Posted by zeugma on April 2, 2006, at 11:37:11
In reply to Re: questions about perphenazine (Trilafon)?, posted by Tiina on April 1, 2006, at 16:11:00
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> Thank you for your replies >>you're very welcome!
I forgot to ask in my message what kind of dose of Trilafon people were on. If anybody replies again (and you too zeugma) I'd like to know what kind of dose you were on.>>
I don't remember what dose I was started on, probably very low, it was literally the only pill they could give me that did not wrack me with nausea, so its antinauseant effects did not require anything beyond a minimal dose, for me.
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> I have been given several different diagnoses but the ones in my papers are psychotic depression and inhibited and suspicious personality. >>It sounds like some of my diagnoses. I have social phobia, major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, ADHD, and narcolepsy. These are official diagnoses I have been given by professionals over the past four years. At the time I was given Trilafon my official diagnosis was "agitated depression."
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> Zeugma if Trilafon didn't help you with the feeling of falling apart did it help you at all? I also always have that feeling of falling apart but it's been a lot worse lately.>>I took it while hospitalized and the low dose immediately improved nausea. Unfortunately it made me so sedated that I became even more reclusive and inhibited (mainly because I couln't get out of bed, which is hard for me anyway) so they increased the dose over a period of months to 48 mg, which I would not recommend to anyone, and which is likely not done anyway any more. it does illustrate the poor practices of psychiatrists of the time (which was not all that long ago), as I believe the sedating properties of Trilafon have been known for a long time. But there is an unfortunate tendency to blame the patient for a poor response, not the drug, unless of course the drug is one of 'abuse', in which case the patient must be kept aware from the drug for his/her own good, rather than simply escalate the dose until CNS poisoning is practically assured, as was done with the older AP's, and is done now, for all I know, with atypicals, SSRI's, etc. Sorry for the rant.
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> I just don't know if meds can help me at all but I guess I wanna try something. I guess the sedative effect helps some if nothing else.>true!
I did read a study in which low dose Trilafon plus buspirone had a good effect. I take buspirone, it works well in combination with nortriptyline for me.
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