r/Latuda

This medicine has done wonders for my depression, but like an hour or two after I take my pill, I become extremely drowsy. If I'm home, I end up napping for a few hours and if I'm working I can barely keep my eyes open. I read on one of these threads that someone took it in the evening with a bowl of cereal or ice cream so they could get the calories in with the pill.

Has anyone else had to do this? Again I really like what this medicine has done for me the past few weeks I've been on it but that side effect can't be ignored 😅

This. More, I fell so flat, with anedhonia and most of the time depressed, no emotions, no even capability of crying. Neither in a funeral. Neither in Major depressione, and I am in It from october.

So I asked to get out of this med. My doctor say ok (I take 300 mg of a mood regulator too), and She told me: you are on 20 mg, you can stop cold Turkey. WTF. I answered that I was scared, She told me One day yes One day off. I also asked her: but, Is It true that I have tò take Latuda with 350 kcal? No, Is not important. Because I have take It every morning from 3 years with a coffee only. It's ok, She said.

I asked her if I could cut the pill in 2 part instead of one day yes one day not, because of scare of mood disregulation (documented). She said ok.

It seem that she says ok to everything I say, so I wonder why I spend 80 dollars for 15 minutes of "ok". Is It more competent IA?

God, I read here that Is strictly recomended tò assume Latuda with 350 kcal! So the amount of Latuda I was takin for last 3 years was like 10 mg??

My doctor lives me alone in this tapering. I have decided to cut the pill in two part, but I started to take It after lunch. So...Am I taking the same amount of before now? I mean: for 3 years Latuda with a coffee only, now half of It but 350 kcal.

I am really confused. I have had withdrawal symptoms the second week, irritability, mentali acatisia and rage, then like normality (=Major depression that maybe Is worsening but I am not sure).

I am wondering now if It was Latuda that made/makes me without emotions or if It Is the High dose of Lamotrigine or of It Is my cptsd worsen or the wrong psychoterapy.

I am really confused now. I am on bed. The only sign I have received from my psychiatrist in this month of tapering has been, yesterday, the Bill.

I would like to come back in 2019 when I took only 5 drops of a sedative, 100 mg of Lamotrigine and klnopin. Now I am a zombie.

Hi all. I've been on Latuda for coming up on a couple weeks. It hasn't been long enough to have any significant impact on my mood, but I think it might be causing some gastric issues. For example:

I had a big meal two days ago. I have felt full since that meal. That's two days of feeling full after one meal! I can still eat, but it makes me feel sick and bloated. I'm tempted to blame the Latuda.

Anyone else have this with Latuda? I'm trying to take it with the required calories, but it's hard. Does taking it without 350 calories cause significant stomach upset?

I really don't like the calorie requirement :( It seems insignificant, but it already feels like a deal-breaker for me.

Let me start by saying I am not diagnosed with bipolar or schizophrenia. I have anxiety and depression. My psychiatrist put me on Caplyta (had allergic reaction), Abilify (didn’t sleep all night and gave me terrible anxiety), Seroquel (it gave me terrible brain fog and it made my depression worse) and now Latuda 20mg. The first time I took it at bedtime with 350 cals. I didn’t sleep all night. I was wide awake. Next day I took it at 9:30 after breakfast. Still didn’t sleep all night. Called the clinic so now the doctor wanted me to take 40mg along with 600mg of Trileptal 2 hours before bedtime. I’m terrified to do this because of the possible side effects but she explained that just because 20mg made me wide awake it doesn’t mean that 40mg will make the insomnia worse. She said 40mg will hit different receptors in the brain which hopefully will make me sleep. I have had terrible anxiety since yesterday and today is bad too and I’m guessing Latuda is causing this.

Is there anyone here who was in the same situation and did taking 40mg (from 20) fix you? I have been switching medications since January (I was on Lexapro and Buspar prior to all this) and I’m starting to lose hope. Yesterday I told my husband that I feel like the only way out is death. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I have 2 young children and I can’t take care of them if I feel like crap. Please help me!

Started experiencing jaw clenching throughout the day when starting Latuda, and more so after increasing my dosage. I don’t have any other negative side effects and it doesn’t bother me too bad, might just go get a mouth guard. Does anyone else have this as a side effect or is it caused by something else?

Went from 80 to 40 mg for like 4 days then dropped to 0 and started abilify 10 mg for 2 days which was stopped as well. The withdrawals are horrible. I can barely move it feels like a fever mixed with akathisia. The meds they gave me for akathisia just sedate me so its hard to function. When will this end :(

I started taking 20mg of Latuda about 2 weeks ago to help with the emotionless, constantly tired, unmotivated kind of depression I get from bipolar disorder.

