Brief Answer: Clarifications Detailed Answer: Hello, Thanks for using health care magic for posting your query. I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through. However I would require a couple of more details to help you in answering your query in a better justified way. 1. Were you on any antipsychotic medications before since long? 2. You have mentioned your diagnosis as depression. Were you diagnosed as psychosis before any time? 3. What is the nature of the facial movements. Are they regular/one sided /two sided/ can they stop/ do they stop in sleep/ what increases the movement etc. Hope to hear from you at your earliest convenience. Regards and wish you good health, Dr. Srikanth Reddy MD Neuro-Psychiatrist and Sexologist Neuro-Psychiatrist and Sexologist

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Brief Answer: Could be a drug induced movement disorder Detailed Answer: Hello Thanks for the follow up detailed information. The kind of movement that you are explaining that is on both sides and asymetrical and irregular, increasing on anxious situation and disappearing in sleep and changing in intensity while on psychiatric treatment suggest that it could very well be a drug induced movement disorder most probably Tardive Dyskinesia. They resemble tics in many ways. You dont exactly remember what drug you were on and you have also mentioned that at one time you were diagnosed as bipolar mood disorder and you would certainly have been on some anti psychotic. One you even remember i.e. Ziprasidone. Tardive dyskinesia is a movement disorder occurring in a small percentage of patients on anti psychotics. It may occur with other psychotropics as well. I see many such patients in my clinic and its unfortunate that you have landed up with this problem. I say ufortunate cause the prognosis of this movement disorder to stop is not that good. The treatment options that need to be considered is clozapine- an antipsychotic which reduces the TD as well, Vit E supplementation, Tetrabenazine and Trihexyphenidyl . These drugs may help you with your problem and they need to be tried one after other to see which suits you. You may discuss these options with your treating psychiatrist/neurologist who can help you with these medications. Hope I am able to answer your concerns. If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you. If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback. In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link: bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy Wish you good health, Kind regards Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.

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