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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ABILIFY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | diagnosed with bipolar | 50 lb weight gain. Akathesia, constipation, suicidal thoughts, depression, restlessness, | Abilify is a horrible drug and did nothing for me but harm. What it does is cause a whole host of extremely undesirable side effects (as well as make drug companies very rich, as do all antipsychotics.) Given my years of experience with antipsychotics I have come to despise them because of their inefficacy to provide any substantial benefit, what they do is completely numb emotions and cause mental states like apathy and also suicidal ideations, they are also effective at sedation and taking away a persons will to live. I also philosophically do not believe the current mental health model because its all geared towards making a profit at the cost of the livelihoods of patients. It is all a shameful scam and if you have a choice you should all-together avoid the system. Do so at all costs for your own well-being. | M | 28 | 1 years 10 MG 1X day | 3/1/2016 | 5 | Depression augmented with abilify | Nausea, acne, itching skin. Restlessness, talking a lot need to read and walk around at the same time, vomiting after reasonably vigorously exercises such as walking. Slowed intestinal motility, minor food cravings, I'm watching the weight gain and fighting it to the death. This is NOT necessary!! It is so far the least of the culprits for mysterious and seemingly uncontrollable weight gain. I would blame some or most of that on the effects and the way the body is affected from hormones like prolactin and others you just can't control your own entire brain. First two days at 2 mg I was light headed hungry nauseous and walking and excercizing to work through the beginning | Hunger not uncontrollable! Eat the healthy food. Prepair meals maybe if you have motivation to use! Yes I had the restlessness. I kept reading thinking and pacing. Walk; even if it's a small space indoors. It's worth working through its my favorite choice so far in regards to the PARTIAL agonist at select dopamine receptors it worked fast. I might get to a point where my depression could lift and I would feel happy again, like the early school years! I have high hopes now. | F | 31 | 3 months 10mg | 2/26/2016 | 2 | Sever bipolar with psychotic feat. | Apathy, extreme coldness to loved ones, lethargy, wait gain of around 50 lbs, spontaneous near fainting dizzyness ( horrible while working) nausea and vomiting. I don't know if this counts as a side effect but after Abilify I don't trust taking any pill even "harmless" ones. (Was told Abilify is harmless) | Hate it. It made me mellow and not hear voices but at what cost? I became so apathetic towards my partner and parents I didn't care if I saw them or not. Didn't care if I was hurting them or not ( never pysicaly). Had no goals or drive to do anything just wanted to sit. Not do anything. And veg. Several times at work I almost fainted and was suspected to be on illegal drugs because I just left not caring about informing my employer. Did nothing for my extreme paranoia and may have made it worse as was somewhat forced to take this drug by my partner. Before I took it I was bad and really delusional so I understand why but I still resent them for it. So I stopped taking it and slowly got back to my manic self... I think I like this better than feeling dead but not caring. My guy wants me back on it but idk if can even bring myself to eat another pill. | M | 20 | 1 years 20 | 2/7/2016 | 1 | depression | Became obese! | I thought early on this was helping with Prozac to end depression. Trust me being 100lb overweight and being a borderline diabetic is a piss poor trade off! | F | 63 | 3 years 20mg | 2/1/2016 | 4 | take with Pristiq | Extreme tooth decay and breakage to the point of having to get teeth pulled as the break off. I use to have beautiful teeth before I started taking this medication. | F | 52 | 10 years mg 1X day | 1/24/2016 | 5 | Bipolar disorder | When starting the med I noticed a difference in manic/depressive cycling within 2 weeks and was stabilized and at baseline by 4 weeks. I was very impressed. I did experience some weight gain but it was not bothersome for me. I also experienced blurred vision that became progressively worse as I continued to take the medication. Discontinuing use does not improve this. In fact my eyes continue to become more and more blurred and frankly I AM concerned with going blind eventually. Other side effects I have experienced discontinuing abilify are nausea vomiting and drastic weight loss for about 3 weeks after my last dose. I will note that I was not nauseous or vomiting until about 2 weeks after my last dose. I also experienced body dysmorphia from the weight loss which made the depression and mania cycling worse. I have not enjoyed discontinuing the drug and look forward to securing another prescription soon. Also since continuing I constantly feel itchy especially my hands and feet and shoes are inconvenient because if this. I also have lost an alarming amount