Hello everyone. So my current psych meds are: 225mg Effexor in the morning. 150mg Seroquel before bed and 1mg Klonopin before bed. 
I have BPD, severe anxiety/panic disorder, and cylothemia. I started seeing a new psychiatrist and we talks about how I started having mini manic episodes again this year. They last 4-8 days and during that time I don’t sleep, I have way too much energy, paranoia, impulsiveness, racing thoughts, panic, and intrusive thoughts. During my first one in April my regular dr upped my seroquel from 100mg to 150mg and that helped tremendously. However, my psychiatrist would like to try other anti-psychotics because of my terrible weight gain and side effects of Seroquel. (I have a very love hate relationship ship with that med. it saved my life but I gained almost 80lbs which the psych said she sees a lot of people with that problem). 
My main question is: has anyone taken Vraylar? How did it help? Did it make you sleepy? Side effects?
I start it on the 1st. We’re not doing any other changes with my other meds yet until we see how this works. 
Thank you for reading this. :)