Study Links Parkinson's Drug to Gambling ("gambling habit from hell")

[truthpusher]

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=170977&source=r_general

Study Links Parkinson's Drug to Gambling
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CHICAGO - Joe Neglia was a retired government intelligence worker with Parkinson's disease when he suddenly developed what he calls a gambling habit from hell. After losing thousands of dollars playing slot machines near his California home several times a day for nearly two years, Neglia stumbled across an Internet report linking a popular Parkinson's drug he used with compulsive gambling.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, this must be it,'" he said. Three days after stopping the drug, Mirapex, "all desire to gamble just went away completely. I felt like I had my brain back."

A Mayo Clinic study published Monday in July's Archives of Neurology describes 11 other Parkinson's patients who developed the unusual problem while taking Mirapex or similar drugs between 2002 and 2004. Doctors have since identified 14 additional Mayo patients with the problem, said lead author Dr. M. Leann Dodd, a Mayo psychiatrist.

complete story: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=170977&source=r_general

[aquart]

1. I'm stunned.

[mom cat]

2. I was on that shit for a while..it is a nasty drug. It did not make me hit

the slots, but it dangerously suppressed my breathing!

[oasis]

3. Bill Bennett will soon announce that he has Parkinson's.

[LeighAnn]

5. LOLOLOL~!!! EOM N/T

[DanCa]

4. Miraprex is horrible

I am on 4 mg right now the worst side effect is when I crawled out of my house one night looking for my legs. My neighbors called my parents and they brought me back home. I also gainned forty pounds on the perscription as well.
As far as pd and ocd its quite common. I am on 150 mg of topomax to curb my ocd . See isn't it any wonder why I have anger issues? Thank you for posting this I know several people in my parkinsons groups who will be interested in this . I owe you one.