My experience on Latuda

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Disclaimer: Everyone reacts differently to meds

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I’ve been on Latuda since 2014. I’ve never taken it by itself. I have always used another AP. Maybe give it 2 months before you change again.

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It took three weeks for latuda to kick in.

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@TheBest
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Really? The ppl at the hospital told me I should feel better within a week. I suppose I can try to wait longer, I’m just getting impatient. Honestly it’s the chronic avolition and anhedonia that is so much worse than the occasional delusion here and there, I can’t stand it anymore it’s making me suicidal

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https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Treatment/Mental-Health-Medications/lurasidone-(Latuda)

How Long Does It Take For Lurasidone To Work?

It is very important to tell your doctor how you feel things are going during the first few weeks after you start taking lurasidone. It will probably take several weeks to see big enough changes in your symptoms to decide if lurasidone is the right medication for you.

Antipsychotic treatment is generally needed lifelong for persons with schizophrenia. Your doctor can best discuss the duration of treatment you need based on your symptoms and illness.

  • Hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and delusions may improve in the first 1-2 weeks
  • Sometimes these symptoms do not completely go away
  • Motivation and desire to be around other people can take at least 1-2 weeks to improve
  • Symptoms continue to get better the longer you take lurasidone
  • It may take 2-3 months before you get the full benefit of lurasidone
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Wow thanks a lot for that, I guess I will give it more time. With the motivation though it seems worse on Latuda than it was on Zyprexa, oddly enough. My motivation was horrible on both of them, though

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Here’s a thread about antipsychotics and motivation.

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I was on Latuda for 18 months - worked great, until the restlessness after dose was completely unbearable. That’s now been just over 12 months ago, and I am finding I am resistant to other meds. I think this has more to do with my body than the drugs.

My advice is to make sure your doctor is aiming to put you on the lowest effective dose, which is not what happened to me. The CMHT where I am are guilty - in my view, of giving out high doses to keep people in the community and out of hospital - which is much more expensive treatment.

I even made a compliant about this, and now I have a really good consultant who tries very hard. Just a shame we’re not getting any results.

Latuda for me was a wonder drug, I hope it is for you too. Just wouldn’t last for me, but like everyone says, each person reacts in their own way. I wouldn’t give up on it at all, persevere with it, but as with a new med, you need to be careful…

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@TheBest Thank you for this thread, I was interested in trying Vraylar but it’s so expensive and my insurance will only help out with it if I literally try every other AP and I’m still struggling. Abilify is an interesting choice, it really activated me at 2.5mg when I tried it for bipolar but I wonder if the 10mg and up doses for psychosis might be less activating. Also I might have had akathisia at the time but I can’t tell if it was that or if I was just manic, it’s been a long time.

@Joker I’m glad that it works for you, now upon learning that it can take a while to work I’m hopeful that it just hasn’t finished helping yet. Unfortunately we tried 60mg and I was still actively psychotic so 80mg is the lowest we can go, and I’m STILL psychotic!

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