ABILIFY Reviews (ARIPIPRAZOLE)Average Rating: 2.7 (798 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ABILIFY with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ABILIFY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | psychosis | This drug helped me with psychosis, but akathisia and anxiety didn't subside. Also poor concentration, weight gain, swollen belly, nausea and tiredness are side effects. | Akathisia is a very unpleasant feeling, and it made me feel anxious and was not able to function on daily matters. Would recommend the drug for psychosis, but unfortunately due to many side effects I would reconsider taking the drug another time. | M | 30 | 1 years 5 1X day | 8/7/2017 | 3 | psychosis | spaced out, tiredness, fatique, suicidal ideation, loss of motivation in exercise, difficulty focusing. | Voices, and hallucinations have gone. | F | 28 | 6 months 15mg 1X day | 5/14/2017 | 3 | Bipolar | Weight gain | Helped a little | F | 37 | 10 months 5mg | 3/13/2017 | 3 | Headache, memory problems ,no sexual drive,no desire to do things I used to do before | If you want,you can contact me on my email:[email protected] to share experience | F | 19 | 2 months | 11/24/2016 | 3 | Depression | First few days: Nausea, stomach discomfort, spaced out feeling, sleep disturbance, fatigue/weak feeling, general ill feeling, unstable mood, low mood, anxiety, irritablity. Continual: poor working memory, poor cognitive function | The first couple of days were very unpleasant because of the adverse effects. These did pass pretty quickly though. After this my mood did become more stable straight away, and there was a reasonable mood improvement. Energy levels did improve a bit too and was able to concentrate on things more easily. The down side was that these benefits were pretty inconsistent, but maybe I would have tried the drug longer if it wasn't for the very serious loss of memory function and cognitive processing. This is something I can not accept. Thoughts would just drop out of my mind as if I never had them, and I don't believe this would pass based on other peoples experiences. Of course depression causes cognitive/memory problems, but things are considerably worse with this drug and are yet to return to previous state. The drug does take about a month to leave your system though so bear this in mind if you think of starting it. | M | 35 | 10 days 2.5 1X day | 11/12/2016 | 3 | Depression | I would like to know if diabetes is a side effect of taking Abilify or if it can exacerbate diabetic symptoms. Thank you | N/A | F | 55 | 4 years 30mg | 3/17/2016 | 3 | Depression | I would like to know if diabetes is a side effect of taking Abilify or if it can exacerbate diabetic symptoms. Thank you | N/A | F | 55 | 4 years 30mg | 3/17/2016 | 3 | Depression, anxiety, possible mania | I felt very nervous taking it. Not a good feeling. I think I get akathasia, or feeling very uncomfortable. After taking it for 4 days, I got very angry with a family member (which never happened before), who I was furious with. This is unusual for me, as I usually always try to keep the peace and not cause problems in our household. After the huge fight and anger towards a family member, I stopped taking it. | It's weird that this med caused anger in me, because I thought it was used to lower anger and irritability. | F | 32 | 4 days 2 mg 1X day | 11/28/2015 | 3 | Agitated depression/ Bipolar disord | Increased sugar/carb craving, severe headache, hair loss/thinning, muscle pain, tiredness, constipation. | Ability has worked to control the severe agitation I was experiencing due to a flare up of my bipolar depression. The side effects are pretty harsh though. I suffer from chronic daily migraine headaches as it is, and this medication just makes them worse! I am craving sugar and carbs more than ever, and have gained weight as a result. My muscles hurt so bad that it is hard for me to move in the mornings, and I toss and turn all night trying to get comfortable. I have hard stools as well. I have handfuls of hair coming out every time I shower, and my brush is full of hair every time I use it. This medication has too many negative side effects for me, and I will be stopping it after seeing my doctor this week. | F | 47 | 2 weeks 5mg daily | 11/16/2015 | 3 | schizophrenia | slight weight gain, sugar cravings, restless legs, cavities ... | the sugar cravings has caused weight gain and cavities. i'm worried about diabetes. paranoia reduced. much better than risperidone. | M | 38 | 3 years 15 MG 1X day | 11/13/2015 | 3 | Borderline personality disorder | Headache. Slight weight gain. Fatigue and muscle weakness. Foggy headed. Panic attacks and anxiety. Restlessness. | It helps with the impulsiveness, irritability, and rage. However, with the increased dosage, there's a huge increase in anxiety. | F | 39 | 2 months 10 mg | 10/12/2015 | 3 | To calm thoughts down | Tired all the time, worn out, no