trifluoperazine

Tell your doctor if you become pregnant while taking trifluoperazine.

Before taking trifluoperazine, tell your doctor about all other medications you use.

Store trifluoperazine at room temperature away from moisture, heat, and light.

Talk to your doctor about how to avoid withdrawal symptoms when you stop using trifluoperazine.

It can increase some of the side effects of trifluoperazine.

Trifluoperazine helps you to think more clearly, feel less nervous, and take part in everyday life.

It is not known whether trifluoperazine will harm an unborn baby.

Stop using trifluoperazine and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:

This list is not complete and there are many other medicines that can interact with trifluoperazine.

Trifluoperazine is not for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia.

Do not use if you are allergic to trifluoperazine or other phenothiazines.

Trifluoperazine may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.

Trifluoperazine may cause side effects in a newborn if the mother takes the medication during pregnancy.

Trifluoperazine can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby.

Tell any doctor who treats you that you are using trifluoperazine.

Trifluoperazine can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions.

However, there are safer drugs to treat anxiety that should be used first before trifluoperazine.

Trifluoperazine can make your skin more sensitive to sunlight, and a sunburn may result.

Before you take trifluoperazine, tell your doctor if you have:

In rare cases, trifluoperazine may increase your level of a certain chemical made by the body (prolactin).

A 2006 study suggested that trifluoperazine may be able to reverse addiction to opioids.

Your pharmacist can provide more information about trifluoperazine.

Trifluoperazine may cause heart failure, sudden death, or pneumonia in older adults with dementia-related conditions.

Trifluoperazine is used to treat anxiety or psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.

Others such as haloperidol and trifluoperazine soon followed.