Fluphenazine Side Effects

Fluphenazine Serious Side Effects

• Twitching or uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or legs
• Tremor, drooling, trouble swallowing, problems with balance or walking
• Feeling like you might pass out or fainting
• Seizure
• Ocular issues such as blurred vision, eye pain, seeing halos around lights
• Pale skin, easy bruising or bleeding, mouth sores, severe tingling, numbness, pain, muscle weakness
• Signs of liver complications such as dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice
• Rigid muscles, high fever, sweating, confusion
• Cardiovascular complications such as low, fast or uneven heartbeats or weak pulse
• Severe respiratory issues such as slow breathing or respiratory arrest

Fluphenazine Common Side Effects

• Headache, dizziness, drowsiness
• Anxiousness or restlessness
• Strange dreams
• Nausea, constipation, loss of appetite
• Mild skin rash
• Dry mouth, stuffy nose
• Increased sweating or urination
• Endocrine complications such as impotence, trouble having an orgasm, menstrual changes, breast swelling or discharge
• Weight gain
• Swelling in the hands or feet

Warnings & Recalls for Fluphenazine

Family Planning Warnings

• Fluphenazine has not been formally assigned a pregnancy category by the FDA, but is considered a pregnancy Risk Factor C by Briggs et al. Users of Fluphenazine have reported complications during pregnancy and harm to newborn infants. This drug should be given during pregnancy only when benefits to the mother outweigh risks to the fetus.
• There is no data on whether or not Fluphenazine passes into breast milk and whether or not it will cause harm to a nursing infant.

General Warnings

• have suspected or established subcortical brain damage
• are receiving large doses of hypnotics
• are in comatose or severely depressed states
• have shown hypersensitivity to fluphenazine

Interactions

• Atropine (Sal-Tropine, Atreza)
• Lithium (Eskalith, Lithobid)
• Antibiotics
• Birth control or hormone replacement pills
• Blood pressure medication
• Blood thinners such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven)
• Some asthma medications or bronchodilators
• Incontinence medications
• Oral insulin or diabetes medications
• Medication for nausea, vomiting, or motion sickness
• Medications for treatment or prevention of malaria
• Medicines used to prevent organ transplant rejection
• Stimulants or ADHD medications
• lcer or irritable bowel medications
• medicines to treat Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome, or pituitary gland tumor (prolactinoma)

Fluphenazine Treatment and Use

What is Fluphenazine?

Fluphenazine is an antipsychotic drug in the piperazine class of phenothiazines which is used to manage schizophrenia, manic phases of bipolar disorder, agitation and dementia.

How does Fluphenazine work?

Fluphenazine works by blocking or lessening the effects of dopamine in the brain in patients who have disorders associated with elevated levels of dopamine.

How to take Fluphenazine

Fluphenazine is taken orally at initial 2.5 to 10.0 mg doses at six to eight hour intervals. Dosage may be gradually increased to a maximum of 40 mg per day.

Other Names for Fluphenazine

Generic Name:

• Fluphenazine

Brand Names:

• Modecate


• Prolixin Decanoate


• Dapotum D


• Anatensol


• Fludecate


• Sinqualone


• Deconoate


• Dapotum Injektion


• Flunanthate


• Moditen Enanthate Injection


• Sinqualone Enanthate


• Prolixin


• Permitil


• Dapotum


• Lyogen


• Moditen


• Omca


• Sediten


• Selecten


• Sevinol


• Sinqualone


• Trancinflucate

Lawsuits & Legal Information for Fluphenazine