Posted by undopaminergic on April 10, 2008, at 5:15:03
In reply to knee instability/pain/dystonia - cogentin, Dopa, ?, posted by river1924 on April 9, 2008, at 18:58:35
> I was having severe knee pain until I stopped stelazine. I thought I had arthritis until I happened to figure this out. I looked up razadyne which improves my thinking and discovered that it can cause dystonia/muscle spasms, too. So I stopped it.
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> Right now, I take d a low dose of Abilify with cogentin. (I have a moody irritable kind of depression.) Except for very dry lips it seems okay. (In the past, Abilify's only side-effect was knee instability and knee pain. I'm hoping cogentin will eliminate that.)
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> If cogentin doesn't work, has anyone had luck with other meds or therapies for dystonia, muscle pain or joint pain? I'm really hoping to make Abilify work because I don't really have any options left for depression anymore. How about l-dopa, or amantadine? (BTW, I take 4mg of clonazepam and if that helps, I can't tell.)
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> Roger
>Some dystonias do respond¨to L-dopa, and amantadine may also be useful. However, they probably don't do much to improve pain in general. Have you tried tramadol? It may be useful for depression as well as the pain.
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