I found both Abilify and Vraylar to be very stimulating medications.
Vraylar was worse than Abilify for me.
The anxiety and restlessness was just awful with these meds.
If I switch meds from risperidone to another med, I don’t want to be stuck on another stimulating AP.
I hear that Latuda is pretty stimulating as well.
Maybe I should avoid Rexulti and try Saphris instead.
Which APs did you find stimulating?
I’ve heard geodon was expected to make me more alert, but it only made me dopey and gave me heart palpitations. I do not recommend it, but everyone’s experience is different.
I wish it were littlebit more stimulAting I taje quetepine aripiprazol combo works pretty good
Yes, Geodon can be stimulating for some.
I refuse to try it because it can mess with your heart too much.
Exactly, the routine checkups on heart rhythm and palpatations freaked me right the f out.
I’ve been on Latuda for years and I have never found it stimulating; it anything, it put me to sleep.
Well, it used to, now it’s just neutral and Clozaril knocks me out 
Rexulti was very stimulating for me, and it interrupted my sleep, I would wake up every hour and a half like clockwork.
Honestly, I never found any APs to be stimulating.
The only stimulant med that I know of is Wellbutrin.
For some people Geodon is the answer. But if it doesn’t work for you that’s just the way it is.
The only AP I found stimulating is Abilify. I got a pretty good burst of energy from it. Abilify is the only AP that helped with my negative symptoms. I got too agitated on it, though. They had to take me off it.
I find that it also depends on when you take it. If you take AP right before bed it can help you sleep, but if you take it hours before bed it can agitate. These meds are not simple and easy to understand, expect lots of paradoxes and experiment til you find the right way. I find that the long term injection is nice and level out. I chose invega long term injection because it skips the Gastro systems and do not require a lot of fat to process. I expect to lose weight too since it is no longer needing to be metabolized by liver with fat.
I’ve tried abilify before and it actually made me sleepy most of the time.
i think abilify/rexulti/vraylar are stimulating to some and not to others because theyre mixed on how they affect dopamine, being a dopamine antagonist but also partial agonists of it. all the stimulant medications like ritalin and adderal and modafinil increase dopamine, adderal being an agonist and modafinil being a dopamine reuptake inhibitor. wellbutrin, which is reported (and i can vouch for) to be very very slightly stimulating because it has weak dopamine reuptake inhibition. thus it would make sense that those three antipsychotics, which act as partial agonists, could be stimulating
I want to ask my new doctor for some ADHD meds. If he says no, I think I might ask him to lower my Vraylar to 4.5 mg. I have no motivation.
Vraylar and Abilify being a partial agonist are indeed stimulating. Latuda can be stimulating for some. When I was on 120mg it was stimulating but more in a agitated, restless and impulsive manner. I’m on 40mg now and don’t have that anymore, it’s just neutral.
I would say give Rexulti a try, it’s different than Vraylar and Abilify, it’s a modulator of serotonin and dopamine. It also has the benefit to improve your sleep. So I guess it may not be that stimulating in the way Vraylar and Abilify is.
Vraylar was stimulating in the beginning but now I feel fine.
Saphris is a great little med. For me it’s sedating. I take it twice a day. When I take it in the morning with my rexulti it doesn’t make me sleepy but when I take it at night by itself it actually helps me sleep. I like it. The combination works really well together. I have very little breakthrough positives, only under high stress situations for the most part. But I still suffer from lack of motivation. I tried to stop taking the saphris without the rexulti and I was just too tired. Maybe you could try both together.