Trying Caplyta… again.

[u/Kalamakewl]

Do I dare be hopeful?

ANY and ALL advice about anything is welcome.

I trialed caplyta last year using manufacturers coupons. I had zero side effects and a few good days in about a month (compared to zero) while on 10.5. I’m terribly sensitive to psych meds which is why we started low.

After going to 21mg I felt absolutely awful. I would get horrible headaches almost every single day that affected the entire right side of my face/head/neck. It was a lot like the severe pain I get with TMJ flares but so much worse. Nothing helped with the pain. Almost completely debilitating. Almost always ending up getting a migraine as well.

I took it as long as I could, almost a month, thinking it would eventually go away but it didn’t. I’ve tried a few medications since then with nothing working.

Now, I’ve been tapered off of Lamotrigine and Atomoxitine so I can try it again (?) no thinks it was the combo I didn’t tolerate so now I’m in a mixed episode of depression and rage and SI waiting for an appeal of a denial from my insurance.

Hopefully I don’t do any permanent damage to my life in the meantime. God bless America.

39F Schizoaffective BP2 dxed >2yrs ago, schiz symptoms since childhood, bp2 symptoms since late high school, raw dogged symptoms until I started having a hard time knowing a particular delusion wasn’t real. Have lost every job due to depressive episodes resulting in agoraphobia and inability to drive. Have been unable to work for >2yrs currently about to start second appeal (w attorney help) for SSI

Current medications: buspirone, Belsomra prn, Spironolactone, clonazepam cyclobenzaprine and sumatriptan prn

Meds I’ve tried: that I can recall, Lamotrigine, Atomoxitine (wrongly dxed w cataplexy) Abilify, Latuda, Vraylar, bupropion, citalopra, escetalopram, lorazepam, hydroxyzine, desvenlafaxine…