Posted by kregpark@yahoo.com on September 6, 2001, at 1:29:54
In reply to Re: DOPAMINE - SP and Parkinsons Disease, posted by Mitch on September 5, 2001, at 11:28:09
Mitch:
Thanks for your input.
You are the first I've come across on the Internet
with both the SP and ADHD, but I wouldn't be
surprised if many people have both. You mentioned
mood swings and Cyclert helping that. Do you have
bipolar also? I saw an abstract suggesting some
possible strong similarities between bipolar
and SP. Would make sense to me, both are very
chronic disorders with the former clearly involving
dopamine dysfunction and SP with strong evidence
so far.Anyway, you mentioned the panic later on with
classic stimulants like Ritalin and Dexedrine
increase norepineprine dramatically,
(as does the stimulant like antidepressant Wellbutrin)Have you tried PROVIGIL yet??
I saw at least 1 study for AHDH which was positive
but it probably was a smaller initial type of
study. Also Parkinsons' patients respond well
to it for treatment related sedation, and it may
be useful in it's own right for Parkinsons.It is highly likely that you will have much less
panic symtoms with PROVIGIL than Ritalin, Dexedrine
or (I think) Cylert as I believe that's very similar
to Ritalin.kregpark
http://socialfear.com/
(sorry for the shameless plugs, I'm just trying
to see if my website will show up on a search
one day... :)
> I have heard something about that before. Given I have SP and ADHD, the dopamine connection makes a lot of sense to me. When I was taking Adderall (5mg/day), the ability to focus, SIT STILL, and *LISTEN* to other people was dramatic. I also was more interested in being around other people, but I felt edier and then I got panic attacks and it got stopped. Some say it had to do with the non-verbal contextual information coming off of others that probably set off the panic. It was just too overwhelming. That is akin to my difficulty understanding what a song is about or even most of the words in a song being garbled, or having to reread paragraphs because I just forgot what was going on, or having to ask somebody to repeat themselves 2 or 3 times. It is frustrating, I know (and my pdoc believes) I have ADHD, but I can't treat it with a firstline med because it makes my SP worse, although it flattened my mood cycling out. Maybe if I had been treated as a child I wouldn't be having these problems. I don't want to get Parkinsons, but I don't want to be miserable either.
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