Posted by steve on March 15, 2001, at 2:21:10
In reply to Re: ADVICE PLEASE-Want to try Geodon, but TD risk? » vince, posted by ShelliR on March 14, 2001, at 12:58:48
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> > Is the risk of tardive diskinesia greater with ziprasidone than with Zyprexa or other drugs in the same class?
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> My pdoc has had one patient so far develop TD on a moderate dose(her description) of risperidol. She says the likelihood of developing td with either zyprexa or geodon is less likely because risperidol is more similar to the regular antipsychotics. But I don't know what "less likely" really means. She has left me a sample package of geodon, but I am very scared to try it.
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> Incidently, in most cases, if td is picked up early, it can be reversed, says my pdoc, in about four months. shelliI really don't think your shrink is doing you a favor by suggesting that TD is something one either has or doesn't have. TD is caused by the APDs killing neurons off, which they all do by their very mode of action. The only unknown is if it the neurotoxicity will suffice to inflict disabling neurological damage or not. A much better analogy would be say with lead poisoning, which some times does cause substantial CNS disturbacnes, and sometimes kills, but not always either.
I don't have an opinion on what you should do, nor would I deign to speak on your behalf. But I do think that you should know exactly what you are getting yourself into before you go for it, Lord knows I wished I had.
S.
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