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Sep 28, 2020, 12:54 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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(cue Tom Petty:
I need to know [I need to know]
I need to know [I need to know]
Because I don't know how long
I can hold on
If your makin' me wait
If you're leadin' me on
I need to know [I need to know]
I need to know [I need to know])
Okay. But more seriously. Or maybe less so. But important, either way.
Let's say you're on a medication. At first, that med works well. But after a while it's not as effective. So you raise the dose. It might be okay, but it's not as obviously helpful as it was initially. But you stay on it for several months.
Then you really begin to wonder why you're taking a medication with the usual med side effects if you're pretty sure it isn't helping you. Your pdoc has given you the option of doing what you feel is best. So. How do you know what your next step is? Take the chance of stopping the med and see how you feel? Or think to yourself, This medication is probably helping me more than I realize. I'll stay on it for a few more months until...well...until what?
I'm stuck.
The medication, btw, is perphenazine (Trilafon - an AP). 16mg. It was prescribed to me for extreme anxiety, particularly anxiety that occurred at the same time every afternoon. But lately I'm feeling quite anxious 'round the clock. It seems that the med just isn't as effective as it was. So why keep taking it? Any ideas?
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