> 
> Between early October and just before Thanksgiving, he
> spent five weeks
> (on/off) in the hospital where they reduced his meds one by
> one to all but
> one BiPolar med.
> 
> Now they aren't even sure if he has Parkinson's or
> what might be wrong other
> than BiPolar. Now they think, still guessing, that perhaps
> the psychotropic
> meds had begun to interfere with each other and produced
> side effects that
> mimicked Parkinson's. He is going in for more tests
> next month. The up side
> is that he may not have Parkinson's after all.
> That's the silver lining, but
> how can you have confidence and trust in the doctor after
> that? Just makes
> me think they know how to treat deal with broken legs and 
> whatnot, but the
> rest is just guessing since each person's chemistry is
> different.
> 
> Lisa
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