Twitches symptoms and conditions

i have been on 30 mg of abilify for about 3 years.obviously, i slowly titrated up to that. for the first month, the doctor gave me another drug to go with it-carbidopa/levadopa to keep me from having tardive dyskinesia. after the first month, i came off that med and stayed on abilify, and increased the dosage.the first few weeks were tough,as with any drugs like this, but i knew to expect it and just hold on for the ride...my dr is using it off label,for pain management of "rebound pain"-which is pain that doesn't know when to tell your brain to quit,basically. it has been wonderful for this,and i'm calmer now in other aspects of my life. i was already on an antidepressant,and it compliments it well. i hopes it works as well for everyone, and i hope the doctors understand to give something for the first month to cut down the twitches!

I'm 36 and have been on this med for about 1.5 years. I've had some mild sporadic side effects on going but thought they were just my failing health! Chest pains, tingling in my hands, arms (my left arm bothers me more and scares me of course), my legs and even feet. I have insane muscle spasm/cramps. I have twitches and spasms in places I had no idea were even muscles. Backaches, head and jaw aching, blurred vision, feeling hung over and drugged, tired and require at least 9 consistent hours of uninterrupted sleep if I am to feel okay for half of the day. No energy otherwise, pain in my feet now when I walk, heart flutters and twitches and neck spasms and pain all over my body. I've been in the ER a number of times with them unable to find me ready for the heart attack I think I'm having. I've even been depressed and suicidal with feeling this bad. These symptoms increased in discomfort and My bladder/uterus are enlarged/swollen and morning urination especially is painful even if I have not much to evacuate. I noticed that these symptoms grew more frequent and stronger and the past few months I literally thought I was going to checkout any day. I was just waiting. I thought, oh well, you're on meds for bp, but you got on too late. Your time is up. I noticed also that right after I take my pill I feel worse. So I feel the best (which is not really at all) right before my next pill is due. After reading everybody elses problems with this med, and that it's actually made from snake venom, I am going to as safe and painless as I can, wean myself from this junk. Who in their right mind would give snake venom to people? If you get bit by a venomous snake, these are exactly the things that are effected. Your nervous system, your heart, breathing, blurred vision, etc. My only fear is that having these symptoms now for this long have done permanent damage. I pray not.

My husband has been prescribed Meprozine for a back injury, and since he has been on it I have notice a major difference in his moods, he is edgy, and temperamental. He has started yelling at my daughter for stupid kid stuff and arguing with me over small things and we never argue. He has had weird dreams and twitches in his sleep. When he is on the medication he doesn't seem like the man I married and when he is off its like hes going through withdrawals and trying to go un-noticed. He is also on Soma and Zanaflex. I don't know what to do. Im worried for him. He is also becoming depressed, and has had a severe migraine for 3 weeks now. He wont listen to me when I tell him not to take it. I would not recommend this medication to anyone, especially if they want to keep their relationship.

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...

Has anyone developed tartive dyskenisia. It is involuntary body movements. Mine are in the mouth, like I am sucking on my teeth . It is very disturbing and listed as one of the side effects. It can occur in other parts of the body, like tapping.

I've been on Lamictal for 3 years, and it's started to fail. I was on a generally small dose for epilepsy, 100mg twice a day. Well, I started having these twitches that caused a car incident, so I had to go to the doctor to get the dosage increased. Well, I did that, slowly, and I was twitch free. I thought that this was great, I can finally rest easy. Also, for some reason after I increased the dose I was oversleeping. No severe side effects though. But then, just yesterday, I had what we believe to be a full fledged seizure during a shower. I missed my dose by 2 hours the night before, and luckily I was having trouble falling asleep (or perhaps unlucky), and I probably got 5-6 hours that night, which lack of sleep is always a bad thing with epilepsy. So, during my shower I started twitching, bad. I turn the shower off. Then the next thing I'm on the shower floor, and I see blood on the wall, though too dazed to make anything of it. My family hears the bang and comes down and tells me to open the door, but I yell out to wait until I'm dressed. Then I felt horrible. So obviously the dose increase didn't help, and the Emergency room doctor put me on Depakote plus the lamictal until I see a neurologist next week.

