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So my psychiatrist put me on Latida 20mg about 2ish weeks ago. I have never been diagnosed with bipolar or schizophrenia so I imagine that he got this great idea to put me on this because my therapist noticed an extreme change in my affect that appeared manic due to the heavy trauma that I have experienced in 2026.

Any way the issue is that I have NO motivation and I am restless at night. I take all my meds in the morning besides Trazodone. I have ADHD and major chronic depression, due to my ADHD, hyper focusing on a single task is how I am able to be efficient and productive at work and in life I guess. Now I have no motivation to do anything, I just don’t care about much.

Anyone else experienced this or have had it prescribed off label? Before making this post, I emailed my provider with these negative side effects so I am just seeing if there are any other people that have experienced the same.

So recently, my Psychiatrist and I agreed that naltrexone would be a good option to try to curb my alcohol cravings and also the opioids that I took a little dive into. What id like to do discuss is his plans for introducing the drug to my system. He recommended a half dose due to possible side effects as stomach aches..

When I went to the pharmacy to pick it up, I requested to talk to a pharmacist to ask them about their opinion to starting the dose, as I am ready to just dive right in and curb these cravings and you know healthier my life like as soon as possible. So when I ask the pharmacist about side effects, she looked at the drug and she was like possibly like you’ll become really drowsy and then I explained to her why my Psychiatrist wanted to do half doses and she was like possibly, but I don’t see anything wrong with you starting off with a full dose I mean, like I said you the most likely side effect is you being really drowsy. And I told her Yep I’m totally done with that and but I’ll make sure to you know discuss this with my Psychiatrist before I you know proceed forward with that.

So next, I texted my psychiatrist about the information that the pharmacist gave me and how you know would really like to take a full dose starting now and my Psychiatrist like replied that nope behalf dose is definitely the better option and the option that like we meaning I should take and yeah, that’s the end of it.

But you know what I have decided on my own you know volition that I will just start out with one dose a day like and as far as side effects you know I was really drowsy the first night, but I haven’t had any stomach aches or anything like that so yeah

So I guess what I really want to ask is what kind of side effects have you guys had using the drug especially in the beginning phases? Is there anyone that experience like like particularly stomach aches?