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Tuesday, 01/10/2017 11:34:09 PM

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:34:09 PM

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Currently, there are no FDA approved drugs for treating tardive dyskinesia, though some have shown efficacy in studies. Tetrabenazine, which is a dopamine depleting drug, is sometimes used to treat tardive dyskinesia and other movement disorders.[4] However, it is only approved to treat chorea associated with Huntington's disease. The related VMAT2 inhibitor, reserpine, has also been tried in one small randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial as a treatment for TD with success,[29] as has a-methyldopa.[29] Ondansetron (Zofran) has shown some benefit in experimental studies on tardive dyskinesia and a variety of anti-Parkinsonian medications are used such as donepezil,[30][31] baclofen,[32][33][34] and pramipexole.[35] Clonidine may also be useful in the treatment of TD, although dose-limiting hypotension and sedation may hinder its usage.[36] Botox injections are used for minor focal dystonia, but not in more advanced tardive dyskinesia.[37] Benzodiazepines are an effective treatment for TD, however their use is limited by the development of tolerance which requires ever increasing doses of the benzodiazepines to be used to attenuate TD symptoms.

My wife Sandra acquired TD
along with MS, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid arthritis,
she told me this: The Osteoporosis, is way more painful then MS.

which means,
bone diseases
is more painful

then nerve diseases.