I took 10mg lipitor for 9 months and started having horrible arm pain that would not go away. Then the pain became mixed with weakness and I could not even lift a grocery bag. I am 53 and of good weight and I thought, good health - other than the elevated cholesterol level. My whole family has the elevated levels and there was an uncle who died at 43 of a massive heart attack. So, gave it a try. I got to where I thought I had ALS for sure. The leg twitching started in my calf and moved down to my feet and kept up even now. I have been off lipitor for 8 months. My strength came back in about 3 weeks and has progressively been better. The twitches are still here but am now taking 3 doses of CQ10 3x/day with Bcomplex and folic acid. All is helping and I am hoping the twitches stop. I will not ever take this again.

My husband was given plaquenil as a substitute for prednisone which was causing him severe weakness and weight loss. The plaquenil has caused ringing in his ears and he has experienced a strange twitching sensation inside his head which we are not sure if it is going with the plaquenil or the Immuran which he was also taking. Ringing in the ears is a known side effect of plaquenil and we just wonder about the brain twitches (like a nerve firing) because they are both centered in the brain. Has anyone else experienced anything liike this?

I started taking Nuvaring last week and I'm 5 days in to it, yesterday I started feeling very neurotic...and fearful... teary and tired. The night before i hadn't slept well, so thats what I put it down to... had a lot going through my mind, my thoughts were racing...i waited until really late / early hours this morning to go to sleep so that i would sleep properly.. and i did... i read some of the symptoms last night before going to bed on this site because of the way I was feeling, I wanted a reason to be feeling the way i did....the comments scared me a little bit... I do have a tendancy to get slightly depressed and think too much... and do have a few reasons to be feeling a bit down at the minute so extra help in this department is definitely not needed.... but these feelings were way too extreme to be normal....so I was kind if glad to be able to put it down to something...anyway today i have an overwhelming tiredness. it hit me when i walked in the door this afternoon after popping out of the house for an hour and i literally lay straight down on the couch and slept for over an hour.... i haven't had a day nap for years...i usually couldn't if i wanted to. i could have then gone straight to bed and slept for hours.. but have managed to pull myself out of it....my vision was also really blurry whnen i woke up and couldn't see properly... i have had a few pains to the right of my chest over the last few days and twitches in my left arm... but i may have only noticed these due to reading about other peoples symptoms... i don't really want to take it out early.. but if i carry on feeling this tired during the week then I might... and will also see how my feelings go...i haven't taken the pill for years so it might be just my body's way of reacting to new hormones....we'll see.

This message goes out to ocexpert. I sent you a private email concerning your post made to me about bc. You did not respond so I will let everyone know that you work for the company. Of course you are going to push your companys product. The more you sell the more you make. Thanks to a tip from another member that posted. She fiqured you out. I WILL NEVER TAKE ANYTHING MADE FROMWARNER CHILCOTT AGAIN. This bc pill loestrin that you so highly speak of has cost me 8.000 in medical bills due to the dpression and everything else I had mentioned in previous post. You have made very hurtful post to not only me to several other people on this board. We are here to share or stories with others. I cannot sleep at night knowing what this pill has done to not only me but to several others. Maybe warner chilcott would like to pay my medical bills now. If I were you I would stay off these boards. If any of you ladies have realized that the doctors offices are stocked with femcon and loestrin. They do not have many samples of other drugs. This crap is toxic. If it works for you great but if not get on somthing else.

Do not stop this drug cold turkey. I am not a fan of Topamax but I see many people posting about wanting to stop immediately. I have had a really bad experience on this drug with side effects but you cannot just stop taking it. I am currently weaning at this rate: 25mg every 5 days. From what I've read, this is pretty much the standard when weaning off topamax but you should always consult your doctor. Cold Turkey stopping can result in seizures and all kinds of adverse side effects that can make your current topamax experience look like a walk in the park.

