Posted by tancu on January 24, 2003, at 18:47:25
Thanks for being here. My wife has been in the hospital for 2 weeks now, her third in-patient stay in the last 8 months or so. During her 1st stay she was diagnosed as bi-polar. The SSRIs don’t seem to help much at all, and neither does wellbutrin or neurontin. They started her on effexor about a week ago, but she complained that she felt like she was “coming out of” her skin. I guess it made her feel too anxious. So, they started her back on imipramine, and they’ve also added seroquel—on the 13th day since she was admitted. She’s obviously not doing well, but insists that she’s leaving “soon”. I talked to her on the phone yesterday, before I went to see her, and I could tell she was really stoned. That’s when she told me about the seroquel. I’m hoping the main reason they’ve started her on it is to help her control her anger/hostility (I’ll be sure to ask her doc specifically about this). I’m very concerned about seroquel’s potential to cause tardive dyskinesia. She seems to already be experiencing tremor in her legs—she told me today that her legs were restless last night as she tried to sleep. So, here are my questions—how prevalent is the side-effect of involuntary movements as a result of taking seroquel?,,,and, are there any particular symptoms or personality characteristics or physical characteristics that are associated with the development of TDK in patients taking seroquel? Thanks for taking the time to give me your thoughts and for posting any links to recent seroquel studies.
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