Akathisia

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Does anyone here deal with this unholy symptom? I seem to have an extremely mild case of it, but its still pretty maddening. If it gets intense I feel like offing myself to make it end. Kinda feels like I'm about to explode. Does anyone know any sustainable remedies for it? I know a thousand temporary, non sustainable remedies, but not so many sustainable ones. Kava is a god send, I wish they would legalise it.

Do you get it from the medication you're on? My friend and I get it because we're on antipsychotics. Yes, it is unholy. Probably the worst feeling I've ever had. Worse than times when I've been near death. On Geodon, I would be so unable to focus my mind, that I couldn't even sit still and watch television without s**t loads of anxiety...like my body was coming apart. So I'd go outside and sit in a rocking chair, cross my arms and rock back and forth for hours until it would start to wear off. I told my psychiatrist that I was going to stop taking it, so he put me on Serequel XR. It's not nearly as bad now. Unhealthy methods of getting through it are plentiful. Drugs and alcohol. The only way I could get some relief was to try another medication. If I don't take anything, though, I can't sleep. It's a side effect of being on antispychotics for a long period.

cogentin (prescription) worked for me. benedryl should also help.

I got it from being on medications (dexedrine, trazodone, mirtazapine and others) for 6 years. I seem to have wreaked havoc on my dopamine receptors. Antipsychotics give bad akathisia by blocking dopamine receptors I believe. I feel for you deeply noodler. Must be a nightmare having to deal with that unholy side effect from a medication you need. Cogentin (benzatropine) and others are good temporarily but they're not sustainable unfortunately. I have amitryptiline which blocks acetylcholine receptors but I know it will only work for so long. I took some baclofen today and its amplified this akathisia. I read that taking high doses of vitamin C and vitamin E help so I've been testing that out. If I find a sustainable remedy for it, I'll post it here.

I think I mighta found something that works. Listening to this with proper stereo headphones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhYDMAUAhg
can other people test this out to verify. It seems to be working for me. Whether thats the placebo effect or not, i couldn't care less, as long as it keeps working

Sometimes it comes creeping back and you don't even know it, like when the Cogentin slowly stops working.

There was a study where people who had akathisia were more likely to commit or contemplate suicide...

A lot of the time people get used to the drugs and akathisia goes away. How long have you been on them? I've gotten it from loxapine, haloperidol, risperidone even.

Yes!

So frustrating. I had put it down to taking citalopram but I stopped taking that four months ago.

And now the akathisia is back. And with it I want to cry.

I've had this since I was a kid. Usually at night but can be at other times,it starts in my eyes and then goes to my extremities. If I get it in bed I have to poke my eyes really hard till it hurts to mitigate the awful feeling. Is it linked to ASD? When I was really young I wasn't in any meds and its continued since then.

Yes. After being on various cocktails of medications all my life it seems to come on unpredictably. I'm not sure if it is indeed akathisia I experience, but it is definitely a feeling of bodily sickness and discomfort. It is not a feeling associated with any normal form of emotion. There is no good way to describe it, but it is a physical sensation I could compare it to the discomfort a normal person would feel after being forced to hold their breath for several seconds. It is not the same sensation as being unable to breathe, but it's an equally difficult to describe type of discomfort.

could also be restless leg syndrome. i describe it as an internal itch or anxiety in the legs that's relieved by moving. two rx meds were developed to treat it - mirapex and requip.