I wasn’t sure because I’ve seen videos on Youtube of people with akathisia and mine isn’t nearly so bad as theirs.
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I guess what I’m trying to get at is how do you know the difference between plain restlessness and akathisia? I know there’s a difference I just don’t know what it is.
I take haldol and it makes my leg shake like crazy. But other than being annoying it’s not bothersome so I don’t take anything for it. The restlessness when I go up on my dose it insane, though. But it always settles down after a bit. I hope it’s the same way for you and after you’ve been on it a while longer it settles.
Don’t just go by YouTube, YouTube exaggerates most things. If I can’t sit and enjoy something, like a movie, or a conversation, and I’m ‘restless’ or I have to get up and walk around, then it’s akathesia to me.
@NiceHat
That’s how it is. Can’t do anything for more than 15/20 minutes. So I’ll watch tv for 15 minutes, smoke (sometimes can’t even finish a whole cigarette), listen to music for 15 minutes, watch tv for 10 or 15 minutes, smoke (or try to), etc… All day long. That’s the restlessness and then there is the moving feet, moving legs, etc. It’s brutal.
It is brutal, call your pdoc right now. Chemical torture is what I call it.
Left a voicemail for my dr’s nurse… I’m in the state mental health system which is really difficult because every couple months my dr leaves and I get a new one, sometimes I don’t get to see a dr at all just an APRN. Very frustrating to not have continuity with my meds because half the time the new dr or APRN wants to change things even if they’re working. I just want tto be done with this.
Sounds like you have med students, they should have a professor overseeing their work treating you. Find out who that is, insist that you meet the departments prof responsible for your care. Request that DNA test from alpha genomix so that you can get the best med for your body. Take control of your own health. This is what I do.
I go to the community health center in my area, I refuse to go to the state hospital.
@NiceHat
Well the community mental health centers all over my state are run by the department of mental health so it’s impossible to avoid these people. And they’re not med students, they’re just not Americans.
My states state mental hospital is also the medical school training residents. Everything is run by the public health department
@NiceHat
How do you get insurance to cover the testing you’re talking about? I looked at their website but I have no idea if my insurance will cover it.
My insurance did, I have Medicare. Your pdoc has to order it, then they send the qtip with your cheek cells to the company, takes a week for the pdoc to receive the results