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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ABILIFY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | bipolar 2 | hiccups, dizzyness, excessive need to sleep, nausea, hypoglycemia | I know I just started the drug but I do feel much more stable moodwise. I am hoping the side effects subside soon and that this will finally be a drug that works more than a month | F | 25 | 5 days 5mg 1X day | 3/7/2011 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | Extreme Fatigue | It made me absolutely exhausted, I would sleep for 15 hours at night and wake up even more tired than when I went to bed. It did keep me from being extremely depressed though, because when I stopped taking it I wound up being hospitalized for depression. Doesn't mean it won't work for others though! | F | 18 | 7 months 7 MG 1X day | 3/4/2011 | 3 | Mood disorder | Disoriented, lethargic, indifferent, weight gain | I started taking Abilify because I would fixate and obsess about things. I was also dealing with anger and irrational behavior. My doctor said I have a busy mind, it has to stay busy or I freak out on stupid things. I could never feel any peace. I was constantly anxious, couldn’t stop thinking, worrying, and obsessing. Abilify finally slowed my thoughts down and gave me some peace. However, now I feel like I’m too calm. I’m always tired and simply feel out of it. My job is suffering because I’m forgetful and spacey all the time. My weight is suffering because all I think about now is food. I am glad that I’ve had this short period of time of feeling mellow for the first time, but it’s time to get off of it and feel normal and healthy again, and hopefully redeem myself at work. I'm worried about withdrawal symptoms, but I'm going to go for it! Any similar stories or words of wisdom, please share, I've included my email address. | F | 33 | 4 months 5 mg 1X day | 2/15/2011 | 3 | bipolar/depressed | rapid weight gain and insomnia. | In the begining the medicine took the depression away. Then I noticed the weight gain 10 lbs in 3wk, and that after 4 to 5 am I could not sleep anymore and yet NOT tired during the day. This two side effects are now giving me a lot of anxiety and I am feeling depressed about the way I am looking which is not good b/c I have always had body issues. I want off this med. | F | 33 | 3 weeks .25mg 1X day | 12/25/2010 | 3 | Deppresion / Bi-polar | Tiredness, sleepy and hungry. | Started taking Paxil and 5 mg of Abilify then after a month my doctor increased the dosage to 10 mg per day. It helped after about two months, with my depression. Then I noticed I was sleepy all the time. My Doctor cut the dosage to 5 mg per day, then gradually reduced me to 0.5 mg per day. The low dosage seems to be working with both depression and my bi-polar. When I was on higher dosages of Abilify I really didnt feel anything. I was never happy nor sad, just blah. I am also on 20 mg of Adderall 3 times a day. This helps with the tiredness and lack of motivation and attention. I plan to stop the Abilify by June 2011. But I am going to gradually stop taking it. | M | 34 | 2 years 0.5 MG 1X day | 11/18/2010 | 3 | to improve control of bipolar 2 | Gained about 25 pounds, borderline diabetes. Good side effect: treated my restless leg syndrome. | Abilify worked very, very well at improving control of my depressive episodes (bipolar type 2) and it dramatically decreased my restless leg syndrome. It took about six weeks to make the depression go completely away, but life sure is good without depression. For the first time in my life, I feel consistently good. No unstable mood at all. However, I have gained about 25 pounds in the 2 yrs I've been on Abilify. Now I'm clinically obese and within one point of being diabetic. I believe the obesity is making it harder for me to find a job. Diabetes is a terrible thing, and acquiring diabetes right when I'm losing my health insurance is not a good thing, so I'm discontinuing the Abilify. I know it's going to be rough, but diabetes, obesity, and unemployment are rough, too. | F | 54 | 2 years 2.5 mg 1X day | 10/13/2010 | 3 | Bipolar I | Increase in appetite (gained 2 lbs in 2 weeks), GI upset initially, migraines so bad had to discontinue it | I'm bipolar with mixed states. After a month of a very tough mixed state, I tried Abilify. It quieted my head instantly. I liked Abilify although I didn't like that it increased my appetite. Had it not been for the migraines, I would have continued with it. | F | 39 | 3 weeks 2.5 mg 1X day | 9/28/2010 | 3 | BiPolar | This is my first day on Abilify. I took 2 MG last night. Could not fall asleep -- if I did fall asleep, I didn't stay asleep for long. I am exhausted today. Also, when I woke up in the middle of the night I was nauseated. I thought I had food poisoning. When I woke up in the morning my nausea was still there and I had a headache. Now I am just very tired because of the lack of sleep. I also have a pain going from my neck down my back...kind of feels like tendonitis. | F | 27 | 1 days 2 MG 1X day | 9/2/2010 | 3 | Schizoaffective | Akathisia - Extreme Restlessness... could not sit still! Insomnia | I switched to Abilify from Invega due to weight gain concerns. The Abilify worked great for the first couple of weeks. No weight gain issues, even lost the weight I had gained on Invega. I felt great mentally, I felt energized, I felt good. Then the restlessness started