Latuda for Schizophrenia User Reviews (Page 5)
Latuda has an average rating of 6.4 out of 10 from a total of 121 reviews for the treatment of Schizophrenia. 50% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 26% reported a negative experience.
Reviews for Latuda
- latudy
- March 29, 2018
"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
"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"
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- peebr...
- Taken for 6 months to 1 year
- October 6, 2021
"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."
- Dvgfc...
- Taken for 6 months to 1 year
- September 30, 2023
"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."
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- Louis
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- October 7, 2023
"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."
- Zoomi...
- July 19, 2021
"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…"
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- Ivy
- Taken for less than 1 month
- December 6, 2021
"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"
- user...
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- October 18, 2021
"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."
- Bee...
- Taken for 6 months to 1 year
- August 23, 2021
"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
"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"
- goodp...
- Taken for 6 months to 1 year
- June 27, 2014
"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 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
"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 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
"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
"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
"Works great. Took away the voices I was hearing. I don't really experience side effects."
- jodubz
- October 8, 2016
"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 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."
- Dubois
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- October 27, 2019
"I would try using this medication with Lamictal to ease the restlessness or cogentin."
- Dubois
- Taken for less than 1 month
- September 18, 2019
"Simple and easy to use. Some drowsiness."
- Sick
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- May 21, 2021
"I replaced seroquel with this , because seroquel wasn't giving me enough effect on high doses. I feel much better on Latuda and I sleep better too"
- Nance
- Taken for less than 1 month
- May 2, 2016
"Horrific experience. Was only on it for 1 week (40mg). Muddled thoughts, numb tongue, restlessness, severe insomnia, nausea."
- Alice
- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- May 27, 2020
"This was supposed to help me, but the only thing it did was make me worse. I don’t know why I even bothered! Big thumbs down "
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"I've been on Latuda for 5 weeks now first week 20 mg second week 40 mg the third week 80 mg the fourth week 120 mg 5th week 160 mg. Side effects of sedation, constipation. It has not started to uplift my mood I wonder how long will it take for it to motivate me. No increase in my appetite thank God."