Latuda has helped very little my dude has been watching me. I feel the same way. So I’m thinking about going back to perphenazine. It had its side affects. Latuda makes me feel like ■■■■. Have y’all ever decided to go back to a med that was helping somewhat?
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Have you tried Zyprexa or Clozapine? They help treatment resistant schizophrenia. @roxanna
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I can’t take clozapine I kept passing out on it. I took zyprexa twenty years ago. I don’t recall much of it.
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Sounds like a plan @roxanna
You always seem to do better on perphenazine
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Yeah you’ve seen it here before. I guess I made a mistake by going to latuda. Trial and error.
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Zyprexa worked great for me until my former pdoc cut me all the way down to 5 mg because I was “doing so well.”
It didnt work anymore when my pnurse tried raising it to 15 mg.
After two other meds (one of which was perphenazine that I nearly fainted on and fell five times), I had romanticized the Zyprexa from my previous successful run.
Didnt work at all.
I did well on 12 mg of Invega and am now on Risperidone, which is chemically related. I am even better on Risperidone at 8 mg. I am probably going up to 10 mg when I see my pnurse on Thursday.
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Oh good. I hope the change will help you. Do you have a good pdoc? I’ve had a few pdoc switches.
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I decided to go back to Aripiprazole, It made me feel lively.
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I see an excellent psychiatric nurse practitioner now. She’s a keeper, and way better and smarter than my last four pdocs.
I had my share of changes too, but three of them was because I was going to a teaching hospital and had to deal with resident doctors graduating. None of them diagnosed my sza or bipolar type.
It wasnt til I got out of the university’s training ground that I got properly diagnosed. Wasted years.
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Perphenazine made me gain alot of weight also gave me the shakes.
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If I was in your situation I really would reconsider the trillafon because it helped somewhat.
Quiet Frankly I swear to the old meds because I’ve been on one of Mister Lundbecks LAI for almost 3 decades.
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I say do the difficult thing and keep trying different medications. You might find one that works well for you. It is a difficult path but one with a potentially bright ending.
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To say it. Just yesterday in a clownish attempt I went down on 300 mgs of Seroquel and today I’m on 600 that is the lowest does for m. So you are all in you right to call me a clown the next I play around with meds if that ever happens again.
Trust be going back on meds that’s something most of us have tried…
my ex wife takes perphenazine…I take generic prolixin, fluphenazine…love it.
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Yes I know I’m the exception from most people. But just like you I’ve found great relief from psychosis on one of the elder meds. 
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