I've had a lot of anxiety lately and my psychiatrist wants to try Latuda, which he thinks will help. His plan is to slowly wean me off of Abilify and replace it with the Latuda over a long period of time, possibly up to a year. This seems to me to be a good plan, but I just wandered if anyone else had gone through the change.

Also, I am concerned about tardive dyskinesia. This spring I started to move my tongue over my teeth and inside of my mouth quite a bit, as if I were dehydrated. This became rather compulsive for a while, but eventually went away. Although this behavior has just come back in a milder form, my doctor is not worried. He says that tardive dyskinisia is a permanent side effect that doesn't come and go. Nevertheless, I am a little worried and am thinking of taking neither Abilify nor Latuda if there is a risk of having the side effect permanently.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.