nick007 wrote:
Since you seem to know a bit about this blitzkrieg, I'll ask here. Can restless leg syndrome or symptoms be related to TD, like an early warning sign of it or something or is that a separate thing unrelated to TD
& if it's unrelated can meds like the antipsychotic Haldol/Haloperidol & antidepressant Wellbutrin/Bupropion be the cause & if so which med would be more likely to cause it
Restless leg syndrome is typically thought of as a product of low dopamine in certain parts of the the brain (though the exact mechanisms are poorly understood). Drugs to treat restless leg syndrome include dopamine agonists (drugs that increase the reuptake of dopamine).
Buproprion, whilst not a first line of treatment for restless leg syndrome [assumedly because it isn't as potent in terms of its dopamine agonism (increasing dopamine in the brain) as some of the drugs indicated for RLS] - would be useful for RLS so it's definitely not that.
It has to be the antipsychotic since that has dopamine antagonist properties (blocks the action of dopamine in the brain). So yeah, the Haldol would most likely be your issue.
Although a a general dysregulation of dopamine could be at play in your case and drugs might not be advanced/specific enough to resolve them.
A lot of the drugs that are used for various disorders are very rudimentary in that their mechanisms are pretty random compared to what might be devised in future medicine.