I’m on 120mg, and Latuda had been great for my delusions. Unfortunately, I’m now positive it’s giving me anxiety. I was already suspicious of this, I take it at night and I would toss and turn and my heart rate would increase dramatically. But I thought I was being paranoid because of reading online that it causes some people anxiety.
But today I started having terrible anxiety. Like I could hardly breathe. I even took a cold shower to try and help and I still felt it. I was also really tired, took a long nap and was still exhausted. Today is my first day of class, and I was wondering why I felt so terrible. Well I had a suspicion, and I was correct: my mom gave me my night pills in the morning today (including Latuda). I already know Latuda makes me extremely tired, so it makes sense
Anybody else get anxiety from Latuda? It’s a shame because it helps my delusions and it doesn’t give me any metabolic, prolactin, or EPS problems from Zyprexa, and it has the potential to prevent my depressive episodes. But this anxiety is awful, I don’t wanna take it anymore and I’m gonna bring it up at partial tomorrow.
If your anxiety really is that bad you probably should go off of it. However you need to taper off it first because 120 mg is a large dose.
Thank you, you’re definitely right. 120mg is max recommended dose I believe. But hey it’s an opportunity to try something new, I hope I find something that helps
For me it depends on when a take it, I have to take right before going to sleep, otherwise it stimulates me and gives me anxiety. Take it with a meal right before bed and I am fine. These meds are paradoxical in many ways in my experience. We don’t understand how the brain works enough to understand how the meds work. Also try taking it with 100 to 200 mg of l-theanine, which should moderate the anxiety. 
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Thanks! Yeah definitely, me taking it before bed minimizes how I experience the anxiety that’s probably why it wasn’t too noticeable, like something was definitely happening but it was tolerable at night.
Y’know I have some Ltheanine but I haven’t been using it, I’ll give it a try 
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I used to be on like 180 mg of Latuda plus another AP. I definitely had anxiety on it.
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I have started getting anxiety from it too.
Usually in the late afternoon before dinner.
I take my tablet at night .
Antenex does not seem to help my anxiety but will try taking two antanext instead n see if that helps.
Have you any coping strategy to get through the anxiety or just suffer till it goes away …
Good wishes for us to get over anxiety and stop feeling it.
I am on 74mg of Latuda and also take CBD oil which helps me with my anxiety and it works well for me.
I am glad this helped. I know it sounds absurd but the brain is absurd. I wish you greatness.