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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ABILIFY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Psychosis from PTSD | weight gain (despite claims that it doesn't cause weight gain) | Abilify has helped me think more clearly, rationally and aside from the weight gain, I've had no side effects at all. I take the Abilify in the morning, as it tends to be a bit stimulating. | M | 46 | 3 years | 6/11/2007 | 5 | schizophrenia | this drug is going to be similiar to the drug named BIFEPRUNOX(chemical name)coming out soon maybe end of 07 or 1st quarter of 08 it has a good side effect profile NO WEIGHT GAIN NO INCREASE IN PROLACTIN LEVELS NO ADVERSE EFFECT ON BLOOD LIPIDS NO ADVERSE AFFECTS ON BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS NO QTc PROLONGATION | i will be taking my ABILIFY at 15mg until this drug called BIFEPRUNOX becomes available I hope soon! | M | 29 | 13 years | 5/30/2007 | 5 | BP w/psychotic episodes; autism | My son has been on this med for two years and his only side effect has been minimal weight gain (about 20 lbs. in two years). | This medication worked very well for my son - stopped his visual and auditory hallucinations completely, decreased his motor tics, reduced OCD-like behaviors, and greatly reduced his aggression. This medication gave my son his life back; he is now able to function & communicate well and he is excelling academically. | M | 12 | 2 years | 5/17/2007 | 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 | 4 | bipolar 1 disorder/mood instability | extreme tiredness, upset stomach, blurred vision, cold sweats, tremors (uncontrollable shaking) in hands. | I have been on and off this medication for 4 years and today is my first day back on it in 8 months. I feel very ill but I remember from all my past experiences that it takes a few weeks for your body to get used to and to respond(I just want to make that clear to the people that quit taking it after one day). I am taking 15mg but I'm pretty sure I'm going to start cutting my pill in half to lessen the side effects. Abilify has been highly effective in treating my irritability and mood swings, making me a pleasure, rather than a monster, to be around. Personally, I would rather have an upset stomach for a few days and be happy than to be constantly angry for the rest of my life. I took abilify with effexor a few years back and it sent me to the ER because I was shaking so badly I couldn't stand up. I am told it is dangerous to mix abilify with anything. Hopefully the side effects go away soon! | F | 19 | 4 years | 5/1/2007 | 5 | bipolar/schizo-affectiver | As I went slowly up from 2.5mg to 15mg,- I experienced poor night vision;loud noises startled me at night;muscular aches and pains; always want to eat; tired all day but can't sleep through the night; restless, but tired. Agitation, anger and anxiety came back if I didn't increase my dosage in about 4days. I just began 15mg today. DR. said may go all the way to 30mg if we need to in the future. | Now, the good stuff--I'm calmer around people. My anger is much reduced. Oversensitivity is reduced. I'm able to cope with daily frustrations. I'm no longer so irritable and impatient with people. General anxiety, and nervousness to be around people is gone. Bipolar mood swings are completely minimized and I recover from any emotional upset faster. AWESOME drug for me personally! | F | 38 | 1 months | 4/25/2007 | 4 | bipolar depression | weight gain (it was lithium's helper) spasming jaw, chattering teeth, tiredness, "wired, but tired" | This drug has kept me from falling any deeper into depressions. Both times it has rescued me from hospitalizations. However, I do not like having to take two other drugs just so I can continue taking this one without the side effects. Have to take cogentin and inderal both for the jaws and limb jerks. Don't like that. | F | 50 | 15 days | 4/25/2007 | 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 | 1 | Cyclothymia | Intense pain with muscle stiffness. I might be diagnosed with Lupus now. I never had these problems before I took Abilify. | I still have to have more blood tests to determine what is going on with the muscle and joint pain that I am experiencing. I took 2.5 mgs. of Abilify for about a month and then felt like I was coming down with the flu. It turns out that it was a rare side effect from this medicine, so I stopped taking it. I am still in pain and it has been over 2 months since my last dose. I am convinced that whatever my blood work says that I have it came from taking this medicine. | F | 44 | 30 days | 4/23/2007 | 5 | schizophrenia | vivid dreaming, insomnia for the first four months | I lost 87lds on this drug and it gave my life back to me. No voices, no paranoia, no psychosis!!! | F | 47 | 3 days | 4/19/2007 | 1 | bipolar disoder II, depression | I was vomiting the whole night after taking the first pill, the next day I was feeling sick that the only thing that I could do is just lying down in my bed; wasn't able to eat. I was feeling really sick, no drug made me fell that way | I took this medicine just for 1 day, and it was enough for me to decide that I wasn't taking it anymore. I was feeling really sick, just the same as when I was pregnant and having severe toxicosis , no drug made me fell that way. I'm going back to Depakote. | F | 21 | 1 days | 4/10/2007 | 2 | schizoaffective, bipolar type | About three weeks after I started taking it, my entire body started gradually swelling up like a balloon, and I had this uncontrollable, horrible burning sensation in my legs and ankles. It got to the point where the swelling was so bad that I could barely move. I couldn't button my shirts anymore, my feet wouldn't fit into my shoes, and I had to go up a whole bra size (band AND cup). I found out, though, that only about two percent of the subjects in the clinical trials had this problem (and it's often an allergic reaction), so I must be special. ;-} Oddly enough, when I went off this, I got onto Risperdal, only to have the exact same reaction. | I was REALLY disappointed that my reaction was so bad, because it otherwise worked very well. I felt better than I could remember