Has anyone been on 5mg abilify compared to 10 or 15mg, im currently at roughly 15mg a day (400mg monthly)
But i feel the somnolence (urge to sleep) at random points of the day is too much and keeps me from studying.
5mg is just an antidepressant and not an antipsychotic. Thatās what all the trials and manufacturers say.
I actually tried 5mg for a while and it gave me suicidal ideation which went away at 10mg.
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Mania on 5mg for me. It was BAD. Then, I stopped and went the opposite direction. For two days, I was amazingly, crazily depressed. Lots of crying and stuff. I stopped feeling like doing things again. I even rescheduled my weight management appointment that I waited months for. Iām on a lower dose now, and so far so good.
ETA: Iām nit-picky on Abilify. A little argumentative. I feel like an a** most of the time.
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I need to give it another try. It made me feel really good, but it also gave me akathisia, which was pretty intolerable. But honestly, I kind of regret going off of it, cause I think it sort of helped with my negatives in some sort of fashion. Or maybe it was just depression it was helping with.
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Try lowering the injection to 200 or 300mg? I thought 400mg is equivalent to 20mg oral?
It made me anxious and restlessā¦which is weird cause i used to take it a long time ago at hire doses and dont remember feeling that but i was prob just used to it and didnt know what i was feeling.
How much weight did you gain on 400mg ?
Im seeing my nurse at some point today, hes already booked me to see the dr. So hopefully theyll reduce it.
I just did 400/28 which is about 15mg daily
Not too sure, at first i dropped weight, but then in hospital i gained and kept gaining becahse i becam sedentary from the tiredness and lack of work
Iām on 5mg abilify. They say it is just an antidepressant at 5mg. But when I reduce it to below 5mg, I start to get psychosis. And when I keep it at 5mg, I seem to have been OK.
Therefore I need it to keep psychosis at bay, but Iām also not dx as schizophrenic at this dose.
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So what Iām trying to say is, is that if 5mg abilify works for you, in my country, you are actually not schizophrenic.
Instead my dx is psychosis NOS
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If it works it works. Like the old saying āif it aināt broke donāt fix itā.
I would stay on the lowest dose possible If I were you.
Abilify has the all the same side effects as a lot of APs
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I hope my dr isnt rigid with it, and at least does what a dr should do. Test me on a lower dose and then see what happens.
The drs who rigidly blindly follow pharma guidelines alone shouldnt be drs. Theyre better off studying with test samples instead of patients. Because then they avoid over medicating or under medicating someone and contribute better to better legislature on the pharmaceutical companies behalf.
But yeah, tangent aside, ill see what the nurse has to say
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I feel so lucky to be on 5mg. But when I was on 2.5mg I relapsed about 3 times, albeit briefly. Then I came off completely and almost immediately relapsed all the way to psychotic āhellā until remedicated.
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When i was on the lowest dose of olanzipine i juggled two jobs and went to university six months after holding those two jobs.
Then i messed about with canabis without realising it causes psychosis and they called me schziophrenic and stopped lowering my dose.
I know i have psychosis chronically, but i also know, mental health is not a black and white science the way computer science or engineering is
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Yes I think I hope your doctor letās you try out 5mg as long as you take it seriously that if you get ill, it needs to be raised.
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Before you loose insight, thatās the tricky part. (I mean hypothetically)
Doctors donāt want to risk you doing something really risky or dangerous with no insight.
I think thatās why they often prefer to give a liberal dose.
Theyāre afraid of that, maybe theyāre afraid of then being blamed or even sued, I dunno
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Yeah, insight is the tricky part
I dont mess around with anything for at least five years so tbh, i dont see why they wouldnt try reduce the dose. And ive made it clear to them that not working is driving me mad (depressive or manic in the sense thst my mood goes up and down without sensible levels of timing between up and down).
I reckon they will reduce it, just not to 5mg
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Good luck 
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I had mania on 5mg too so i got of it, i am table on 2mg haldol
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