Only 5 days on this medication, and I have not really been hungry like I expected. It has thrown off my eating schedule. I’m either not hungry at all, or very hungry at night. The problem is the awful diarrhea and nausea. I need my stomach back. I’m begging for it to stop. I’m being woken up out of a sound sleep. I can’t even feel myself going when it starts. It’s awful.
Rexulti was added to my current Effexor dosage. I took .5mg at 7/7:30 am---4 hrs later while sitting in my office chair talk to co-worker, room started spinning, I could not stand up and started vomiting due to the spins..had to leave car at work for 4 days and get co worker to help out of office into their vehicle, then into my house. I was walking like I went on a major bender. Spent next 3 days off balance...this continued for many many weeks...did not take it again. After tests, MRI and physio--gained back a lot of balance but if I do not keep up with exercises..balance starts to be off....never took this drug again..one dose was enough--DONE
Found adding rexulti at night to my Wellbutrin 300 mg during the day has totally helped me avoid the frequent dips into depression I have experienced every 2 months. Hurt my marriages and created distress for me until finding this medication suggested by my psychiatrist. Some days I’m fatigued but for the most part my overwellness has improved significantly!
This drug is TERRIBLE! I just got off Geodon and thought this would be a better one, but it proved to be the opposite. It has caused me to have super slow thinking, stiffening of my legs and arms, fast heartbeat and dizziness. I'm getting off it ASAP, not dealing with this day after day, no way, no how! Use at your own risk - do NOT recommend it to anyone!!
Beware of this medication if you are the type of person with an inner monologue. As I understand it, only about 30% of people talk to themselves in their head. In my experience, this medication caused a stroke like interruption in the assembly of words when thinking, kind of like it was constantly interrupting the formation of thoughts as they were formed. The result was an inability to think clearly, or communicate to others with ease. It did end up costing me my job before I figured out this was the medication causing the trouble. My use case was trauma resulting in major depression and anxiety, and I was on a combination of Adderall, Rexulti, and Lexapro. I have since discontinued use of all three and, while the Lexapro was very useful, it was the only medication I found that had a net positive effect on my well being. Over the years I've tried many different SSRIs, and have had addictions to nicotine and THC. Nothing I've ever taken has messed me up worse than Rexulti. Thankfully, I am now sober and no longer require any pharmaceutical intervention. I highly recommend a healthy diet with plenty of protein and a rigorous exercise regimen. This was what saved my life. If you are the type of person who thinks auditorily within their head, then beware. This medication will wreck your ability to think. That said, if you do not have an inner voice, this medication does have a noticeable effect on depression and can be worthwhile as part of a treatment plan.
Horrible violent and traumatic dreams. Would wake up three to four times throughout the night on the verge of a panic attack. This was on .5mg just in the first two weeks of taking it. Dreaded going to sleep knowing this would happen. Sample boxes were throw in garbage!
Only five days in and I just want to die. The challenges with our health system and pharmacies and side effects, I have had enough. I have been dealing with Mental Illness pretty much my entire life, and the side effects of this medication prove to me that my life is worth nothing to nobody. Why keep fighting? Besides being able to afford these drugs are getting to the point that they aren’t even an option anymore….
I should preface this by saying that I have severe depression, anxiety and BPD. The mood swings have been major my whole life. My family doctor put me on Abilify originally but when I was on them I put on a lot of weight and they weren’t working anyway. I switched to Rexulti 2mg mixed with Trinillex and I immediately dropped weight and felt a lot better. It’s been almost 2 years and I think Rexulti and Trintillex are the right combo to keep my mental health at bay. I still struggle some days but at least I can function now. No major side effects or anything.
To sum it all up its destroying my heart and muscles. Never had Charly horses so bad til this med. And have a mild arrhythmia in my heart now, tachycardia and heart palps. I'm gonna try getting off this medication by cardiologist Drs orders. It has for you. I fear death everyday because of the medication. Now I gotta suffer getting off of it AND being on it currently till I can get off it. Hope I'll be okay too after I'm off. I'm pretty much done w psych meds. I swear.... ??
My primary care doctor started me on Abilify to augment my anti-depressants. He did not inform me that it was an antipsychotic, if he had, I would not have taken it. But this was 2012 and you could not just look a drug up. So, I started on Abilify and then went to Rexulti and was on that for 12 years. Don't get me wrong, the medication works, it helps. Antipsychotics used to be known as major tranquilizers, and that is what they do, they sedate and calm the symptoms. But where I had once managed companies and made six figures, I started decompensating into severe paranoia with each job I had. I am unable to work now and I still get paranoid. I have since stopped all antipsychotics but have started with tardive dystonia anyway. While these drugs may seem like they are 'helping' you, they are really just covering up the symptoms, putting them to sleep. Meanwhile, the drugs are wrecking havoc in your brain and neurological system. Everyone gets TD if they keep taking antipsychotics, typical or atypical. It is a sad statement to our healthcare system that medical professionals must consider these toxic drugs as standard treatment. And we are the crazy ones bc we don't want to take their toxic treatment. How about this? Offer us something that is real treatment, something that does not harm our brains and bodies?
