Thioridazine

The main thing that happened in the mid-'80s when he was put on this combination of drugs, one of them was one of the first generation antipsychotic drugs.

It was called Melaril.

And the other was lithium, a mood stabilizer.

And we now know that this combination is neurotoxic.

So we don't have a lot that are available as long-acting injectables, and this is one of them, so it does have some use still.

Our next medication, thioridazine, um, brand name Mellaril, I do not think this is available anymore.

It came out in 1962.

I have actually used it.

It was, it was a prison population.

While I was in med school, I had a, uh, it was, it was a prisoner in our hospital, uh, that was, you know, sent from the prison to our hospital, and I can't actually say I used it.

He was on Mellaril, and he had to be taken off to treat an illness because the, the medication that they were using to treat his illness lowered blood pressure and Mellaril lowers blood pressure, so they said they couldn't use it at the same time.

So they're actually consulting us to see what could we use instead of Mellaril and he really wanted his Mellaril.

Okay.

Anyway, um, next we are labeling this as perphenazine, AKA Trilafon, but I want you to also think of thioridazine, Mellaril, and trifluoperazine, Stelazine.

These are kinda the miscellaneous first generations that got forgotten.

You might not even be able to get it in your area depending on where you are.

And then, you know, sometimes I was hallucinating in there, and you're seeing things and seeing demons, and it wa- it was, you know, it was a horrific experience.

And one caused my heart arrhythmia, a drug called Mellaril.

And, uh, so I had AFib, I carried AFib for 37 years, and because I have good health insurance now I was able to get a heart ablation and get rid of it, but I could have died.

And eventually that drug was taken off the market because it caused AFib, and so they got rid of Mellaril.

But during my time in there in '79 and 80 to '81, um, they had it and they, they...

That was one of the drugs they fed me.

Also, metformin or Glucophage lowers your CoQ10 levels as well.

Next is any, many of the antipsychotic medications like Haldol or Mellaril, they can just wreak havoc on your CoQ10 levels.

Doesn't mean stop taking them, it means do the following.

So if you're taking one or two or three or four of the medications in the list down below, you're destroying your body's levels of CoQ10 and you're hampering your body's ability to be as energetic, as energized as it could be otherwise.