Re: PAXIL

["Charles T. Meyer, M.D." <cmeyer2@xxxxxxxx>]

Mary,

I haven't taken Paxil but I  have prescribed it  on a number of
occasions.  It does not as a rule cause extrapyramidal  side effects but I
guess it can in PWPs I had the same thing happen with aciphex,  a drug for
stomach ulcers.  I tried  3 times to start it and wound up with dystonia
each time.  I doubt that the feeling of pins and needles is an
extrapyramidal side effect but it may be caused by Paxil any way.
 Extrapyramidal side effects of drugs are usually to  anti-psychotic drugs
that block dopamine. They usually cause a dystonia which comes on
suddenly.  Paxil should not cause Extrapyramidal side effects to my
knowledge-  But my personal experience with aciphex is that even drugs that
are not usual offenders almost any drug must be considered as
possibly  guilty  in any person especially in PWP.  What problems with
Paxil are you having now?

For Beryl-  the pins and needles feeling is probably not related to
extrapyramidal side effects unless it is a feeling that you have got to get
up and move around .

Paxil is a good antidepressant (and recently was approved   for use with
social phobia) but there are a number of others that can be used.

Charlie

At 06:30 AM 4/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
> Thank you for your helpful information.  To me I think
> they are pins & needles all up & down my arms & legs.
> I'm not sure these are extrapyramidal symptoms.  I
> hope we hear from more people who are or have used
> Paxil.
>
> Mary
>
>
> --- Beryl Pine <BPine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Message text written by "Parkinson's Information
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> > >I have just started Paxil among my other meds.  I
> > have
> > read that it causes extrapyramidal symptoms, & I am
> > experiencing some.  <
> >
> > Mary
> > I tried it for two days, felt strange. Please tell
> > me what extrapyramidal
> > symptoms are.
> > Beryl
> >
> >
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Charles T. Meyer, M.D.
Middleton, WI
PD DX  12 years (at age 44)
Age 56

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