Re: PAXIL

[Mary Legan <spritelyg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Charlie,

Would you send me your phone # or address.  I just
responded via a long letter, & the computer froze.  It
concerns Dr. Salinger who is on vacation.  I am the
Mary who lives south of Rockford.  I need to talk with
you very very much.  1-815-824-2361.  Mary
spritelyg@xxxxxxxxx

--- "Charles T. Meyer, M.D." <cmeyer2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> > > Exchange Network"
> > > >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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