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Tardive dyskinesia treatment?

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Looks like the 1st move is determining whether this is dystonic or seizure activity. As I explained earlier I was moving away from seizure because of his LOC (but I'm looking into partial complex as Eydawn pointed out) and moving towards TD because of the Haldol history, but now it's looking more like dystonic. After looking into dystonic I would start with Benadryl and move to benzos, as Mobey advised. Thanks for all the responses.

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Doczilla
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A key thing here is to know the difference between a dystonic reaction and tardive dyskinesia. Both can occur with the "typical" antipsychotic medications such as Haldol, Thorazine, and others. Medi

DwayneEMTP
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Guys....Just because it's a research questions doesn't mean that he's not interested in general discussion on the topic, right? I'm rarely satisfied simply by "answers" found through peer reviewed sou

Arctickat
Arctickat

Does the patient look like your avatar picture?

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