Starting to get a little bit of involuntary movement in my legs on occasion when sitting or laying down

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It’s not real severe, but its annoying. Hoping it doesnt get anymore severe.

Don’t really know if this is akathisia or not, as I have never had it before.

Anyone else got this?

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Akathisia has never been involuntary for me. I move cause of the restlessness. My arm and fingers sometimes rock involuntarily tho. Idk what that is

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Although rare, taking Vraylar can cause a serious side effect called tardive dyskinesia . It refers to uncontrolled body movements that are repetitive. Symptoms of tardive dyskinesia can include: chewing motions.

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Yeah, i believe thats what I meant. I mixed up the definitions of the two.

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This article talks about it.

Uncontrolled body movements
Although rare, taking Vraylar can cause a serious side effect called tardive dyskinesia. It refers to uncontrolled body movements that are repetitive.

Symptoms of tardive dyskinesia can include:

chewing motions
jerky movements of your arms, legs, or torso
lip smacking
puffing air into your cheeks
tongue twisting

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Could just be dyskinesia. Its not tardive unless it’s permanent after u quit taking the med.

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Yea it could be that.

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Dyskinesias are involuntary, erratic, writhing movements of the face, arms, legs or trunk. They are often fluid and dance-like, but they may also cause rapid jerking or slow and extended muscle spasms.

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My doctor upped my Lybalvi and now a few nights out of the week I get restless legs and have to walk around my room for 30 minutes at a time. Plus, I meditate that helps some. Sucks

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I’ve had involuntary movements since I tried my first AD a decade ago (Zoloft) also gained a ton of weight on it.

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I have had this issue. A lot of medications depletes vitamin B1. On top of that, lack of other vitamin B’s can be responsible for involuntary movement. As soon as I look a B1 complex the movements stopped. Vitamin B1 as Benfotiamine is the best adsorbed. I will take the following, 2 in the morning and 2 at night:

There are some other things that can help as well: Magnesium, Zinc, Manganese, and Omega 3. A good multivitamin and fish oil will take care of most of these.

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WOuldnt a vitamin b deficiency show up on blood work? I get regular blood work.

Edit: I know vitamin D did

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I looked up to see if a vitamin B deficiency shows up in regular blood work.

Google says,

Depends on what your doctor considers regular blood work.

I know at every doctor’s office I’ve worked at aside from surgical ones,

We checked for B vitamins so I’d be surprised if your doctor didn’t.

But I see we have a new forum doctor that’s made a case,

So,

I don’t know.

I’d ask my doctor if he checked.

But I wouldn’t jump to take another pill,

Or four pills if you do her routine.

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I had akathisia on my first ap, amisulpride.
I couldn’t sit down.
Pdoc gave me a med and it went away

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Vitamin D is usually considered normal at 30ng/ml. However this is not optimal. 60ng/ml-70ng/ml is optimal. levels above 150ng/ml are considered toxic, so you have A LOT of wiggle room. Taking up to 10,000iu a day is generally considered safe. Most people want you to take between 400-600iu a day, I take ~8,000iu a day of D3 to keep my level 25 OH vitamin D level at 70ng/ml. You also want you vitamin D3 to have k2 in it so you don’t get a calcium build up in your arteries! Don’t take D2 as it is synthetic.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00244-X/pdf

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I doubt you had any vitamin B tested in any bloodwork.

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