Continuing the discussion from Latuda I tried for only a month but I had nightmares on it:
I’ve taken Latuda for a couple of years now and I have consistent evil nightmares. I’ve tried other antidepressants, but Latuda does help my mood tremendously while awake.
Not sure if it is the Latuda, but I never had them before I started taking meds.
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I often have nightmares. Can’t pin it down to anything but I will look into my meds. I’ve changed meds in the past for sweating, metallic taste and giving me the shakes. I will discuss it with my dr as he knows I suffer from nightmares. Surely if there are meds for when you are awake there must be some for when you sleep. Nightmares seem to be like night time pyschosis.
I have problems with nightmares too. My psychiatrist prescribed prazosin and it helps a lot.
Ya I get very very vivid dreams most nights
It’s been happening for 6+ months
Every since I dropped dose on my clozapine
i take lurasidone (latuda) and i didn’t notice a relationship between my dreams and it.
I had the same experience on Latuda. I also got weird head colds. I took it several years ago and some people say it works miracle for people. Not necessarily nightmares, just my dreams were not as good as they are now. Not sure if its related to the chemicals or not. My psychiatrist suggests not to read reviews and side effects online, but I still do it so I get a sense of what Im getting into.
I had the same thing on abilify others in the forum say the same about abilify in particular. I currently take Latuda and haven’t experienced seriously perturbed dreams. I think this related to the sedation component. Since if you take sedative medication when you would otherwise have woken up earlier then you are in a state between sleep and wakefulness, hence dreams. Latuda also have serotonin activation. I took L-tryptophan a few time and experience very strong dreams.
I’ve also noticed that when I do dream heavily I’ll also wakeup with saliva on my pillow sometimes kind of gross but also a real side effect may people grapple with and take additional medication to counter act. If I am dream a lot and getting saliva on my pillow whilst not experience current positive symptoms I used this as a sign that I’m due for a medication reduction but ymmv depending on the stage of your illness, how long you’ve been stable on medication, ect