Essentially Samantha

 So after nearly a two week wait I finally have in my hand some Lurasidone (Latuda) . I took it with my dinner as you have to take it with an evening meal of 330 calories. It didn't make me feel sleepy in fact I noticed nothing. Because I have stopped my Quetiapine though, I am not sleeping at all. I got around 4 hrs last night and woke up feeling alert and ready to start the day. I have been on Quetiapine for around 10 years so you can imagine this was an abnormal start to the day for me. Its not nearly 2pm and I still dont feel tired. Usually I am tired when I get up and tired throughout the day. I'm starting to think that was the Quetiapine all along and nor just me or something like a Vit D deficiency.  The Latuda takes around 6 weeks for it to fully kick in so maybe my sleep pattern will get back on track then. Although if anything like last night was to go by I dont think I am going to be spending my days sleeping throughout the day in spits and spats. It just goes to sh...

As you all know from my post about a little round plaster, I go to see a psychiatrist every 3 months. This week I complained of symptoms characteristic of mania. All the tell tale signs were there. I answered a lot of questions, some of them embarrassing before my Psychiatrist agreed to try me on another antipsychotic. Its also a mood stabiliser, and it means I can swap my Quetiapine which I don't like, for this new antipsychotic. I have to take it with my evening meal, so around 300 calories.  My psychiatrist has to write to my GP to explain the rationale behind the new medication as I am already on a lot of medication. We can only hope they agree to it and within a few weeks I can start the new medication. I forget its name, but when my Psychiatrist writes to me as well as the GP I will update this blog post. *Its Latuda. It seems the only solution to mania is sedation, I explained this to my PDOC in full and why I value my life too much to be sleeping it away. He agreed with me ...