This poll is to see what, if any, prescription medication you were on before your initial PD or PD-like symptoms emerged.

I'm curious to see the results.

I have a comment.

Many years ago an antipsychotic was used as a tranquilizer, mostly by OBGYNs for women. It was called Stelazine. The antipsychotic dose was 5mg and up. (this was related to Compazine and Thorazine and was a dopamine antagonist like them). It is not on your list, but should be.

The doses commonly used for sedation, were 1mg or 2mg in comparison.

My aunt, the youngest of 3 sisters, was on this for a long time.
I remember when I was first licensed in the early '70s we had this drug in the fast mover shelf in bottles of 500.

Of course, slowly this was replaced by Librium and Valium and other benzos. But the older doctors clung to Stelazine for quite a while.

Well, years later, my aunt was diagnosed with beginning Parkinson's at a local teaching hospital complex. At that time she was becoming quite depressed (family issues) and sadly committed suicide. I've lived with this sad story most of my adult life... and have always thought the Stelazine was at fault.

Thank you for sharing your personal story, and I'm sorry about your loss.

I wish there was a more centralized, official way to track the benefit or harm these drugs are doing so that more people are aware of the results. I think the fact that there is not, makes it more difficult for the average person to make informed decisions about what drugs to take or not take. I think the Internet has made it finally possible to connect to others that may have the same issues or are taking the same drugs, so we can build communities to discuss our own experiences as we do on this forum ... to question these drugs and doctors ... and, in some cases, find better alternatives. I feel like I've learned so much from this community and the Internet that I know will help my mom's quality of life, whereas without these resources, we would have been much more dependent on a doctor's (limited) perspective and experience (versus 100's of actual patients with PD who live it every day and take the time to discuss it on this forum plus all the available peer-reviewed studies that many doctors don't even keep up with).

thyroid problems often accompany pd and so do hormones or lack of. you might want to add them. also i used to take little green pills after being diagnosed with Irritable Bowel syndrome.

this was before pd diagnosis and very shortly before motor pd symptoms emerged,
therefore i was on synthroid and prem forgot the rest of the word but it was a combination of estrogen and another hormone due to early menopause.

my hormone system is shutting down. its' significant and understudied.

I was wrongly being treated by a doc for low thyroid-hence taking thyroid hormone for years without needing it. Apparently it zips you up a bit and makes you feel better too. In comparing notes I found that all of my friends that went to this guy were on the same regimen of thyroid/progesterone and were feeling better.

It messed up my thyroid function for many years and is now back to normal. I also do not have a uterus so did not need progesterone. This guy got kind of run out of town on a rail after all this came to light. Another common thing with pd and thyroid with more than one person. May mean nothing-or may mean something.