My doctor prescribed me tramadol for back pain. When I look up the interaction with my Vraylar, it says that it’s serious for all opioids and to not take it. But I took some oxy yesterday before I knew that. I don’t feel any different, but I am concerned with what I did. Can I take the tramadol? My doctor knows what meds I take.
I don’t know what else to call them. I’ve been on Vraylar since March. It’s working really well for me. Better than anything else I’ve ever been on, since I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2004 or 2005. Everything else left me feeling flat with no real emotions and lots of anhedonia, or triggered mania. Now I feel the full range of emotions, but for the most part, just not in the extreme. The exception is this; sometimes I have a day where it completely falls apart. I completely fall apart. Depression so bad I can’t get out of bed, major SI, and I just lie in bed and cry and beg to not exist. This only lasts for a single day.
I want to also add that there are life circumstances that absolutely are contributing to situational depression and very intense levels of stress. I am doing my utmost to manage these situations, but I am currently unable to do anything to alleviate these situations, let alone remove myself from them. All I can do is do my best to cope.
Now, when these major depressive days hit me, there isn’t a trigger that would justify the level of depression I feel. It’s outsized as a reaction to whatever I might be dealing with at the time. As I said above, by the next morning I am fine, and I mean that, not just less depressed, but back to my baseline, which is mildly depressed and decently anxious, which is actually a vast improvement for me, all things considered. Suffice it to say, the day after one of these one day “episodes”, I feel normal again.
I haven’t had a chance to speak to my psychiatrist about this, but I plan to give his office a call and explain what exactly happens, and see what he wants to do about it. I can’t just go on an antidepressant, because none of them play nice with my bipolar disorder. None. I’m on Lamictal as my mood stabilizer, and it works far, far better than lithium did for me. There really isn’t another medication that we can add in, and there’s nothing I can do to change my current circumstances. I am in therapy, and I’ll also be making my therapist aware of this.
Until now I’ve sort of brushed it off as just me feeling the whole range of emotions that I wasn’t able to before on meds, but this is kind of skewing towards extreme and scary at this point. Is it just that I don’t have adequate coping skills for the things I’m dealing with? Is it that I need to increase my dose of Vraylar? I don’t know. I just want to know if anyone else here has experienced anything like this before.
I don’t have “manic” days either. Just these random, not frequent, absolutely overwhelming days of pure despair, then I’m back to normal the following day. I feel like this is surely abnormal, but I don’t have an explanation for it, and I don’t know what to do about it other than what I already plan to on Monday, which is call my psychiatrist and my therapist.
Has anyone else gone through something similar on Vraylar? What did you do? Did it get better? Any advice?
I have been on 3mg Vraylar for more than a month and never drink usually. But on Friday i had 3 glasses of wine with dinner with friends. It is Sunday now and I still have headache, haziness and trouble concentrating. It is almost as if I am still hungover. This is making me uneasy to be honest as I want to feel normal again. Did anyone have a similar experience?
Im 42 on 6mgs of Vraylar and 200mgs of Lamactil for about 9 years..I never messed with psychedelics but am 25 year veteran of all the other drugs including a long history of iv opiate abuse. I am almost 4 years in recovery from illicit opiates. I never took acid because I was scared. I finally got into a recovery community that gets me and I started feeling ready. I dipped my toe into ketamine a few months ago and I k holed my first time. It was a beautiful experience.
I take Vraylar because I was diagnosed as bi polar at 18 years old while detoxing from opiates. Ive never been manic in my life and the label follows you. If anything I was severely depressed with severe anxiety.
So last night I took 2 hits of acid and about 2 hours in felt nothing. I take another two hits and got slight chemtrails but nothing guys..nothing..I do a little research and find out Vraylar completely cancels out LSD. How is that even possible? Why is it even possible? Ive felt "emotionally dulled" since I was 18 and started on bi polar meds. Since finding my community and understanding of spirituality..i want to feel it all and felt absolutely nothing. How can you drive after taking 4 hits of acid? I did. My mind is just blown.
