Posted by stjames on July 4, 2000, at 3:05:05
In reply to Re: Question for Cam » Oddzilla, posted by Cam W. on July 3, 2000, at 21:27:06
> Oddzilla - The unmasking of TD was an observation of mine, but when I had mentioned it to the pdocs and pnurses they seemed to already know this. I don't know if it has been written up anywhere. "Masking of TD" was used by a couple of our docs and the couple that I talked to about it. They said that the switch to atypicals seem to bring out the TD. It could be that the anticholinergic was covering some of the tremors, I don't know.
>James here....
The "masking" and "unmasking" of TD by antipsychotics is written about in medical
journals and publications on the net and I have known about it for some time as I did some research about TD in the middle 80's. The Merck Manual mentions it and that raising the dose of an AP will mask TD, though this is not the recomended way to deal with TD.james
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