Posted by Christ_empowered on November 29, 2015, at 10:00:28
In reply to latuda and perphenizene, posted by baseball55 on November 27, 2015, at 19:21:20
hey again. I looked it up and the Latuda dose and the perphenazine dose are both fairly low to moderate.
Latuda can apparently cause some metabolic issues--increases in fasting glucose and weight gain, although the information I found seems to indicate a lower risk of serious weight gain for patients as a whole. Individual results may vary, of course. Personally, I packed on the pounds with high dose (30mgs/day) Abilify and docs are still telling me "its not the Abilify!" Riiiight.
Perphenazine can cause weight gain and blood sugar abnormalities. As best I can tell by consulting The Google, perphenazine is one of the better-tolerated conventional APs.
I dunno what to tell you. Its rough, being severely mentally ill...maybe suggest blood sugar testing and appropriate treatment, like metformin or something?
I dunno what to tell you about the cognitive problems. My best guess would be to blame the perphenazine, but...that's sort of assuming that all old school APs cause cognitive problems. From what little I've read on the subject, using 2+ AP/AAP drugs for long term treatment isn't ideal. Risks go up, benefits aren't clear. Maybe he'd be better off on a higher dose of Latuda or on a higher dose of Perphenazine, but not both, combined.
Sorry this is happening.
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