I am about to throw in the towel with Vraylar which is a pity because it does seem to actually be helping an extreme bipolar I depressive episode.

However, about 2 weeks into taking Vraylar, I started waking very early in the night, anywhwere from 1 AM to 3 AM and then cannot fall back to sleep. In addition, these wakings are accompanied by night sweats and I will spend hours constantly pulling my covers on, kicking them off, pulling them on (hot then cold then hot then cold). The night sweats seem to make the nausea I have from Vraylar worse, to the point of throwing up.

I hate to give up on something so helpful for the depression, but I am exhausted, and sleep is miserable. I'm going to see my pdoc on Monday. My gut wants to just stop the Vraylar and go on something like Wellbutrin that worked so so for me. Not great but not giving me constant thoughts that would have me in a psych hospital if my doctor knew.

Pdoc won't be happy with me. I really want him to take me off the Zyprexa (huge weight gainer) and go back on the Seroquel. Ugh...I suppose I never was an easy patient for him.