Please comment on your experience with latuda or abilify; especially if you can compare it to risperidone. Thanks!
I might be switched to one of these and I’m hoping that these meds are working for others out there. Risperidone is a great med, but it caused prolonged QT syndrome in my case. Hope all is well!
Im in the process of switching to latuda from risperdone myself, it’s only been three days so far so it’s too early for advice but so far I have had a lot of energy
Unfortunately my experience with Abilify was a shocking surprise. 4 days after I started taking it I had intense visual hallucinations. I saw people who were not there, the walls morphed and my voices were worse. That was the only time in the first 22 years of the illness since I was diagnosed that I was hospitalized. I spent a week in the detox unit drying out as the only mentally ill patient there. There was no mental health unit in my hometown at the time so everyone else were drug abusers or perhaps people who had bad experiences with meds as well. The experience with Latuda was better and much worse. At first my voices went almost completely away for a few months. But the celebration was short lived as I experienced severe mood swings and my writing became quite terrible. I eventually had to accept Invega again and the voices as well. Each time I started those drugs was a desperate attempt to end the excessvive self examination of past events and the self-torture my mind was sub-consciously inflicting on itself and to try to end the suffering I was experiencing. Even though that failed I am finally learning to co-exist with the voices the best I can with the meds that make them manageable and work best for me including Invega. We respond differently to different medicines and I hope your experiences with Abilify and/or Latuda or better than mine or at least give you relief without terrible side effects. By the way I lost a lot of weight on Latuda which I regret to say I’ve gained back on Invega.
I don’t think Latuda exists in Europe. With Abilify my experience is that it was too activating. Like drinking a ton of Redbulls while on meds.
http://www.crazymeds.us/CrazyTalk/index.php/topic/15200-latuda-the-good-and-bad-so-far/
Doesn’t sound to me (from this and other inputs) like Latuda lurasidone is quite as stimulating as Abilify arapiprasole, but… I don’t think either of these are your father’s Oldsmobile full of Cloz in gas tank, if you get my drift.
I am on Latuda in the UK, it has just arrived.
As for Abilify, didn’t do anything for me unfortunately.
I have been on Risperdal for years now - its what I am on now.
In the start of treatment, I found it to be calming - now not so much, it causes Akathisia/Agitation at doses over 2.5mg for me, and even at my current dose of 2.5 mg its causing some agitation - mild Akathisia.
I was on Abilify for years in the past and found it to be way too stimulating and paranoid inducing
Latuda bad for me, gave me cardiac and respiratory issues.
Latuda was a disaster for me. It simply does not sedate a person with schizophrenia for the most part, as there are always exceptions. It gave me terrible akathisia (restless leg syndrome on steroids) and did not treat my psychosis. I was psychotic, my leg was kicking like a mule, and I was screaming at the kitchen floor every night for a few days.
-10/10 would not bang, would rather castrate myself. That’s a negative ten, not dash-ten.
Not surprising given how hard you exercise. Probable calcium lactate deficiency due to sodium lactate buildup? I sued to get it for that reason when I ran 5Ks every other night between mid-level lifting on alternate nights. (“Too much of a good thing may not be.”)