Does any one have any experience with the drug Prolixin (fluphenazine)?
I used to take prolixin. It made my hands shake but that was it.
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My mother was on it (injection), tremors and high sedation.
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ya the tremors, muscle weakness, feeling disconnect from reality, akathesia, I went to bed early and woke up earlier and earlier every morning…I was very disconnect on this drug. It may work for you though but it had a lot of side-affects for me. It kept me stable for a while after I went off it.
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Thanks for the replies
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All the typical antipsychotics are extremely unpleasant to me. Prolixin wasn’t as bad as Haldol was, but it was plenty bad. I could not sit still when I was on that drug. They put me on Prolixin when I was in the hospital. Then they shipped me to this mental health assisted living center. When I first got there they had about thirty people sitting at crowded tables in this room, watching a western movie. I could not sit still, and this woman was giving me a hard time about that. I’d sit down about five minutes. Then I’d be up pacing back and forth in this room. I ate supper at that place. Then I skipped out of there and hit the road, headed back towards Muskogee. I was hitchhiking, but I got hardly any rides. It took me two days to get back to Muskogee, and my mom paid for me to stay in a cheap motel. About a week later a policeman showed up at my door and told me I had to go back to the hospital. When I got back to the hospital I weighed myself on balance scales. I had lost over twenty pounds on my journey. I hadn’t weighed that little in over a decade. I had to do a huge amount of walking on my trip home. At the hospital they filled me up with Prolixin again, and took me to a different assisted living center. I could pace as much as I wanted at this assisted living center, so I stayed there. They have since put me on Geodon and Seroquel, and I feel fine. I’ve been with these people for sixteen years.
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