Posted by Danielj on June 10, 2014, at 17:00:24
After being on Latuda for almost 2 months, my son was ready to explode. Towards the end he was getting violent. He started with 40 mg worked all the way uo to 120 mg per day, and getting worse and worse until pacing virtually all day and all night. Still the doc didn't take him off of it. Duh! I took him off of it. We had lots of Zyprexa a few months old I gave him 10 mg the first 2 days and then 10 mg morning and 10 mg evening. A little over a week now and he has improved 100%. He was taking Zyprexa for at least 9 years when the care center put him on Haldol and Wellbutrin. It worked a couple of weeks and the EPS and the shakes set in. His therapist told us (parents and legal guardians) to get him off that combo right away before he ended up with Dyskinesia. Our Pdoc recommended Latuda 2 months later here we are back
to Zyprexa. I think his Pdoc will be OK for now with his being on Zyprexa, I phoned the office and told them what we were doing. In the meantime maybe find another psychiatrist.
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