Posted by anxiety_free on October 22, 2004, at 8:22:14
In reply to antipsychtoic withdrawal symptoms, posted by lostforwards on October 22, 2004, at 2:50:23
Hi. It sounds like it was a REALLY good idea for you to discontinue that particular antipsychotic. I don't personally think you had NMS; AP's can cause all the side effects you mentioned w/o being life-threatening. Anyway, as for the withdrawal, talk to your shrink, and soon. Did you taper off or did you cold turkey it? Cold turkey discontinuation will make your side effects worse and longer lasting. When I stopped my AP more or less cold turkey, I got an Rx for sleeping pills and upped my benzo....it helped TREMENDOUSLY. You might have a lingering case of TD or something, but that usually goes away after AP discontinuation.
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