Posted by yxibow on February 20, 2005, at 20:46:25
In reply to Curled up in a ball with akathisia - possible??, posted by pretty_paints on February 20, 2005, at 10:50:58
> One other thing guys,
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> do any of you have this?
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> When I have akathisia and it gets really bad, I end up curled in a little ball on my bed. This totally goes against the norm for akathisia, where people will be racing around restlessly, crawling out of my skin.Totally, that describes my reaction to some neuroleptics... I just lie down and grab the {carpet, bed, sofa, etc} and sort of writhe around...
..this occurred for me intensely on a one-off Compazine.. also especially with Geodon after a week and unfortunately Abilify too (which I thought would be better with the partial D2)... only Seroquel doesnt do it (well probably Zyprexa, but my hands become very shakey).
I guess I'm sensitive to them in general which follows the oft-noted observance that people with affective disorders (depression, anxiety, etc, but not schizophrenia) are more sensitive to APs.
Its all a reaction to the dopaminergic blockade, its sort of a sliding scale with EPS... intense EPS can be a factor in TD but then again TD also has at least a 30% probability of dissappearing or coming and going just as much as EPS.
All I can say is thank goodness for the newer atypicals on that frame (other than the fact that they can be $3-4 a pill and $15-30 a day or more in the "list price" that insurance hopefully pays for --- which is why some insurance opts for older drugs -- the state of our healthcare, but I digress from the subject at hand)
To good health!
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