I take 80 mg twice a day. I also take 40 mg of Latuda.
The erectile dysfunction is too much of a problem now. I can’t deal with it anymore. Not to mention all the other side effects.
I don’t see my doctor again until February so I will have to wait a while. I only see him once every six months now. I am pretty stable. Owe that to Geodon but I have to come off it. Hopefully he can see me more often while I dose down.
I have quit it cold turkey before and that’s too much to handle. I want to go down to 60s and then 40s and then 20s before I go off.
I will just dose up the Latuda. Not sure what the maximum dose of that is but I guess I will find out.
How is Latuda by itself for psychosis? I just take it on top of Geodon because it helps with my negatives.
I don’t post much any more but this will be a major change for me.
Latuda cured my erectile dysfunction, made me manic as hell (my counselor called it extreme anxiety but I’m calling the kettle black.), made me talk endlessly, sleep 4 hours a day (and no more than that) and ended my voices for a few months. It also made me angry as Hell (consider though that the voices existed for 22 years before then and it was like I was leaving prison), made me lonely as crap (imagine never being alone for 2 decades then suddenly hearing nothing), and eventually stopped working (after they put me off and back on it). Dude I must tell you that your experience may be different than mine because no one is truly the same. I have learned to live with my ED on Invega because I have no one to have sex with and prefer to sleep alone. You have a wife and I know that’s affecting your decision making. But if it ain’t otherwise broke don’t fix it. You can always use artificial forms of sexual enhancement. I hope things work out for you.
I talked to my psychiatrist today. He lowered the Geodon to 60 mg twice a day from 80. And he raised my Latuda from 40 to 60 mg. He says we will talk again in two months.
This is going to be a slow transition. I was hoping to come off sooner than that.
Now I am on 40 mg of Geodon twice a day and 80 mg of Latuda. Well I will start that next week anyway. Still holding down a job and things haven’t gotten worse yet. In another 2 or three months I will go down to 20 twice a day.
Latuda made my anger issues worse, but that could have been because I was coming off Geodon and Seroquel. Geodon and Seroquel have greatly dampened my sex drive. Haldol didn’t dampen my sex drive like that, but I still prefer Geodon a thousand times more than Haldol, because Geodon and Seroquel control my symptoms without making me brain dead.
@TomCat if you can afford it, you could ask your doc to write you a script for liquid geodon. I did that for my taper, because going from 40 to 20 was horrible. I could decrease by smaller increments that way.
The doctor quit raising my Latuda. He said 80 mg was the max dose for delusions and hallucinations but he said he could go up to 160. I don’t know if that would help or not.
Same here. I can’t handle coming off Geodon. I also take Seroquel, and I didn’t think it was doing anything to me, but then I didn’t get it for five days, and I was more jittery than I cared to be.