motivation/don't want to do anything, feel more scared to do things and increased social anxiety, feel wired and anxious all the time, even in my room, where I used to feel safe. Nausea, acid reflux. Some people stare at me like I'm weird in public. | I was given this to help me calm down my thoughts. I have social phobia and I don't think it's helped this at all; it may have made it worse. When I go out to restaurants, I feel more wired, and it's not a pleasant feeling, but it's hard to describe. I do notice some benefits, like I'm not walking around like a wounded, hurting animal anymore, and when I see things that used to make me feel jealous or hurt (like couples or friends together, or women with babies) it no longer has such a hurtful impact on me. I don't know what to do with this medicine, b/c I notice benefits, but the increased uncomfortable feeling is kind of hard to deal with, and the worst thing is that some other people look at me like something's wrong with me. This has happened at the past 2 restaurants I went to; two different older men looked at me like there was something wrong with me. I am on the fence with this drug; I think I should give it more time to see how I adjust, but the uncomfortable, wired, anxious-like feeling I get from it can be embarrassing for me, especially when other people look at me like there's something wrong with me. It's a feeling where I feel like I'm kind of crawling out of my skin. | F | 32 | 6 days 2 mg 1X day | 8/9/2015 | 3 | Depression | Weight gain 40 ibs and high blood sugar and high cholesterol | I decided after four years it was time to go off this drug. I started by decreasing to 2 mg for one month, then 1 mg for one months and then off.I have had lots of muscle and joint pain since getting to one mg but getting better. NOthing else at this point .I am off a total of five days now. I am actually waking up from this drug. | F | 53 | 4 years 3mg 1X day | 6/11/2015 | 3 | Bipolar | Extreme nausea, Vomiting, Increased appetite, Dizziness | My family said it greatly improved my mood and reduced my impulsive urges to spend money and act without thinking. I could not tell a difference but everyone around me said it was working so I stuck with it but I started getting extreme nausea to the point I felt like a pregnant woman with all day morning sickness. It sucked because it made me severly hungry, like I could never get enough food but I ignored the extra hunger and still cut myself off when I knew I was full. But everytime I ate, if I did not throw up I would have a lingering nausea that lasted all day to the point that I actually had to make myself throw up in order to feel better. The sickness would not go away until I vomited so if it didn't happen on its own, I would force myself to. Not good, I am not bulemic. Also noticed weight gain even with constant vomiting. Puking that much should never result in weight GAIN. Also caused crippling dizziness, had to lay down throughout the day or I felt like I was going to faint. So I stopped taking it. | F | 29 | 3 weeks 40mg 1X day | 5/6/2015 | 3 | depression; anxiety | 40 lb weight gain | M | 56 | 2 years 7 1X day | 3/18/2015 | 3 | bi-polar, depression | When I first went on abilify they put me on 5 mgs and I was racing mentally and physically couldn't sit still or sleep. Cut it to 2.5 per doctor instructions and that seems to work. I don't think I am bi-polar at all but that's what they keep trying to say. I am 48 and never had wild mood swings and still don't. I have no high highs and no low lows so it puzzles me how this was the diagnosis. But it helping me with what I'm going through right now. | F | 48 | 2 weeks 2.5 1X day | 11/30/2014 | 3 | depression | sleepiness, tremor | Worked great for around a month, I felt better than I had in years and actually motivated to do things. The effect disappeared completely after about 6 weeks of taking it. Increasing the dose didn't help. | M | 28 | 3 months 15mg 1X day | 10/1/2014 | 3 | Add-on to Antidepressant | Mainly rapid weight gain, despite a healthy and quite restrictive diet and exercise. Increased sweating and headaches. | Abilify did help boost the SSRI I was taking, but after 5 months of constant weight gain, I am ready to get off it. I'm getting depressed about my body now. I was hoping I would be spared this side effect, but I'm gaining 1 lb per day, and that is unacceptable... Nothing fits anymore. I'm still not big, but if I stay on the medication, I will be soon... | F | 5 months 5mg 1X day | 7/31/2014 | 3 | bipolar, depression | No side effects. I can still get depressed easily. i feel no energy, motivation, I feel nothing. Is it because my mg. Is low? To me I'm slow at every thing. I can not work I'm slow moving | F | 54 | 10 years 15mg | 7/17/2014 | 3 | major depression, schizoaffective, | Sedation, sleepiness, tiredness, the feeling of agitation | Can be a life saver. | M | 17 | 1 months 10 MG 1X day | 3/18/2014 |