Thorazine for Mania User Reviews

• Ric...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• March 19, 2018

"Thorazine is the only medication that works for my mania (so far... and I've tried a lot of things!). The two side effects that are bothersome include some stiffness and hangover effect after sleeping. But... really, it works for me when other medicines have not."

• Dan...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• December 12, 2015

"Landed in a number of mental health hospitals starting when I was about eight, ending when I was 17. On and off, months at a time, not constantly. 1970s medical thought was giving a boy child Ritalin would slow him down, I proved that not to always be the case as it made me bounce off the walls with hyperactivity, which the psychiatrists would treat with ever-increasing doses of Thorazine injected into a buttock, with four to six orderlies holding me down and an RN following instructions by knocking me out with the Thorazine. I would fight the sleep, but it always got me. When I was awoken between (I think) 8 to 12 hours later, I felt like death warmed over, could not eat, hungover, raised hell next day for it. Not cool at all to do to a child."

• Dea...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 1, 2023

"This first-generation old antipsychotic, Thorazine, is the best. Thorazine 25 mg tablet, twice daily, helps with mood severity and skewed thoughts. It stops me from verbal and physical altercations. I don't have any side effects from Thorazine. I take Cogentin to prevent extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Many doctors say newer second-generation antipsychotics have fewer side effects. However, I developed Tardive Dyskinesia, permanent, involuntary movements of my tongue from Latuda, a newer second-generation antipsychotic, in less than 6 months. Latuda gave me high prolactin levels, stopping my menstruation and making my breasts enlarged, growing out of my bra, 2 sizes larger. My doctor put me on Vitamin B6, 200-250 mg, 3 times per day to bring my menstruation back. I failed Vraylar, which gave me anxiety; Geodon, and drooling while awake; Abilify, a 60 lbs weight gain; Fanapt, chest pain; Caplyta, is too sedating; and Invega is ineffective. Thorazine and 2 mood stabilizers, Trileptal and Lamictal, work."

• Anonymous
• May 7, 2011

"I take it for bipolar disorder. It helps through the mania. It helps sleep and then mania the next day."