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 | Stuttering | I have been taking Abilify 5mg for 4 weeks now and I am feeling fatigue and disconnected from life all day. Very little emotions and no sex drive. Sleeping ok but still just tired all day. | I was prescribed the dung as an experiment to treat stuttering or speech disorder I have. I have had a reduction is my stuttering but I am not sure if it worth the side effects. The feeling tired all the time is the hardest side effect for me. I might be put on Geodon instead. | M | 27 | 4 weeks | 9/3/2008 | 3 | depression, ocd, panic disorder | Feel "blah", disconnected. Unable able to get restful sleep, like i am aware of everything around me. I toss and turn all night long. Slight dizziness, extreme hunger and thirst. | Within an hour of taking the first pill i felt like someone had shut of a switch in my brain and my thoughts just stopped racing, which was great!! I am just so tired, I have always had vivid dreams and have had no trouble falling asleep, anywhere. I'm not sure i like the way i feel. Maybe i'm just used to being on high alert all the time, but i feel so "just here". My husband keeps telling me this will pass. I had been on 40mg of prozac for 11yrs and was taken of cold turkey 2 weeks ago, that went very bad. So now i am on 20 prozac and the abilify. Just don't know if i can hang in there!!! | F | 32 | 3 days | 7/27/2008 | 3 | bipolar | Initially I was VERY restless and had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Eventually that wore off. Weight gain. | I'm on the fence as to I feel about it. The weight gain bothers me the most. It served its purpose at the time it was needed but now we are going to discontinue it. | F | 37 | 1 years | 5/27/2008 | 3 | depression-CFS | constipation, I've gained 20 pounds.. but I took a vacation and I have been able to gain wieght easily in the past. | It seems to really numb me out. I take 15mg abilify-120mg cymbalta-90mg adderall + slepping pills. I think the abilify take the highs and lows out of the adderall. Bummer on the highs but good on the lows. I would rate it higher if I had more exerience with this drug | M | 37 | 30 days | 4/19/2008 | 3 | OCD | extreme restlessness | this medciation is REALLY helping my ocd, but the restlessness is almost unbearable, especially since i have a desk job. i'm going to talk to my psych about maybe taking something to combat the side effect. | M | 24 | 1 months | 4/12/2008 | 3 | Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder | Parkinsonian symptoms including elbow flexion, mask face, dysfunctional posture, some stiffness in arms, initially somnolence, but this eventually passed | My 7 year old son was started on Abilify as soon as he was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. He improved remarkably after the first dose, and within 6-7 days his symptoms were improved by 80-90%. However, he also immediately developed what is called in medical lingo akinesia, which is abnormal movement and posture, delayed spontanuity in gesture, and abnormal posture. Most of these side effects made him look like a Parkinson's patient. The pych was against giving a drug to counter these side-effects becuase he felt it was not a "clean solution." Later however, we did put him on Congentin which immediately took care of these side effects. In a nut shell, we tried various other drugs and none worked as well as Abilify so we are now going back to it hoping the side-effects don't re-emerge. He has been on numerous anti-pychotics since, and the side-effects are slowly diminishing with each new one. | M | 7 | 6 weeks | 3/25/2008 | 3 | bipolar II - Depression - anorxia | killer headache - pain in my jaw - nausea - dizziness | Can't really say yet if I like this medicine. I've only been on it for four days - 5mg. Seems as though a lot of people have gained weight. Hopefully that won't happen to me - right now I am nauseous so I don't want to eat; which is good sort of - I've had an eating disorder for many, many years. Now I am worried about gaining weight. If I do - I am off this drug. Thanks for the heads up - because my Doc prescribed this med as opposed to seroquel. I am hoping that these side effects go away. | F | 50 | 4 days | 3/25/2008 | 3 | depression | 20lb. weight gain,sleep disrupted, fatique. | New info about weight gain caused by increased appetite will be published soon. My therapist knows someone who works for the co. and he said my psychopharmacologist didn't have the info because it hasn't been published yet. I was waking up several hours earlier than normal and went back to my regular schedule as soon as I stopped. | F | 50 | 4 months | 1/11/2008 | 3 | depression, adhd, anxiety | 2mg every 2-4 days, per shrink. I have noticed that I have been happier the first day after taking it, each time, but then I get more moody or anxious as the pill wears off so I take another one which is about 2-3 days later. I sleep fine but not as hard anymore as I used to and I find myself more bored. I am more friendly to people though - most of the time. | I am still on the fence on this drug. I am not sure if it is because I am "thinking" it is working in a good way - or if it really is. This is one drug I am still waiting to see miracles happen but, honestly, I doubt it'll ever happen. I will continue to take the samples I received from the shrink and go from there..... | F | 38 | 30 days | 1/3/2008 | 3 | Massive increase in hunger and weight gain. No other side effects | Abilify worked great to stop mood swings and sense of "What's the point?" and fearful thoughts. The doctor said the medication would make me lose weight but