I'm curious because I started Vraylar probably around 5-6 years ago when they really started marketing it for bipolar depression. I was told it was well-tolerated; it wasn't like to cause weight gain, effect my libido and would really help my depression. Well, honestly, in my case that was a big load of crock. Was anybody else told this?
I just got prescribed this medication and plan on taking it tomorrow night.
I get worried about side effects
With seroquel at lowest dose I had dykanisia and my restless legs flailing uncontrollably all night. Very weird uncomfortable feeling
-doc immediately told me to stop medication first week
With abilify 50 I took and was fine until like 5am where I started whole body flailing everywhere uncomfortable, can't sleep but also can't get up so I'm in this very uncomfortable half sleep where my body is moving but my mind is asleep. It's horrible
And now I look at this medication vylar and it Saya sometimes there are dykanisia symptoms so I'm actually kinda scared to try this.
My family has history of Parkinsons and I'm afraid these meds will lead me down to Parkinsons earlier and I was wondering the percentage of ppl take it if they had any negative symptoms
21 M here , ive had severe psychological issues for a decade like anxiety,depression,ocd and i have no friends or relationship and dont get along w anyone in my family either. so i only have my mother to vent and every-time I vent to my mother she just turns everything into a religious debate. Making me feel even worse than before i vented to her, what should i do? she asks me whats going on in my head and i tell her the truth and its always religious stuff as if religion is the cure to everything with the irony that god has never accepted her prayers💀
Has anyone combined vraylar and abilify for depression on top of an SSRI? I was recently switched from abilify to vraylar and by far I felt the best the first and second day when abilify was still in my system so I’m kinda interested in talking to my doctor about taking the medications together…
Took my first 1.5 dose today and felt a little weird as expected. I am currently on latuda 60mg and plan to start tapering down in 3 weeks. (Waiting on vraylar to build up a little first) Wish me luck! Any positive stories are welcome.
I started vraylar 1.5 mg and will be doing that for a week, then a week on 3 mg, and then 4.5 mg.
I previously took it a few years ago and from what I remember it helped with my bipolar depression but I guess I felt too okay and decided to stop the meds and ended up in the psych ward lol.
My question is can you feel slight mental differences after a day or two. Like clearer thinking, calmer head etc. ... I know full therapeutic effects take weeks but im asking in that regard. I asked chatGPT and it said it's plausible so I wanted to ask real people's experiences.
Me cambiaron de Risperidona a Vraylar, con la Risperidona subí muchísimo de peso, sin embargo ahora con Vraylar yendo al gimnasio me mantengo en mi peso, no soy capaz de adelgazar además me siento fatigada cada vez que subo cuestas, también me ocurre que no tengo apetito ninguno y mi digestión es super lenta ¿A alguien más le ha pasado?
I was prescribed to take 0.5 mg vraylar on top of my 20mg lexapro (because my lexapro alone wasn’t doing enough for my anxiety/depression) and I’ve only been taking vraylar like this for 3 days but all I’ve felt is super angry/agitated at everything.. i just feel like utter shit and hate everything. I feel super on edge and anxious. is this a normal side effects during the beginning or should I just stop taking vraylar? (Obviously I’m going to tell my doctor this but I’d like to hear what others have to say as well)
Day one. Feel wired. Heart palpitations and anxiety. Definitely feel stimulated. And ringing in the ears. Anyone else experience this? Does it go away? Don’t have akathisia, thankfully.
Hey guys,
I am a male in my 20s and was on Vrylar 1.5mg for 1 month after which I had good erections. However, I had to get a 2mg dosage (from a compounding pharmacy) because 1.5 was not fully effective for my psychosis.
Been on 2mg dosage for now 5 weeks and wonder if I should have hope that my erection would improve by week 8 or after (they say is when the blood levels of this meds level out).
Any stories — positive or negative?
Thank you.