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Jun 12, 2018, 12:12 PM
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I've been on 2 mg of rexulti for several months. My pdoc decided to lower my dose to 1 mg since I haven't had psychotic or manic symptoms but rather depression and a remarkable degree of fatigue. He is thinking that the AP is slowing me down too much so now I am on 1 mg, starting for the first time last night.
This morning I woke up with intense anxiety even more so than my usual in the mornings. My anxiety revolves around my loneliness and health situation and the fact that my son is still at home, not working, and playing video games most of the time, but I would have this anxiety anyway. I think a lot of my lung cancer coming back and my fear of being in constant pain and discomfort. In the last week or two I have developed a cough and anytime I cough I think it could be the lung cancer. More likely it is from post nasal drip. I'm constantly congested and have to take a steroid nasal spray. I'm so tired and lonely I want to scream but there is no one who will help. My son will mow the lawn but that is it.
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Jun 12, 2018, 05:25 PM
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I’m sorry you’re feeling so lonely and that the situation with your son hasn’t improved. I know anxiety can be tough. It could be a temporary withdrawal symptom from the rexulti. I hope it improves for you soon!
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Jun 13, 2018, 11:21 AM
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Thank you wildflowerchild25. I have anxiety every morning, yesterday it was particularly acute. Today is a little bit better. Maybe it isn't the Rexulti.
I forgot to take my night time meds so last night i had no Rexulti or Lyrica but the anxiety is not worse than yesterday. I did manage to get more done yesterday including 2 loads of laundry, cooking a meal, going out for lunch and unloading the dishwasher. Some days it is all I can do to get dressed and go out for lunch with my son. My son had an out of town interview last friday so he had to get up very early to get to the airport, except he didnt' wake up when he said he would. When i went upstairs to check in on him, he became enraged and texted me the whole day he was travelling how I was a terrible mother who should be put in jail for the abuse I subjected him to. I had gone behind my locked bedroom door when he started shouting at 4:45 am how much he hated me so then he switched to text. Instead of mentally preparing for the interview he just texted me incessantly on the airplane and told me I should have had an abortion because I wasn't fit to be a parent... Needless to say he had a terrible interview. He turned down a different job offer because he thinks the salary is too low and they wouldn't budge. So he gets to spend more time playing video games all day. I am afraid if I try to kick him out he will call the police and have me committed. He actually said no one would believe me over him because of my history. I told him I wanted him to move out then he finally apologized but I am still traumatized from last Friday. I asked him to load the dishwasher yesterday and he partially did it but he put cans in the garbage instead of bottle recycling and food in the . garbage too instead of composting despite the fact I've told him many times how to do it. If I ask him to help he will do something but it will be not be done properly. I had to go and pull cans out of the garbage. If he goes to get something to snack on he will leave all the drawers and cabinets he touches in the kitchen open. So then I go an ask him to close them. He will do that but the next time the same thing happens. I feel like i am living with a 4 year old in an adult body.
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Jun 13, 2018, 12:37 PM
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I had been on rexulti because abilify gave me such bad side effects. I feel rexulti did slow me down, but I also had horrible anxiety coming off of it. I was on 4mg. It was terrible. I feel for you.
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Jun 14, 2018, 10:07 AM
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My symptoms were not helped by abilify when I tried it a long time ago. I went on Rexulti after my last episode and haven't had another one, so I believe it is working to prevent manic psychosis. I am on 1 mg now instead of 2. This morning my anxiety is manageable and I am less focussed on all the problems although I sometimes just wish for it all to be over with... all my worries to be over with that is.
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Jun 14, 2018, 05:07 PM
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