Posted by yxibow on January 14, 2007, at 19:19:28
In reply to Re: ABILIFY + EPS, posted by cgd092 on January 14, 2007, at 0:09:27
> You wrote, "What you felt was akathisia, a form of EPS. Akathisia is intense restlessness which may feel to someone like anxiety but it is not, it is a movement disorder caused by neuroleptics."
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> If it's true that the original poster felt akathisia and didn't have actual "tardive d.", then I a comment: I tried Abilify once and it gave me very bad akathisia. Just terrible. I was afraid to try another atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel, but Seroquel didn't give me any akathisia.
This would make sense -- I thought Abilify would have less effects given the pushme-pullyou partial D2, but it turns out to be about on the level of Geodon. Seroquel is much weaker in the EPS department, especially akathisia. I'm pretty sensitive to akathisia and a lot of people with affective (mood, bipolar, etc, not deep psychosis/schizophrenia) disorders are as well.
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