creeping in and getting worse and worse the longer I took Abilify. I could not sit still. The only peace I could get was when I was sleeping...if I could get to sleep. I finally couldn't take it any longer, so I went back to the Invega. Weight gain is way better than Akathisia. | F | 35 | 4 weeks 15 MG 1X day | 8/29/2010 | 3 | Psychosis | A week into taking it I had constipation and I just couldn't sit still EVER. Any way I stood, sat, etc. was uncomfortable. It was like having restless leg in my whole body. It somewhat helped with the mental stuff and I stopped taking it a week and a half ago. I had to take 2.5 mg today because I couldn't take my psychosis anymore. | F | 24 | 40 days 5 mg 1X day | 8/21/2010 | 3 | Add on therapy for depression | None that I am aware of ... | My doctor prescribed Abilify as an add on therapy for my Generalized Anxiety Disorder / Depression. I currently take Lexapro 25mg once a day and Xanax .5mg four times a day. My doctor added 2mg of Abilify at night to help with the depression. I was leary of taking a new med but I really hopes this works. I know it is a little soon but I wanted to see what others had to say about the medicine. " I hate Panic Attacks " ... :( | F | 33 | 4 days 2mg 1X day | 8/20/2010 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | I would wake up a couple times a night and be ready to start my day at 4:30 a.m. Abilify also gave me a restless feeling (a jump out of your skin feeling). I started to get manic probably soon after I started Abilify but I didn't realize it. I also started having compulsions for certain foods, shopping and books (I have alot of books in my apartment now). Now that I'm off Abilify I feel somewhat back to normal. Hope this helps :) | F | 42 | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 3 | Bipolar NOS | This drug was prescribed to bring me out of the severe funk I was in, it helped lift the depression in the beginning, wasn't effective in fighting the mania, as its effectiveness declined I moved from 2.5 mg to 5 mg to 7 mg to 10 mg to 20 mg. There was some cognitive decline since I was hunting for words and my short term memory was affected (this was before lamictal was added). It wasn't until lamictal was added that my mood evened out. I'm on 400 mg of Lamictal, 20 mg of abilify, 30 mg Buspar, and 300 mg of Seroquel XR. You can read my blog where I update my experience with drugs and manic depression... | M | 35 | 8 months 20 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 3 | Schizoaffective | Decrease in sex drive, A bit of weight gain, agitation but don't know if its the meds since I had it before taking abilify. | Abilify has helped, I would recommend this medicine. Still have psychotic symptoms on abilify but works for the most part. | F | 26 | 7 months 15 mg 1X day | 7/6/2010 | 3 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Anxiety, can't stop moving legs, incontinence, change of voice tone. I am taking seroquel as well at nights to help me sleep. | F | 44 | 1.5 years 30 1X day | 6/20/2010 | 3 | bipolar disorder/psychotic mania | No side effects other than lethargy for the first year. I was at 10, then 15 mg for six years after that until two months ago. My new doctor raised my dose to 20mg and I developed NMS symptoms. Fever, irregular heartbeat, sweating, blood pressure irregularities, etc. I had thoughts of suicide (extremely rare for me) could barely speak, was comatose and basically felt like I'd die from fright. After being on this for so long, my only advice is to not raise it quickly. It's a very sensitive drug. I am now developing problems with my liver, so discontinuation is likely this week. Too bad, it has worked well for years to squash mania and psychotic symptoms. | Do not raise too quickly! I went through every state of psychotic mania and depression the drug tries to suppress, and almost killed myself because of this drug being at too high a dose. After lowering it back to 15 mg my mental status is even, but now I have liver problems. I recommend this drug to the desperate and very ill because it does help, but not for a sleep aid or help with a minor or transient depression. Very scary drug. | F | 42 | 7 years 15 mg 1X day | 5/16/2010 | 3 | Add on therpy to cymbalta | restlessness | I think it is a good option and provides hope for the unresolved sytpomts | M | 30 | 2mg 1X day | 5/14/2010 | 3 | depression | anxiety | it helped boost the effectiveness of my antidepressant,it gave me a little bit of a rush,though trying more than 5mg it didnt work any better | M | 38 | 12 months 5mg 1X day | 4/20/2010 | 3 | bipolar depression | unsure if I am experiencing any NEW side effects | this medicine has stopped my obsession with dying. I am taking this in addition to Effexor XR | F | 42 | 35 days 5mg 1X day | 2/17/2010 | 3 | Bi-polar, Depression, GAD | Terrible night sweats, very vivid, bizzare dreams, constipation, twitching, extreme lethargy... | I don't feel depressed and sad anymore. I feel kind of leveled out, but I hate the tiredness all the time. I can sleep for 10 hours, take my son to school, come home and go back to sleep for another couple of hours. Then still have little to no energy for the rest of the day. I was previously, taking 60 mg. of Cymbalta for almost 2 years, but my dr. switched me to this when I started to feel like dying again. I also take Valium (5 mg.) when I feel anxious and panic coming on. | F | 35 | 14 days 5 mg. 1X day | 2/12/2010 |