LATUDA Reviews ( LURASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.6 (306 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LATUDA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LATUDA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Insomnia | My face got locked with an open mouth. I was making all kind of involuntary movements. I couldn't pee. I was making involuntary sounds. My eyelids had a droopy look. Red eyes. I couldn't stop pacing. I started to have suicidal thoughts. I was crying loudly with a feeling of despair and desperation. I kept coughing involuntary. My heart and pulse were fast. The worst feeling. I took charcoal pills, cilantro pills , magnesium citrate and lots of water with lemon and slowly the side effects were diminishing. | Is an evil pill | M | 33 | 1 days 60 1X day | 10/10/2023 | 1 | Depression Anxiety | Awful suicidal feelings I have never felt this bad | Hopefully psych puts me back on olanzopine | M | 60 | 4 weeks 80mg 1X day | 9/24/2023 | 1 | Bipolar | Doctor tapered me too fast off Latuda and now I have all kinds of issues. New symptoms include grinding of teeth, jaw clenching, cracking jaw, flu like symptoms, nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, muscle twitches and spasms, itching, headaches/migraines, diarrhea, irritability, fatigue, chills/sweats, brain fog, and more. My symptoms of Akathisia and Insomnia are unbearable now after being tapered from 80mg (was at 120mg for awhile!) down by 20mg each month. Was told to stop at 20mg. 7 months later I'm still experiencing withdrawal. | F | 40 | 5 years 80 1X day | 6/22/2023 | 1 | Bipolar | Emotional numbness, total lack of motivation to take take care of myself or the house, cook, or go anywhere. I barely spoke, lost my creativity and emotional connection to music. I had trouble thinking and remembering. | I've been off for over a year and am slowly getting better but I lost years of my life and my personality. I'm not suicidal but I'm not sure it's worth it. | F | 51 | 5 years 80 mh 1X day | 3/4/2023 | 1 | Depression and Bipolar | Unwanted energy, akathesia. Restlessness. Nightly anxiety attacks | Its too bad because its helping my depression. | F | 49 | 3 months 40 mg, 20 1X day | 1/24/2023 | 1 | Bi polar and skitofective disorder | Extremely dizzy extremely irritable Those are the only ones I can remember before blacked out. | I call it death med. Because I almost died while taking it. A Dr in a hospital put me on it. But did not take me off of the SSRI med I was on. Ended up on the hospital with serotonin syndrome. So now I have it down as an alergy . Taking Seroquel now much much better. Hardly any bad side effects. | F | 2 weeks 20mgs 1X O | 9/29/2022 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | Mask like facial expression, Eye Lid tic, Lips smacking, confused, anti-social, dull depressed state, feet constantly move, feeling flat, brain zaps, trouble staying asleep, weight gain, dry hair and skin, anxiety, swollen lips and tongue | F | 64 | 2 years 60 MG 1X day | 7/28/2021 | 1 | Bipolar depression | Feeling very flat with no personality. No drive, extreme exhaustion, weight gain, did not curb my explosive temper or my lashing out. Made me drowsy, but in a very nauseated, flu-like way. Also, and I could never figure this out, every few times taking it would cause a marathon long anxiety attack that made me want to die, it was so bad. They lasted about two hours each. That was the ultimate reason why I stopped, those horrible anxiety attacks. It just wasn't worth the side effects, and it didn't help my symptoms. So I stopped and I feel better. Not for me. | F | 50 | 60 days 20 1X day | 6/16/2021 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | Periodic restlessness after taking. Weight gain. Depression. | I was put on latuda after a manic phase on lexapro. I was put on lexapro for anxiety but after 3 years it caused a few months of acute mania which indicated a bipolar 1 disagnosis. I briefly tried vraylar but discontinued due to akasthia. Latuda did nothing for me except put me in a dull, depressed state. Side effects were mild but my mood turned very dark. I stopped doing activities I enjoyed and had no motivation or energy to get through the day. I was anti-social and lazy, often stuck to the couch for the whole day. I gave the medication a fair shot to work by taking it for 6 months but in hindsight I wish I had discontinued sooner. Over time I put back on about 30 pounds I had lost and was enduring persistent suicidal ideations which were never an issue for me in the past. I have never been as depressed as I was on this drug. Overall I suppose it was effective in stopping a pretty severe manic period, but the cost of feeling so deeply depressed was clearly not worth it. Recently stopped latuda and am trying a combination of lamictal and Wellbutrin to curb the bipolar depression. | M | 33 | 6 months 40 mg 1X day | 5/4/2021 | 1 | Anxiety, depression | About a month ago I started having tmj-like symptoms. Jaw moving to one side, pain, feeling like jaw was going to break an hour or two after taking the medication. It started only happening a couple times a week then started happening everyday. My jaw would be so out of place and so painful I couldn't talk or eat. I had two doctors tell me it was tmj and I needed to see a dentist. Well, I stopped the Latuda cold turkey for 5 nights now and I haven't had any trouble with my jaw. My psych doc wanted me to wean, but after a couple night of not taking it with no jaw symptoms I was too scared to take it again. I'm feeling great without it. I will never take Latuda again after this. | The scary thing about tardive dyskinesia, lock jaw, uncontrollable movement in face is that even