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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ABILIFY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Depression & Anixety with ssri | Restlessness, muscle twitching, increased anxiety, bladder irritation on 1-2mg and could never be in these doses. | I first thought this med was a godsend. Lifted my depression in a day or two- but I always felt restless, too much energy in my chest. As the weeks went on the restlessness grew worse- to the point that it was all day and panic attacks started happening. Buzzing feeling started happening in both my legs. I stopped it five days ago and the twitching has lessened, and the buzzing in my legs has transferred to only one of them and mainly in my foot now. Hoping more time off clears the rest. Please only try this med if you are desperate. It works quickly but the side effects are not worth it. | F | 25 | 1 months .05-2mg 1X day | 11/29/2023 | 1 | Misdiagnosised bipolar disorder | So many I don't know where to start. I began as having depression. 3 years later, I was diagnosed bipolar. I and my new doctor now believe I was misdiagnosed bipolar. We feel it was the pharmaceutical drugs I have been on for many years that made me bipolar. One of the most severe drugs I took was Abilify. I think it is as strong as cocaine and other hard drugs. I had cognitive problems, apathy, couldn't feel anything like I was numb, terrible choices and therefore, horrible outcomes. Overspending to the point of stealing money from family members, lost jobs and lost friends and family in the end. | Please be careful about this drug! I honestly do not consider this a medication. My doctors told me it was a antidepressant to help with my other medications. But it was an antipsychotic! I was told not to pay attention to any side effects because they are rare and that all of these medications work the same. THEY DO NOT! BEWARE! Since I was told that I never thought of consulting with a pharmacist. Now I have researched and found out that pharmacists know more about psychotherapy meds than doctors. I wish I would have known that. At first, I lost jobs because of my behaviors. I started loosing friends because of irritability and I no longer felt like myself. Then I lost my family because I started stealing their money to go on spending sprees on EBay. It got so bad that my family no longer wanted to have anything to do with me. I also had a lot of weight gain. I was 130 pounds and blew up to 200 pounds. So I started having severe problems because of low self esteem. I told my doctor all this and he just said I needed it and he was overweight himself so why worry? I thought maybe he was right because members of my family started gaining weight as they got older. Finally I got so frustrated about the weight gain that I thought I'd try to stop taking the pill myself. So I took half a pill for awhile and then I took 1/4 of it. I thought it would just decrease my weight. It did that and more! I started eating small meals and was no longer as hungry. Plus, I | F | 53 | 10 years 15 mg 1X day | 9/12/2023 | 1 | Suicidal ideation | Loss of motivation, appetite increases, weight increase (2 lb a week) light tremors | I hate this pill, my emotions are mostly gone except anger. I never should have been prescribed this medication | F | 13 | 21 days 2 mg 1X day | 8/28/2023 | 1 | Depression | Gain 40kg weight Gain appetite Make eating enormous food Hard to sit down Hard to wake up Too sleepy | F | 26 | 8 years 5 1X day | 3/6/2023 | 1 | Bipolar disorder 2 | I received an injection of ability about 7 months ago and I still have insomnia from it. My psychiatrist thinks it's mania but I was fine with sleep on my previous medication of invega. I don't know what to do anymore as lack of sleep is ruining my life. I immediately stopped taking the abilify injection after I developed insomnia but it's like something was permanently changed in me to stop sleep. | Abilify ruined my life and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. | F | 40 | 400 mg inj 1X day | 1/26/2023 | 1 | Schizoaffective disorder | Suicidal thoughts, insomnia, mania, delusionals, perception of wanting to just sleep with men and hallucinations. | Nightmarish experience. Might as well set up a tent at a hospital. | F | 36 | 7 days 5 mg 1X day | 11/10/2022 | 1 | 3 weeks | I became manic on this drug and started spending all my money, waking up several times a night, and had intense all encompassing anxiety. I even went to the emergency room with chest pain and thought I was having a heart attack. | YMMV just be warned that if you start abilify and you become manic, it might