Posted by softheprairie on November 6, 2008, at 5:19:39
In reply to Mood Stabilizer recommendations... Please!, posted by ricker on November 5, 2008, at 18:34:17
I would like to throw in the possibility of perphenazine for you and your pdoc to consider. It is an old antipsychotic. I take it as an adjunct for depression. It is thought to perhaps have some mood stabilizing effect. I think it went out of favor because it can cause tardive dyskinesia, and the newer APs were so heavily pushed when they were new and the manufacturers of the newer ones were not as forthcoming about their own risks. Perphenazine is also sedating; I take mine at night now, but used to split dosing. Perphenazine did pretty well compared to other, newer APs in CATIE trials, which were NIH or NIMH-sponsored a few years ago.
Abilify gave me akathisia, the only psych med that has done that to me.
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