Posted by lostforwards on November 30, 2004, at 12:43:52
In reply to Re: drug-induced illness » ed_uk, posted by Larry Hoover on November 30, 2004, at 11:27:35
Stress makes a lot of sense. I was off APs for over a year, and when I was really stress I started to get twitching at the corner of my mouth. I also had some odd behaviours before anyway, like when I was REALLY stressed I would spin stuff. When they put me on the AP again, while stressed I started getting more symptoms of dyskinesia as well as dystonia. I was only on the meds the first time for 2 weeks.
When I went on an even higher dose a month later after being off, I had other symptoms. Like once my left leg collapsed while I was using the bathroom, I developed sterotypies, and I don't think this was Tardive dementia, but I didn't look people in the eye, and I'd sway one way or the other.
Actually...when I missed sleep for a night my body was suck leaning way over one side. Usually missing a night of sleep makes me "manic". I don't know what that leaning stuff was all about.
Nor do I know what compulsively spinning things especially when someone was around me, or not looking people in the face are.
ALL were revealed with the stress of the antipsychotic + environmental stress.
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