I have been diagnosed with bi polar manic depression and anxiety. I have been struggling to find a medicine regimen that worked. I was on latuda and what I kept down actually was working. I took my self off with my doctor because I couldn't stop throwing up. I am never happy and all i want to do is stay in my bed.. I am snapping on people and no one wants to be around me.. I want to be happy again! I want back on latuda but don't know how to keep it down. Does anyone have any advice for me? Thank you!
Did anyone else throw up with latuda?
Question posted by Desperateofhelp on 20 Nov 2021
Last updated on 15 December 2021
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mmmousemaid
20 Nov 2021
I was switched to latuda and devalproex from my beloved lithium (41 years on 900mg, lowered to 600mg, then 0 over a year w/d), due to allergic reaction and intolerance to lithium, bit by bit by bit .to 0. Latuda does not agree with me and also increases my blood sugar (I am diabetic 2).
I had some nausea on latuda, but had to stop due to hypersomnia (and I mean hyper, like 6 hrs. after taking it. Devalproex makes me sleepy but not so much. Looking forward to renewal. I can't understand why I got tremors and allergic reaction to lithium. It was such a good drug for the first 3 decades.
WildcatVet
20 Nov 2021
Lithium was always my drug of choice but after two toxic events I had to discontinue it. Sigh! I wish I could go back on it because it was the only medication that has truly worked well for me.
mmmousemaid
20 Nov 2021
Me too; what happened? I have the "Neuropsychology of Lithium" Bible but all they said is that after a long time, you get tremors; no neurological explanation that I could find; and also is lithium the only one with long-term damage to the neurons or biochemical gizmos in the brain?
WildcatVet
20 Nov 2021
Hi, Desperate!
Talk to your pharmacist about OTC antiemetics like Emetrol or Dramamine. If you take them before you take the Latuda they might stop the nausea/vomiting.
Just a thought...
WildcatVet
20 Nov 2021
@Mouse.
Everyone assumed it was lithium toxicity but I had the flu with it's nastier symptoms and became dehydrated... big no-no if you're on lithium. I still think I could take it because I was on it for years with no problems except the two times that I had the flu. But the rule is two strikes and you're out.
mmmousemaid
20 Nov 2021
Hmmmm... I should have married a psychopharmacologist. :-)
mmmousemaid
15 Dec 2021
Just want to report that I am adjusting to latuda as adjunct to divalproex sodium; could it be that the initial addition of latuda (which made me so sleepy) was a reaction to a very high (hypomania state) to a slam down of the latuda effect? Anyway, I am find some advantages to this new regimen (combination of divalproex sodium WITH latuda) and I may have given a bit too much credit to lithium as its initial effect took me out of a bad state. In the long run, I still don't know why lithium did not work any more -- something must have gone wrong in my practice or in its too long term effects on me. Anyway, I am happy to say that I am presently in high monitor care. Patience is a virtue. :-)
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