Posted by HappyGirl on December 23, 2003, at 0:32:19
In reply to Re: Help! I'm scared., posted by Camille Dumont on December 22, 2003, at 23:32:49
Hi Camille:
>>>> Well with the symptoms I've been feeling (i.e. strange twitches, involuntary movements, fainting feelings) ...<<<
I forgot the name for this, 'side effect,' however it is fairly common adverse effect when you are on anti-psychomed, especially older form, like Haldol and the other older anti-psycho. It does not cause 'brain damage, ' but for 'nurological problem,' like twitching feelings and involuntary muscle spams during sleep that accompany with 'jerking legs and arms' without any alarm. In that case, Zyprexa must be NOT for you. As in my previous post, Ability and Geodon is lesser 'side effect,' at least newer ones. The 5th is pretty long for you to wait under this situation, but I agree that you could go to a pharmacist and if he/she is nice enough, you may get informative clue on this. Just sorry to hear this tho', ... In my case, just terrible sedation, even just 2.5 mg. for that my pdoc. surprised because the 2.5 mg. is very lower dosage for my symptoms, but after 2 weeks so, this sleepiness went away very slowly. BTW, I'm pretty robust/non-sensitity on many of psycho-meds., except for 'zombi feelings' at the start of med.>>> Have you ever experienced similar strange side effects when starting anti-psy meds? Did they subside after time? If si, how long did it take? <<<
Since I had no experinece on this sort of side-effect, then I can not tell, ... in regard to 'subside' and 'how long, ...'
In your previous post, you have psychotic depression, but anti-pshycho. med. is mostly beneficial/good for shizho. and Bipolar. Frankly, it's very first time for me to read 'psychotic feature depression.' Then, I might not be helpful on this regard, ... but keep us posted on your progress. I come here at least once a day after work.
HappyGirl
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