Posted by med_empowered on December 20, 2005, at 23:35:30
In reply to Personal experiences with Zyprexa and EPS, a ?, posted by yxibow on December 20, 2005, at 22:29:22
hi! My experience with zyprexa was short-lived--2.5mgs/day gave me **pronounced** akathisia (shaking, fidgeting, hellish anxiety), so that was pretty much that. Sometimes pseudoparkinsonism does go away with treatment...I think this usually happens within the first month of treatment.
I personally would not recommend doing Zyprexa again. Abilify might be a good option. Seroquel is a good one, too. I read some case studies with severe, chronic schizophrenia where abilify was added (full dose) to zyprexa (full dose)...the results were apparently pretty impressive. Maybe you could do low-dose seroquel, plus low-dose abilify? Geodon is also usually pretty good with EPS, but tends to be pretty heavily sedating.
Have you considered Surmontil? Its kind of like a low-grade antipsychotic; it seems to be kind of clozapine-ish in its mild D2 dampening effect. I would imagine that might help you a bit. Plus, it doesn't seem to cause many EPS problems until the doses get crazy high, and I don't think TD is a big problem, either.
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