r/Akathisia

Around 8 years ago I did a pretty long taper off of klonopin that I had been on for over 15 years. I was placed on gabapentin because of inner trembling, restless feeling. Fast forward to now I was on gabapentin maybe 6 years and did a very long taper off that as well. I have been off of gabapentin 2 years now. I am still getting the inner trembling restless feeling. No pacing but it’s like my body is in a weird pattern of calm some days and then boom! Doom and gloom feeling, depression with a terrible inner feeling of restlessness. I am on high doses of b-12 and vitamin D because I am terribly low in both of those and a vaginal estrogen cream. Could this still be going on so far out? I have terrible head pressure as well. I go for very long walks in the evenings with a weight vest and it seems to help in the evenings. But it starts in the afternoon and get worse toward the evening. I also starts after eating sometimes like burning sensation in my tummy and then thru my whole body.

I have been experiencing akathisia for 1 year now and I’m starting to wonder if it will ever go away. Does anyone have experience with this?

I started with 5 mg of Abilify (aripiprazole), which gave me very severe akathisia. I then tapered off, and on my psychiatrist’s advice, took 4 mg of haloperidol for 5 weeks. I also developed akathisia on that, so I tapered off again. Eventually, I gradually increased to 10 mg of olanzapine on my psychiatrist’s advice. Again, I experienced extreme akathisia, so I am slowly tapering using tapering strips. I am currently on 2.1 mg olanzapine, 7.5 mg mirtazapine, and 4 mg lorazepam daily, and I still can’t get through the days. I cry every day and pray that the akathisia will eventually end. I’m so so so scared and hopeless. I just want my life back. What can I do to improve it? I already had some ‘better’ days but last 40 days were a total hell.

Is there any medicine in study that can answer that question because i see many problems that even if u change lifestyle try everything u can It cant be fixed and no here on this sub many belive the supplment can help u or doing some other weird stuff lets accept reality u cant fix something that only a medicine Is doing on your brain i taked with likes 14 doctors everyone avoid the object or says with time u Will be cured but Is not Always true in the other hand something that really not understand why dopamine meds likes levodopa or antagonist like that are rejected when this happens why cannot be prescribed and so many rules but antipschotic can be prescribed for even some sleep problems u can start to downvote this any extremist that are out there but we should really think about this