What has been your encounter with Latuda?
Issue by Captain Clay: What has been your knowledge with Latuda?
I am a Psychological Overall health Registered Nurse. I am fascinated in listening to from individuals who take or have taken Latuda. I would like to listen to a small narrative response relating to your knowledge.
Do you consider it for Bipolar or Schizophrenia?
What dose do you get?
What has been your body’s reaction?
Have there been any substantial adverse reactions?
How long prior to it took result?
Sedation or insomnia?
Appetite and fat acquire?
Sexual dysfunction, impotence, menstrual alterations, breast enlargement?
Akathisia, restlessness, agitation?
Everything else?
Thank you for your considerate responses!
Equally responses are useless rants from the psychiatric discipline. Could I you should have an clever response that is not clouded with emotion?
The initial particular person suggests that a medicine should be on the industry for awhile just before it is approved. Nicely, prescribing it is how it will get on the industry.
A particular person receives diabetic issues we get him insulin, metformin, etc. You get most cancers and you get chemo. You get high blood stress and you get an anti-hypertensive. Schizophrenia is an irreversible brain condition. It practically usually wants resolved by way of medication. If you discover that you truly feel greater without having medicine then in all likelihood you have been misdiagnosed. I often hear a typical thread in responses like this. They say a medication manufactured them even worse. Well, what actually makes you greater? Mental sickness waxes and wanes. A man or woman might really feel far better off them for awhile but, they usually will end up on them again. One individuals knowledge is not everyone’s encounter. btw, Character dis
Rebecca, thank you for your response.
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Response by gardensallday
I see you have not had any solutions, so I am going to give you a single that just isn’t what you want. I hope you will read through the whole issue and not discard it as just a rant. I was treated with prescription drugs for bipolar disorder (the traditional variety) from about 1993 to 2010 or so.
Psychiatric sufferers are guinea pigs as it is, and disgrace on any medical professional or nurse offering out these new atypicals (or any brand name new medicines) when the dangers are unidentified. Medicines ought to be on the market numerous a long time ahead of they are prescribed. Are unable to your clients perform via the twenty antipsychotics that the horrible aspect results and potential risks are already recognized, without having providing them Latuda and Saphris, as well? About one/three of drugs are recalled by the Fda in a few years after release to the community.
I have a personalized reason that I treatment about this. I worked through twenty five different medicines for bipolar (the traditional type of bipolar, but I aged out of mania now that i’m middle aged), which these medicines had been not all antipsychotics of training course, and they are all rubbish. I was instructed that I am a exceptional situation, but which is not what I read through from other people like me, on the internet, where patients have a voice. As I obtained sicker thru the a long time, the docs all explained it is a character dysfunction, when in simple fact the meds triggered akathisia and other issues like disinhibition for 15 or more many years. Psychiatrists turned me into a druggie, and I acted like one particular at times. Lithium works for mania, the other stuff is all rubbish. They are sedatives, and placebos.
A large study just came out displaying that antipsychotics are far more or less worthless for sufferers forty and in excess of – patients can’t stand to just take them, and they don’t function, possibly. The head of the APA was an creator on that examine. http://overall health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2012-eleven-27-antipsychotics-deficiency-basic safety-effectiveness.aspx Examine it out.
I significantly enjoy the great RN’s, psychiatrists and therapists who dealt with me, but in reality, the psychiatrists manufactured me a lot sicker for many many years. My “personality disorder” disappeared a couple several years after I acquired off psych meds, and even though I’m nevertheless really frustrated, at minimum it really is back again to intermittent melancholy yet again, like in my 20′s ahead of medications. My new psychiatrist is shocked at the alter, given that he is the man who I was referred to for ECT a lot of years back. He says I plainly am recovering from brain harm, with the prolonged restoration time body. I am not heading to blame the ECT for all of this, because I was a drooling man or woman with inadequate behaviors for several years before I received that treatment method. The great nurses back again at the healthcare facility do not know me now, and how considerably the drugs transformed me for the even worse, so they almost certainly nonetheless imagine the medicines support most people. The outpatient experts that nonetheless see me have altered their treatment practices fairly a lot and other clients are obtaining off medication. I know you are very likely to think I am just telling you an anecdotal tale, but the clients who say they are much better on these medications are also telling anecdotal tales, and so several huge scientific studies have arrive out expressing antidepressants are placebos with facet outcomes. .. antipsychotics are even worse than nothing, and so on. I was not a uncommon case, as I was told. I am your standard client.
