Is There A Cure For Tardive Dyskinesia?
In some cases tardive dyskinesia is incurable. The most important step that can be done after discovering this condition is the stopping or if that’s not possible the reduction of the intake of neuroleptic drugs. There are some hopes though at the horizon as several drugs have been found to at least decrease the intensity of the symptoms. The therapy strategy is usually done at individual level in order to achieve maximum benefits. Given that prolonged exposure to the neuroleptic group of drugs might further damage the situation, it is very important that tardive dyskinesia is diagnosed and acted upon as soon as possible. Keep in mind that if someone takes these harmful drugs for a long enough period, they will almost certainly develop this condition. The figures stand as it follows: after the first year of neuroleptic drugs usage one twentieth of the patients develop this condition, after the second year another twentieth follows, after the third year a tenth joins the group and after
