What's your Latuda dosage?

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I want to reduce dosage. I used to take 120mg but I had bad akathisia and couldn’t sleep. Now I take 80mg. I am thinking of reducing to 60mg.

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I take two Latuda pills. One is 37mg the other is 74mg.
So I guess my dosage is 111mg?

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Weird we don’t have those doses in NA.
Only 40,60,80,120,160 mg:

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I take 60. I really need 80 but it gave me dystonia. I also take seroquel

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I take 40 but I also take 160 mg of Geodon a day.

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I was on 80 but had to switch meds since I was having problems sleeping through the night. If I slept alright I felt pretty good during the day on 80. Definitely kept the positive symptoms away. I’d take it at night though since it would give me pretty bad akathasia.

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120mg gave me serious akathisia. 80mg gives me occasional akathisia preventing me from sleeping but it goes away after 1-2h. I can live with it.

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Do you take it in the morning or night?

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No at night because it gives me more akathisia during the day and nausea. I feel less the akathisia and nausea at night. If I don’t eat or eat little with it I vomit.

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Yeah that’s what I did too…Good luck getting your pdoc to lower the dose, but in my experience they are twice as likely to agree to let you try a different med than lowering the dose of the one you’re on, unless you’ve been stable for a while. The place I’ve been going to since I got schiz 10 years ago is a residnet clinic though. So I see someone new every year, which sucks, but I don’t have many options with medicaid.

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I will ask my pdoc about switching to Risperdal. I think its safer than lowering dosage and most ppl here are taking 80+mg Latuda. I don’t want to risk my life. I read that Risperdal is better for negative symptoms because it increases NMDA receptors function.

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37 Mg of Latuda Daily

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Nothing else? You’re only taking 37mg and no other antipsychotic?

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I was on 111mg of Latuda for 18 months.

The akathisia was so bad that I had to come off

Was a shame as it was a kinder drug for side effects even though it wasn’t completely effective

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