Posted by iforgotmypassword on April 8, 2006, at 18:01:42
i always do this when doing something vegetative (i.e. looking at the computer)? it is very wierd... i have noted the mentions of strange effects that go with extrapyramidal symptoms and even tardive dyskinesia, but not sure if this is related to extrapyramidal like effects... though i still get akithisia like symptoms to this day. is it my brain that's doing this? its wierd to describe. i keep grimacing in a way that i lift my whole upper face (like mouth and jaw with my cheeks), but leave my lower jaw alone. like a very wierd, overdone smile, but only with my upper jaw. like my lower jaw stays but i pull up all the upper half of my face. is this what they mean when they say 'slack-jawed' colloquially, comically (or insultingly)? i have never actually seen anyone do it, but it's pretty much the same face that you notice kids immitate when they are making fun of someone with an unitelligable laugh or moan and strange face as if they figured that's how a developmentally delayed person expresses vocally. or well, kids certainly did this when i was a kid.
but anyways, i can usually stop myself from doing it when i notice it, but then my face feels that strange wierd feeling like i need to stretch it, so i pretty much just let it go. in certain instances where my functioning has been very bad or i am very upset (in sort of akithisia like way), it gets very difficult to hold my face normally, and i become very rigid and hunched over , and makes my speech ridiculous and useless. this happens seldomly, but still it's really makes you wonder... as rigid and clumsy feelings come and go with me, and it affects my thoughts as well, and i really think that they are related. a case of some girl described an inherent neurological 'reluctuance' to move, and that really really hit me wondering if that was happening to me, and also with when my breathing keeps feeling like it needs to be reinfoced (like if i stop focusing on it, i will stop breathing, i used to get the 'forgetting to breathe' feelings on chlorpromazine for sleep a long time ago, but that was only used a few times)
i know i don't have an old-persons neurodegenerative disease, i am only almost 22. i have had a positive lyme test (WB IgM from igenex, never noticed bite/rash, ever), but what exactly that means has been strongly contested by doctors. and gimmicky, pointless remedy money-draining trends are flooding the lyme community, and lots of people just don't respond to antibiotics anyways, making me wonder if many tests in people are truly false positives and it's just another waste of time of barking up the wrong tree with esoteric, contested diagnoses. :( does anyone know if the symptoms and the extreme episodes i get point to anything confidently recognized?
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