Dystonia symptoms and conditions

I was on 80mg of Geodon for about 1 year. I started having uncontrolled eye and neck movements. I was taken off the drug. However, I've been left with the side effect of Dystonia. I have no control over my neck muscles, my head is in the backwards and to the left position. Trying to move my neck to the right is very painful. I have to get botox injections every 3 months in my eyes and neck. The shots stop the movement for a few weeks but do nothing for the positioning of my neck as the shots weeken the muscles. I've been told I will have this the rest of my life and the only other treatment would include brain surgery. I am in pain on a daily basis, and when upset or in public the movements are greater which only causes anxiety.

Im still on the fence about Ativan...I am taking a 1mg tab once a day along with my 100mg og zoloft. The ativan is for my dystonia, which is a result of certain surgeries i had to rid myself of cancer. The dystonia would flare up and become horrible (meaning my neck,left shoulder and left side of my back would twitch like crazy)and this eventually lead to the ligaments in my shoulder becoming so loose from the twitching that I have had to have two more surgeries to correct that problem. Since taking the ativan on a daily basis, I have has almost NO ticks or twitches. however, while i don't have as much anxiety, i do feel more depressed and my doctor upped my zoloft...

paroxysmal kinesigenic dystonia

This is for a friend of mine diagnosed with Parkinson's and dystonia. All her big problems began shortly after hypothyroid diagnosis and her starting on Synthroid. Is it coincidence? Or has anyone heard of synthroid or thyroid meds promoting or mimicing Parkinson symptoms,or involuntary muscle spasms? Am I just imagining a connection?

I'm a 44 year old male. I was on Lipitor for four years and recently started having severe cramps in my thighs and calf muscles, severe dirrhea, severe fatigue and bloody urine. I asked my doctor if it was the Lipitor, and he said it wasn't. Probably a virus he said because the Liver tests came back okay even though had some jaundice.

Like a fool, I continued with the prescription and the cramps got worse in my legs and feet. I ended up stopping the Lipitor on my own in February 2005, nearly a year later, as the symptoms had not gone away, and I developed muscle twitches and tremors. My doctor then sent me for more blood work that showed my muscle enzyme levels were over 350% above my normal range, and a subsequent EMG/NC&VT showed the muscles had been weakend on my left side! He then had me discontinue the Lipitor and all statins indefinitely.

As it turns out I am not the only one in my family with adverse reactions to statin drugs. My cousin and his father, both on my dad's side both have the same total cholesteral level I have at 268, and both are statin sensitve. My grandmother (same side) and her sister had very high cholesteral and both died from congestive heart failure at 87 and 92 respectively.

I went from a fairly active person to someone who became really old fast. I now have to push myself out of a chair like my 93 year old uncle did.

I am no longer taking any statin drugs and will control my cholesteral through diet and exercise. If I live to 92 like my great aunt did with no problems until she became that age, I should be so lucky.

John

I've read all the good and the bad,mostly bad but I guess I'm
the only one who has ended up with myoclonic dystonia and
paroysmal dystonia from this nightmare drug, now I'm on so
many drugs like girl interupted, I have to worry about other
health problems to keep me going. Doctors aren't always right
research your drugs it's your health not theres! please respond if you've had same adverse reaction.

During a recent acute headache episode, I was given a pain shot as well as an injection of Reglan, and then given Reglan 10 mg QID. After the injection, I began experiencing horrible restlessness and could not seem to sit still. While then progressing on to the oral medication, I soon began experiencing extremely painful muscle spasms throughout my body, as well as weakness, right eye twitching, neck spasms that radiated down the front and back-side of the neck and chest, trouble with swallowing, and developed near lockjaw, only speaking like a ventriloquist. I even thought I had developed tetanus from a recent thorn in my finger. Well, my symptoms were due to REGLAN and should this happen to anyone else, STOP the medication IMMEDIATELY and notify your physician. In my case, I am taking Benadryl to counteract the extrapyramidal side-effects/dystonia. My symptoms all occurred within days of the Reglan; the injection symptom of agitation was more of an immediate reaction that continued to occur with the oral form of medication.

I am still the same on the Gabitril. It increased stiffness in a dystonia type of manner around my trapezius muscles in my neck. It has not helped with my pain. I take eight mgs now, and feel disconnected and depersonalized. This medication is the worse one i have taken since i was on Prozac years a go.