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 |
| 2 | Bi-Polar - with Lithium | daytime tiredness, very loose bowel, weight gain and visual disturbances | M | 45 | 6 months 5mg | 1/28/2013 | 2 | Bipolar disorder | Mixed experience. Good mood stabilization- too good. Zombie syndrome. Lost interest in my former activities. Very narrow range of emotions. Lower doses not effective. HUGE WEIGHT GAIN. WARNING!!!!! More than 60 pounds in two years!!! I can't get it off now. I'm really angry because I've always been petite, now I'm larger wide than tall. I actually have to worry about developing diabetes now. | F | 48 | 2 years | 1/25/2013 | 2 | Bipolar and schizophrenia | Constantly throwing up, see cats and dogs everywhere, very delusional, anxiety through the roof, hard to fall asleep and to stay asleep (3-4 hours/night), and violently acting towards others. | F | 15 | 1 weeks .5 MG | 11/28/2012 | 2 | bipolar disorder | I started taking abilify and my.mood had improved but was experiencing extreme hunger and indigestion. I just could not stop eating so my doctor started trileptal and it works great. Abilify is a good drug but i dont want to gain weight | F | 23 | 2 weeks 10 mg | 10/12/2012 | 2 | Mild Bi polar disorder | Weight gain caused by fatigue and being too tired to work out .i decided to quit cold turkey since everyday I'm on it I gainEd weight | M | 45 | 1 years 15 | 9/2/2012 | 2 | Depression | Weight Gain | I have put on 20-lbs. as a result of adding Abilify to my Lexapro. I'm certain both drugs have the ability to cause weight gain. This is the only Negative with this medication. | M | 56 | 2 months 5 MG 1X day | 7/16/2012 | 2 | Anxiety with Aspergers Syndrome | Insomnia | Made Anxiety with OCD Worse, No Benefits whatsoever. | M | 23 | 14 days 5 mg 1X day | 7/15/2012 | 2 | Psychosis | restlessness, irritability, high blood pressure, high pulse, feelings of physical weakness | M | 35 | 4 weeks 20 mg 1X day | 4/4/2012 | 2 | Anxiety | I have dizziness randonly, my eyes will just close when I am wide awake, gas, hahah, I used to be under 30 pounds of a normal teen but now I am 20 over. Confusion, I can't sleep but I am always tired, throat swelling, nervousness, tremors, and recently I have been diagnosed with a Slipped Disc. | Just no. I HAVE to take it because if I don't I'll get sent to the 4th floor in Swedish American... So I am taking it until I am 18. | F | 17 | 5mg 1X day | 3/21/2012 | 2 | Depression | MAJOR WEIGHT GAIN! I was on Abilify for 5 years. I gained 100 lbs. I thought it was my Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I finally figured it out. Stupid I know..... | It did help me very much to not be irritable and anxious. Did make me drowsy. I just cannot afford the weight gain. | F | 27 | 5 years 5 1X day | 3/10/2012 | 2 | Bipolar 2 | Restlessness, waking as early as 3am, anxiety, high blood sugar. | I was not on this medication for very long. I'll admit it improved my mood somewhat, but I was waking as early as 3am and feeling very restless (at first the medication made me drowsy but the longer I was on it the earlier I would wake up). It increased my anxiety to the point that I couldn't work on my uni assignments without freaking out. I had high blood sugar while I was taking it (blood sugar is normal now). | F | 25 | 3 weeks 5mg 1X day | 2/11/2012 | 2 | depression | intense headache, extreme nausea, involuntary jaw clenching, muscle spasms in jaw and neck. | Truly felt that I was being poisened. Frightened that my clenched/twitching jaw muscles would not return to normal (known to cause twitches, sometimes permanent). Just felt very sick, like my whole body was rejecting this drug. | F | 32 | 3 days 5 mg 1X day | 1/13/2012 | 2 | Bipolar 2 | Stuffy nose ALL the time. Waking up at 2-4AM. Can't go back to sleep. Was on 5, put myself back to 2.5. Still miserable. Not biting anyone's head off, but restless & cloudy thinking. Yuck. | F | 40 | 2 months 2.5 | 1/6/2012 | 2 | Bipolar II | tired, blurry vision, lack of motivation, depressed | my doc put me on abilify after lithium started to destroy my kidneys. i liked it a lot at first, but now i am so tired and depressed all of the time. i have no idea