after you stop the drug it can still continue and become permanent. I would recommend Latuda to anyone after my experience! | F | 28 | 2 years 80 MG 1X day | 4/11/2021 | 1 | Bipolar | The akathisia almost drove me to suicide..it was a NIGHTMARE | For some it's a miracle drug, but for me it was almost a death sentence. I didn't know what akathisia was until I started this drug and now I'm terrified of ever experiencing it again. Good luck on your peace journey everyone! | F | 35 | 21 days 60mg 1X day | 11/11/2020 | 1 | Depression | After a month being on it I developed what felt like slight anxiety and hand tremor. After another couple weeks I suddenly full blown severe akathisia with includes... Muscle tremors, inability to sit still or stand still, doom feeling, severe anxiety with new panic attack that lasted 5 hrs at a time, insomnia, brain zaps with flashes of light. Was the worst experience of my life. Had it not stopped I would've wanted to die. After three months of being off still struggling with anxiety and chronic insomnia. I now manage four hrs of sleep per night and is a big improvement over when I was on the med. | The warning says can cause akathisia. Had I understood what akathisia could include instead of "restlessness" I would've never taken it. The med almost killed me. | F | 48 | 60 days 20 MG 1X day | 7/31/2020 | 1 | Bipolar | Started at 20mg and went up to 60mg. Helpful at first with controlling the mania and especially the suicidal ideation in depression. I thought it was nice that it made me drowsy to help me go to sleep, but in the past month I started getting so exhausted during the day and the drowsiness started to become more like dizziness and blurry vision. Then last Thursday soon after I took the medicine around 9pm something just switched in my brain. My perception shifted and I felt like I was in a void...I could barely speak and walk but what was most terrifying was that my eyelids wouldnt stop shaking so they couldnt close. I was hoping it would get better if I could just go to sleep but then my body started shaking uncontrollably. This lasted 4 hours and didnt get better...it was absolute hell. Husband finally took me to the ER and they gave me ativan to sedate me. Thankfully I was able to go to sleep after that and so grateful the side effects werent permanent. When I looked it up I saw that antipsychotics like these can cause these symptoms, its called tardive dyskinesia and in some cases it CAN be permanent and cause irreversible mobility issues. SO DANGEROUS. I couldnt believe it and dont wanna take meds at all anymore...one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. | DONT TAKE IT. ITS DANGEROUS. Apparently after 3 months really bad things like tardive dyskinesia can happen...not to be trusted. These pharmaceutical companies should go to hell. | 31 | 4 months 60mg 1X day | 7/21/2020 | 1 | Son has anxiety and depression. | Muscle pain, anxiety, nightmares, fears. Probably going to take him off. | M | 13 | 20 days 20mg | 3/8/2020 | 1 | Depression clinical | I have never been so depressed in my life. I have gotten mean, screaming about anything. Anxiety through the roof, paranoid, cant go out in public. Im not suicidal but this drug made me. It is THE worst, I thought viibyrd was bad. I couldnt calm myself down to sleep I think everything I do and think is wrong. My mind feels blown up. I am supposed to go back to see dr. but I do not want to go in another bipolar/ schiz drug. I am scared. Why cant i have ect?! Its cruel what I have to go through. | F | 37 | 8 days 20 | 1/16/2020 | 1 | Anxiety and depression | I started off a 20 mg didn't really have any side effects after three weeks I went up to 40, the second day I noticed that my shoulder started hurting and my stomach did not feel right, then I got this awful bloating feeling I could barely sit down or stand up I had to lay down it was so bad, call the doctor stopped it and 2 days later I was okay again, it was something like an enlarged spleen it was just pressure through my stomach and all over it was a terrible feeling | M | 63 | 21 days 40 mg | 9/27/2019 | 1 | Bipolar II | Intense crying, feeling insane | Today I cried for 5 hrs straight, and I mean uncontrollable sobbing. I'm the kind of person that never cries and I definitely dont let anyone see me cry but it's like every thought I have is bringing me to tears. I'm agitated, I feel lost like indont know who I am any more. I feel crazier than ever before. Isnt this stuff supposed to calm me down. I'm not taking it to right and will never again. I recently just came off of vraylar which did the same thing. Idk what to do any more | F | 29 | 4 days | 6/20/2019 | 1 | Add | Was supposed to make me tired and offset the adderall. Just makes me wide awake and unable to sleep | 21 | 4 days 20mg | 6/1/2019 | 1 | Bi polar disorder | Eye twitching headaches tiredness | Worse thing ever | F | 26 | 0 months 40mg | 4/25/2019 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Immediately I had uncontrollable thoughts of suicide. I had to take every pill I could to go to sleep to stop myself. | F | 26 | 2 days | 6/29/2018 |
LATUDA ( LURASIDONE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (such as schizophrenia, depression associated with bipolar disorder). Lurasidone helps you to think more clearly, feel less nervous, and take part in everyday life. It may also help to decrease hallucinations (hearing/seeing things that are not there). In addition, this medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Lurasidone is a psychiatric medication that belongs to the class of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain. FDA Approval Date: 2012-04-26 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)