I recently started back on latuda in a deal to drop 4 meds and instead use latuda and lunesta
but the lunesta isnt keeping me asleep at night and the latuda is making me nap twice a day.
Does anyone else have this experience with latuda?
What other side effects have you noticed?
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Latuda made me extremely nauseous to the point that I’d throw up routinely around 30 minutes after taking it so I had to stop it. But that was only when I reached 60mg and before that I had no side effects
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I gained 40 lbs a month and a half. Had to stop taking it.
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I take latuda, it works well for me, I some times stay in bed a little, but generally I use it at bed time to take advantage of the drowsy effect. I eat a later meal or snack, but other then that, I adjusted really well on it.
Its my only anti psych at the moment, and I take a depression medicine. They were recommended to me for weight loss in combination because I gained weight on risperdal or however its called.
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I stayed on it for nearly two years
It was really good for me, and weight neutral
Unfortunately the restlessness got so bad I had to come off it
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I used to take Latuda before bed because it made me real sleepy. Also made me vomit, but not if I fell asleep within 45 minutes.
Also gave me a rash.
But it was great for symptoms
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I had psychotic symptoms on 80mg Latuda including catatonic/freezing symptoms but I was able to work full time a low stress office job for the 10 months I was on it. Reason I was able to work is that its a weak med not blocking much dopamine according to studies. Also it gave me the worse akathisia/restlessness and nausea, sometimes vomitted the pill. Took 120mg one day and the akathisia was too extreme causing insomnia all night.
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0 positive symptoms now on 4mg Risperdal. Risperdal is one of the strongest meds according to studies.
It seemed like I had more anger than usual when I was on Latuda, but that could have been because I was coming off Geodon and Seroquel.
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for all those mentioning akathisia have you tried benztropine? it seems to work a bit for me for that side effect,
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Well I had extremely bi-polar like symptoms which were blamed on anxiety. When I was in an up mood I was absolutely euphoric yet felt like something was wrong. I also had one hell of a temper. I found it easier to approach women but at times I treated them like crap. I averaged 4 hours of sleep. It stopped the voices for a few months but the side effects made it not worth keeping.
Yes but it took 20min to work. No akathisia now on Risperdal.
I took it for awhile but its didn’t really help me at all.
Are new meds better than the old ones. It seems like most of you quite the Latuda in the space of two years.
I’ve been on:
Clopixol depot for 24 years
Geodon for 18 years
Seroquel for 9 years
I have this issue with olanzapine. If I don’t fall asleep when taking it, I will become very restless to the point that I have to get up from bed, and pace around in my apartment.
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I gained weight on Latuda (I seem to gain weight on all the ones you’re not “supposed” to).
It also made me feel weird. Like… synthetic. Like I was embalmed.
Lurasidone(Latuda) is the med I’ve ever tried. It works perfectly and has no side effects. It doesn’t make me tired at all, I haven’t gained any weight and my blood work is perfect. I’m on 60mg/day
I have insomnia (but not from Latuda, it started when I quit olanzapine, olanzapine withdrawal symptom). I am on 1.5mg of clonazepam for sleep. I never tried Lunesta, but I did try zopiclone which is chemically similar, it worked okay, i was on it for a month and never developed a tolerance to it, but it is not available in the US if that is where you are from. I also tried Ambien, that was useless, barely worked, and only worked for about 3 days then I developed a tolerance and then it didn’t work at all.
Isn’t it weird how different meds affect us all so differently??
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I know. I’ve heard other people talk about Abilify on here, for some of them it works, for others it gave them various problems. For me it was like a sugar pill, no side effects or impulsive behaviours, but it simply didn’t work.
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I didn’t even get a chance to try Abilify, because as soon as I took it, it kicked my orthostatic hypotension (which I already have) in so hard, I literally couldn’t stand up. I remember crawling to my kitchen to try and feed my cats, but I kept having to lie down on the floor over and over until I finally got it done.
My then pdoc asked if it was something I could “live through” while I “got used to it” – I just looked at him like, “Are you ■■■■■■■kidding me???”
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