Everything was fine as long as my provider had samples! Then she went to telehealth and didn’t get samples thus I went to get script and it was 1800.00 for one month. I immediately started trying to wean off. I went to the gates of hell without a glass of ice water. 4 months I tried I had irrational thoughts panic anxiety nausea vomiting diarrhea tremors pain all over my body . One pill last 19 days in your system. I’m now on abilify pristig Xanax and adderall and I still have episodes of withdrawal from this medication. I’ve never been through nothing like it. I called the company they wouldn’t help me til I filled out a bunch of forms to see if I’d qualify for assistance. I wish I’d never taken this drug.
This is the worst medication I could ever imagine. After titrating to the next higher dose I began to have excruciating panic attacks and anxiety attacks. I would lose hours of a day. I began to only get 2 hours of sleep and have nightmares. I called my psych to get off of it. I am now still not sleeping while this leaves my body. I have had 10 hours of sleep in 4 days. I am experiencing what they call hypnagogic hallucinations and psychotic itching. I feel like I am in hell.
It worked for severe treatment resistant depression but I gained 25lbs in a month on 2mg, no lie. I was binging every night. I went off it because I decided I would rather risk killing myself than be nearly obese! Apparently it shuts down the mechanism in your brain that helps you feel full.
Rexulti caused me to become very withdrawn and incapable of carrying on conversations anymore . I avoided contact with people as much a possible. It also caused me to have parkinsonism which I am currently dealing with. When they tried to wean me off of Rexulti I went through about 5 weeks of pure hell...withdrawals.took me several months to get off of it.
My 71yo wife is Dx with Lepopenal Aphasia/Alzheimers (early onset). Adding Rexalti has been a plus including: crying has dramatically been reduced (daily/hourly). Her language has gone from mumbling/word salad to clearer and is appropriate in conversations. She is currently taking Effexor, Ativan, Seraquel, Memetine, Buspirone - adding Rexalti has been tremendous. Our next step it to reduce some of these Meds
Hi,I'm 44 year old male which has been 14 years outpatient of mental/mood disorder. I was diagnosed Schizoaffective disorder by my doctor in 2010 & she gave me Seroquel & Zoloft which worked well. Because of the price of medication increased exponentially in 7 years from $200 to $1000 a month I switched doctor in 2017. He diagnosed me with Bipolar disorder & gave me Abilify & Kalxetin which worked well with price only $100 a month. And it was 2020,since I moved to another city because of Covid pandemi,then I switched doctor again. He diagnosed me with Mood disorder & gave me Rexulti & Noxetine which I consider the best low cost medication which I ever get in 14 years ($200 monthly). I think Rexulti with antidepressant is great for unspecified mental/mood disorder. But you should do trial & error on: dosage + time taking + times in a day you take it to get chemical balance in your brain. Also don't take more than max dosage which is 2-4 mg a day directly proportional with your weight.
Rexulti has changed my life for the better
i started rexulti a few months ago and the mental effects were wonderful, i had little anxiety’s and my depression was getting better. but while on this medication in 4 months ive gained over 40 pounds. after it started negatively affecting my circulation in my legs- i was advised to stop the meds. i weened myself off like i was supposed to for about two weeks and now i am experiencing constant nausea no matter what i do, ive lost 10 of the pounds i gained because i literally cannot eat, i have not slept in the past 4 days, strange uncontrollable movements of my mouth, im now experiencing flu like symptoms including a fever and i have no idea how long these symptoms are going to last its been about 3 weeks since ive stopped taking it. DO NOT take this medicine if you can avoid it.
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Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Types, Causes, Treatment See SlideshowI was on this medication for several months and it was ok at first but then it made my anxiety way worse then it was before I started taking it … I would have days where I couldn’t even get out of bed …. After a while I stopped taking it and I had body shakes and trouble sleeping and lost my appetite….. I have been off of it for about 2 months now and I’m still trying to shake the side effects away
Life-changing. Just wish I had found it at 15 instead of 36. I finally want to, and enjoy, going out and doing things again. Life no longer feels insurmountable. I'm taking a .5 once each morning.