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Default Apr 29, 2021 at 08:07 PM
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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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what is the trifan for?
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Trilafon (perphenazine) is an older antipsychotic, but my pdoc prescribed it for severe anxiety. It helped for a few months, then stopped doing anything. I'd say that it's a good med overall, though.

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If it is not working then get rid of it.
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Exactly my thought.

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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.
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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.
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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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Default May 15, 2021 at 05:36 PM
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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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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 go on a slooooooow taper. I know its easy to want to jump off stuff fast but our bodies seldom agree !

Has your headache returned??? I sure hope not !


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.


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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.
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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.
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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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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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