Posted by Ritch on November 26, 2002, at 20:17:12
In reply to What is EPS?????????, posted by McPac on November 26, 2002, at 15:01:38
> Anyone?
Hi, there aren't many decent links that describe it but I thought this one was rather straightforward:
http://www.theberries.ns.ca/Archives/XPEffects.html
If you have never *experienced* EPS then it is obviously difficult to explain without resorting to technical jargon. If you *have* experienced it then it may require little explanation :) ! Unless, of course, you are wanting to understand the *mechanism* in the brain/motor circuits that presents the symptoms. I just know what can cause it, what has caused it for me, and what it feels like. We just finished reading a book over in the book club "Awakenings" and it goes into quite a bit of detail about Parkinsonian symptoms. This is about drug-induced "pseudo-Parkinsonism", however. The EPS symptoms I got from Paxil were a sense of choking (laryngeal spasm), and involuntary tongue movements and stiffness which interfered somewhat with my speech (nowhere like Stelazine, however). I didn't spend much time with that medication.
poster:Ritch
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