feeling in about 20 years. My mood swings went from every several minutes to ... not at ALL. I felt stable for the first time in a VERY long time, like I was finally on solid ground. The really WEIRD thing, though, was that for the first four days, I couldn't feel ANYTHING -- it was like someone had flipped a switch inside me and turned me off. After that, it took about another week to level out completely, but once I did, I felt GREAT. | F | 28 | 5 weeks | 4/5/2007 | 4 | bi p[olar disorder | Tired. Very tired at first; now I don't even notice unless I stop taking it...then I'm a real c*nt to deal with and I am very irritable and angry. | When I started taking Abilify with Zoloft, I was very tired all day. I felt like I had a wet blanket wrapped around my head, then they lessened the dose to 5 mg a day, and I'm fine. It's subtle, I can't tell any effect at all from it unless I stop taking it. Then it is like an immediate PMS. | F | 37 | 1 years | 4/1/2007 | 1 | bi polar disorder | Started out on 5mg daily and over a period of 2 months was "upped" to 20mg. By the middle of the third month, I developed the most horrible feeling, like wanting to jump out of my own skin, could NOT get comfortable, caused restless leg syndrome to go totally bonkers, made me pace and feel horribly panicky ALL THE TIME! I had never in my life felt such an awful feeling! Raging insomnia accompanied the whole ordeal, as well as vision trouble, completely unable to write a sentence or write my own name, for that matter due to hand tremors (which I still have sometimes to this day), constant feeling that the "dying to get out of my own skin or run screaming like a madwoman" feeling would NEVER go away. It finally did, but golly did it ever take time. That's the only thing that will help with the akathisia (acathesia)...time. It took the same amount of time that I was on the drug, about 3 and a half months, for the feeling to finally start going away. | In all honesty, through bi polar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, severe panic disorder, visual and auditory psychosis at times, depression, etc., the ONLY time I ever truly even considered suicide was during the akathisia (acathesia) ordeal I went through, all due to the Abilify. You don't know what utter hell and torment is until you've gone through the nightmare of akathesia, which for me was completely due to taking Abilify! If it works for you, great, but be warned...try to stay on the smallest dosage that works for you...upping the dosage over a period of time can have this horrible effect on you too and I wouldn't wish the feeling Abilify caused me on my worst enemy! | F | 44 | 3.5 months | 3/29/2007 | 2 | psychosis, appearantly. | so restless i couldn't stop moving but exhausted at the same time, dizzyness, headaches. | i only lasted a week. it did nothing to help me. | F | 17 | 1 weeks | 3/26/2007 | 5 | BP 1/possible schizoaffective/PTSD | vertigo,(room tumbling end over end) one episode lasted two days, the other lasted one week, other than that no side effects. cannot be certain this medicine was to blame | abilfy helped me come down out of the sky, gave me very crisp feelings and perceptions of reality. It dimmed out the white noise in my head, and for the very first time i can remember felt no noise in my head, just peacefulness. Being numb from years of emotional shutdown, i actually had feelings surface for the first time, and had to start sorting through them and dealing with them. sometimes it was painful at first because the pain was acute, but Id much rather feel now than be numb. Ativan in combination helps deal with the tremendous anxiety. Also take seroquel for sleep, and lamictal for the depression. Overall, a good mix for me. I would never want to go back to the worst moments of this illness before Dx and treatment, and for that I am grateful. | F | 37 | 17 months | 3/25/2007 | 5 | bipolar1/ schizo | Restlessness Severe at times. strangeley, tiredness can acompany this or exist independently of it. I feel agitated but clear headed. i will accept the trade-off but feel that I must do something about side-effect. Benzo helps. I forsee weight gain because I am hungry again. | I am only in the first week, but needed to speak of the progress I have made. At just 5 mgs. I notice a substantial reduction in the chatter in my brain and I am better able to perceive and respond appropriately to social scenes, leaving me less sacred of people. Paranoia is under control. i have been on several meds in my 20 year struggle with bipolar 1/schizo. disorder. i am just coming off a psychotic break that lasted very long on and off. I am what they call a quick responder when a med works for me. So far wellbutrin (which i still take) Lamictal (which was like a god-send and then pooped-out, and now Abilify has improved drasticaly the picture in just 5 days. Last night I could concentrate long enough to put a desk from Ikea together and I even cleaned my room. Now i still have the memories of some terrible behavior and the knowlege of such negative poop-out tendencies of meds. But for today I am grateful. More later. John. R.B. CA. | M | 43 | 5 days | 3/18/2007 | 1 | anti pyschotic, not needed | this drug made me walk like a zombie, slur my speech, I couldn't use my hands and fingers - it was like I had a small stroke, I couldn't lay or sit down - relaxing was very unconfortable, very nervous, loss of concentration. | I din't need anti-psychotics and was prescribed and administered them illegally. I tried geodon, respirdal, and zyprexa too. The abilify was by far the worst! I was only taking 15mg., and I still had horrendous side effects! This is a terribly dangerous drug. I see no worth in any anti-psychotic or anti-depressant drugs, these drugs really mess with your mind and body. If you are having psychotic, bi-polar, depression, or whatever, and desire to take something. Only take small dosages of anything, 10mg. or less. These drugs can cause more harm than the disease! | 41 | 18 days | 3/12/2007 | 1 | bogus court ordered "delusional" | Chattering teeth, leg shaking | I am forced to take the medication | M | 42 | 6 months | 2/24/2007 | 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 |