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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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I have to strongly disagree with the doctor and Imahotep. I was a psychiatric social worker at a state psych hospital and was involved in all discussions involving treatment for my patients, so while I don't have medical training I do have the benefit of learning a lot from medications meetings.
It has been 12 years, and new psychotrophic meds with fewer side-effects have come out, but reading the drug info available at the top of this page tells me that this is NOT the kind of drug you give a patient in the hope that it will help treat RSD.
Your doctor may need to change the doses of your medications or monitor you carefully for side effects ~ MedlinePlus. Nursing staff were always instructed to monitor patients during med changes; you can't get careless with something that can affect the brain.
Also tell your doctor if you have or have ever had heart or liver disease, breast cancer, heart failure, an irregular heartbeat, a stroke or mini-stroke, or seizures, the drug obviously can affect many parts of the body. I have no idea whether anti-seizure meds (such as gabatril, Lamictal and Lyrica) can mean an additional risk, but those drugs do affect the brain long after we stop using them.
you should know that you may experience hyperglycemia (increases in your blood sugar) while you are taking this medication, even if you do not already have diabetes The list of warnings is endless.
Listed side-effects are pretty much the usual suspects, except: unusual movements of your face or body that you cannot control. This is called tardive dyskinesia, a terrible -- and permanent -- side-effect of many antipsychotic drugs. Even involuntary psychiatric patients must be warned about this and have the right to refuse any medication that can cause it.
Antipsychotic drugs are always extremely poserful, come with lots of risks and side-effects, and should only be prescribed by psychiatrists (who are expected to know more about them than an anesthesiologist or pcp).
Imahotep, I'm shocked and sickened at the fact that a physician would prescribe Geodon for your RSD. Based on this alone, I'm convinced she/he is not just incompetent but downright dangerous. The risks of taking Geodon are far to severe to justify prescribing it in the hope it might help RSD.
If the doctor who prescribed this drug for you told you it is commonly used, he/she lied to you, It isn't, and thank God! If it were we can look to a future in which many RSD patients, still suffer from the disease and also suffer from obnoxious and uncontrollable lip-smacking and finger rolling (tardiive dyskinesia).
There is no nothing to link schizophrenia with RSD, and absolutely no reason to prescribe that drug to us...Vic
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Last edited by Vicc; 08-08-2007 at 01:52 AM.
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