it didn't so I decided to stop it | F | 2 months | 12/25/2007 | 3 | Bipolar | Extreme nausea like I've never had, unusually tired, constipation, and restlessness | Helps keep my mind clear though...good for that, but the nausea makes me too sick to move much | F | 30 | 24 days | 12/15/2007 | 3 | bipolar and OCD | motor impairment, slight weight gain, EXTREME fatigue, EXTEREME thirst, akathisia (need to move; I can't sit still anymore), and I believe I am experiencing Tardive dyskinesia | This medication was okay at first, or at least better than risperdal (which overall made me gain well over 100 pounds, but abilify was not that drastic). It had greatly reduced my obsessive and intrusive thoughts but now it's just an annoyance. Most of my meds, including this one, have slowed down my entire body (thinking, reaction time, speech, etc.) which is the reason I have a learning disability. I'm SO tired! I do have sleep apnea but abilify just makes it worse. Tardive dyskinesia is a problem, too (involuntary movements such as: grimacing, tongue protrusion, rapid eye blinking, finger movements as if playing a guitar or piano, etc.) Tardive dyskinesia happens with antipsychotics like abilify and I do every single thing I listed there. It's also potentially irreversable. I'm just not the same as I once was. | M | 20 | 2 years | 12/11/2007 | 3 | Bipolar/Hypomania | Hypomania, insomnia, blurred vision, nervousness, paraniod thoughts after 3 weeks of usage, unable to relax, confusion (could have been from lack of sleep). | The first week was great, very motivated on 10 MG. Week 2 began feeling confused, blurred vision, light sensitivity, nerviousness, yet still unable to stop moving. Third week 15mg, had to start taking Temazepam to get to sleep, still only 2-3 hrs of sleep a night. Still unable to stop moving. Finally called doc and weaned off in 3 days. Wonderful motivator, but unable to focus and sleep. The sleep deprivation and vision issues made this drug debilitating. Seemed to make my hypomania worse. Weaning off had delusional thoughts for a day or so. Defintely do not cold turkey off this med. | F | 34 | 3 weeks | 11/27/2007 | 3 | SCHIZO apparantly | wait gain, not thinking as much, tired, lazy, eyes twitching. | I have taken this medicine for sometime now and this medicine has made me lazy and tired all the time, making me put on weight. | M | 33 | 2 years | 11/12/2007 | 3 | Paranoid schizophrenia | For a short while, I experienced akathesia, but this has now gone. | Abilify has stopped auditory hallucinations, which is a great blessing. Sleep is interrupted, but I find that useful for reading and studying assorted Christian publications and the Bible early in the morning when all is quiet. My appetite is enormous, so am constantly struggling with the temptation to gluttony and "making a god of the belly". So the challenge is self-control to avoid putting on more weight. I can thoroughly recommend the book "Strength for His People - A Ministry for Families of the Mentally Ill" by Dr Steven Waterhouse, Pastor of Westcliff Bible Church in Amarillo, Texas since 1985, (published by Westcliff Press - www.webtheology.com; e-mail is [email protected]; Ph: (806)359-6362). His brother Mark, suffers from schizophrenia and he wrote the book in honour of him and to help ordinary people who may also suffer from this awful condition, and as a guide and consolation to families who may be the primary carer.(125 pages; Bibliography has 1 | F | 53 | 69 days | 10/10/2007 | 3 | Anger/Rage/Paranoid Thoughts | Extreme tiredness/exhaustion. Blurred vision and body aches. | It has made me calmer and I feel a little aloof so I'm not worrying about things as much. I don't know if the side effects are worth it though. I'll give it another week and see. | F | 30 | 2 weeks | 8/23/2007 | 3 | Schizoaffective | I'm on lots of meds, so I'm not sure what side effects are caused by abilify; I haven't noticed any. | Abilify helped things make more sense. It helped a lot with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. I stoped wearing sweatshirts in the summer shortly after the drug was started but didn't realize until later that the abilify was why. I would recommend this drug. | F | 19 | 2 months | 7/21/2007 | 3 | schizo/bipolar/depression | This medicince by far is the most effective when treating symptoms it has low impact on weight gain. i recommend this drug if you have experienced weight gain with other anti physcotics such as seroquel and zyprexa, i believe those drugs are linked to DIABETES, WEIGHT GAIN, and OVER EATING AND UNCONTROLLABLE HUNGER the dosing is very easy with abilify starting dose 15mg and that is the recommended dose you stay on according to my shrink abilify has not been found affective at higher does due to extreme side effects | this medicine made my eyes roll in back of my head once | M | 32 | 14 years | 5/14/2007 | 3 | Schizophrenia | increased sex drive, some tiredness, restlessness | Aripiprazole has being used to decrease the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and it has being effective at doing so. In my case, the side effects close to outweigh the benefits of this drug. | M | 32 | 2 months | 4/23/2007 | 3 | social anxiety, ADD | Mood lift, more energy (too much at 1 mg), got very restless, felt calmer around people, woke up earlier with energy, became to restless and had to stop taking Abilify. | I would recommend this to anyone needing an AP. I just got too restless and would lose my train of thought in mid- sentence. Not for me! Abilify may work really well with you. Try it out; you'll know very soon if its for you or not. | M | 32 | 21 days | 2/22/2007 |