how to handle this. she has lowered the dose twice, but i am going to have to look into something else. i can't take living like this anymore. | F | 41 | 5 months 15mg 1X day | 1/2/2012 | 2 | depression | restlessness despite being very tired | This medication was not for me. The first day was fine and made me feel better with more energy, but in the following days, I became unable to sit still. I would be so tired, but I had to move. I still take Abilify occasionally when I feel very low, but only for one day. | F | 50 | 1 weeks 2.5 1X day | 10/6/2011 | 2 | Bipolar Disorder | My daughter has experienced bouts of depression whilst taking these meds, tiredness very sleepy all the time, has no energy anymore, lost all motivation always mopey now and moaning, whingeing, very irritable, extreme hunger that is beyond ridiculous, not happy with any part of what this medication has done to my daughter except her violence and anger has almost completly gone. but fear that the pro'c do not outweigh the cons here, my daughter just isnt happy ever anymore very sad for me as her mother to watch am considering weaning her off these meds as soon as i have discussed with her pysciatrist. | Tried Risperdone first (short term 3 months) did absolute wonders = apart from extreme weight gain. cannot go back to this apparently as have been told it is a short term drug only. | F | 12 | 10 months 10mg 2X day | 10/1/2011 | 2 | Anxiety problems | I really don't feel any positive results but what I do experience is sleeplessness and more anxiety at certain times(mainly around people) | I think that these drug companies make studies to try and prove that the neurons in out brain aren't performing properly and they come up with these expensive drugs that don't really help most people. I have much better results and can live normally with my Alprazolam. They even had me on Cymbalta at the same time as Abilify just as trial and error. My problems are with anxiety disorders triggered by certain circumstances and not a problem with the way my neurons in my brain are firing. I would say that Abilify is just another expensive drug the pharmaceutical companies are trying to promote for greater income instead of positive results in patients. I don't think the box above got my dosage right. I was started out on 30mg twice a day and now take 60mg twice a day. I really feel that it is making me more depressed and anxious. | M | 43 | 60 2X day | 8/21/2011 | 2 | depression | severe drowsiness, restless legs | Within a few days of taking Abilify, I knew it wasn't for me. I would have a hard time keeping my eyes open at school, at the same time fidgeting to high heaven. (Bone tired, but the fidgeting kept me awake, it was very frustrating.) I can't say whether it would have eased my depression because I stopped--- in my case the physical side effects were too overwhelming. | F | 19 | 3 days 1X day | 8/1/2011 | 2 | Bipolar II and Panic Disorder | My heart has been racing like mad, at one point I was afraid I was going to have a heart attack. My panic disorder has seemed to worsen since I've taken Abilify, and I have tremors more often than before. I am extremely mean, irritable and rude to others, even when I don't want to be. I've been numb at some points emotionally, but that has only happened once. I can't sleep, and if I manage to I wake up in the morning with my mind racing, and I end up jumping out of bed and doing things in a hyperactive manner. My chest feels heavy, and I am either burning up in a sweat or freezing cold. | A lot of people have said it's an amazing drug, but I must just be the 1 in 100 or 1000 that experienced the more serious side effects. | F | 22 | 8 days 2 MG 1X day | 3/21/2011 | 2 | add on to antidepressant | Extreme insomnia - went from sleeping 9-10 hours night which is needed due to chronic fatigue syndrome to only 5 hours per night even though I'm on a very potent sleep medicine. | The 1st day I felt like a zombie. The 2nd day and forward, I was unusually happy for someone who has had 3 deaths in their family in the last 6 months. Also increased my appetite which led to 3 # weight gain in those 10 days. | F | 54 | 10 days 2 MG 1X day | 3/21/2011 |