ABILIFY Reviews (ARIPIPRAZOLE)

Average Rating: 2.7 (798 Ratings)

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ABILIFY  (ARIPIPRAZOLE):  Aripiprazole is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, and irritability associated with autistic disorder). It may also be used in combination with other medication to treat depression. Aripiprazole is known as an antipsychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters). This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. Aripiprazole can treat severe mood swings and decrease how often mood swings occur.   FDA Approval Date: 2002-11-15 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  bipolar M 52 4 months
6/6/2009
 1  depression movement disorders....feeling suicidal and crazy.... This poison should be illegal...thanks for the brain damage, abilify.....you have blood on your hands, as does the fda... M 33 1 months
6/1/2009
 4  Bipolar II Love this medication. I finally feel like me again and can handle things. However, I am EXTREMELY hungry. Does this go away? Also experiencing severe muscle aching. I don't want to go off the Abilify, but can't take the hunger pain. F 43 4 days
5/30/2009
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 4  Major depression w/ psychosis Something similar to restless leg syndrome, fidgeting I've now been diagnosed with major depression with psychotic features along with some other things. Abilify was prescribed to me because my initial diagnosis was schizoaffective disorder. The two disorders are somewhat similar. Abilify has more or less completely eliminated my psychotic symptoms and I do well on this medication. I have not experienced any negative side effects in the past 2 years. For the first 6 months I had restless legs and some fidgeting problems where it was hard to sit still. Those symptoms passed and I feel pretty much fine at this point. I also take Effexor XR, Lamictal and Librium. F 31 2.5 years
5/29/2009
 4  Depression & Paranoia I've been taking 2 mg Abilify for 2 weeks now, along with my usual 40 mg Prozac and 900 mg Lithium. I feel like I'm on speed or something with abilify! I have no appetite (a good thing-could lose a few lbs), I feel restless, but I feel like I see things differently now. I also have a "full" sensation in my head and a little shakiness. I'm scared, because I keep reading all these bad things about Abilify, but I feel soooo much more alert & interactive now. If only the restlessness would go away, this is a miracle med for me. How long until these side effects taper off? F 28 14 days
5/28/2009
 3  Bipolar Disorder (rapid cycling) Weight gain (about 20-30 pounds in a six months...without changing eating habits), extreme tiredness, lethargy, shaking/tremors, increased levels of insulin (blood sugar). It helped my manic episodes and leveled out my mood. However, I don't feel it was worth the weight gain and increased blood sugar levels, which contributed to reoccurring, prolonged (and quite painful) yeast infections. F 20 6 months
5/23/2009
 1  bi polar This was the worst medicine ever. I tried it for 6 weeks, starting at 2mg, and by the end of the time taking 15mg. My body would not stop moving. I couldnt read a book or watch TV. I found myself taking too many sleeping pills (and i never take sleeping pills) to counteract the movement so that i could fall asleep. This medicine should be used as a torture technique!!. The the doctor gave me sleep meds, and blood pressure medication to help with the Abilify side effects.(the blood pressure meds were supposed to make me stop moving...) So she had me on three medications! (NOt to mention this medicine is extremely overpriced!) You couldn'tpay me to take this medicine again. I am on Lamictal 25mg (a very low dose) and its a miracle. I bet this medicine will be pulled soon. It was just like a poison! Be very careful trying this medication. M 39 6 weeks
5/19/2009
 2  depression and ptsd inner restlessness and desire to drink or eat i took this for about two monts along with wellbutrin and at first had a hard time staying awake during the day. after that passed i began wanting to drink so badly it was driving me nuts. i began to drink to control the restlessness i felt because i was climbing the walls in my house just trying to get away from myself. i quit taking it a week again and with just the wellbutrin i feel much better. F 29 7 weeks
5/18/2009
 5  Depression Feeling a little "speedy" mentally, waking up early (4am), weight gain (about 10-15lbs) in 2mos. Sometimes I feel overtired and not able to sleep enough to catch up. I was depressed and Cymbalta was not helping---I could not motivate myself to do anything, even just taking a shower was hard. Went back to Effexor XR (150mg) which had helped before with 5mg of Abilify and I could almost immediately feel the difference. Wish I felt a little more energy physically, but I do feel a lot better. F 48 2 months
5/16/2009
 3  psychosis/spirit possession weight gain, perhaps constipation, perhaps insomnia I've been taking Abilify for 3 years and liked it the most of all the anti-psychotics I tried. Resperidol made me gain a lot of weight quickly. And Haldol was abominabal - I ate constanly and got ridid muscles, but that was also from all the anti-psychotics I tried. The key for me was finding the right DOSAGE, which was much lower than my doctor put me on originally. 5mg Abilify was just right, but I've been gaining more and more weight over the years and want to go off it due to this serious problem. It did however, protect me from the spirit invasion or what others call "voices" or "hallucinations". The risk of psychosis is one problem by going off of it, but so is diabetes and obesity, as well as other side effects from staying on it. I have weighed the consequences and made my choice. I will add that I'm perturbed with my doctor for not monitoring my weight while I've been on this drug. I think he doesn't want to see that it causes obesity. F 46 3 years
