Am reducing the seroquel with the intention of stopping it. The original plan was to replace it with latuda. But just realised this is in the respiridone family of meds. I had an adverse event with respiridone - a dystonic crisis and had to go to hospital. I therefore don’t want to try latuda. Abilify it is then.
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Have you ever been on abilify?
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i tried abilify, wasnt good for me but i wish you all the hope in the world x
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Latuda made zero difference for me at a fairly decent dosage.
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Was on abilify at one stage early on in my illness. Can’t remember it much because I was very ill for the first four years after diagnosis. I remember I tolerated it well though.
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What do you mean by dystonic crisis? I get a lot of dysonia from the meds but didn’t know it could become dangerous
I think aripiprazole wasn’t bad when I was on it - it did increase my anxiety and gave me some pretty bad akathisia though. Benzos helped with the former, and a bit with the latter. The two combined did also worsen my insomnia
I didn’t actually know we had latuda here
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My crisis was my legs were so stiff I couldn’t walk. I also couldn’t bend over.
Abilify and Latuda are both activating so choose your poison.
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Yeah that does sound pretty bad. Did they give you something when it happened or did you just have to wait it out? For some reason when I was put on tramadol I got something a little similar - I took my first dose then walked to the shop, and once I was on my way back it was like that. I couldn’t really walk. Took about 10 minutes to get to the shop and something like 30-45 to get back
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They gave me an injection of procyclidine. Took me months to recover.
bejesus this post is spooky to me. I just started to go to mental heath center. I knew about a few of the side effects of some of the AP. but never knew some of the stuff here.
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My reaction to respiridone was very rare.