Posted by zeugma on August 6, 2005, at 15:58:35
In reply to Re: Perphenazine (Trilafon) - to zeugma » ed_uk, posted by ed_uk on August 6, 2005, at 13:53:51
> Hi Zeugie!
hi Ed! Been a long time, huh? A crazy stretch of months- but then, there has been no stretch of my life longer than, say, five minutes that is truly otherwise...
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> I just found this..........
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> 'I took a typical antipsychotic (Trilafon) many years ago. The problem as you mention was dosage: at one point I was on 48 mg a day and all I wanted to do was sleep. It probably had a 'calming' effect..........'
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> Wow, 48mg! That's a LOT! Probably far too much! Can you tell us more about how it affected you? How were you affected by lower doses?
>I had severe Parkinsonism, for which I was on a massive dose of benztropine (no 'dumb-drug' euphoria that I remember, alas). If I am normally one stage away from comatose, then Trilafon had me in a coma. It became increasingly difficult to stay awake as the dosage was increased, and the already huge quantities of coffee that I was drinking became proportionally ineffective as the dose the was raised. I believe that my constant requests to have the 'free time' I was allowed (I was in a hospital) to be spent in bed were interpreted by the staff as antisocial behavior, and so the dose went up, 'antisocial' symptoms presumably a sign of schizophrenia.
I did not like Trilafon at any dose. But I think that maybe if the dosage had not escalated so drastically that I might have been less miserable on it. I was lethargic and 'out of it' on trilafon at any dose, but then I am 'out of it' when not on stimulants anyway.
-best,
z
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