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I do have mild TD in my tongue and lip twitches. Pretty much my tongue always moves in my mouth. Seroquel causes it. Every time I've been off Seroquel, it stops. It hasn't worsened though I've been on Seroquel mostly on for over 15 years. At least 10 of those years, I was on clonazepam (finally tapered from a 4 mg/day dose). For me, the clonazepam didn't stop the TD. It doesn't help everyone as the article states. The last time I was put back on Seroquel, I had the worst TD in my hands and legs, especially my hands. The psych hospital was giving me clonazepam, but it didn't help. Time did, amazingly, and I know this is not the case for most people. I stuck it out and within 3 weeks the bad TD symtpoms had lessened and by about a month they were gone. I still do have the tongue/mouth twitches, but I'll take that over having to use fidget toys all day, every day. Pretty much I'm used to my tongue moving constantly in my mouth at this point.
The interesting thing to me is why did I get the TD in my hands & legs that time around and not before then? I'd probably been on and off Seroquel and had changed dosages of it over 10 times through the years. When the pdoc recently added an extra 50 mg Seroquel to my nightly dosage, the only thing that happened was I got night sweats for a couple of nights (always happens to me when I go up or down or off Seroquel). No extra TD thankfully!
And the tapering and getting off clonazepam is a BYTCH! So it's a results vary situation with the situation of getting off the benzo being a nightmarish experience.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD
Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,
There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
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