Tardive
Dyskinesia not only impedes day - to - day life, but is embarrassing because of involuntary body movements that may be rapid and jerky, slow and continuous.
Not exact matches
But the drug is
not perfect: L - dopa treatment eventually induces
dyskinesia — quick, involuntary movements of the hands, and sometimes of the head and trunk.
«One approach to managing tardive
dyskinesia is to discontinue antipsychotic treatment or reduce the dosage, but these options are
not always feasible, because withdrawal can exacerbate tardive
dyskinesia symptoms or have a negative impact on psychiatric status.
There is no proven medical treatment for Tardive
Dyskinesia, but the symptoms have decreased in a select number of people using Reglan once the medication was
not used any longer.
Instead, generic evidence purportedly showing that the manufacturer marketed the drug as having less of risk of tardive
dyskinesia and other extrapyramidal symptoms than other drugs was
not tied to the prescriber's decisions with plaintiff.
A fifth drug, divalproex has a less favorable safety profile than stimulants; however, it does
not have the associated metabolic abnormality and risk of tardive
dyskinesia that atypical antipsychotics and typical antipsychotic medications have.