Posted by alienatari on April 27, 2005, at 7:56:26
In reply to Re: TD and neuroleptics. alienatari, posted by JACJ on April 27, 2005, at 6:35:43
Its cool you can ask me any question. I have been on 6 antipsychotics. Most have caused akathesia for me, sometimes taking a while to stop even after stopping the drug (tardive akathesia maybe?) and I had to take benztropine to get some releif. Solian was the first drug to give me TD, basically what I get is uncontrollable jaw biting so I bite my tongue, my lips and so on. But my jaw bites down really hard so I get cuts and sores all over my mouth. Ive been on antipsychotics for about 3 years I never really had a break from them at all until now. Was on Zyprexa for about 6 months maybe more before it started again, the same thing as what the Solian did to me, uncontrollable jaw movements. Though it was much worse with solian, I actually didnt notice it that much but my psychatrist picked it up because it was that obvious. It only happens now a couple of times a day rather then every 10-20 seconds like when I was on solian but its still annoying. Since starting Anafranil ive gotten weird mouth movements but its different, more like jaw clenching and teeth grinding (i get this on ssri's too so im not that worried). Ive read some horror stories about tardive dyskinesia and related problems with AP's, im just really glad nothing like that happened to me. I also know 2 people that have tardive dyskinesia, one from Solian (hers never went away even after stopping the drug) and another from something else that I can not recall at the moment, his went away though. He would thrust his tongue up against his teeth every 5 seconds or so it was quite obvious with him. It just surprises me that the pdocs arnt more upfront with the risks of atypicals, TD can and does happen on them. I think people should be warned about this but obviously a lot of people need these drugs and they do save lives im sure so I dont think people should just simply stop taking their meds. Take care.
> How long were you on Zyprexa? What doseage? How long have you been off it and what were your TD symptoms? I am very interested in movement disorders so I hope that you don't mind the questions.
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> Thanks,
> JACJ
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