Posted by lostforwards on November 22, 2004, at 7:12:51
I've asked this before on this board, and I never got a reply. It's suspicious, because my doctors don't seem to address some ticks I have which are gradually going away as I start to feel better. They are still there though, if someone's talking to me and I get a little stressed I might scratch my shoulder.
I was worried it was a tardive stereotype.
When I was under stress and then put on an AP I started spinning things especially if I was in even a slightly stressful situation.
Under even MORE stress and MORE ap for a second time, I had difficulty looking the doctor in the face. I would look to the left and the right and play with things. I couldn't help it. I don't know if it was the drug or something else.
Around this time, the possible tardive stereotypies began to emerge. As in scratching my head and my shoulder.
I'm confused whether or not the behaviours have something to do with me or if they have to do with TD.
At one point while on the medication my left leg collapsed while I was using the bathroom.
But the thing is, in the past ONCE while under stress, I have had a similar reaction, my left leg would start to give way. This happened to me when I was 16 or 17, drug naive, when I had to get up to talk to the class.
I've been told that my eyebrow twitching was also the result of stress. In fact I had been sleep deprived and I hadn't recovered from the 1 week AP+stress from an earlier period. I was having difficulty sleeping even a month later.
SUPPOSEDLY, it's possible that the stereotypies and bizzare behaviour are stress induced and not drug induced. That would mean I'm easily stressed by an AP.
While tappering off the AP, I experienced the difficulty looking someone in the face which eventually went away when I was off the AP.
My arms swing sometimes and sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's one or the other. It's been 2 months, but I'm gradually recovering.
I still have a little bit of these tics.What are all these weird behaviours? TD? or innate bizzare responses to stress?
I still feel like crap though. I feel sort of numb. Could the stress of the AP, given I was sensitive to it have messed me up somehow?
I was on them for only a total of 5 weeks. Risperdal 2mg for 1 week first, then 300 seroquel 1 week, then a month later, 1mg for a week, then 2 mg for 2 weeks, then 3mg for 2 weeks.
Those aren't very high doses but for some reason I developed those bizzare behaviours. I also had difficulty breathing ( which isn't due to dystonia or TD ), muscular rigidity, and dyskinesia ( but not tardive - since it's gone now ) in my fingers.
Did the AP cause any damage?
Could there be any benefit to being 'stressed' ( chronic drop in dopamine ) needlessly by an AP?
poster:lostforwards
thread:418872
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20041118/msgs/418872.html