Common themes concerned the abrupt onset of new symptoms 3 to 12 months after stopping the drug, reinstatement of the drug failing to help withdrawal related symptoms, the possibility that withdrawal-related symptoms can persist indefinitely and concerns about using benzodiazepines to help with tardive akathisia. It appears that the immediate onset symptoms – zaps, vertigo, vivid dreams, flu like symptoms and mania, are somewhat different from the late onset symptoms which are collectively referred to as tardive akathisia. Besides this one patient, I have seen other patients who had no immediate withdrawal related symptoms and subsequently went on to develop late onset symptoms.