I never knew the statistical likelihood. I'd say that 7% is quite disconcerting, too.

I once saw an elderly woman in the cafeteria at a psych hospital I was in that had TD. She had a very terrible case! It was frightening. Really!

My psychiatrist told me that Seroquel tends to be a bit friendlier when it comes to EPS than other antipsychotics. So far, it has been friendlier for me. So many AAPs gave me akathisia. Really nasty akathisia. One 1st generation gave me a dystonia. My psychiatrist lowered that medication's dose quickly, then took me off it soon after. Risperidone and paliperidone gave me hyperprolactinemia. That was bad! I believe paliperidone even caused a pituitary microadenoma to develop. The endocrinologist I went to really scared me about that. Miraculously, six months after going off paliperidone the tumor disappeared.

I have taken an antipsychotic all 14 years I've been on bipolar medications, save only one day - the first day of my first hospitalization. The fact is, my bipolar illness seems to require an antipsychotic. It's usually always the antipsychotic that curbs my mania best.

Hopefully better medications (or who knows, someday a cure) will be developed.