RE: Re: Ativan (was: muscle jerking)

[Guest guest]

Someone needs to correct Wikipedia who reports it as a anticholinergic at

that link.

Otherwise in the medical literature it is both helpful for LBD and sometimes

not. Caution with Parkinson's is also urged. With some or with too high a

dose it is known to cause myclonus in some with LBD and in elderly without a

diagnosis of LBD. I cannot provide links to the medical literature here

but it does exist. What my mil experienced bore out what I had later read.

Dorothy

From: LBDcaregivers [mailto:LBDcaregivers ]

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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 9:01 PM

To: LBDcaregivers

Subject: Re: Ativan (was: muscle jerking)

While Ativan (lorazepam) is a benzodiazepine, it is not anticholinergic.

Some with LBD can tolerate this medication.

>

>My mil got them when given a full adult dose

> of ativan (anticholinergic) and later when she was taking cipro (

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinolones> quinolones ). I just looked at

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