Is it true that many years of taking sleeping pills (stilnoct and propane) may be the cause of my Parkinson’s disease?

No, medicines do not cause Parkinson’ s disease The symptoms of tremors, prolonged movement and stiffness may be induced or enhanced by Propavan (propiomazine) by partially blocking the effects of dopamine.

The disease process leading to the formation of Lewy inclusion bodies and slow cell destruction is not affected by medicines at all.

However, it is common for many medicines to have anti-dopamine effects and many have Parkinson’ s-like symptoms called “drug- induced Parkinsonism” with a special diogenous code in ICD-10 G21.9.