Posted by med_empowered on December 10, 2005, at 18:25:37
In reply to Re: Hi Med, posted by JACJ on December 4, 2005, at 19:59:01
hi! Antipsychotics have pretty long half-lives (usually), but still..they should be completely out of your system relatively quickly. After that,you may have to deal with some "dopamine rebounb"--usually this just involves increased aggression and the re-emergence of whatever problem(s) were being treated; in some people, it can involve toxic psychosis. After that--you're in clear. Some people get jerks and twitches when they withdraw that then go away (this is what happened to me on Abilify). Atypicals don't cause TD all that often, so I wouldn't worry too much about permanent damage to your system if you've been off the AP for a while...the body has an amazing ability to heal itself.
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