I'm currently on 2 APs, one atypical and one typical. Either the prescence of the typical or the combination of the 2 is causing me to have some muscle rigidity. It hurts! I saw my pdoc Monday and she put me on Cogentin and gave me 2 doses I could choose; I'm on the higher one already. She also wants me to change to valium at bedtime instead of klonopin as the valium will help with the EPS. I haven't been able to do that because I will be very sleepy and need to have some time to recover from the adjustment and this week I had all these obligations. I took valium this morning to try to get a break and just wound up sleeping and just as sore because I took a tiny dose. Last time it took a full 5 mg dose to stop most of the pain for a few days until my loxapine dose had to increase.

When the loxapine stabilizes I'll lower my Seroquel dose, hopefully next month. And hopefully the combination of the 2 meds is causing this and that will decrease the symptoms. I don't know if I'll have to increase the loxapine once more; it depends how my body reacts to getting my AD back to the normal dose this week or next and whether I can use valium to sleep successfully. I'm getting close to a stable dose though and should be good at this dose or one more up. I like loxapine; aside from some sedation there are no lingering side effects. I have to eat enough when I take it or I get nauseous but that's easy and I'm losing weight slowly. The Seroquel carb cravings are drastically decreased.

But for now this hurts. Just curious if anyone else has been through this and what helped you.

I have to call the dr Monday because I need to go up on cogentin or something to control this better. It's really sore and covers a bigger area of my body every day. By the time I figured it out on the last dose even my feet were in pain.

My AD is used to control muscle rigidity in Parkinson's patients at a much lower dose than I get through my patch so I'd think it should help too but so far if it helps I can't imagine what it would be like if it weren't.

At least my jaws are spasming anymore. That was the worst and the cogentin seems to have helped that. That was keeping me awake at night. This is just uncomfortable all the time. I keep wondering if a massage would help but I have a feeling not enough to spend the money on it. I'll have to see what they cost here. I don't really like being touched but if they could help I'd deal with the PTSD.