Friday, September 25, 2015

Psychiatric medications and nerve damage

September 25, 2015

One of the medications that I took in my late twenties made both of my index fingers point all the time.  I stopped taking that medication for a few months when the doctor that I had tried prescribing me something else.  The other medication caused my legs to move around by themselves.

I went back to the medication that had deformed my fingers.  By then, being off the medication for a few months had stopped my fingers from pointing so much, and it didn't get that bad again.  However, those fingers haven't had the dexterity of my other fingers and have always had stiffness ever since, even though I haven't taken that medication for more than a decade, except for having taken it for a couple of days when I was at an Arbour hospital last year.  At the hospital, the medication was stopped when it had an interaction with another medication that I was taking.



Copyright L. Kochman, September 25, 2015 @ 11:05 a.m./edited @ 11:06 a.m.