Have you experienced oculogyric crises?

Medications
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It’s an unvoluntary movement of the eyeball into a fixed position, usually upwards. It can occur due to antipsychotic medication use. I personally never experienced that. Have some of you guys experienced that?

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No, I haven’t thankfully.

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How long have you been on AP @everhopeful?

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7 years on abilify. I was on Seroquel for about a year prior to that.

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I haven’t experienced this myself but someone I was in the hospital with did

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I think it’s a very scary side effect. I hope I’ll never experience that!

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Mine only swivel towards attractive females.

And ankles.

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I haven’t. I’ve been on APs for 17-18 years. Atypical APs for 4 years and old school “typical” APs for the rest.

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Yeah had it 24:;4(((((((

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I’m sorry to hear that @anon47167357. What AP were you on and how long?

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I had several of those crises. At the time I was on the Maximum allowable dose of Perphenazine. I thought they were part of the disease I was going through. I didn’t let people know I was having them.

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Strange. I literally watched the same on the “living well with schizophrenia” youtube channal.

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I’ve been on aripiprazole for almost 12 years now and have not experienced this.

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Yes I have experienced it multiple times this year

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I didn’t know anything about oculogyric crises before I watched the video some days ago and then i wrote a thread here. I learned a lot from her YouTube videos. @Naarai

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I’ve never had that and hopefully never get that

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yes, a few times while i was psychotic
my tongue was also rolling madly and i seized over to the side for about an hour at a time
they had to change my meds because i was being non compliant with them
i thought i was being telepathic and was a result of that

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