Started taking Advair 7/27/07. Since then I have alot of twitching. In my legs, my arms and sometimes even my head twitches suddenly. I used to be able to sleep late in the morning, but now the twitching wakes me up.
Have also experienced some chest tightness.

My doctor presribed Singulair for me because of seasonal allergies. I'm 13 yrs old, and I've been on Singulair for about two weeks. After about a week of taking Singulair, I started noticing a few minor side effects. However, they've been continuing to get worse every day I take this drug! Some of the things I've been experiencing on Singulair include fatigue, twitching, stuttering, and lack of memory. Anyone else?

hot flashes, hair loss, memory loss, bone and joint pain, seizures, hand and foot twitches, crawling sensations in arms and legs, accelerated facial aging, and chronic insomnia. I would rather deal with the pain of endometriosis than the HELL of Lupron!

i was on seroquel for 2 count tnem 2 days and my heart would pound and ache and my muscles would twitch and ache like i had run for 5 miles, nothing was ever so scary and i was always hungry, i mean i gained 3 pds in 2 days. I am quiting this crap, at this rate i would be dead in no time welcome back anxiety at least i'll be able to feel that. Oh and also horrible horrible action dreams.

So saintmorrowind STILL isn't old enough to actually have people 'respect' his 'opinion'. Afterall, he's been on it SO many years and he's still only 23. What did you come toa forum called "singulair side effects" if you weren't searching them yourself? HMMMmmmm.....Don't knock others, if it works for you - fine. Don't judge. What works for one person does not work for another.

My daughter is having neurological 'twitches' from singulair. for the rest of the forum of people who are actually interested in possible side effects, her twitches are coming from the withdrawl of the med. I first noticed it when I forgot to give it to her one saturday night - she got mouth twitches and her throat (uvula) was actually twitching for hours - it was really wierd. Never thought about singulair. It happened again weeks later and same thing. She complains that she can't sleep - has anxiety, feels 'jumpy' - and has very vivid and scary dreams. It's not like her - shes been on it a year - I'm taking her off it - we are weaning - but she is having the withdrawl effects - I pray that it doesnt stick around.

Steve

Besides the hot flashes and breast pain, the corner of my mouth twitches a few days after the injection, and I have been getting a bizarre soapy taste in my mouth that makes me nauseated. I hope this really works for mt endo.... to make up for the side effects!

double vision, twitches of large muscles to point of near seizure eventually then walked like I had parkinson's - could not lift my feet when walking so had to shuffle.
My primary care MD and my prescibing psychiatrist didn't either one believe these things were not symtoms of lamectal
toxicity "cause they never read about them: infact psych. suggested I probably wasn't BP after all and just needed counseling - and she was the one that gave me that diagnosis/label about 6 yrs ago ! Primary went along with her.
Don't deny counseling would help, but very angry when they said "behaviors" couldn't be due to lam. cause level too low.

Hello Yasmin users, PLEASE HELP WITH ANY ADVICE:

I was concerned about weight gain with BCP
(Ortho Tri Cyclin made me gain too much weight 30pds in under 1 yr)
my OBGYN recomended Yasmin, she said it had the opposite effect. I have been on this pill for about 2 years. One of the first and biggest side effect I noticed right away was rapid weight loss - I was not doing anything different with my exersize regimine or eating.
Also in the beggining and worsened, after staring YASMIN:
Depression, which I went to see my doctor about twice and she said it would go away. - and third, like a downward spiral getting worse and worse now above all is no libido. I have been complaining about this and she said loss of libido is normal with ALL BCP and if she switched me it would make no difference. I am frustraed with her responses to my issues.

IS THIS TRUE? Are they all the same??????

