Posted by JohnX2 on February 23, 2002, at 14:37:54
I picked up this hand clenching and twitching
while manic and drinking lots of caffeine and
clenching my fist driving my car a lot and
playing a lot of golf all last month. I was also
taking a whopper dose of Zyprexa to battle the
mania. After a while I started to get bad spasms
in my left hand while I was having these bad manias
and I got cramps in my hand concurrent with the activities
(holding my steering wheel or golf club).This problem seemed to come and go with the mania
and stimulant abuse and clenching motions and I
discussed it with my pdoc. We felt it was probably
just some sort of Klonopin withdrawl seizures. Well
now I stopped Zyprexa and I am getting off/on
clenching and twitching in my hands. Mostly off.
Like 95% of the day I am Ok. If I drink some caffeine
and do some clenching motions it may start up again
and I freak out. I have gotton twitches in my face
that have persisted for months and then vanished. Is this
just some sort of tardive dystonia like thingy that
is likely to go poof over a few months like my other
little twitches normally would? This one is much
bigger, my whole hand is involved, fortunately not
my dominant hand, but I'm still nervous.-John
poster:JohnX2
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