Posted by Iansf on November 26, 2004, at 17:44:56
In reply to Twitching on cymbalta?, posted by Wildflower on November 25, 2004, at 19:58:36
> Has anyone experienced this? Every once in a while one of the muscles in my body twitches. It's been everything from arms to legs to abs. I'm on other meds too but the cymbalta is the newest of the coctail.
>I did initially. More than twitching really - one time my right arm just flew up and over and behind my head, completely of its own volition! But mostly the jerking was much more subdued. It stopped about five weeks in. I'm now in my eighth week, and it hasn't happened again.
The term for this is dyskinesia, by the way. With some antipsychotics it's a very serious problem that may never go away, even if you stop the medication. But with antipsychotics it typically doesn't show up till you've been on the drug for a long time. In these cases it's referred to as tardive (that is, delayed) dyskinesia. I'm trusting that it was only an iniatory side effect with Cymbalta, a sign of my body adjusting, rather than something that reappear later - and remain.
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