Eyecare : Risperdal-induced Non-stop Eyelid-twitching

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Human Reactions Towards Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome - Children Vs Adult


Kindly take note that Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome may affect the movements of other parts of human body too. In this case, I really sympathize those small kids and other young children of my home country who tend to suffer from all other symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome on other parts of their bodies apart from the facial muscles.


For your information, based on my observations so far, the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia would mostly manifest almost immediately among such young children after their intake of 1 to 2 weeks' dosage of the related medications that carry the inherent side effects of Tardive Dyskinesia (Please refer to the weblinks included below for further details about the Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome and the list of such medications often prescribed to children).


Given their much more delicate and tiny physique as well as weaker immune system, they are thus far more medically susceptible to the bodily-damaging side effects of such Tardive Dyskinesia-related medications compared to the adults who naturally and reasonably have a far higher level of bodily tolerance and resistance for the side effects of such medications, and that is the reason why the latter could take such medications for a much longer period of time whilst at the same time running a lower risk of suffering from their side effects.


Whilst in terms of treatment for such Tardive Dyskinesia symptoms among the young children, given that they are naturally disadvantaged by their tiny and yet fragile infected bodily parts, these category of persons, even when they are fully accessible to the whatever necessary therapeutical devices and apparatus as well as other related corrective antidotal pharmaceutical drugs, these pitiful fellows quite often would still invariably and sometimes almost undoubtedly have very much slimmer chances of recovery from their apparent physcial defects and disabilities caused by this Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome compared to the adults who would tend to have a much higher prospect of recovery from the similar sickness due to their fully-grown and much firmer physical conditions.


As such, from my point of view, it would be wiser and more rational for any related parties, especially the parents to take the additional care and precautionary measures to pay the necessary attentions to and cross-examine the medications meant to be taken by their children for the treatment of any of their sicknesses with other more reliable sources in case of any inherent dire side effects that may be potentially present in these medications so that such undesired saddening disasters and tragedies can be effectively avoided in the very first place.



http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/921990098.html


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Summary :


Tardive Dyskinesia actually falls under the EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms) syndrome which may well include dystonia, parkinsonism etc.


Such EPS syndrome (especially physical movement disorders, including Hemifacial Spasms triggered by bodily chemical imbalances) in turn is caused by disturbances to the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters) in the nervous system which is normally induced by most of the AAP's (atypical antipsychotics).

Follow up :


Please refer to the weblink below as a follow-up for the information given above :


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What Is The Actual Curative Value of The Antipsychotics ? / Do The Curative Benefits of The Antipsychotics And Other Related Medications Really Outweigh Their Underlying Inherent Extrapyramidal Symptoms / Tardive Dyskinesia Side Effects etc In All Cases ?


Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS), Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) etc are actually the side effects of certain medications especially the Antipsychotics that would potentially and eventually disturb the normal functioning of the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters / key elements of neurons in our nervous system essential for the control of human body motions) such as blocking them etc (in carrying out their medical mechanisms to cure certain other sicknesses and unfortunately is also one of the unavoidable side effects of such medications). Next, such a situation would then lead to bodily chemical imbalances and then potential interruptions to the "message sending, conveying and relaying" neuron operations between the human brain and any parts of the human body that would in turn trigger off a variety of largely uncontrollable involuntary and purposeless movement disorders on any parts of our body that are substantially beyond control of the ones suffering from them.


In my case, I suffered from the Tardive Dyskinesia-induced abnormally rapid non-stop eyelid twitching that resulted from the dopamine-disturbing side effects of Risperdal drugs that were dispensed to me by the relevant psychiatrist to deal with my depression sickness. The problem was such that, before I got such an abnormally rapid eyelid-twitching sickness the depression sickness itself would merely caused me to lose interest in mixing with other people and to a certain extent made me feel reluctant to go to work sometimes.


Nevertheless, by the time such dopamine-disturbing side effects of Risperdal began to cause me abnormally rapid eyelid twitching, it caused me enormous embarrassments in front of so many other people and subsequently denied me of even the very basic abilities to read, watch tv, drive and carry out other daily and basic routines and then it cost me my job making me out-of-work for about six months. To me, the side effects of Risperdal is more distressing, if not, mentally-anguising than the depression sickness that Risperdal purported to cure in the first place.


Can you guys just imagine what an irony could it be when the drugs that are supposed to cure depression would cause such nearly irreversible sicknesses as Tardive Dyskinesia etc due to their unavoidable side effects that are in reality much more ‘depressing’ to the patients than the depression sickness itself.


