Discussion Just been prescribed Rexulti, anyone have any experience?

[fultron12]

It's an anti psychotic, mainly geared towards those struggling with schizophrenia, which I don't have, just depression and anxiety (and adhd)

My doctors goal is that it supposedly attacks anxiety very well regardless of what mental condition you have

So far, I'm 4 days in and I'm fucking EXHAUSTED all the time, like it feels like I'm wearing a weighted blanket and walking uphill in my own home. Has anyone been prescribed this long/short term, and if so, did the side effects go away?

 

[Smart No More]

That sounds far from ideal. Have they given you a time frame in which it should reach therapeutic effect? I know antidepressants arw like 3-5 weeks. It's good that your doctor is trying to tackle it with somw thought but honestly I think they hand these things out way too easily. Hopefully in your case it's relevant and will start doing its thing as hoped. I just feel like doctors are stuck in the mindset of following their own observations and not taking into account anything the user/patients say. For example, someone comes in with anxiety and restless legs. They get put on something that makes them feel the way you're felling which, from the outside looking in appears to have calmed you but you feel like shit. They're happy to see the first part of that (you appear calm) but don't care that it makes you feel like shit.

I should say that not all doctors are of that type but my experience has led me to believe the good ones are few and far between. Is it a general doctor/practitioner prescribing you or a psychologist/psychiatrist? I don't trust general doctors with this stuff personally.

I met with a psychologist a while back. General doctor had been pushing mental health at me for the cause of my health issues. Psychologist backed me up and cleared me of mental health issues. If the doctors had their way I'd be pretty deep into the antidepressants by now but luckily I refused and the psychologist agreed I'd made the right choice. It's fucking dangerous man. Doctors don't care one bit about taking risks with your wellbeing as long as the system they work for doesn't hold them responsible. And that's bases on some poor ethics involving profits and biased science. I mean they'll give out psych meds like candy and tell you to rely on the meds to fix your problems but if you're a drug user (self medicator) you're relying on drugs to fix your problems. If they were allowed to dish out the drugs without legal recourse though they'd be doing it and sleeping very well at night. As we've already seen with the opiod epidemic. The whole sytem is way too fluid in its morality. Highly inconsistent.

Sorry for venting in your thread.

Hope you get answers and things turn in your favour. : )

 

[fultron12]

That sounds far from ideal. Have they given you a time frame in which it should reach therapeutic effect? I know antidepressants arw like 3-5 weeks. It's good that your doctor is trying to tackle it with somw thought but honestly I think they hand these things out way too easily. Hopefully in your case it's relevant and will start doing its thing as hoped. I just feel like doctors are stuck in the mindset of following their own observations and not taking into account anything the user/patients say. For example, someone comes in with anxiety and restless legs. They get put on something that makes them feel the way you're felling which, from the outside looking in appears to have calmed you but you feel like shit. They're happy to see the first part of that (you appear calm) but don't care that it makes you feel like shit.

I should say that not all doctors are of that type but my experience has led me to believe the good ones are few and far between. Is it a general doctor/practitioner prescribing you or a psychologist/psychiatrist? I don't trust general doctors with this stuff personally.

I met with a psychologist a while back. General doctor had been pushing mental health at me for the cause of my health issues. Psychologist backed me up and cleared me of mental health issues. If the doctors had their way I'd be pretty deep into the antidepressants by now but luckily I refused and the psychologist agreed I'd made the right choice. It's fucking dangerous man. Doctors don't care one bit about taking risks with your wellbeing as long as the system they work for doesn't hold them responsible. And that's bases on some poor ethics involving profits and biased science. I mean they'll give out psych meds like candy and tell you to rely on the meds to fix your problems but if you're a drug user (self medicator) you're relying on drugs to fix your problems. If they were allowed to dish out the drugs without legal recourse though they'd be doing it and sleeping very well at night. As we've already seen with the opiod epidemic. The whole sytem is way too fluid in its morality. Highly inconsistent.

Sorry for venting in your thread.

Hope you get answers and things turn in your favour. : )

Thanks for the thoughts man, yeah I'm supposed to be on it for 2 to 3 weeks before she adds my old meds back in (I took Adderall and antidepressants for about 2 and a half years straight until last September when I became unemployed and I've been dry since, the rexulti being the first thing I've taken in 9 months)

So basically, she wants to see if this has any result in about 2 weeks, and if the results are good, she'll get me back on my Lexapro and my Adderall. I'm not sure if she wants me on all 3 at once, seems like a lot.

Thankfully she's a pretty great psychiatrist, she knows me really well and has made it clear she cares deeply about me.

But you're absolutely right on the questionable ethics and lack of care involved with so many of these cock suckers. When I was put into a psyche ward for a week following a suicide attempt (it had NOTHING to do with my meds I was on) I shit you not, a doctor who studied under NEUROLOGY looked my in the eyes and said "your adhd isn't real, and the Adderall you're taking is just meth, it made you go wacko" and then he mis diagnosed me as bi-polar. He then cold turkey'd me on all my meds and put me on a huge dose of a new one.

So for the next week, I was prescribed the wrong shit, Latuda, it was horrible for me, made me feel like a corpse, falling asleep mid-sentance, but in order to please that asshole and get out of there, i had to act like it was working.

My REAL psychiatrist that I mentioned before wanted to murder that man, that's how I know she really cares and is trying her best to treat me.

 

[Smart No More]

Thanks for the thoughts man, yeah I'm supposed to be on it for 2 to 3 weeks before she adds my old meds back in (I took Adderall and antidepressants for about 2 and a half years straight until last September when I became unemployed and I've been dry since, the rexulti being the first thing I've taken in 9 months)

So basically, she wants to see if this has any result in about 2 weeks, and if the results are good, she'll get me back on my Lexapro and my Adderall. I'm not sure if she wants me on all 3 at once, seems like a lot.

Thankfully she's a pretty great psychiatrist, she knows me really well and has made it clear she cares deeply about me.

But you're absolutely right on the questionable ethics and lack of care involved with so many of these cock suckers. When I was put into a psyche ward for a week following a suicide attempt (it had NOTHING to do with my meds I was on) I shit you not, a doctor who studied under NEUROLOGY looked my in the eyes and said "your adhd isn't real, and the Adderall you're taking is just meth, it made you go wacko" and then he mis diagnosed me as bi-polar. He then cold turkey'd me on all my meds and put me on a huge dose of a new one.

So for the next week, I was prescribed the wrong shit, Latuda, it was horrible for me, made me feel like a corpse, falling asleep mid-sentance, but in order to please that asshole and get out of there, i had to act like it was working.

My REAL psychiatrist that I mentioned before wanted to murder that man, that's how I know she really cares and is trying her best to treat me.

What an asshole. I mean I don't know all the details but cold turkeying you says a lot about the careless mindset of some of these practitioners. They get to go home and enjoy lifes creature comforts while you're there feeling inhuman.

I'm glad you got a good one now. Hold on to that one! As she has good intentions I'd say stick it out. Guessing that's your plan anyway. I guess maybe give her a call and ask her about the initial reaction you're having. I'm inclined to think the way you feel will pass. They do tend to have a period of getting worse before getting better. What worries me about these kinds of meds is coming off them and long term side effects people speak of. I get that it's kind of the lesser evil for some to roll that dice though. And in fairness it does work for some people. Hopefully that's you.

How come you went dry when work ended? Was it a cost issue? It terrible that people have to go without meds in civilised societies. Public health care systems are great on that front. They do seem to end up existing on a slope towards privatisation though. Suppose that's the nature of the world we live in.

Best of luck with your treatment man!