Lurasidone for Schizophrenia User Reviews (Page 5)

• latudy
• March 29, 2018

Latuda (lurasidone) "I've been on Latuda 6 months now for schizophrenia. I've had paranoia and persistent auditory hallucinations; this drug was a miracle for blasting them away. For the first 3 weeks, I was a sleepy wreak and didn't dare drive, but a lot of that went away over time. It took probably about 2-3 months for the hallucinations to finally go away, you could tell the volume on them were going down every day. I had moderate akathisia. This was on 40 mg of Latuda. After months of having no voices, I decided to try tapering off it to 30mg and noise hearing has started to creep in again (sob!), but my akathisia much went away and a felt a bit more alert. I'm debating staying on this at 30mg, I seem to also have a lot of demotivation and anhedonia since I started taking the drugs but they could just also be negative symptoms of psychosis. In sum, great for hallucinations, not that great for everything else."

• cylixir
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• November 1, 2016

Latuda (lurasidone) "you can go insane if you get off this drug cold-turkey and if your drinking/drugs inbetween you will end up at the hospital like me, i stopped using for 3 months now, the last few days have been a nightmare I was smoking weed while not taking latuda, and I had a depressive breakdown where i ended up in emergency twice in the past 4 days, i was so fatigued my eyes were shutting on their own and i thought i was going to die if i fall asleep, its a feeling of insanity dont mess around with this drug. Go step by step as your doctor tells you, overall the drug has its ups and downs some of the side effects are dreadfull, goodluck"

• Latuda
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• February 7, 2023

Latuda (lurasidone) "I took Latuda for numerous years but eventually my treatment changed. Ultimately, I am grateful for the time I was on the Latuda medicine. If you are taking the Latuda medicine I highly suggest that you find the right dose and continue treatment with this medicine! This is one of the best antipsychotic treatments for schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder but just be aware that you should technically be taking this medicine with Depakote. This medicine treats Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Bipolar Depression but you would need to add Depakote to treat Bipolar Mania and Epilepsy. I am super grateful for when I took this medicine with Depakote! Technically, I think you should be fine if you take this medicine and maybe try some other psychiatric or generalized medicines for your overall health."

• peebr...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 6, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "I’m quite young and started latuda after a nasty experience with abilify. This slightly helped but I soon stopped taking it after hearing about the side effects like high blood pressure and things such as. I was on 40mg and saw some improvements but ultimately the side effects outweighed the good it did."

• Zoomi...
• July 19, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "Despite taking this awful medication with food, it made me feel ill. If I took it, I’d feel sick. If I didn’t take it, I also felt sick. It made me extremely stupid and unmotivated. I felt terrible. I also have possible Tourette’s which was made worse by latuda. I’m having slight tremors still. Switched to Paliperidone/invega. Hoping for better luck…"

• Dvgfc...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• September 30, 2023

Latuda (lurasidone) "I struggle with weight gain on antipsychotics. Latuda hardly if at all affects my metabolism or hunger. I take only the starting dose because I also take Seroquel, which strangely also doesn't affect my weight. The one thing I love about Latuda is the lift of depression, the ability to laugh again. All my psychotic symptoms are alleviated. I get violently nauseous with Latuda. I have to take ondansetron when taking Latuda, or it would not be possible to take it. This extreme nausea has never resolved. But I really like Latuda. I do not have to take ondansetron all day and night, just when it comes to taking it. If my dose is increased, I can have an awful need to move my body like restless legs but all over. With other antipsychotics, I could not lose weight no matter what I did, but I can now with exercise and good food. I really like Latuda. Weight gain really bothers me, especially with a history of an eating disorder. So overall, this med is great, but especially because it hasn’t caused ridiculous weight gain."

• Louis
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 7, 2023

Latuda (lurasidone) "I had tried several other atypical antipsychotics to treat my schizophrenia over the last year, and most just made me tired and didn’t help with the hallucinations and delusions. It took about two and a half weeks at 20 mg, and this had gotten it about 90% under control. I rarely hear voices and have had only one delusion of persecution in that time. I may ask to go up a dose at my next appointment, but this has been such a relief after trying ability, lybalvi, invega (which worked before), and Caplyta (which worked for almost a month and failed terribly). Make sure you eat with it and be patient. No noticeable side effects at a little over a month yet."

• user...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 18, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "I have taken Latuda for 4 months and I can say it's live changer. It helps me with my psychosis and it stops it in less than a month. I take the 37 mg dose every night. It helps me out to be more concentrated at work. I recently found myself very productive and happier. No side effects. Highly recommended."

• Ivy
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 6, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "I was prescribed this earlier this year, in July and I was only on it for a day. It helped my benzodiazepine withdrawal SOME but it immediately gave me insane akathisia where I felt extremely anxious in my legs and couldn’t sit still, everything was making me panic and cry and I felt sleepy as anything, almost nodded off several times while in public and even on my date with my boyfriend and I threw up a few times. That was my first and last time taking it. Never again, wouldn’t recommend 0/10"

• Bee...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• August 23, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "Was prescribed Latuda for PTSD symptoms. No notable symptoms except nipple discharge, after many excruciating testing, found prolactin levels had risen which caused breast cancer. Had double mastectomy in May 2017 along with chemotherapy and radiation."