Next, when such unavoidable side effects become more and more serious and obvious and actually make the persons suffering from it getting more and more depressed, what should they do ? Continuing taking such problematic medications for depressions to alleviate their mental sicknesses and so as to make them ‘feel better’ for the time being at the expense of getting more and more serious side effects of such other bodily damaging sicknesses from such problematic medications later on ? Then what has exactly happened to these patients ? Would it be warranted to conclude that they have been plunged into such a vicious circle of ‘drug addiction’ that would ultimately get thier lives ruined in the end if they were to be instructed by their doctors to continue doing so ?


So, what do you think ?

Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed Nations


In the context of such modern nations as U.S and other developed European nations whereby most of the medical personnel are subject to the strict professional protocol especially in terms of dispensing the medications with potential disastrous side effects to their patients, the medical welfare of this group of people would be greatly ensured in such a case.


Unfortunately, I am just simply one of the many victims of gross negligence of the so-called licensed medical specialists of a less-developed country who care about nothing but the medical fees that I would pay to them in return for such problematic and defective drugs regardless of any bodily damages that these medications have inflicted upon me as visible and readily observable by these group of unethical medical professionals each time I pay regular visits to their practices for 'regular supplies' of such problematic medications.


Next, when such group of related patients in my home country start to have doubts about the disastrous side effects of the antipsychotic medications dispensed regularily to them and actually question the related 'medical experts' about such issues, invariably almost all of these 'professionals' will try to shirk their responsibilities by keeping them in the dark by saying directly 'I don't know what has exactly happened to you as I'm just a psychiatrist and not an eye doctor, chiropractic doctor etc' and they would then refer the related patients to other medical specialists of other fields who would in turn give other misleading diagnosis about their actual neurological / neuromuscular sicknesses to these poor patients (even when those problematic medications are presented face-to-face directly to them in their own practices). All in all, there seems to be a 'tacit conspiracy' between these medical personnel in my home country to work against the medical welfare of these poor patients and to put it bluntly, they are just paying these doctors for those seemingly 'logical and plausible lies' about the actual medical conditions they are having exactly. Next, to further worsen such a pathetic situation, my home country tends to become a 'dumping ground' all the while for decades for the outdated medications with greater unwanted side effects from such modern nations as U.S and other advanced European countries.


Frankly speaking, as a part-time social worker working for the welfare of these poor group of people and a former victim myself who has suffered painfully like them, I hope that by airing these facts and my views through the internet, such a saddening scenario will be exposed to more and more benevolent individuals and such an exploitation would come to an end one day. Thank you.

'tardive dyskenesia can happen with a whole lot of drugs in the same or similar class as risperdal, and it's a big deal. usually dosage needs to be altered, or a new drug needs to be prescribed. that said, never ever stop a medication like this suddenly, even if the twitching scares the bejeezus out of you. always always ALWAYS discuss this with the prescriber, and as soon as possible, too.'

'thats not true severe physical reactions are a reason to rapidly stop these drugs'


As a matter of fact, I quite agree with your reasonings to a certain extent. Your arguments would make lots of sense especially under the ideal circumstances where the medical personnel dispensing such dopamine-disturbing medications are always exercising their medical profession in good faith and highly ethical ways and fulfilling all the necessary duties of care as well as due diligence requirements in the process of taking care of the medical needs and welfare of their patients using such potentially hazardous drugs.


However, if the medical personnel in question, such as the ones in the less-developed nations like my home country, who would almost invariably prescribe, administer and dispense such potentially hazardous drugs in a haphazard, arbitrary, totally dishonest and irresponsible manner without any regards to medical ethics, professional protocols, medical welfare of their patients, and even the very human lives, your arguements and reasonings simply would not be relevant or applicable under such a scenario or rather outright exploitations of the patients' basic rights in this case as no unjust / dishonest actions should reasonably be justified by seemingly 'valid reasonings and explanations'.


'if the drug isnt stopped tardive usually becomes permant.'

To a certain degree, that's simply the truth. I sought lots of treatments from the a variety of sources of western medications for a cure of such a Tardive Dyskinesia-induced non-stop abnormally rapid eyelid twitching, and almost all of them turned out to be futile and hardly yielded any permanent or positive results. The explanation for such a scenario is that such a technology of administering direct and effective treatments onto the peripheral nerves around a particular area of muscles having certain neurological movements / neuromuscular disorders simply has not yet been found/invented/developed/discovered by the modern medical science of the formal western medication. Next, even such sophisticated medication as Botox injections could only deal with such neuromuscular disorders merely through indirect means of 'interception' by 'half-paralysing' the areas of muscles having the twitchigs (even in the case where the muscles themselves do not have any problems / simply not the root cause of such twitchings) without being able to deal with the problematic nerves causing all those unwanted twitchings to those muscles. And that's the reason why the recipients of Botox injections would need to get such treatments over and over again when the muscle-paralysing effects of such medications lapse totally (after 3-6 months).


