Tardive Dyskinesia can be prevented but it still affects a lot of people around the world. Many doctors instead of stopping the disorder, continue the treatments that cause the patients to develop it. It is important that you are aware what TD is and how it is caused if you want to prevent it from affecting you or a loved one.
It's possible that you've never heard of this condition. The pharmaceutical companies strive the keep Tardive Dyskinesia a disorder that is not in the public awareness. The pharmaceutical company is failing to disclose the fact that some of their best-selling drugs are causing a problem. The government has regulations that they must disclose the information that TD could be one of the side effects. Doctors are also aware of what these medications can do to patients, but they continue to prescribe them. Innocent people tend to get caught in the center of terrible situations.
Tardive Dyskinesia powers the brain which makes it sensitive to dopamine. This affects the part of the brain that controls movement, causing the person to be unable to control certain movements. Your facial features become distorted with TD. An individual having the affliction is likely to make funny facial gestures, stick out his tongue, purse his lips very often, and continueously appear to be gulping or munching something. The patient's limbs can also be affected with involuntary movements like shaking or jerking.
There are a lot of different medications that can result in this disorder in a patient. The most frequently utilized are antipsychotic medications prescribed for major emotional disorders and other neuroleptic medicines given for digestive conditions.
There are also some non-neuroleptic drugs which can result in Tardive Dyskinesia. They include drugs commonly prescribed for treating depression, such as Prozac, Zoloft, Tofranil, and Elavil.
If your doctor has prescribed any of these particular medications for your condition, then you need to double check that you are on the lowest possible dose for the shortest possible amount of time. Long-term use of any of these drugs has been found to bring on the onset of TD. The moment the individuals are afflicted with this disease, it stays with them as long as they are alive, in spite of their discontinuing the drug which triggered the onset of the diease, to start with. Stopping may result in the condition going away, but it could also cause it to get worse.
