Is this Tardive Dyskinesia
I'm on two 'anti-psychotics' one typical and one atypical..
Anyway.. my legs or arms or even whole body just jumps/twitches outside of my control.. sometimes just once or in quick procession of each other. It's been happening for a long time now.
Someone said it could be Tardive Dyskinesia.. But I thought that was to do with your mouth?
Or could it be Dystonia? A few years ago I had a very distressing (and physically painful) incident with that where my muscles took control of themselves over a very short period.. which due to medication I no longer have trouble with.
Answer:I think the tardive dyskinesia is like a twisting of the same muscles that are affected by dystonia. Parkinson's patient, Michael J Fox did a video where the medicine was I feel, loosening up the tremor or dystonia and converts it to a less locked twisting, a step better than tremor or dystonia. I had dystonic or spastic symptoms worse from pesticides and I was forced on antipsychotics more than once. The last caused my tongue to curl and after drinking coffee the body cramping would convert to wrist twisting, etc. Coffee is protective against parkinsons and such related disorders, but sometimes the better is temporarily more noticeable. If interested, there's info on non drug approaches. The book, "Back to Eden" lists herbs for mental problems and the human rights commission against psych drug use has doctors who both prescribe or don't prescribe psych drugs, but try to find what may help a person so they can try to be able to get off the drugs. Reasons like environmental sensitivity or organic and amino acid tests, etc may show a treatable problem and most mental health professionals don't know much on this nor adress this themselves directly.
It sounds like a side effect of the typical anti-psychotic. i have taken care of many with TDK. You should get to the doctor and re-evaluate, possibly change your meds as its not reversible.
It certainly sounds like TD, which is a major side effect of several popular antipsychotics, including Thorazine and Seroquil.
Go to a DR asap If it is real bad can't walk etc go to the ER
It could be dystonia or dyskinesia (tardive means it remains after the drug is stopped), but either way you need to contact health services as soon as possibly
Tardive dyskinesia is serious side effect of long-term use of drugs called neuroleptics. The most commonly used neuroleptics are older anti-psychotic drugs, including haloperidol, trifluoperazine, or fluphenazine.