Next, since it is the dopamine-disturbing agents / other 'contaminating substances' that disturb the eyes nerves and cause all the unwanted twitchings, spasms, tics etc, getting rid of them from the eyes nerves /related nerves around the particular organ having the twitchings would then naturally, reasonably, logically and obviously be the most clear-cut, direct and straightforward way of curing such a neurological / neuromuscular sickness. In this regard, the suggested acupuncture method that I have made in my prior posts actually works this way. And my opinion is that from the viewpoint of a patient suffering from a particular sickness, especially the so-called 'undiagnosed' ones, as long as a particular (alternative) therapy would effectively and satisfactorily cure their sicknesses, as evidenced by numerous successful cases and at the same time would not inflict any unwanted side effects on them, there is simply no reason for them to be denied / advised against using such a therapy even when such 'alternative therapy' (such as in the case of my suggested acupuncture method) still cannot be scientifically proven /explored / examined for its underlying medical / healing mechanisms by the mainstream (western) medical science to date.


'By the by, i think we should discourage this kind of spammer. medications are a major deal and the only advice that should be taken is the advice of the prescriber, or another comparable doctor if seeking a second opinion or experiencing emergent symptoms.'


Please try to understand that I'm not posting spams in this or other websites. The actual and underlying fact remains that there are numerous pathetic individuals who are currently still suffering ignorantly from such disastrous neuromuscular disorders of Tardive Dyskinesia, Extrapyramidal Symptoms etc at the hands of numerous unethical or rather conscienceless medical personnel in my home country and other less-developed nations (and the number is still on the rise). Hence, as a social worker working for the welfare and medical benefits of these group of people, I am merely doing my part of fighting for their rights that they would otherwise rightfully deserve.


Subsequently, the key point that I try to make in my prior posts is that human beings especially the patients all around the world should rightfully deserve such equal rights to genuine facts and information about their medical conditions from all the medical personnel who are expected to exercise their professions with due integrity for the medical fees they receive as well as equal access to the better medications with lesser and lesser unwanted side effects (rather than the more hazardous outdated ones) that are developed and invented from time to time especially by the advanced nations.


Besides, it will be a rather saddening scenario for those rights to be denied to certain 'underprivileged' individuals due to 'imperfect information', ignorance on the part of the patients and geographical differences (modern vs less-developed nations), deliberate exploitation by certain profit-driven individuals who have lesser or no regard at all for medical ethics and human lives etc


All in all, I hope that such scenario and circumstances, especially the medical welfare of these poor individuals in the less-developed nations will change positively for the better in the days to come. Thank you.

A New Version For The Self-administered Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop Persistent Eyelid-twitching



Thanks for taking an interest in my posts made in this website. At the same time, I also have received lots of positive feedbacks from my email inbox from other persons (troubled by such annoying non-stop eyelid twitching sickness) giving thanks to me for the curative benefits they experience upon exercising the suggested alternative instrument-aided self-administered acupuncture method.


In response to the additional enquiries about the suggested self-administered acupuncture method that these persons have made to me so far through the emails, I thus would like to provide to the intended readers a new version about this acupuncture therapy which contains other extra and more in-depth details as follows : -


Well, regarding the 'He Gu' acupuncture point I have mentioned in my prior articles for the suggested cure for non-stop eyelid-twitching, its exact location is at the back of the palm of one's right hand, which is 1.5 cm (applicable to the average grown adults only) measured vertically from the point of intersection (that would appear visibly when the fingers are closed loosely together) between the thumb and the forefinger. (Kindly take note that this point is located at a much 'fleshy' instead of a much 'boney' area - perhaps you would need to briefly explore that part of your right hand at the same time to locate that point, and I hope you will understand that the hand structures of each person differ from one another).


When the acupuncture point is identified and marked accordingly, you can then re-open your hand , and then what you all can do is to sit down, and at the same time press that onto the surface of that acupuncture point (using just mild force) with any long blunt-pointed object such as toothpick, a normal writing pen (which is out of ink of course) etc against your chin (suggested for convenience purpose) for a continuous 2 hours (during any time in a day), and it's preferably to do that when you are about to go to sleep at night (so that you have more free time to do it). However , if you are eager to find out the very exact location of that particular acupuncture point to further verify the information given above, I would suggest you to seek consultancy from a licensed acupuncturist.


