Mine was a lot like HallieBeth described. It was inner restlessness that made me miserable. I could hardly concentrate because it was like a pain-free yet tortured feeling. Strangely, despite the inner restlessness, I almost felt tired by it even though I'd rock my lower body back and forth. It sort of reminds me of the horrible feeling you get when you're sitting at the phlebotomists office with the needle in your arm, with the phlebotomist slowly changing the cartridges to get more and more blood.

I was on Propranolol for something else, but that didn't help enough even though it is known to be helpful for akathisia. I tried Cogentin, but it gave me such extreme constipation that I couldn't take it anymore. So in the end, I took Ativan. That helped, but I ended up taking it every day for 3 years, so I am going to have to eventually be weaned off of that since it is a benzo.

My doctor has been very very very slowly taking me off Geodon since November 2016. The Geodon withdrawals have been horrible and the weaning off caused me mood disruption. But Geodon was the culprit for my most recent akathisia. I don't believe I have akathisia anymore, but then again I've been taking the Ativan every day for all of this time. But at high doses of Geodon the akathisia would start up again before my next dose of Ativan. I tried very hard to just white knuckle it until the morning Ativan kicked in. Otherwise, I would have had to have taken Ativan twice per day. I really didn't want to take that much Ativan.