Posted by med_empowered on October 2, 2005, at 21:30:04
In reply to well, this is interesting » med_empowered, posted by zeugma on October 2, 2005, at 16:16:33
You were given 48mgs of perphenazne?!?! That's ridiculous. I'm not a fan of **any** neuroleptics--they're all based more or less either on Thorazine or on Clozapine (which is itself based loosely on Thorazine, although its profile is somewhat different)...with all the focus on D2 stuff, its no wonder schizophrenia "treatment" still leaves people developing EPS and leading largely un-fulfilling lives...Thorazine was (and is) a *tranquilizer* in the truest since of the word; its effects on mental illness occur primarily through behavior control and reduction of arousal and expression of emotion...other effects are, at most, secondary. Anyway, since antipsychotics do help some people...it would be nice to use cheaper drugs that (apparently) are just as effective as new ones. The buspirone+perphenazine combo interests me; even after it was introduced as an anxiolytic, buspar was being considered as a treatment for EPS and tardive dyskinesia, and lots of docs were recommending it for use with long-term antipsychotics. But...that obviously didn't go very far, lol. One combo that would interest me...using Triavil in low doses (possibly with an RX for plain old elavil along with Triavli) along with Buspar...it seems like there would be some pretty potent anti-anxiety and anti-depressant properties to a combo like that but...who knows. It also seems that adding things like Remeron or the newer dopamine agonists could be interesting, too...with this new study, I imagine (and hope) we'll see more research into creative combos of low-dose old drugs with newer medications...maybe then there will be some substantial progress in the treatment of schizophrenia.
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