AloneButNotAlone: complicated

[AloneButNotAlone]

Hello.

 

Advocate for Tardive Movement Resultant decade long user of risperidone. Several years ago this woman began to present with issues between doses that found prescriber wanting to up the dose. (Probably withdrawal symptoms we were seeing in between doses). Could not tolerate higher dose and turned yellow. Was not receiving benefits from use of the risperidone due to inability to increase and emergence of Tardive. Therefore, the 26 year old female began taper several years ago with initial success; weeks afterward adrenaline excess presented (confirmed by 24 hr urine).

 

Backing up a little; the 10 year long use risperidone was given 1mg every 4 hours during day. 

 

Psych doc recently discontinued risperidone. Due to seeing oral facial tardive. Movement doc also had supported risperidone taper so that movements would cease. They do not access discontinuation symptoms information, and the psych doc does not perceive that quitting risperidone from .25 in evening to nothing (in 3 days) will do harm to this particular patient.

 

Meanwhile, the true cause of psychiatric presentation has been unmasked. But this is for a different confidential conversation within the complexity of the topic.

 

Sure could use some help here.

 

Thanks.

[Altostrata]

Welcome, Alone.

 

Are you "this woman"?

 

When was the last time you took risperidone? What are your current symptoms that you attribute to risperidone withdrawal?

 

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[AloneButNotAlone]

I'm the 26 year old developmentally disabled woman"s mother.

 

The last dose of risperidone was taken March 25th at 1/2  .25 dose because daughter refused to take it anymore due to feeling sick all the time.

 

Agitation, insomnia, and intermittent thought disorder related to memory associations. Inability to find interest in things usually enjoyable. Significant naseau and tummy pain.

 

Hyperthyroid at this time...

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

[Altostrata]

Thanks, ABNA.

 

I'm very sorry your daughter has suffered so from the psychiatric drugs.

 

The hyperthyroidism needs attention, it can cause a lot of symptoms. However, the drugs used for this are very strong. Have you looked into herbal treatment of hyperthyroidism?

 

What are the post-acute withdrawal symptoms your daughter has now? Do they follow any daily pattern? 

[AloneButNotAlone]

Agitation, chronic pain, are probably withdrawal related, and these are made worse by hyperthyroid state. Eating seems to cause spike in agitation. Time of day spikes are not as calculable as they used to be. She isn't able to enjoy things at this time. She is not going to be able to handle antithyroid medications, and she presents with rare kind of fluctuation of hyperthyroid. She presented with thyroid antibodies at young age. She currently has multiple nodules. Meanwhile antibodies fluctuate. She does not present as Graves, but is also not typical presentation of Hashimoto's. Straight up thyrotoxicosis which seems related to ft3 more than ft4 in review of her historical labs. Sorry I've made this too long.