• Mata...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 14, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "I’d rate this a 2/10. I took this from October 2016-April 2017 when I was 18 years old, 60mg twice a day for schizophrenia, anxiety and panic attacks. Although it made the paranoia and anxiety go away, it gave me INSANE akathisia where I would move around in my seat as if I had to pee really really bad, paced back and forth even though I couldn’t keep my eyes open, my arms felt restless and I had this unexplainable cold feeling inside my body. I stopped in March 2017 but to this day I still have tardive dyskinesia and I’m on a different medication now. This one sucked, smh"

• Spong...
• April 13, 2016

"Took it for psychosis/paranoia. 80 mg works better than 40 mg, but makes you sleep longer in am. 40 mg is probably sufficient once you've taken a week or so of the 80 and I am big 250 lbs. Take it with Seroquel 25 mg at bedtime because it gives me akathesia/restlessness if I don't. For others who might experience restlessness, Benadryl will provide relief as well. It does not have to be Seroquel. Overall, it's a good medication with no weight gain. It's expensive though. I take samples from my MD when needed."

• Average...
• December 1, 2015

"Worked well the first two weeks then started to lash out on anger: Irritability. The drug made me a little depressed and fearful. I did have more energy and the delusions calmed down a bit. Still hearing those darn voices in my head though."

• Chris
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• March 26, 2019

"I swear this medication is making me feel like a 70 year old. Ever since I started taking it, I feel angry, irritable, apathetic, always tired, no energy, not hungry at all, I have become extremely blank and absent to the people around me. I'm taking 60 MG but most likely going to stop taking it. It took away my personality."

• Ivy
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• March 24, 2022

"I first took this drug in July 2016 and stopped cold turkey in February 2017 when I was 15. I took it for extreme paranoia and bipolar. I had to take 60mg each day even before school which made me feel like a zombie, I kept falling asleep randomly, I had extreme restless legs and anxiety I would hyperventilate when it was time for me to take it. I lost 50 lbs (I went from 160 to 109) in a short period of time so that was both exciting and disturbing. I stopped on February 9 2017 as it made me so sleepy that I fell down the stairs at school. NEVER AGAIN!! Now I’m on Zoloft, Depakote and I get a risperidone shot every month. 2/10 for Latuda"

• Steph...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• September 26, 2015

"I've been on Latuda for a little under 2 and a half years. It almost completely stopped my psychotic symptoms except I still hear voices now and then, mainly when I try to go to sleep, but there are no delusions or paranoia while on the drug. I take cogentin in combination with it because it causes me to shake a lot. Main side effects I experience include anhedonia, shakiness, jaw clenching, and inability to sit still. However, I'm happy with it because it actually works, while other antipsychotic meds I tried did not, and it doesn't cause the endless hunger that I experienced with drugs like Saphris, Haldol, Zyprexa, and Risperdal. It should be noted I am at the max daily dose, which is 160mg."

• goodp...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• June 27, 2014

Latuda (lurasidone) "I suffer from schizoaffective disorder with bipolar tendencies. Latuda can cause severe breast pain on high doses. Definitely helps stop voices and completely resolves depression."

• howdy...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 19, 2013

Latuda (lurasidone) "Latuda has been very helpful to me. I have not gained any weight. The symptoms have lessened to the point where I am much more functional and can follow my daily routine. So far so good."

• Jack
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 7, 2019

Latuda (lurasidone) "My son was on Latuda for 2 years and he was very angry & violent on it. Horrible side effects so my warning is to Proceed with Great Caution or don't take at all."

• Ktano
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• January 11, 2021

Latuda (lurasidone) "Latuda worked as I stopped hearing voices, got my life back, no side effects and I could even lose weight on medication"

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 22, 2015

Latuda (lurasidone) "I only started this yesterday and today I already can feel that things are easier to deal with!! I'm looking forward to feeling somewhat normal."

• winte...
• March 8, 2015

Latuda (lurasidone) "Since starting latuda at 20mg a day and now up to 120mg a day. My life has more balance and no depression. My only concern is my psychosis is still the same but my hallucinations have dropped off."

• Mrs...
• December 7, 2015

Latuda (lurasidone) "Works great. Took away the voices I was hearing. I don't really experience side effects."

• jodubz
• October 8, 2016

Latuda (lurasidone) "this medication gave me a bad reaction, it gave me restlessness in my legs and suicidal thoughts, i don't recommend this drug for me personally."

• Better...
• July 29, 2020

Latuda (lurasidone) "Latuda is a mental Life saver for me and my Schizophrenia! It got rid of auditory hallucinations in 4 days no joke. Nausea and vomiting side effects."