Posted by Christ_empowered on July 19, 2016, at 14:13:17
In reply to Re: Rexulti anyone? » SLS, posted by sheilac on July 18, 2016, at 14:13:39
hi. I don't know much about Rexulti. It hasn't been on the market long at all, so its hard to predict what will happen with it.
If you choose to take an AP/AAP, I'd really, seriously, no: really recommend taking antioxidants. Nothing too crazy...just some c, b-complex, and natural form e w/mixed tocopherols (if you can).
There's some indication from the research that a lot of the problems with AP/AAP drugs is from oxidative stress. Tardive dyskinesia is basically obvious brain damage. Antioxidants and B-vitamins are used by some natural/alternative health people to both prevent and treat TD.
The newer, "atypical" drugs are assumed to have a considerably lower rate of TD. From what I've read, that may or may not actually be the case. Being female with a mood disorder puts you at a higher risk for TD. The longer you stay on the tranquilizer, the higher the dose, the more additional meds you're on, the older you get....the higher the TD risk becomes. One big problem is that the tranquilizers also suppress TD, so many people have TD but don't know it until they go off the tranquilizer (or reduce the dose) or it gets so bad that it breaks through the ongoing tranquilizer treatment.
I'm not anti-psychiatry, and I'm not trying to scare you. I take 30mgs/Abilify daily, and I do the Orthomolecular thing. Its been over 5 years; no tics, no twitches, no unusual walking pattern ("stiff gait"), no decline in mental abilities. I honestly think its the vitamins, because I was very, very prone to side effects before I started supplementing.
Just watch out for TD. Like I wrote above...by the time you get obvious TD, you may also have some reduction in mental abilities and...well, just general brain damage. Not fun. I do wish they'd find a better, safer way to handle severe mental illness, but...its psychiatry, not science.
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