I also get a lot of headaches on this pill and I never hardly ever got a headache before. My eyes sometimes twitches too, which is weird. It seems like if I don't take the pill the same time every day and I wait until later - then I get headache or nausea.

I also noticed I feel better when I am on the placebo pills and are on my period, and actually feel kind of "in the mood" for alck of better terms.

I am willing to take a pill with weight gain side effects!! - if I can have my sex drive back!!!!!

PLEASE DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE IS ANOTHER PILL THAT I CAN LOOK INTO?
HOW ABOUT ORTHO EVRA??????????
Sincererly, Sick of YASMIN
JAS

Hi All,
I had taken yasmin for only a month and now its more than a month since i stopped the pill. For the past 2 months after i started with yasmin i am getting eye tic.( Under my right eye a nerve twitches. ) I saw a opthalmologist who did all kinds of eye exams and said that the twicth might be bacuase of muscle spasms or eye dryness. I checked on the net and read that eye tic can be caused due to lack of magnesium. Then i saw a post saying Yasmin reduces magnesium in the body and also leads to dehydration. Do u think it might be related to this?Did any of you have some similar side effect?
So i have started today with some multivitamin and minerals pill.
Samp

This is the worst stuff I have ever used. After five months, I shake as though I have MS, my face twitches my joints and muscles feel so painfull that I have had to reduce physical activity. I am less ambitious and am having trouble articulating words that I use frequently.

I was on propranolol for 3 years for mitral valve prolapse and hbp. When I developed symptoms of hypothyroidism I finally convinced the dr. to take me off it and I was put on 20 mg of lisinopril. My thyroid function went to normal range after one year but after 2 years the symptoms are returning. Has anyone seen a connection with this medication and thyroid function. I'm having twitches, cramps, indigestion, some lightheadedness, cold feet, tingling in hands, increased ringing in the ears.

I was prescribed levaquin for pneumonia and 8 hours after my first dose began having hallucinations, both visual and auditory. They were very violent and gory, I felt like I was possesed. Then the paranoia set in, quickly followed by an extrapyramidal response. Basically, I looked as though I had severe parkinsons disease, uncontrollable muscle jerks and twitches in all of my limbs, including fingers and toes. This is a known (rare) side effect of the drug. It was a very scary experience for me, and I just am thankful that an IV dose of benadryl did the trick.

I HAVE BEEN TAKING AMBIEN REGULARLY FOR THREE YEARS.

AFTER AN INITIAL ADJUSTMENT PERIOD OF FALLING ASLEEP AT MY DESK OR IN THE BATHROOM DUE TO THE UNEXPECTED SUDDEN ONSET OF THE DRUG. THINGS THEN LEVELED OFF
SOMEWHAT.

BUT I QUICKLY DISCOVERED THAT EACH EVENING CONTAINED A SHORT PERIOD BEFORE MY FALLING ASLEEP THAT I WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RECALL OF ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING.

DURING THE LAST YEAR I HAVE REDUCED MY DOSAGE TO 5MG BY BREAKING THE PILLS INTO HALVES BUT I STILL NOTICE THAT MY MEMORY OF RECENT EVENTS IS OFTEN QUITE FUZZY.

I ALSO NOTE A FEW TWITCHES IN MY BODY AND I HAVE BEGUN TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE LONG TERM EFFECTS ON MY NERVOUS SYSTEM.

I THINK I'VE TAKEN MY LAST AMBIEN.

I have been having temporal lobe partial complex seizures since I was 5. Was put on Topamax as solo therapy for use also for migraines in 1999. Controlled both well. Gradually I developed severe depression. It was so subtle I was not aware it was my medicine. I did tell my neuro. and he added different antidepressents to the regime to no avail. My life continued to deteriorate. I also had the tingling fingers, toes, twitches on my face, confusion, could not remember anything. I finally became suicidal and a regular MD decided told me to switch neuro and get off the meds in 2005. 1 month after coming off the med I was my old self again. My memory everything came back. I felt like i had lost all those years.