of hair. I do find this somewhat distressing. I have not had any medication since discontinuing 4.5 months ago and am currently in manic cycle. | F | 43 | 5 years 40 mg | 1/23/2016 | 2 | psy: you need to control your brain | After initially taking the drug in my early 20s I was convinced that it was helping me, clarifying my thoughts, lifting my mood, giving me some stability in my changing life events and difficult experiences, the shock of dropping out of uni + other things. After a couple of years I noticed It became harder to study, and remember things but I took this as something that I had to work harder on to overcome. Only after I graduated from uni and decided to come off it myself, I experienced terrible effects: these are as follows, brain paralysis, terrible short term memory, forgetting things in seconds, repeat what I do, and do not know what I have done. There are times when my memory is so poor it just goes blank and I feel I may have alzheimers. My concentration is so bad, I miss obvious detail. My neck twists in contortions it is so embarrassing- tardive dystonia which has not been diagnosed. During withdrawal I had terrible headaches, nothing for the pain, I could not sleep at all as the | Abilify may seem good at first but do not take it for a very long time on your own. Due to my negative experiences and abuse at the hands of psychiatrists I trusted, I have suffered emotionally and now am suffering physically. | F | 31 | 8 years 15 1X day | 1/8/2016 | 5 | Schitzoaffective/Psychosis | fatigue, after giving birth, had to increase methadone | Abilify worked great when I was pregnant. I was also on 15mg methadone. After I had the baby, though, I was exhausted, and had to increase to 40 and it was hard to taper down on the methadone. I stopped taking it 8 months after I had the baby. It didn't completely get rid of the hallucinations and delusions, but I was able to rationalize them and not get out of control. | F | 34 | 16 months 15mg 1X day | 1/2/2016 | 2 | Anorexia Nervosa Depression/Anxiety | WEIGHT GAIN of 30 pounds, excess appetite, EXTREME tiredness, acne, facial dropping, dizziness | I was put on this medication for my anxiety/OCD surrounding my anorexia nervosa. It stopped the anorexia in it's tracks, but it killed me. It was only supposed to be a short term medication, but my parents tried to cut me off cold turkey and at bad times so they thought I was addicted when I wasn't. I was able to eventually taper off it and lose all the weight I gained on it. As a result I was on it for two years. I gained 30 pounds. Some weight was normal, but I think 15 of it was excess. I couldn't lose the weight no matter what I did to exercise, and I couldn't stop eating and could never tell when I was hungry or full. I got made fun of so much and my own family made fun of me, so my depression got worse. It also made me VERY VERY tired. I initially started at 5 mg but then I had to go to 2.5 because I almost fainted because it made me so tired, and even the 2.5 made me tired enough to have to take naps during the day. I also had facial drooping for the first week, but then that went away. I was told that was normal. It did it's job with helping stop the anorexia but the side effects were brutal and it didn't help my other problems. | F | 20 | 2 years 2.5 1X day | 12/29/2015 | 1 | misdiagnosed | eye swirls zaps astigmatism wrinkled skin damaged brain rotting away electric shock apalyptic shock serve screaming in pain mmonths later still suffering | Worse then risperdal pripisam silent hypersexuality agitation restlessness that goes on months knocked out skin is crap blotchy hair line gone back walking slowly death sentence black box warning mortal kombat drug should be removed from market nearly died marketing mislead me doc said it was safe yeah right mate does not even help or block dopamine makes you wild and ill never use this you could get a stroke or disabled from it I know this was like thunder in my body wish I never went near this crap new meds have sjs in poison not tested get it off market read this review and save your eyes and skin and hair it will make your immunne system rocked deadly AP skin and eyes burn hell youll never know allergic people the half life is super long I suffered bad from it fevers possible NMS subsided after 5 weeks still have issues getting about now learn from this Abilify kills! | M | 25 | 7 days 2MG | 12/21/2015 | 5 | Adjunct Depression treatment | Increased appetite and slowed metabolism. These side effects are tolerable, seriously. Email me for more info. | Seriously request the Abilify made by Teva Pharmaceuticals! It will change your life! There's a day and night difference between the Teva Abilify and the others. The teva version may even be better than the original. Its definitely worth a try! They're green tablets and/ or blue tablets. The dark clouds will be torn asunder and you will remember there was a time when you could see the light in life. Never give up. | M | 21 | 6 weeks 1-2mg | 12/13/2015 | 5 | depression | At first I experienced an increase tension in my shoulders do to anxious feelings. I also experienced my heart pounding faster on a