CONCLUSIONS: Among second generation antipsychotics, only olanzapine and quetiapine should be considered as akathisia-sparing drugs. The type of antipsychotic, having been hospitalized, and a more severe symptomatology at intake seem to predict the development of acute akathisia
I agree a lot of atypicals cause akathisia. I get akathisia from quetiapine.
I thought you were on depixol or xeplion, @Jimbob ? (something containing the letter “x” anyway…)
Yeah. Depixol and quetiapine.
I was initally on abilify and the akathisia was awful. Then I switched to quetiapine and had none. This unfortunately made me stay on quetiapine for longer than I should have. quetiapine nearly killed me in the end. After trying nearly every med I’m now back on abilify.
So the irony is I stayed on quetiapine because of abilify and now I’m staying on abilify because of quetiapine.
L-theanine helps keep the anxiety and restlessness manageable.
I just googled rexulti as I might try it when it becomes available in Europe next year, and found this
The most common reported adverse effect with the use of brexpiprazole was akathisia
Ah well.
May i ask, what do you mean by nearly killed?
I went completely bananas and while I was bananas I wanted to kill myself. I was 10 times more psychotic than I would have been unmedicated. I was in the end just living in a dream world.
Luckily you are doing good now right?
Like I said, my experience has made me stick with abilify! I’m stable now.