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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Arg!  They KNOW the psych meds can cause Parkinson's like symptoms!  It was 
on the handouts I gave to caregivers of all the psych patients we 
discharged!  They also know that diet is a big cause of the interaction 
between psych diagnosis and the medications they give their patients.  I 
used to handout a whole little booklet on diet.

That was 25 years ago.  You'd think they'd have made some progress since 
then.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>


> 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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