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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I am on lithium and olanzapine.   
      
   For a good while now I've had an occasional problem,   
   first with drinking and more recently with eating   
   as well, with my tongue not behaving and getting   
   in the way and occasionally my jaw locking.   
      
   In reading Oliver Sacks's  Musicophilia i came   
   across the chapter on Musician's Dystonia with most   
   cases being piano players' fingers but one case   
   was a trumpet player who had problems with his   
   lips, tongue and I think jaw.   
      
   Thus I thought I might have a mild form of dystonia.   
      
   A google search turned up that both lithium and   
   olanzapine could cause such tardive dystonia   
   though another study said olanzapine could be   
   used to treat it.   But one study said that   
   tetrabenazine was used to treat olanzapine-induced   
   tardive dystonia and another study said that   
   clozapine was used to treat lithium-induced   
   tardive dystonia.   
      
   If it was just my tongue it would be   
   tardive lingual dystonia but it is more than   
   my tongue so I think it is tardive oromandibular dystonia.   
      
   I will meet with my psychiatrist on Thursday and   
   will bring it up with him then but I welcome   
   any tips you might have including to other case studies.   
      
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   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
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