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. After all, Tardive Dyskinesia has been kept as hushed up as possible, because it's in the best interests of the big pharmaceutical companies to keep it that way. 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.
A drug which increases the sensitivity of brain towards dopamine causes Tardive Dyskinesia. The section of the brain that controls movement is affected and the person loses control of various movements. Your facial features become distorted with TD. The person with the disorder may make faces, have a protruding tongue, smack their lips repeatedly, or constantly seem to be sucking or chewing. Involuntary movements such as shaking and jerking can also affect the patient's limbs.
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. These contains generally used drugs in the treatment of depression, such as Prozac, Zoloft, Tofranil, and Elavil.
Before taking any of these medications you must ask your doctor and make sure that he is prescribing the minimum required dosage for a minimum period of time. Long-term use of these medicines has been notified to make the incidence 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 disease, to start with. Stopping may result in the condition going away, but it could also cause it to get worse.