5/13/2009
 5  Bipolar Disorder None that I know of It has saved my life. F 42 2 years
5/12/2009
 4  Schizofrenia/Severe Anxiety Mix Extreme dizziness & Muscle Tremors. It works well, don't get me wrong. I switched from Invega. I'm on only 10mg and will probably switch to 25mg by next fill up. Totally helps with the anxiety and works well as an antidepressant. I've been able to focus more, but i'm also on Vyvanse for ADHD. I've had no suicidal thoughts what-so-ever. 10mg is a bit low, in my opinion anyway. Also, if you take any anti-psychotics, through my experience, for a month straight, the side effects generally seem to wear a bit off. M 15 1 weeks
5/8/2009
 1  Depresstion Facial tics - blinking, tongue thrusts to the point where I had sores in my mouth, muscle stiffness, joint pain. Uncontrollable muscle movements, twitching, jerking. Fatigue. This medication was the worst thing that I ever took. I had "parkinson syndrome" from it. The facial tics & tongue thrusts lasted over a year. I had to take Vitamin E for the past 18 months to get rid of them. I still have blinking tics. My daughter's doctor wanted her to try it(in small doses) but I refused. This was a horrible experience for me. F 44 6 months
5/8/2009
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 4  bi-polar depression Week 1: very slight weight gain -- about 2 lbs. that seems to have leveled off; a few days of extreme fatigue. Overall: slightly irritated stomach (I believe this makes me eat more, and is responsible for the weight gain), lighter sleeping, more sleep disturbances. I used to sleep like a log. Now I sleep like a cat. I miss my old sleep. I was on abilify once before. The doc took me off due to my "speedy" response. But I have ADD, and I really liked the abilify. New doc is a-ok with my response, so long as it works for me. I'm also on Adderall and Welbutrin. Since starting this drug, I actually feel like doing things rather than just thinking about doing them and then thinking that I'll never finish and then getting depressed and hating myself. I'm more social. Self esteem is better too. Disruptive and ruminative thoughts are way down. Overall, I like. F 33 16 days
5/7/2009
 5  Bipolar 2 Initially stiffness and emotionless face, subsided within weeks. This drug is a God-send to my 9 year old without it he would likely be in the hospital. Almost totally normal with it. M 15 months
5/6/2009
 1  depression facial tics where my left side of my face moved with my inability to stop it, my legs felt like they were filled with lead and I didnt want to work out anymore, my feet tingled and my toes hurt this was the creepiest drug I have ever taken I felt happy but the side effects were so horrible it wasnt worth being happy (and that says a lot) I'm on wellbutrin and pristiq and this medication was a nightmare. My psych really pushed for me to take it and I had to really stand up for myself to say no. Dont let the commercial fool you and keep trying other drugs cuz abilify is poison F 2 months
5/6/2009
 3  anxiety, bi polar, chest pain i can barely do anything...i just want to sleep until it hurts. while sleeping i feel as if i am on a trampoline, i just toss and turn and bounce. today(day 4) i feel jittery. i was put on abilify because i was having panic attacks and feeling as if i was having heart attacks. tight chest and trouble breathing, er visits. doc thinks its in my mind and that im bipolar. i cant believe that chest pain so severs is mental. i havent had a bad attack yet but i feel as if i will collapse, i hope this tired dead-battery feeling goes away or i cant take it, i have a 2 month old. M 36 4 days
5/4/2009
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 4  Bipolar Disorder weight gain, inner restlessness. I've been on lamictal, seroquel, and geodon since I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder two months ago. Each of those medicines gave me horrible side effects. Abilify is the only medicine that has helped. I am calmer, do not have my angry and irritable outbursts. I'm also a self-injurer and haven't done anything since a couple days being on this medicine. The downfall, I've been on this medicine for 2 weeks and I've gained 12lbs. F 23 2 weeks
5/3/2009
 2  Bipolar 2 Insomnia, wide awake every hour or two; impulsivity, shopping, eating, speaking; 15lb weight gain in 1 month; became nearly inarticulate, could not convey my thoughts or feelings very well at all; hypomania I took Ability for a month as an adjunct Zoloft 100mg, which has stopped working. In term of relief from the depression, the Ability worked wonderfully. Because of the side effects, I dropped from my initial dose of 5mg to 2mg, and the depressive symptoms/suicidality returned nearly immediately. After bumping back up to 4-4.5mg, the side effects returned. This med may be tolerable for others but the side effects were intolerable for me. F 36 1 months
5/2/2009
 5  Bi Polar Disorder, Psychosis Weight Gain (15 lbs in 6 months) My daughter is doing EXTREMELY well on Abilify. Her rapid cycling is nearly zero. Her psychosis is also tremendously better. The change is almost as if she is a different kid. She went from extreme mania episodes that cycled at times within minutes. To near stable in her moods in just days after beginning this medication. Her doctor wants to change her to Geodon due to the weight gain. Weight was never an issue for her until she started taking Abilify. But I think with the improvement in her mental stability a little weight gain is not that significant. I love this medication. She was on 5mg per day up to 7.5 per day after 2 months. It's effectiveness wore off at about 2 months in. No problems since upped to 7.5mg a day. She has no trouble sleeping. I didnt realize how her mania was affecting her sleep until starting this medicine and she is actually tired when it's time for bed. No complaints from me. F 7 6 months
4/26/2009
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