At first, it actually helped a lot. I don’t feel emotionally numb anymore, I have more motivation, I can enjoy things, and the constant fatigue I had 24/7 is mostly gone.

But over the past few days, instead of feeling emotionless, I just feel intensely sad. Every intrusive thought feels 10x more painful, and it’s really overwhelming.

I really liked what Latuda was doing for me because it was the first medication that helped me get out of that empty/dead feeling I’d been stuck in for so long. But now I'm in so much pain from intense sadness all the time.

I don't even wanna think, and don't wanna even do anything because I feel like I need to distract myself now with my phone or laptop constantly, or else I'll be in so much emotional pain.

My psychiatrist seemed kinda confused by this and recommended I up my dose to 40mg. Has anyone else experienced this on Latuda?

Hey I am 2 weeks into Latuda (also taking lithium) and have severe insomnia. I had agitation ini the beginning really bad but that's getting better. Even with klonopin and hydroxyzine i can't sleep. It's killing me and worsening my depression. I also have racing thoughts which I've had for a long time even before being diagnosed. they've never really gone away.

I am talking to my doctor this week. Any thoughts--i need to sleep. Anyone else have insomnia on this drug?

Let me preface by saying I love this medication, I am stable, and not only that, I am happy. I have two issues, it makes me wakeful 8-12 hours after taking it, so I have to take it right before bed... which also means getting my 350 calories in right before bed. This has been so hard for me. I'm generally very full by this time and I only want to eat something "healthy" plus my stomach generally hurts at night (gerd). Does anyone else have this too? What do you eat? It is genuinely such a struggle every night and it often makes it so that I don't want to take it.

Hi all. I started Latuda 20mg about a week ago for Bipolar. It was supposed to be for my low mood, but I've been feeling pretty bad lately. Just feel very sad and physically weighed down.

I also recently came off Effexor (~1 month ago), so it could also be the SNRI withdrawals.

How long did it take for y'all to feel the positive effects of Latuda? Did the initial period cause some low mood?

I'm trying to figure out whether I should just soldier through or let my psychiatrist know that it's not working very well for me.

wtf i’ve been taking latuda 20mg for 4 days now for some form of rapid cycling bipolar (but depressed like 90% of the time) and i have never felt so good. seriously, i have had some form of this emotionally numbness, demotivation to do anything, and fatigue type of depression as long as i could remember. and it has affected pretty much every area of my life negatively. but for the past few days, it has been completely gone. i’m also on lamotrigine 200mg which helped a lot but not nearly as well as Latuda for my depression. i feel so happy to not be depressed. this is actually insane. i feel like i can actually have a normal life now instead of staying inside all day every day and not being able to get myself to talk to people or do anything because of demotivation. im a little unhappy it took me this long to get the right treatment (im 24 now) but still really happy im not depressed anymore. man i had to go through so many meds before getting this far. most of which did nothing or made my depression sooo much worse. this is the first time ive felt this good for so many days in a row. i didnt even know it was possible to feel this good for so long. does this last? is this what you are supposed to feel like when you aren’t depressed? also this seems kinda fast for a medication. is this the medication working or did it throw me into some sort of weird state? im just really happy right now that im not depressed, tired, and demotivated.

Hello. It’s my second day on Latuda for depression. On the first day I felt much better. On the second day my depression came back. That first day, was it just a placebo? I’m taking it before sleep and my dosage is 18,5 mg.

Does anyone get this deep , sunken pit chest feeling along with increased scary intrusive thoughts shortly after taking their Latuda dose (like after an hour or so) ?

I believe it’s not Akathisia but some sort of increased anxiety/depression. I think it starts to go away after like 6-7 hours or so.

Note: I take it at breakfast with 350 cal .

Hi. I’ve been taking 15 milligrams of Abilify for about 8 years for schizophrenia. I started taking it very early on, right when the symptoms first arose. I feel stable, but I’ve been very unmotivated, apathetic, and have had a low desire to do anything for all this time. I know this is due to the medication because I went off it once, and I started to feel much more energized until I became overly confident and manic, since my dopamine and other neurotransmitters were suddenly unblocked.

So, I was thinking about talking to my psychiatrist about switching to Latuda. Some people have reported that it feels less 'blocking' than Abilify. I really need to improve my motivation because I'm a psychology student and I have goals to achieve in my life.

Do you guys ever made this change before?