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   XPost: sci.med   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I met with my psychiatrist today and he seemed to   
   think that both tardive dyskinesia and tardive   
   dystonia had been ruled out in my meeting with   
   a neurologist about two years ago.   But I don't   
   recall tardive dystonia coming up then.  Also the   
   symptoms have worsened some since then --- then   
   it was just a problem with drinking and now there   
   is some problem with eating as well; my tongue   
   sticks out and sometimes my jaw locks.  Anyway   
   he said he would look into it and also mentioned   
   that the neurology department at the hospital is   
   expanding in the fall so maybe I could get am   
   appointment with a neurologist more easily then,   
   especially if my symptoms worsen.   So far there   
   is no effect on my speech.   
      
   I will meet with my psychiatrist again in 4 weeks.   
      
   --   
   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)   
      "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
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