Posted by Christ_empowered on October 31, 2016, at 10:54:23
In reply to Re: older generation meds » Christ_empowered, posted by Zyprexa on October 31, 2016, at 8:37:04
if you have significant agitation, anxiety, insomnia, etc., then lower potency, more sedating antipsychotics make a lot of sense. Zyprexa and perphenazine are, I think, more mid-potency. Seroquel and Thorazine are low-potency, which means fewer EPS, usually less tardive dyskinia over the long haul (unless its high dosed, of course), but (obviously) more sedation, sleeping too much, concentration problems.
Thorazine is notorious for sometimes causing depression. For me, Seroquel did the same thing, and I was irritable. Plus, I got weird twitches, especially at night, from seroquel, and nightmares. Not good.
Abilify does the heavy lifting in my combination. The Trileptal and Lamictal help with lingering mood problems and more than likely help calm me down, without causing signficant sedation. I take a lot (400mgs) of the 2x daily version of Wellbutrin, which seems to help with concentration, mood, and countering some of the sedation from the other medications.
Everybody is different. Bio-psycho-social differences=different responses to drugs, different needs, etc.
I hope your treatments continue helping you.
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