be due to the drug. Follow your gut. | F | 33 | 21 days 4 MG 1X day | 10/30/2022 | 1 | Forced to by doctor | Akathesia, depression, tremors, extreme pain, loss of tears, legs stopped working, extreme panic, headaches, bowel disorder | Had to take procyclidine to get my legs working again! I stopped being able to walk after the injection. I still can't cry normally, my tear ducts don't produce tears. I panic and shake in some situations like car rides. | F | 28 | 30 days 400 mg 1X day | 8/13/2022 | 1 | anxiety, depression, adhd | extreme akathisia and violent dystonia attack, extreme lethargy, lack of pleasure doing anything | went to a pip program (against my will and better judgment) and the psychiatrist there put me on a low starting dose of abilify to “take the edge off” of everything and “boost the effects of your other medications”. i am on lexapro and adderall and think they work just fine for me, but it was suggested that abilify could help even more so i tried it. i later found out that abilify probably shouldn’t be taken with lexapro in the first place because it increases the risk of heart problems and qt rhythm, and i am already on adderall while increases heart rate and risks of heart problems too. probably shouldn’t be on all three at the same time. not only that, but i also had a congenital heart defect (hole between some ventricle chambers) and even though it has eventually healed on its own i’ve never been sure that my heart is actually 100%. as soon as i began taking it, i became incredibly lethargic to the point i was just falling asleep everywhere - it’s like i spontaneously became narcoleptic. it also made me feel jittery and absolutely stircrazy and like i needed to move and do things at all times despite the fact that i was legitimately too tired to do anything at all (which probably just made the restlessness even worse). i was incredibly restless and felt like i was vibrating despite being incredibly tired, and nothing was fun o | F | 16 | 5 days 2.5mg-5mg 1X day | 1/27/2022 | 1 | Schizophrenia | Extreme depression. Loss of motivation. Loss of all interest. Loss of libido. Unable to perform simple tasks. Low performance rating at work. | The medication is supposed to improve life quality, Abilify feels disabling and imprisoned in your physical body. If I were to be told that for the rest of my life to take this medicine and I had no choice in the matter, suicide would be a serious option I would consider. | M | 30 | 2 weeks 10 1X day | 12/15/2021 | 1 | Depression | Improved severe depression initially but I am so lethargic. I have also gained over 25 pounds. I am also binge eating and binge spending. When I try to go off of it, I become severely depressed and hopeless. Do not ever start it. | F | 51 | 18 months 2 1X day | 7/28/2021 | 1 | major depressive disorder | extreme sleepiness, spending money out of control! Racked up $14,000 in credit card debt in a little over a year | If you had asked me while I was taking this, I would've told you it was the best drug I ever took! It completely got rid of my depression for the first time in my life. I also developed a total lack of impulse control, leading to out of control spending. The worst thing is that I can't stop taking it (or haven't yet been able to.) I'm down to 2mg every other day. If I try to quit, I get overwhelming feelings that I'm going to die. Note that I'm NOT suicidal and I don't want to die, but every time I try to stop this drug, I'm obsessed with fears that I'm going to die. My doctor can't help because she doesn't believe Abilify causes withdrawal. I'm really scared I'll never be able to be off this drug and that scares me. I wish I never would have started it. | F | 46 | 1 years 5 mg 1X day | 7/7/2021 | 1 | Depression | Couldn't dream anymore, couldn't do daily tasks or work, promiscuity, low self esteem, dull sense of being, inability to stay on task, lack of foresight, risky decision making, indifference, apathy, spending money non-practically, crying, lack of energy, discouraged, angry, sad, hopeless. | Lawsuits against this drug manufacturer should have been enough to stop its production. It's effectiveness is imaginary, it's price is stupid, mixed with other meds is more stupid, can lead to gambling and promiscuity and abnormal social behavior. Makes you not give a damn, and makes you feel like you're only partly alive, half-dead. It's a poison that never leaves your system and remains in vital organs. Once you research you will agree it is a poison to make money using humans as tests/experiments. I stopped it on my own, because I was no longer feeling the stresses that they assumed I needed this Godforsaken