[exist4543]

i just noticed since i was put back on Benzatropine that i am now starting to have intrusive thoughts about being sexually exploited by older people and it went away after i got off the Benzatropine for the most part i am on abilfy 5m and generic risperdal 3.5 i'm also starting to get that tardive dyskinesia which is why i am on Benzatropine and the obsessing thoughts have returned i am a good amount over 18 and the more humiliating and degrading i think about it the more appealing it is during the times i obsess about it and it's pretty much something upsets me and that is how i am comforted i am not trying to offend anyone in anyway i guess what i am asking is can the Benzatropine cause this or something else which i have no idea i already found out to stay clear of caffine i know its not the abilify because the issue existed from the moment i left the hosptial then went away and i got off the Benzatropine then went back on and dealt with it for years till it went away and it's back and its i guess the way i comfort myself with the intrusive thoughts/obssessing
thank you for any help

[Wayfarer25]

Originally Posted by exist4543

i just noticed since i was put back on Benzatropine that i am now starting to have intrusive thoughts about being sexually exploited by older people and it went away after i got off the Benzatropine for the most part i am on abilfy 5m and generic risperdal 3.5 i'm also starting to get that tardive dyskinesia which is why i am on Benzatropine and the obsessing thoughts have returned i am a good amount over 18 and the more humiliating and degrading i think about it the more appealing it is during the times i obsess about it and it's pretty much something upsets me and that is how i am comforted i am not trying to offend anyone in anyway i guess what i am asking is can the Benzatropine cause this or something else which i have no idea i already found out to stay clear of caffine i know its not the abilify because the issue existed from the moment i left the hosptial then went away and i got off the Benzatropine then went back on and dealt with it for years till it went away and it's back and its i guess the way i comfort myself with the intrusive thoughts/obssessing
thank you for any help

benztropine (Cogentin) can cause psychosis as a side-effect. the best way to figure out if this is really the benztropine causing this is to talk to your doc and do a trial run of being off the meds to see if the intrusive thoughts occur or stop based off being off the drug. but like you said, you tried that when you went off the benztropine, so you already know the answer. best thing you can do now is talk to your doc about the side effects. there are other drugs similar to benztropine that can combat TD that you can try. i'll look some up and list them in another post for you.

[Wayfarer25]

this list of drugs is straight from my nursing medscape app.

there is some anecdotal support for TD treatment for the following drugs or types of drugs:

vitamin E, levodopa (usually used for Parkinson's), benzodiazepines, botulinum toxin, resperine, tetrabenazine, and dopamine-depleting agents, and ondansetron.

any of those can be helpful. so it's a partial list and some ammo in your pocket when you talk to the doc about trying something else.

also the same app states that clozapine (Clozaril) can be a better alternative as an antipsychotic because of it's incredibly low risk of causing or exacerbating TD.

Source: Medscape

so talk to your doc. if the benztropine is really causing the intrusive thoughts, then it's probably best to talk to the doc about going off the drug and trying something else to control the TD symptoms. just talk to your doc first before dropping drugs off your regimen.

hope this helps.

[exist4543]

thank you for the help

[exist4543]

i realized that i the intrusive thoughts have always been there since a certain point in my life but nothing like what exists when i am on the Benzatropine it over time just ended up magnifying and sure there were a few times when i was not on the Benzatropine in which the thoughts existed sure i was not on the .5 of the risperdal and just was not doing so hot and thought that it was the risperdal and had alot of caffeine which ended up a bad idea i was just thinking that i should just be on the abilify at that time but the two i see work better now that i have been on the abilify over time sorry if i am a bother i just felt the need to vent the Benzatropine i had thought for a long time was making me feel better and i wanted to be on it now i was finally able to see it as the problem the years worth of crap my life was on that for once i feel free and sure some people probably think it was for the better because on top of the voices and the noises i supposedly retaliated against someone for doing something when i had no clue who they are or what they were doing but was going to be caught for doing that so between the schizophrenia and the Benzatropine and psychosis and the abilify i now can just call people by there actions what they do how they do stuff not let my illness turn on myself and not let or think people use my illness to there advantage what goes around comes around say my whole thing with people thinking i retaliating against someone doesn't exist i just use logic to stop for someone from coming into my life sure on top that and the intrusive thoughts i still have a long way to go hopefully its nothing but upward from here so at this time i am a no relationship person sure i am kinda in isolation i do live with family and have relationships with them i just am not a people person at this time and as far as relationships i was talking about people i do not know or have never spoken with or a relationship as far as my view could have ever existed with them doesn't that sound great keep people i do not know out of my life i'll just say as far as love or like type stuff goes yep got a long way to go