Posted by softheprairie on August 5, 2009, at 4:22:21
In reply to trilafon and parnate, posted by emmanuel98 on August 1, 2009, at 21:13:53
My sympathies for your terrible struggles.
I take the generic form of Trilafon, perphenazine.
At least for the time being, I have accepted the risks and side effects and find the benefit to my mood outweighs them. I am on just a piddly dose of it right now, though (6 mg at night plus I can take some 4 mg pills of it prn if feeling particularly bad), which is a compromise -- I would take more if it weren't for the side effects and risks, but, then again, my mood is doing okay for now at this low dose plus the good help I feel from my other meds (desipramine, Bystolic, Cytomel, metformin).
The side effects I've gotten from it are sedation and possibly (not sure it's the cause) occasional slight finger or hand tremor, and, for a while, I was chewing on my mouth's inner cheeks and lower lip sometimes (I could stop it if I wanted to) and I just hope it never turns to something like involuntary lip smacking or head jerking.
I know there have been some discussions of this med on the board before. You could try searches of the archives under both or each name (Trilafon OR perphenazine).> I have severe depression and have failed to benefit from anti-depressants at all, but have done well on atypical anti-psychotics (abiilfy, zyprexa, risperdal). The problem is, they make me gain weight like crazy -- 2 to 3 pounds a week! I tried Emsam recently and got no benefit. I am now in the hospital and they've started me on trilafon (16mg so far). They want to try parnate as well, but need to wait for the Ensam to wash out of my system. This trilafon makes me nervous -- the side-effect profile s**cks. And I'm not sure about parnate, since I got worse on Ensam.
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> Has anyone out there tried trilafon? Did it help? Did you have side effects?
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