What do you know about Latuda?

Medications
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I’m on 3mg Rexulti am and 400mg Seroquel pm. I’m thinking of switching Seroquel out for Latuda.

What dose of Latuda have you taken and what side effects have you experienced? How well did it control your psychosis and how long did it last? What are the effects of this medication on cognition, I need good cognition to function in school. How was weight gain? What about negative symptoms? How was your mood, was it better or worse? Did you feel depressed or unhappy on this drug?

These are just a few questions I have, feel free to tell anything and everything you want to.

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Maybe it will help:

I think Latuda may give akathisia.

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Gave me akesthesia and suicidal ideation

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Mood better and gained a little weight. I take 40 mg with 160mg of Geodon a day.

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If you don’t mind me asking, how long were you on it?

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I have been on it about a year.

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Hmmm not too long. A month or so. When the suicidal stuff started popping up I had to quit for my own safety.

Usually side effects pop up almost right away for me. My therapist says I am very sensitive to medication. (On the bright side that means I typically only need to be on low doses for it to work)

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Alright, thanks for the info. It always helps to have some idea how long it takes for the side effects to start up.

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I am on it. It has done good things for me although it is not perfect. No drug I have been on truly has helped with the things I have needed help with. I am not on high alert any more nor suspicious.

But I do not think that is the latuda rather me quitting my communication with the state via twitter. I sometimes believe what I have and what I had was a repercussion of how I handled myself and stress after a very traumatic experience back in 2009.

I believe I have Stockholm Syndrome and because I talk to who I do I am the way I am. If I ceased communication entirely I could probably recover from this disease almost entirely.

I haven’t seen a therapist in over 6 years and I know I should see one. I just need certain information first so I can talk to them with confidence.

But yes, I recommend latuda as it has no weight gain.

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I’m on 40 mg of latuda once daily at night. It has kept me out of the hospital and works better than geodon according to my doc. It is a powerful medicine and at 40 mg causes me to have some side effects. I’m told that it helps with cognition but I think clearer without meds so that I’m not so sure about. It has antidepressant qualities, I know this because if I skip a dose I get very depressed. There is some weight gain with latuda, it’s not as bad as seroquel or Invega but it’s noticeable. Even with good diet and exercise along with metformin I still struggle with my weight. It kind of crushes my libido, and toys with my affect a bit like making me feel flat in my expressions.
I’m generally pretty unhappy that I have to take it and have to remind myself that it’s not all me that’s this ■■■■■■ up a lot of it is the medicine. I guess it does help a bit with cognition now that I think about it because when I don’t take it my mind tends to race.
Honestly they all are tough to take, despite my critique of latuda I would still place it in the lesser of the evils category. I’ve yet to find one that I actually don’t mind taking like Prozac or Zoloft. I welcome the day when they make better safer atypicals

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For me, Latuda didn’t make me nearly as tired as Seroquel. However I was on a relatively low dose of Latuda (40mg every day). Seroquel turns me into a zombie, even 50mg is enough to make me tired all day. Latuda made me gain some weight. Latuda didn’t mess with my thoughts, it actually cleared them up a little (probably because I wasn’t so tired).

Also, despite the side effects being better for me on Latuda, it didn’t work worth a damn. Didn’t help voices, didn’t help paranoia… Worthless. So I call it Laturda now.

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