i think this is a messed up habit like i can stop moving it for like a few seconds or minutes when i try really hard but i think it is because i have this small gap in between two of my teeth and i keep sliding my tongue in between them and it actually is messing up my tongue but i am doing this all the time and when i try to stop moving my tongue completely i start moving my tongue from side to side its like i have done this so much that i cant stop i have watched videos of tardive dyskinesia and i don’t think i have that because i can stop it but i have to be thinking about it
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It wouldn’t hurt to see your doctor about TD. I’ve always heard that if you catch TD in its early stages that it is reversible. But if you wait too long it can be permanent.
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i will tell my doctor but I don’t think it is td I think it might just be because my tooth and I am just so used to doing it now
Definitely tell your doctor. I believe folks with TD can control their movements for short periods, but it takes concentration.
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It could be a bad habit but then again it could be early stage TD.
Let a doctor check it out.
It can’t hurt.
@Ninjastar now I am kinda afraid to tell my doctor because I looked up TD treatment and the medications that I see that treat it the only med that I see is clonazepam and I don’t want him to think I am trying to trick him into giving me it because once I asked him for it and he said no because he doesn’t want me to get addicted and stuff but I see him tomorrow
I don’t know if I should tell him but I am thinking it is from having this crooked tooth next to my canine tooth and there is a small gap in between them so it makes a sharp gap that keeps kinda hurting my tongue but I cant really stop feeling it with my tongue I looked at google and I see some other people that have the same thing with their tooth and tongue and I don’t think they have TD but I am not really sure what it is and now I am kinda freaking out about what i should do because I really don’t want to have it
Just tell him. It won’t hurt anything, and he can make the decision after evaluating you. If he thinks you don’t have TD, that’s great. But if he sees you do have it, you need to treat it right away before it becomes permanent.
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do you think if he says I have TD that i would have to switch meds? because I just read this article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1076450/
it basically says that a person got TD on Geodon and it was resolved by switching to abilify I don’t know if I want to switch to abilify the only thing I really care about right now about is my weight as when I switched to Geodon I was able to start losing weight and even tho I read abilify is weight neutral some people still gain alot and if I gained weight from meds again that would be the end of all meds for me that is the one side effect I cannot deal with at all i would just quit my meds and suffer mentally so I can stop having my metabolism messed up
I am really hoping I don’t have it now my mind is going crazy thinking of how much my life will be messed up if I actually do have it and right now it is like I can barely go longer than a minute of trying to keep my tongue from moving and there is only sometimes during the day where like if I am having a conversation or falling asleep that i can stop
TD is worse than weight gain. If you do end up needing to switch meds, you can get a DNA test that will tell you which meds you’re likely to gain weight from. Then you can just avoid those ones.
I don’t think they do dna test or any tests really where I go I just see a psychiatrist I haven’t been to a regular doctor in a long time I am thinking if I have it I might just have to quit meds altogether I don’t want to take the risk and have to deal with so many messed up side effects from another med and
I have been freaking out about this for hours now no matter what I am always gonna be suffering from something whether it be td, psychosis, or gaining a ■■■■ton of weight on meds, also my heart might be messed up I’m not sure about that but every med I have been on has had some horrible side effects and I think I might be better of just trying to deal with whatever I have without meds
plus i get really angry on the med i am on sometimes i am irritable all the time and the voices have stayed the same volume since i was on the high dose of my last med i don’t even know if this med is helping me or if i even need meds anymore i have been freaking out for hours at the possibility of me having td and having to switch meds so many problems no fix to any of them without messing something else up
I can’t stop moving my tongue… … ladies.
You may not be laughing but I found it slightly hilarious. Although on a more serious not isn’t that tardive dyskinesia. or something like that. You should tell your pdoc.
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Better safe than sorry.
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i have a teeth at the edge of my jaw. my tongue wouldn’t stop pecking it, especially when food got stuck on it. luckily my tongue eventually stopped though.
how long did it take to stop i am panicking the most i ever have in my life right now because i don’t know whether it is from this tooth i have or if i have tardive dyskinesia
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A woman in my PHP had issues controlling her tongue movement…TD…get it checked out as soon as possible…if you catch it early enough it can be helped…
try this…put a lozenge in your mouth and just suck on it a while. try to keep your tongue focused on the lozenge. if you can do that, you probably don’t have tardive
No need to panic @sigarino. Just contact your pdoc and have them evaluate you.
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I agree with telling dr .
Since I started latuda I have been having similar and jaw clenching and hardness etc.
It does not feel nice.
It could be TD. Please tell your doctor immediately.
I have TD from abilify, we caught it early and it really doesn’t bother me that much. I take Cogentin to help with it and it’s barely noticeable to others. You would be wise to get evaluated as early as possible just in case. Ive seen a person with it pretty bad and its kinda uncomfortable to watch them.
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