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That's so sweet, bizi. Thank you
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Only med change: 8mg. Trilafon, down from 12mg. It's been a few days and I don't notice any differences.
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#323
what is the trifan for?
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#325
If it is not working then get rid of it.
Just saying.... bizi __________________ 150mg of lamictal 2x a day haldol 5mg 2x a day 1mg of cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, 4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon PRN Remeron 15mg at night, zyprexa10mg under tongue, requip2mg. |
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medications that don't work should be weaned off of not abrutely discontinued
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Pdoc agrees that there's no reason to be on the AP if I don't need it right now. So I'm down to just 4mg. perphenazine and so far, so good. I have to cut out some of the meds I'm on, it's too many.
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Down to 4mg Trilafon. I'm unsure of the effect, if any, because of the headache I've had for 8 days. I do feel very anxious...but that could be from not seeing my therapist for over a week. Hopefully, she won't cancel and I'll see her Thursday. I'll be better able to assess where I am then.
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I would say to stay at this dose for a while before reducing.coming off of geodon hospitalized and I was manic/psychotic for so long. I was in there almost 1 month. The geodon had stopped working and that is why I wanted off of it, I needed different meds. Now I am on the lowest of doses Than I have every been on and pretty stable.
All of this to say that be aware the you can have some ill toward effects while tapering off. Am sorry. keep in touch love bizi __________________ 150mg of lamictal 2x a day haldol 5mg 2x a day 1mg of cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, 4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon PRN Remeron 15mg at night, zyprexa10mg under tongue, requip2mg. |
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Thank you, bizi. I agree. I'm pretty sure I dropped the dose too fast. I'm holding it at 8mg. for now, then will drop to 6mg after I feel physically (and mentally) better than I've been feeling. __________________ |
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I don't know why I posted "$mg" - I meant 8mg.
I've been experiencing a tremendous amount of anxiety, even panic. I took an extra 2mg. of Trilafon this morning and feel much calmer this afternoon. *sigh* I want to be on less meds, but I am so much more stable on more meds. The anxiety absolutely cripples my existence. I do not know what to do. __________________ |
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#333
Yes go on a slooooooow taper. I know its easy to want to jump off stuff fast but our bodies seldom agree !
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Yes, slow, slow. It's so hard to be patient, but I'll suffer if I'm not. The worst of the migraine is over...I don't think my head ever actually stops aching entirely. It wears me down. Thank you, Christina __________________ |
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#335
You must be patient. any way to get a smaller
dose of meds so that way you can go down even smaller doses like 1 mg at a time instead of 4 or even 2. just one mg pills more of them to account for your taper. I went bonkers psychotic discontinuing the geodon so abruptly and in a psych ward for a month until I stabilized on haldol. just a suggestion. bizi __________________ 150mg of lamictal 2x a day haldol 5mg 2x a day 1mg of cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, 4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon PRN Remeron 15mg at night, zyprexa10mg under tongue, requip2mg. |
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Thank you so much for your advice and experience, bizi. I'm finding that impatience leads to failure when it comes to psych meds. __________________ |
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Yes if you could get 1mg pills then that would help you with the taper.
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Had appt. with pdoc yesterday. She wants me to completely stop the perphenazine by tomorrow and replace it with Gabapentin, for anxiety. I'll try it; we'll see.
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good luck beth.
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I find gabapentin really effective for anxiety. I take a lot of it but it helps. My goal is to get off klonopin and just use gabapentin.
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