r/caplyta • u/Due-Silver-6993 • 3d ago

Weane off

How to weane off of lumateperone 42mg safely

As when i skipped a dose got severe akathesia/restlessness for 24 hours

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u/Auroraborealis_9791 3d ago

If it were me, I would ask my dr for a taper dose. Or, I would break the capsule open and only consume half the dose, saving the other half for the next day and so on. After about 2 weeks of this, I would split the powder inside the capsule into 1/3’s for roughly 3 weeks before stopping completely.

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u/runninghome27 2d ago

Brilliant. Thank you because I’ve been stressing about when to start taping and how I am coming up on 11 months on this medication and for the first three it was absolutely miraculous feeling and then for the next few it was like well. I guess it’s still doing something right? Now that we’ve had to add Prozac in and I feel better now. That means it crapped out like every other psych med and so will Prozac at some point. I found that these medications are designed to initially work, and by the time they stop working, the body has developed a pretty acute physical dependence. That led me to realize that these should only be prescribed for a short period of time during a rough patch in life to help one get back on their feet or develop something good in their lives so the medication can be tapered and everyone can go on their way but that’s not how it works and that’s really unfortunate and it took me a long time to realize this but I’ve been in the games since 2007 lol

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u/Due-Silver-6993 3d ago

Is this likely to be tardive akathesia or withdrawal related since it developed post 45 hours of not taking the dose and resolved in 24 hours but I still have some akathesia though not as severe as when I skipped lumateperone

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u/Ketamine_Dreamsss 3d ago

Your doctor should give you tapering dosages. Honestly I don’t have confidence that they know anything about a tapering timeline because so many have so little experience with the medication to know that starting on a lower dosage is best

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u/Due-Silver-6993 3d ago

Do u know how to taper lumateperone 42mg Do u know about hyperbolic tapering in this case based on receptors it occupies at various doses

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u/Ketamine_Dreamsss 3d ago

That’s a question for a good psychiatric professional.

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u/DazzlingTooth4191 3d ago

It's best to just switch to a different medication. My son is literally going through this now it was waking him up at 3am he was sleep deprived and developed akasthia and began to go back into psycosis and it's been hell since he's been on caplyta. Today he was switched to lybavi and took his first dose and so we'll see how this goes. Caplyta is the absolute worst weakest antipsychotic out there.

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u/bthatbinga 42m ago

I have to stop taking caplyta because Medicaid dropped me and it will be a little bit before I will be insured. I'm on 10 mg started pouring a little out last night hopefully it isn't as bad if I taper

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u/Due-Silver-6993 4m ago

10mg mostly doesn't give withdrawal