medicine for, as I was experiencing a loss and grief over a loved one at the time, and had few withdrawal symptoms when I stopped cold turkey ( increased heart rate, weeping)…an educated person wouldn't go near this medicine. I was stupid for not researching the facts about Abilify, and trusting inept APRN's and overworked medical professionals. Better to face our issues head on in a safe environment than to numb the engine (our subconscious mind) we need to subsist with some grace and dignity. It ruins your teeth also. | F | 4 years 2.0 1X day | 5/31/2021 | 1 | Schizoaffective disorder | Insatiable hunger, muscle pain, high CPK, akathisia | F | 32 | 2 months Depot 2X M | 5/11/2021 | 1 | Attacked by a witch | You loose all mind. Everything goes away friends family. I have now switched to xeplion and life is much much better. Doctors are horror you just lay in bed all day. | I urge people to talk to the computer/record and speak and talk to the computer instead of talking to some idiot official doctor. about the day. | M | 41 | 4 years 15 1X day | 2/15/2021 | 1 | Anxiety, to Gain Weight | Extreme anxiety, ptsd, depression, isolation. | I was 15/16 when I was put on this drug. My psychiatrist told me it would help with my appetite and my bad anxiety from school. It was great for about 2 weeks, but then I started throwing up every morning and had terrible anxiety/panic attacks and ptsd. I lost a lot of weight and I was only around 100 pounds when I started taking it. I passed out frequently, and eventually had a seizure. It took me at least a year to fully recover from this extremely dangerous drug. I have no clue why anyone would want to give this to anyone, let alone a teenager! | F | 18 | 6 months 2.5 MG 1X day | 1/13/2021 | 1 | OCD | Sick. Sick. Sick. Shakiness and lived in the bathroom for weeks. The negatives definitely outweigh the positives. However, everyone's bodies react differently. | F | 21 | 4 weeks 5mg 1X day | 12/29/2020 | 1 | Bpd | Brain fog, increased anxiety, feeling tired all the time, can't sit still | It's trash | M | 21 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 11/22/2020 | 1 | misdiagnosed with bipolar | I almost died because: 1) i was severely allergic to Abilify and Risperdol and was very misdiagnosed in LA County Female Jail as being Bipolar and "chronic catatonic schizophrenic." (They made that up; no such actual diagnosis called that.) I actually had a skull fracture and Traumatic Brain Injury due to police attacking me without warning of any kind, from behind. (10 yrs later LASD is still investigating MANY situations like mine.) 2) i was less thab 100lbs at the time but 6 or 8 deputies attacked me then lied to County staff about my "mental disabilities," which they actually caused. So i was also given a high dose of Risperdol. I was too terrified to say what realy happened so i pretended to agree that i fell off my bunk and since i had been a psychology major, i faked a few symptoms saying i heard voices - because i needed an MRI and i knew i had a very serious head injury. 3) within 5 weeks i was half paralyzed , wheelchair confined, and was in the jail infirmary where nirses had to shower me, spoon feed me, help me to even turn over when sleeping and move my legs cuz i couldnt feel them...from the permanent reactions to Abilify and Risperdol. I managed to have a nurse put KLONOPIN on my med schedule which probably helped save my life. I suffered like this for 4 months in jail. I was im there cuz i had a stalker (who still stalks me and the FBI knows now) who filed false 911 police reports and theu went along with his hate crime lies | It should not be legal . | F | 34 | 1 years 30 2X day | 11/12/2020 | 1 | Borderline Personality Disorder | akathisia, loss of concentration, extreme weight gain, insomnia, extreme numbness (loss of emotions), binge eating disorder | Horrible experience. Doesn't worth it. 0/5 I've always been a perfectionist and this drug prevents you to think but you're indeed aware of that but you can't understand completely because you can't use your logic I hate it. | F | 17 | 5 months 15 1X day | 9/14/2020 |
ABILIFY (ARIPIPRAZOLE): Aripiprazole is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, and irritability associated with autistic disorder). It may also be used in combination with other medication to treat depression. Aripiprazole is known as an antipsychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters). This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. Aripiprazole can treat severe mood swings and decrease how often mood swings occur. FDA Approval Date: 2002-11-15 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)