I desire I desire I would like that suppliers would offer you much more coping skills, like the WRAP strategies, and stop pushing these medication other than as a last vacation resort, and give the client a chance to go off the medication (taper) just before their mind is ruined as well considerably. i could not offer with any of the trauma of my profession loss and reduction of likelihood to have little ones whilst drugged up. Now, I’m dealing with that stuff. My husband is so happy I am off these drugs. I never ever used unlawful medicines, and psychiatry turned me into a drug addict. It wasn’t ok, and I nonetheless truly feel dreadful for the numerous many years that I dropped with “remedy.”
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Amen to EVERYTHING posted by the previous person. I too, am suddenly healing, but have been a “drug addict” thanks to the crap I’ve been made to take for the past decade. I am now finding natural alternatives that I NEVER thought would work for me, to simply calm my mind. I find that with general coping skills and these natural alternatives (that also help me sleep) I am keeping myself in check.
I have been on Latuda for the past year. I have been diagnosed as everything under the sun, so please don’t ask my diagnosis. It is, a silly question, in my opinion, and frankly, you should know better. I am also, according to my doctor, “an unusual case.” And I, like the previous person who posted, feel that is untrue, as I have also been employed in the mental health field, and know that I am NOT that unusual, just lucky to have a doctor who listens.
I switched from Invega to Latuda to try to combat my metabolic syndrome. I’ve lost, during the past year, 50 pounds, and no longer have to take Metformin for my prediabetes. I took half dosage of Invega, and half dosage of Latuda 20mg. for two months, then switched to 40mg of Latuda. I held there for about 6 months. The first side effect was nausea…..lots of nausea. This was easily justified by my little mind due to the 7 to 10 pounds I was losing a month. It was amazing. I felt pretty good in my mind, and decided it was the best antipsychotic I have been on.
Somewhere in there, I started noticing some major insomnia. Why? Because the drug causes it — my doctor confided that I was not the only one with whom he had tried this drug that was experiencing it. He put me on Sonata. It’s worked like a charm.
Then, I started to really realize some akisthesia — MAJOR!!! And then it happened…..muscle spasms like you wouldn’t believe. In bed, on a heating pad, with about 6 or 7 spasms in my back and neck. It’s begun happening about every three weeks. I now go to massage therapy (very costly) once a week. My general practitioner has tried various muscle relaxants, and also Prednisone (became manic) and the only thing that has helped has been Baclofen.
My doctor and I lowered my Latuda to 20mg, to no avail. I am now on 10mg, to no avail. It is still working for my psychiatric symptoms, but the muscle spasms persist. On our next visit, we will discuss switching me from antipsychotics altogether (I have tried about 8 of them) and putting me on either Lamictal or Depakote.
In summary, I have always had problems with my back muscles. I believe I must have some underlying problem that is undiagnosed, so I am, and have always been, very sensitive to antipsychotic muscularture problems. Therefore, it has always been a side effect. With Latuda, it has been much worse. And also, lots of silly things like, I could not spell words after a few months on the medicine.
However, I will say, that if I did not have these muscular issues, it is by far, the best antipsychotic I have been on, regarding the side effect profile. No vivid dreams! And taking a sleeping pill for the common insomnia problem was no big deal to me.
Listen to your patients. You have a responsibility to defend them. Do not think that medication is the holy grail, for I can tell you that I and many others have found better ways to cope than with our current medication regimen as prescribed by our capitalistic pharmaceutical industry. Defend you patients. They need it, and they WILL remember you and treat you kindly, and most importantly, they will know that in the confusing mental health industry, a few actually care. And so they will trust. We need that.
Good Luck
I regret even taking the time to answer your question — which I think I did. You’re obviously a newbie in your field, or you are one of those who will not last, whether it is because someone reports you, or your coworkers will freak out at your stalwart approach to medicine (look it up in the dictionary). I will pray for anyone who is your patient.
And on second thought, I find it worthy to mention that I suspect you are a pharmaceutical rep, trying to easily, yet illegally find some good things to say about Latuda. If that is the case, you may NOT use anything I wrote in my post in public or private, in any way, as part of the case you plead to doctors or any other organization wanting information about people who have used Latuda. If this suspicion is correct, you have already done something illegal, by portraying to be someone who you are not. Go back to CafePharma where you belong….which is the tone I am picking up on by what you have written.
I have been taking Latude for about 2 months. I take it for Bipolar 1. The only side effect is that I have a loss of appetite and I can sleep anytime. I am not at all sleepy but if I lay down on the couch I will just fall asleep. Also I wake up at 5am every morning regardless of when I went to sleep. Really not too much in the way of side effects. It works extremely well for the depression I was experiencing.