In this regard, based on the acupuncturist, the blunt-pointed objects such as normal writing pen (which is out-of-ink of course) etc instructed to me for such self-administred therapy is actually intended as a substitute for the acupuncture needle to deal effectively with the particular acupuncture point.


Unlike the other traditional method of acupressure which involves the use of fingers to press and massage the acupuncture points, the use of blunt-pointed object in such a case for the treatment of chronic eyelid-twtiching is actually meant as a 'leverage' to provide an adequately focused and hence a 'reflexology stimulus' that is strong enough to deal more precisely and effectively with that acupuncture point.


Whereas, if that acupuncture point is to be treated with fingers, the stimulus effect generated would be very much smaller due to the fact that such pressings and massagings would reasonably not last long enough to provide any reliefs for the chronic eyelid-twitching. Besides, given the larger suface area of the fingers as well as their rounded physical shape (compared to the blunt-pointed objects), a large part of the forces produced from such pressings and massagings would then be reasonably applied onto the related muscles rather than directly onto the intended nerves through the related acupuncture point to deal effectively with such sickness.


Please be reminded that a good sleep at night throughout the therapy period is essential for the healing to be effectively done. And a person shouldn't associate oneself again with the underlying causes such as over-straining of the eyes, excessive cafeine intake, allergy/overdosage of certain medication (with muscle spasms side effects) that causes this non-stop eyelid-twitching to the particular person in the first place to avoid a relapse of that sickness, especially after getting cured from it.


Please take note that one should continually apply that method in the case where it proves to be effective in dealing with the eyelid twitching problem (after trying it for about 3 days' time).


For your reference, I get my eyelid twitching stopped the next day after the acupuncture treatment. But when I stop the treatment for the next few days, the twitchings just come back again. Based on the acupuncturist, the explanation for the relapse is such that if one were to apply just one-off / short-term treatment, it would then only serve to disperse the dopamine-disturbing toxin / other 'contaminating agents' around one's eye nerves enabling the twitching to stop just temporarily (without totally purging such toxins / 'contaminating agents' out of the human body). So, it works just like doing a physiotherapy whereby one should complete the whole course of treatment (in this case, applying that self-administered technique persistently for weeks / a few months) to get the eyelid-twitching sickness totally cured effectively once and for all in the end.


Next, the suggested duration of two-hour period/day (continuous non-stop healing process) for that self-administered treatment is just what I have recommended so far to other persons having the similar symptoms based on my very own healing experience from this eyelid-twitching sickness and the others who suffer from it (who eventually get it totally cured). All in all, it would acutally depend on one's healing progress for the eyelid twitching sickness upon applying that suggested self-administered acupuncture method.



Related References :


Diagram of The 'He Gu' Acupuncture Point :




Medical References For The 'He Gu' Acupuncture Point :

http://www.acuxo.com/meridianPictures.a ... 0Intestine

Further Follow-up :


Please refer to the weblink below for a further follow-up of the posts made above :


http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt76648.html

I think it would have been more efficient, organised, and user friendly if you had just posted the links to this information and your thoughts on the subject, instead of 3 pages of endless (but useful, dont get me wrong) information.

Thanks for the suggestion and I'll try my best to do so next time when I post something else.


By the way, have a nice day.

Additional Details For The Self-administered Acupuncture Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking - How does one know that one is applying pressure exactly at the right acupuncture point? (Please Refer To The Prior Post Above Added With a Diagram)



The information as follows is added accordingly in response to further additional feedbacks and enquiries made ever-increasingly by the ones troubled with chronic non-stop rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking problems (especially the medication-induced ones) seeking helps from me through the emails.


About the question of how would one know that he / she is applying the blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressure at the right point (the "He Gu" acupuncture point - please refer to the diagram added in the related prior post above), well, the nerves of our bodies especially the ones closely adjacent to each other, would tend to interwind, overlap and interconnect among one another. Whilst the 1.5 cm and its location on the wrist as portrayed in the diagram mentioned above for the 'He Gu' acupuncture point is actually a standard measure for the size of the hands of the average grown adults.


