neck distonia and drooling and Botox

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Tomorrow my dad and I leave on a little drive to Houston, to get a

second I believe Botox injection in the neck.. am I spelling that

right? anyway. one apparently? unanticipated side effect is that his

problem with drooling significantly decreased. I'm not sure if

that's normal or not. I'm not sure if distonia (spelling?) of the

neck muscles is normal or not for MSA? If so, how do y'all cope with

it? My dad has a problem where his neck really hangs over to one

side a lot and so we're working on different neck braces to

compensate.

-- Elliot " when I'm signaling it generally means I'm turning

unconditionally so get out of the way!!! " yeah.. I'm one of *those*

drivers.. :-)

>Ken, on the other hand had no trouble swallowing consciously up until the

>very day he died, but he drooled almost all the time for several years. He

>had lost the automatic swallowing reflex along with the blinking reflex and

>several others, but when told to do any of them, he had no trouble. it was

>not the inability to swallow that made him drool, it was the loss of the

>automatic reflex. On demand, he could swallow several pills at once and eat

>big hunks of steak.

> Barbara

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