I tried this when it first came out. I didn't make it past the starter dose because it made me feel awful. I couldn't put how I felt into words, just awful. I think now it probably was akathesia that was different than my other experiences with it. I was just a couple of months out from being hospitalized from akathesia from something given during surgery combined with a mixed episode and this was nothing like that. I may not have been able to recognize a more normal akathesia at that time. I also was still on some meds for akathesia so it may have been muted by that. Regardless, hated it and stopped.

I know this drug helps tons of people. In the months afterward I was IP again and saw people loving it. I took a class through NAMI and there were a few people taking it who were doing incredibly well in my class. It just wasn't for me.