{"id":49376,"date":"2026-11-06T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/5-signs-you-should-change-your-tardive-dyskinesia-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:35:18","slug":"5-signs-you-should-change-your-tardive-dyskinesia-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/5-signs-you-should-change-your-tardive-dyskinesia-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Signs You Should Change Your Tardive Dyskinesia Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Side Effects of Your Treatment Outweigh the Benefits<\/p>\n<p>Medications for TD can cause side effects like drowsiness, fatigue, depression, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/parkinsons-disease\/parkinsonism\/\">parkinsonism<\/a> (non-TD movements). If your side effects get too severe, you can talk to your provider about whether it\u2019s worth continuing the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>When side effects interfere with your daily life, that can mean the side effect burden outweighs the benefit, says <a href=\"https:\/\/mdschool.tcu.edu\/faculty-bio\/?n=Hurd,%20Cheryl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheryl Hurd, MD<\/a>, a psychiatrist and a professor at Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re out of treatment options. \u201cIf one medication is not working, [it] doesn&#8217;t mean that none will work,\u201d says Dr. Torres-Russotto.<\/p>\n<p>Your provider may consider changing your VMAT2 inhibitor if you have side effects like extreme drowsiness or parkinsonism, which may not go away after adjusting the dose, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nymc.edu\/som\/faculty\/fekete-robert.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Fekete,<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/neurological-disorders\/should-you-change-your-tardive-dyskinesia-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Side Effects of Your Treatment Outweigh the Benefits Medications for TD can cause side effects like drowsiness, fatigue, depression, and parkinsonism (non-TD movements). If your side effects get too severe, you can talk to your provider about whether it\u2019s worth continuing the treatment. When side effects interfere with your daily life, that can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[36,3290],"class_list":["post-49376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-mixtv","tag-neurological-disorders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}