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 |
| 5 | BIPOLAR II/OCD/ANXIETY/GAD | none. AMAZING MED. | I have suffered from this disorder since I was 18 (now 36). Absolutely debilitating, suicidal, etc. Within ONE DAY after starting Abilify I noticed positive effects. It's a week now and I have noticed the following benefits: no longer bothered by dirt or cleaning or getting wet (used to just give me a horrible body sensation)....public anxiety is a lot lower now, not obsessing over and over again in my head about what other ppl are thinking/saying about me. Have energy during the day, do not sleep all the time like I used to. Still suffer from insomnia but oh well. In the past week I have done more housecleaning than I have done in the past year combined. THIS MED WORKS WHEN PRESCRIBED TO THE RIGHT PERSON. I am so incredibly happy to feel almost normal again after being on almost EVERY SINGLE AD/ANTI-ANXIETY/ANTI-PSYCHOTIC med out there. I am on a low dose (2 mg). I feel free. | F | 36 | 7 days 2 MG 1X day | 7/15/2010 | 2 | Bipolar Depression | Irritability, akathisia, inability to concentrate, loss of interest in things. | Stay away. I was unable to sit still, couldn't focus on doing things I used to enjoy. It works for depression, but at what cost? Oh yeah, I gained 30 pounds on it, even while not changing my diet and exercise routine. Tapering off it now. Lost 7 pounds in 2 weeks. | F | 39 | 4 months 5mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 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 | 4 | bipolar depression | Abilify significantly increased me appetite at night but it helped to improve my mood significantly. | F | 42 | 11 months 7.5 mg 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 2 | bi-polar disorder | No terrible side effects initially,however eventually there were many: weight gain,anxiety,agitation,constipation,inability to focus or sit still for very long,restless leg syndrome,sense of doom and depression. | In the beginning (for the first year or so),abilify was quite effective in alleviating the obsessional thinking that I was experiencing due to a recent traumatic life event. I definitely experienced a degree of relief that was desperately needed. In time,however,the side effects of this drug gradually created more of a problem than the one I had been struggling with to begin with...Insidious weight gain (25lbs) managed to creep up on me for no reason,I began to dread any and most all social engagements,I couldn't focus or concentrate long enough to do anything productive,my depression became even more pronounced and I became frustrated and agitated (grouchy) about almost everything. The last three years I was on abilify were quite difficult to say the least.I would have stopped taking it long ago but I was unaware that this drug was the culprit. At that time, I was also taking prozac,wellbutrin,topomax and lamictal. I can only say that since discontinuing it,(and it hasn't been very long),I feel SO much better...Words and thoughts are easier to formulate and process,my anxiety is much less severe and I generally have an overall more optimistic outlook on life.In my opinion,I think that abilify serves its purpose initially to help a person through crisis but I also think that it should gradually be eliminated once a person reaches an acceptable level of stabilization. | F | 46 | 5 years 10mg 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 2 | depression | WEIGHT GAIN! I couldnt concentrate hardly at all, increased appetite, lethargic. | I hated the inability to concentrate. | M | 27 | 4 months 10 1X day | 6/27/2010 | 5 | Major, refractory, depression | M | 67 | 5.0 mg 1X day | 6/23/2010 Patient History | 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 | 5 | GAD & Depression | Uncontrollable appettite with accompanying weight gain. | It helps. | M | 42 | 8 months 50 mg 1X day | 6/15/2010 | 4 | sleep is a little disrupted, that's about it at 5 mg | i just got off invega, this is so much better. It has really helped at stopping my thoughts, which is a real problem for me. I'm much more awake on it than I was on Invega (plus I don't have the bad dreams I had on Invega). Overall, the negative thoughts have stopped for the most part. So far, so good on this one. This is the only antipsychotic I haven't taken and the side effects are so much less, and honestly it has helped with my symptoms more than the others so far. I'm diagnosed schizoaffective. | M | 37 | 14 days 5 1X day | 6/9/2010 | 5 | PTSD, Depression | Most of the side effects have been benefits. | Abilify really helped me get out of my funk. I was very depressed and the depression was making me very sick. I would throw up every morning from stress, anxiety. My family went through a horrible crisis and I am still trying to recover from that. The abilify is helping speed up the process. I feel totally different today than I felt 10 days ago. I feel like I can function. I'm also eating again. After losing 25 pounds and withering away to nothing I can look at, smell, and eat food. Abilify works great for me added with Prozac (5mg) and Xanax .25 mg 3 x day | F | 36 | 19 days 2mg-1mg 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 4 | BIPOLAR 2 | Severe Hiccups, lasted for 3 days. Nausea, severe burping, felt like I was going to throw up, lasted for a week. Slight mania, abbreviated sleep cycles, still having these. I feel the side effects are worth it because of how well it keeps me from short cycling, which causes way more problems in my life than a little Nausea | M | 36 | 8 weeks 15 MG 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 2 | Bi-Polar | Lethargic, Weight Gain and Depression has gotten worse. I want to be taken off this medication. Having indecisiveness (more than usual) and my OCD has increased. Not seeing many benefits after being on Abilify for 2 months. Feeling sadness daily and lack of energy. Seems to slow me down to a sad halt. | F | 53 | 2 months 10MG 1X day | 5/29/2010 | 2 | bipolar 2 | sleepiness or death tired during the afternoon even after 9 months of taking this med also i'm waking up in the middle of the night; also i decided because of the drowsiness i would go off of this cold turkey- bad decision because he had sweats, nausea and severe headache..... | the doctor wants me to stay on this but the daytime drowsiness is ruining my life and the nighttime waking is too much | F | 50 | 9 months 2mg 1X day | 5/29/2010 | 4 | bipolar | very beginning days i had a bizarre hyperactive yet peaceful at the same time cleaning mode (well the house needed it since i had been depressed before i flipped into hypo/ mania) mild restless legs, waking up middle night every other night it seems | it seems to be calming me down somewhat from my up following a depression episode...i may need to incr to 7 or 10mg as i still am having repetitive thoughts / constant urges to shop but has lessend drastically than before beginning taking it. i have been able to focus somewhat more than before began this drug....was in thoughts randomly shooting off in 50 thousand directions so i have actually lost a little weight 7 pounds being able to focus and be consistent on walking/jog 4 times a week, which pleasantly for me seems opposite to the majority of other posters here... | F | 37 | 1 months 5 mg 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 1 | Depression | Brought on RLS bad aniexty thought i was going to loose my mind could not sleep due to the RLS | would never recommend this drug i believe it needs to be pulled this is a very dangerious drug anyone taking this drug please do your research on side effects | F | 50 | 30 days 15MG 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 1 | bipolar depression | Agitation, Heart Pounding Anxiety, Insomnia, Sweating, Headache, Shakiness | I took this drug one time, and it was a HORRIBLE experience. Abilify is not the right drug for me. I do NOT recommend Abilify. | M | 41 | 1 days 5 1X day | 5/21/2010 | 5 | As a complement for Major Depressio | Stiff Muscles and ridigity, upset stomach but those symptoms went away in aprox. 1.5 weeks. | A life saver for me. Eased my stubborn treatment resistant depression. I am starting to feel like my old self. | M | 41 | 40 days 15 1X day | 5/17/2010 | 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 |