Posted by Zyprexa on September 23, 2011, at 2:53:18
In reply to That's awesome!, posted by Christ_empowered on September 23, 2011, at 2:04:34
Before the perphenazine I was taking 20-30mg zyprexa. And 300mg bupropion. At the time I was all messed up from 6 months on abilify and then 2 years of geodon. Before that I was taking low dose zyprexa, which didn't work well. They tried psycho therapy on me to get me to think straight and not worry or be anxious, but it didn't work. Before all of it I had realy good results from 10mg zyprexa for a number of years. So my hope is to eventualy get rid of perphenzine and wellbutrin, and maybe even get back down to 10mg zyprexa with sertraline. I think a lot of my problems came on when the doc added bupropion, but I'm not complaining because it got me to quit smoking. Even thought I very anxious from the bupropion, and messed up from all the med changes, Ie the APs. The origional hope for perphenazine was that it would replace the zyprexa. So I started the perphenazine and decreased the zyprexa to 5mg, then it was very obvious that I couldn't get off the zyprexa. So I took both for years. Seemed that it was helping something, probably anxiety from the bupropion. Finaly the doc clued in that I was anxious at my last visit and sleeping 12h a day and told me to make the reductions. But not at the same time. So first I reduced the perphenazine and my anxiety spiked, so I reduced the bupropion and now I'm better, even better that before.. So now I'm thinking get rid of bupropion. And probably won't need the perphenazine. Which would be good. The doc gave me 5mg zyprexa's to take for when the anziety is realy bad but the only time I took it was right after perphenazine reduction and not since the bupropion reduction.
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