Twitching due to too many drugs?

[vespertine]

Hi everybody,

I'm a long time lurker, not much of a poster. :/ But I have a problem I wanted to run by some of you guys who know your meds.

I've been taking random meds since I was 13 for depression and ADHD and all sorts of other stuff (see signature), and I am finally at the point where I have a great doctor that understands all my needs and pain. He prescribes me what I need and I generally feel great...Except I get this very strange twitching sensation almost all the time. We're talking major clonic jerks. My entire leg muscle will jerk or I'll spasm so hard my coffee cup will spill all over the place. It's just really scary. My SO has to drive for me now too. It took me a good while to write this, as I had to stop and massage my arm when it jerked and then go back and retype.

Does anyone know if his certain mixture causes clonic jerks? You'd think the epilepsy meds I take for migraines would fight against something like that...

Thanks

[malachite]

I don't know what's causing it, but I would be seeing my doctor ASAP. Good luck.

[Blart752]

I would only have one inkling as to what it is, and that is the combination of truxal and seroquel. But i could be totally wrong. All i know is when i took two antipsychotics, I had major stiffness, twitchiness symptoms.

metoclopramide also has similar side effects to some neuroleptics. or see adverse drug reactions at http://en.wikipedia..../Metoclopramide

*update: just remembered that reglan or metoclopramide, has been associated with tardive dyskinesia or other bad side effects.) it even has had a commercial associated with it that you could get compensated financially if u were injured while taking reglan. http://www.dreamlega...nd_lawyers.html

I also just looked it up and it is a Major drug drug interaction betwen metoclopramide and those other 2 antipsychotics drugs.

ask your doctor

[Cetkat]

I don't know. Sounds like a question to ask a neurologist though after looking at your sig. That's what I would do.

[Blart752]

*Update above*

[Anna]

Yeah, this one could be complex to figure out, given what you are taking.

You have some options: try to get a med to control the twitching and stay on what you are taking, if it is working.

Try to d/c each med for a bit, and see which one is causing it (and let your doc rule out some of the, because some of them are probably NOT the culprits and your doc should know).

See a neuro, and try to get it figured out.

In any case, it sounds very annoying, so I'd say do SOMETHING.

Anna

[SashaSue]

I would only have one inkling as to what it is, and that is the combination of truxal and seroquel. But i could be totally wrong. All i know is when i took two antipsychotics, I had major stiffness, twitchiness symptoms.

metoclopramide also has similar side effects to some neuroleptics. or see adverse drug reactions at http://en.wikipedia..../Metoclopramide

*update: just remembered that reglan or metoclopramide, has been associated with tardive dyskinesia or other bad side effects.) it even has had a commercial associated with it that you could get compensated financially if u were injured while taking reglan. http://www.dreamlega...nd_lawyers.html

I also just looked it up and it is a Major drug drug interaction betwen metoclopramide and those other 2 antipsychotics drugs.

ask your doctor

Blart: Neither Wikipedia, nor a law firm putting together a class action lawsuit, especially not a law firm putting together a class action suit, is credible enough to be useful to anyone. Drug interaction checkers often focus on the worst case scenarios.

In any case, the OP wasn't askng about tardive dyskinesia, or any of the other movement issues mentioned. Big difference between the kinds of twitches she's talking about and those.

OP - I'm with Anna, you should get a neuro check.

[Blart752]

Yes, that is true. Reglan does however have a black box warning for TD, and although that doesn't prove anything that my suggestion is right. The 2 antipsychotic drugs coupled with reglan IMO has a negative effect. Anna is right that there could be some drug to add to control the twitching.