Posted by tez on July 3, 2005, at 15:40:29
In reply to Re: Respiratory dyskinesia, posted by Beverly Adams on April 24, 2001, at 0:05:15
Hi Bev,
I have only just come across your mail posting. I have been diagnosed with Respiratory Dyskinesia after taking the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol (haldol).
RD is more typical in elderly women so it is certainly possible after anti-psychotic medication. Your GP will probably not be able to recognise the problem. You definitely need a respiratory specialist.
The condition is very rare and very often misdiagnosed. I have heard that it is 'incurable'. I take clonazepam which seems to help a little. This drug makes me very tired though.
There is very little information on it and I do not know of any support groups.
The following article may be worth reading (although I have not read it myself):
Successful treatment of respiratory dyskinesia with picoTesla range magnetic fields, Sandyk-R, Derpapas-K, International Journal of Neuroscience, March 1994, Vol 75, No. 1-2, p91-102.
You may be able to access this article on MEDLINE on the net.I wish you the best of luck. Make sure your mum does see the specialist.
If you have any further information I would be very pleased to hear from you. If you need any more info. please contact me.
Best wishes,
Terence> Dear Sunnely,
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> First of all, again thanks for the data. Mom's GP said she needs to see either the nuerologist or psychiaritist, whom are cousins. I called them also this morining asking what to do and if they would talk to each other about what is going on. We have appointments with the psychiaritist tomorrow/today @ 4:00. I will bring RD up to him and call the GP again about getting her looked at by a RS. I was going to ask him when I thought we would've seen him.
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> Mom was on Prolixin because of the noise ( grunting ). She has tried all of the drugs you mentioned including Haldol. Prolixin was the only one which seemed to help. We were told it would create a Catch 22 with the noise. Mom has even had ECTs. Helped for a little bit ( days ) and then back to "normal".
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> I'm going to check at my school ( in the same town as the cousins ) to see if they get the perioldical in which the article is. If they do, we'll stop by before going to the doctor and I'll make a few copies. I know he'll love it. ( Yea, right!! ) Tough, because my main concern are her and I.
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> I'm going to sign off right now so I can check.
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> Take care and have a good one! ( FYI, good one can be anything you want: day, hour, week, test, etc. )
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> Bev
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