Next, applying blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressings upon it (or any points around that 'He Gu' acupuncture point area) will actually generate direct stimulations to the other nerves surrounding that pressed point around the wrist area as well, and subsequently, produce a reflexology stimulus / 'qi' that will flow / travel right up to the 'final destinations'(please refer to the medical references weblink added in the related post above), which are the peripheral nerves attached to the muscles of the entire face, especially the eyelids to generate the desired healing effects to the intended areas by gradually restoring their bodily chemical balances. In my case and the others, that acupuncture technique actually serves to gradually and eventually drive out the risperdal toxins / other related contaminating substances that disrupt the normal functioning of the dopamine neurotransmitters chemicals of the neurons / nerve cells around our eyelid muscles and cause all those rapid unwanted eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking, totally out of our bodies and enable us to get totally cured once and for all in the end.


Lastly, I hope that the information given above will be useful to the intended readers. Thank you.

summarize please im not reading your book

Ok, once again, thanks for the feedback and suggestion.

Additional Information About Antipsychotics / Neuroleptics (Please Refer to The Prior Post Entitled 'Mental Health : My Subsequent Experience With Seroquel Drug After Quiting Risperdal'



In addition, clinical evidences also indicate that those troubled with mental disorders, especially the serious ones, shouldn't just rely solely upon the medications as the one and only means of solution to their mental problems.


To put it bluntly, such medications, they are no different from sleeping pills whereby their calming effects just 'come and go' after the lapse of their effective period whilst their potential disastrous side effects can be permanent upon manifestations. In medical sense, such mental disorders, especially the serious ones are mainly caused by the malfunctionings of the mood regulator neurotransmitter, especially Serotonin in the brain. Next, though the related medications can to a certain extent bring such a severe mental disorder under control by 'artificially' regulating, blocking and controlling the re-uptake of it in the brain of the persons suffering from it, medications alone however, by no means would be able to deal conclusively with the problems due to the fact that the root causes of such a disorder is actually resulting largely from the environmental, circumstantial and other interpersonal factors (or the changes of them) that are deemed to be emotionally and adversely unacceptable to the ones suffering from it to a very great extent. Such negative changes in turn actually account for the negative behavioural changes in them as described


In short, it remains the truth that most of the antipsychotics / neuroleptics meant for especially the treatment of chronic mental illnesses would tend to work in such a way that they would need to change / alter the chemical balances in the brain of those taking such medications in the process of bringing such disorders under control. In the process of doing so, such a mechanism would unavoidably and eventually antagonize the neurotransmitters of the nervous system, especially the serotonin and dopamine (which is necessary for various neuromuscular functions), and hence disturb and interfere with the normal functionings of the nerves of the human body.


Next, though it may take years for such undesirable side effects / scenario to manifest onto the ones taking such medications, I am just in the opinion that in the case of the medications having potentially such unwanted side effects, it would naturally be the duty of the medical personnel / specialists-in-charge to take all the precautionary measures to safeguard the well-being of the patients for the sake of their healthcare and welfare.


The real-life examples that I have come across so far is such that for the ones relying merely upon medications and nothing else to deal with their mental disorders, they would tend to develop both emotional and psychological dependences upon such medictions over the long-term whilst getting their mental conditions deteriorated from time to time, eg, from neurosis to psychosis and then just acquire all those almost irreversibly disastrous undesirable side effects like Extrapyramidal Symptoms, Tardive Dyskinesia, Dystonia, Akathisia, Parkinsonism disorders etc from such medications in the end.


In such a connection, psychotherapy, emotional and other communication supports would be needed to complement the use of the related medications to achieve greater curative effects for such patients troubled by chronic mental disorder.


As such, medications is one thing, but the mental / cognitive abilities of the patients themselves to eventually change their views and perceptions about their environments / surroundings, circumstances and people they are facing in a more positve way, particularly developed through the help of such counselling supports from the others in order for them to really get better and gradually develop positive behavioural / personal changes, is simply another thing that cannot achieved solely with the help of medications alone.


In a nutshell, medications alone by no means can be a substitute for the positive interpersonal experiences that such patients would eventually need for genuine improvement and recovery of their sanity and the use of them should at the same time be complemented by other psychotherapy efforts to achieve the purpose of holistic healing.


Lastly, I hope that the information given above will turn out to be useful to its intended readers. Thank you.

Additional Information About Antipsychotics / Neuroleptics Meant For The Treatment of Mental Illnesses - Additional Reference Materials



Included below is a weblink giving extra details for the prior related article posted above and I hope that the information given will turn out to be useful to its intended readers. Thank you.


http://www.mentalhealthforum.net/forum/ ... php?t=3039