Latuda making me sick?

[u/_homomilk]

Looking for advice on how to handle my latuda?

I take latuda at night. It makes me very sleepy very fast and I have a son to take care of so I am unable to take it at dinner. It needs to be after he's down for bed for about an hour so I know he's good. The issue comes with the nausea. I know I need to eat something like 350 calories with it. Sometimes it doesn't help. I will eat the calories and take the pill and still throw up an hour later.

What are we doing to make this work? I've been on this for almost a year now. It's the only one that has been this successful in my treatment so I don't really want to switch but I can't keep throwing it up because then what's the point of even trying to take it if I'm not absorbing it

Also how are we losing weight when we need to eat so much extra food to make sure we're not feeling ill?

[u/smallpschogirl]

Take with Ensure complete you need the calories with Latuda 350 to be exact maybe add in a yogurt or some raw fruit

[u/Scared_Sushi]

I'm on Latuda too and have never had the nausea. But I have noticed how fast the sleepy hits is related to what I eat. Maybe it's placebo, maybe it's real, but it tends to correlate. Carbs are faster, fats take more time, protein takes the longest. Maybe play around with what you're eating with it and see if that helps? I usually eat it with carbs, then crash into bed 10-30 minutes later before side effects hit.

[u/InsideConsideration8]

On the weight, I've heard many people save half their dinner to take with their pills before bed time. That way they are not eating extra food/calories just to take their meds

[u/adoribullen]

for me latuda causes me to vomit if something else is already making me nauseous. for awhile i was on a drug with nausea as a side effect no issues then started latuda and got vomiting from taking both. i discontinued the other medication and now it's rarer latuda makes me nauseous but sometimes it still does. i take zofran to deal with those times. i don't think you'd need to be on something else causing nausea ive also gotten nausea that affected it by being ill.

i terms of taking it with food and losing weight i pretty much gave up on losing weight on it bc im having a similar problem its very difficult to budget calories. i cant really delay my dinner i start to feel really horrible if i do and i cant just go to bed immediately after dinner. i still count calories to try to maintain my weight but creating a deficit feels impossible.

[u/maskaura]

I had to stop taking latuda because counting calories isn’t good for my mental health (bulimic for 20+ years), but when I WAS on it, so long as I took it mid-meal, I was fine. I recommend taking it with 400 calories minimum to be safe — it was a miracle drug for me, I wish I could stick with it. Hope you can figure it out

[u/okktoplol]

Taking a lower dose (went from 40 to 20mg) and taking it right before sleeping helped me avoid excessive sedation

[u/smokey_pine]

I had to get off it because it was too much throwing up my dinner every night