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Old Sep 16, 2023, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour View Post
I would think/hope that your psychiatrist could determine which EPS it is. I would imagine that answer would help in determining the best treatment. I know there are a wide variety of medications used for such conditions. Perhaps something not yet tried would help more.

I've had akathisia from a few antipsychotics, with Geodon causing the most torturous case. When I had the dystonia crop up, mine showed as involuntary lip puckering, but I think dystonias show up in various ways/places. My doctor stopped that antipsychotic and the dystonia stopped.
From combining Geodon, Zyprexa and THC once, in a desperate attempt to bring on sleep, during a crisis following my last suicide attempt in 2017, I had involuntary sticking out of my tongue. That scared me. I thought it was TD. It wasn't, thanks god.

With the current reaction, my psychiatrist is at a loss. He cannot determine what it is. It is so weird. But he thinks it is EPS and advised to start with B6.

He does not want to give me Cogentin because he thinks that that might increase my chances of dementia. I already have a genetic predisposition to dementia.
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Bipolar I w/psychotic features
Last inpatient stay in 2018

Lybalvi 10 mg
Naltrexone 75 mg


Gabapentin 1500 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects)

Long-term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued:
- Hypothyroidism
- Obesity BMI ~ 38
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