couple occasions. | After 10 years of trying to find a prescription cocktail that works for my major depressive disorder and anxiety, so far after 5 weeks abilify has been a miracle for me and my family. I hope it keeps working! I go to sleep and wake up like a normal person. I take a shower everyday like I'm supposed to. M house is in order like it's supposed to be. I'm cooking dinner most nights and even attending functions that I normally would never attend. My kids and hubby are so happy! No more yelling! Much more smiling :) | F | 36 | 5 weeks 2 | 12/12/2015 | 5 | depression | At first I experienced an increase tension in my shoulders do to anxious feelings. I also experienced my heart pounding faster on a couple occasions. | After 10 years of trying to find a prescription cocktail that works for my major depressive disorder and anxiety, so far after 5 weeks abilify has been a miracle for me and my family. I hope it keeps working! I go to sleep and wake up like a normal person. I take a shower everyday like I'm supposed to. M house is in order like it's supposed to be. I'm cooking dinner most nights and even attending functions that I normally would never attend. My kids and hubby are so happy! No more yelling! Much more smiling :) | F | 36 | 5 weeks 2 | 12/12/2015 | 1 | to help with antidepressant | abilify made me absolutlely go numb. i lost my metabolism. i could not get off the bed. i could not function. at all. still cant, been off for 1 yr. | i would never prescribe abilify to anyone ever. it should not be on market. | F | 64 | 4 days 2mg 1X day | 12/7/2015 | 3 | Depression, anxiety, possible mania | I felt very nervous taking it. Not a good feeling. I think I get akathasia, or feeling very uncomfortable. After taking it for 4 days, I got very angry with a family member (which never happened before), who I was furious with. This is unusual for me, as I usually always try to keep the peace and not cause problems in our household. After the huge fight and anger towards a family member, I stopped taking it. | It's weird that this med caused anger in me, because I thought it was used to lower anger and irritability. | F | 32 | 4 days 2 mg 1X day | 11/28/2015 | 1 | Depression | Akathisia, restlessness, anxiety, feeling stoned,blurred vision,tremors, twitching, jerking, itching, mental agitation, gluten intolerance, you name it. Still have them 20 months later. | This is quite possibly the most dangerous medication ever. If you have a bad experience in the first 2 or 3 weeks, please stop immediately. The side effect's can be long-term or permanent otherwise. The side effect list is completely downplayed. It's basically marketed like aspirin, and the side effects can be permanent from short term exposure. It works for some, but is otherwise it's criminal. | M | 27 | 50 days 2-5 1X day | 11/22/2015 | 2 | Major depressive disorder | When I first started taking it, I experienced some inner restlessness, but nothing I couldn't manage. That went away after a week. My depression lifted within the first two weeks. I felt a lot better! BUT I started eating so much more. My appetite went through the roof, especially for sweet things. It also slowed down my metabolism. I gained 25 pounds in three months, and it took me almost 18 months to lose that weight because of my sluggish metabolism. Also, I ended up attempting suicide nine months after I started taking Abilify, so the doctors put me on other drugs instead. | I will never take Abilify again, even if it did help me a lot initially. Too much weight gain! | F | 18 | 9 months | 11/20/2015 | 3 | Agitated depression/ Bipolar disord | Increased sugar/carb craving, severe headache, hair loss/thinning, muscle pain, tiredness, constipation. | Ability has worked to control the severe agitation I was experiencing due to a flare up of my bipolar depression. The side effects are pretty harsh though. I suffer from chronic daily migraine headaches as it is, and this medication just makes them worse! I am craving sugar and carbs more than ever, and have gained weight as a result. My muscles hurt so bad that it is hard for me to move in the mornings, and I toss and turn all night trying to get comfortable. I have hard stools as well. I have handfuls of hair coming out every time I shower, and my brush is full of hair every time I use it. This medication has too many negative side effects for me, and I will be stopping it after seeing my doctor this week. | F | 47 | 2 weeks 5mg daily | 11/16/2015 | 3 | schizophrenia | slight weight gain, sugar cravings, restless legs, cavities ... | the sugar cravings has caused weight gain and cavities. i'm worried about diabetes. paranoia reduced. much better than risperidone. | M | 38 | 3 years 15 MG 1X day | 11/13/2015 | 5 | schizoaffective disorder | Involuntary eye movements (looking up) and inability to put into words what I'm thinking. | This medication has helped me a great deal. No weight gain, all bipolar and schizophrenic symptoms stopped completely. In the long run the side effects have been worth it in return for the quality of life I have, I now study and my concentration is fine. | F | 20 | 1 years 10 mg | 10/29/2015 |