Tardive Dyskinesia

Hey everybody! I just read about this in another post and I hope you all can enlighten me. I think I am experiencing Tardive Dyskinesia. My right hand does this continous movement. I didn't think that much about it until my husband commented and thought I should talk to the pdoc. Is it dangerous? What does it mean? Which drug do you think is causing it? I am on Lamictal, Geodon, Pristiq, and Xanax XR. Thanks,

Involuntary muscle movements can be a side effect of any of the drugs you mentioned. The best thing to do is talk to your pdoc and make sure he/she knows what's going on. Do it as soon as you can because sometimes the damage is not reversible.

Geodon did it to me. That was over 2 years ago, and I still have tics.

I'm on Edronax and Sodium Valporate.
I think my teeth grinding began while I was still on Lexapro. I now have a strong muscle twitch in my shoulder occassionally, and also suffer from migraines from time to time

ye when you first start seeing signs is the time to push them to shift to something else less likely to cause it

I researched it and any anti-psychotic will do it. So will Abilify. I've heard though it's rare some anti-depressants do it. I guess it's all in the chemestry. I've got it. When I have my dentures in I like open and close my mouth. Not too noticable hopefully. But after 16 years of the worst anti-psychotic, there's got to be side effects. I'm off of it now. But I have akathisia, too, but it seems after time and a lot of B6, it's getting better. Oh, you can get that (it makes you so you can't sit still) with an anti-psychotic, too. Mine showed up after I quit mine.

I researched this too.....recently......after it was brought to my attention by a couple of members. I have all the symptoms: the jiggly leg, the hand and finger movement ( like playing the piano, just as it was described), the fast blinking, and the worst of all, the mouth and jaw movements which just started a week ago. I hope it isn't irreversible, as it often is.......even some improvement at all would be better than what I'm dealing with. I could even put up with everything, if I had to, except the mouth and jaw thing. Arg-g-g-h-h-h-h......no fun at all. And I thought the tics, (which my husband first noticed,) were anxiety.....

Yes, and I bounce mu leg up and down very fast at times. I usually suspected this was more when I was experiencing hypomania

My leg bounces without any prior drug uses it is generally associated for me with anxiety but the hand clenching finger twitching, restlessness can be a sign of TD or Akathesia and is often misdiagnosed.

I'm waiting2get meds&I have leg twitches, I clench my jaw a lot&my hands just move when I'm not trying2move them. Weird. But I have also been having a lot of panic attacks&anxiety so mybe its that. I have only ever taken prozac&cymbalta(double yuck!). I wonder why I have these things when I don't take anything...well sometimes xanax but its not prescribesd

I've read that it doesn't always go away. Even when the meds do. I started off several months ago with Abilify 12mg, in the hospital.....then down to 10mg because I was an absolute zombie, then 5mg, same reason, then I went off entirely, back on at 2mg and then 1 and then none. I'm sure Abilify is the culprit here and I'm waiting to see if all these things go away without it, but I'm not holding my breath. I hope yours' resolves itself soon.....

I was gonna ask for abilify but not if it does that.

This is only my experience. I've read that anti-psychotics will set off TD, and since I've been taking only Lamictal, (which is anti-seizure, but is now found to help bipolar) and Abilify, that's the conclusion that I came to, along with my pdoc backing me up. But please talk to you doc about it, as everyone's cicumstance is different. Did you have your appointment today? Hope you came home from it feeling empowered......all the best, greylove