Anyone experience anxiety on abilify?

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Feeling more anxious than normal on abilify have periods of intense anxiety, which never had any anxiety on risperidone, does this go away. Been on 5mg for nearly a month now

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I was in 90mg abilify and it caused disturbance in sleeping

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wow I thought 30mg was the max, they had you on triple the recommended dose it seems, sleep is fine no complaints there

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I started abilify two months ago and it hasn’t affected my anxiety levels. I do get anxious. However I got anxious before I even started it.

I’m on 400mg injection once per month.

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It seems that meds stopped working and we were increasing the doses constantly

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Is that the maximum dose? How you finding abilify? Is it working?

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I see how that can happen, some pdocs will try anything to keep a patient stable, luckily I respond to meds well

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Well done. Meds just stop working, in my case.

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have you tried supplements interested to know if they would work

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I don’t believe in supplements. Only in APs

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I think it’s the maximum dose for injection I’m not 100% sure. I found paliperidone a better medication but I had to come off it due to prolactin.

I’m having some strange beliefs. But if I were to talk about them the thread will probably be locked.

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How long does it take for ability to start working?

I’ve read it takes 1-2 weeks

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Yes abilify is very activating. My paranoia actually worsened on abilify. I’m stable on clozapine now

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My anxiety skyrocketed on 15mg of Abilify and my akathisia was super bad on it as well. Ultimately I stopped taking it and switched to something else.

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I was a mess on Abilify and it gave me tardive dyskinesia but I take Rexulti with good results, go figure.

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It brought down my anxiety so some of my anxiety must have been related to other symptoms. I still have it bad but better with Abilify.

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It’s so strange there seems to be a tendancy of it either working pretty good or pretty bad like there’s not much in between

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I was on 30mg and it made me a nervous wreck and I had to come off it

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I’m on 15mg and it’s anxiety city.

I take the following supplements to keep anxiety manageable:

L-theanine (750mg / day in divided doses)
Beta Alanine (750mg/day)
Broccoli sprout extract
Taurine (500mg a day)

It’s either taking those supplements or taking a benzo. Niether myself nor my psychiatrist want me on a benzo.

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Abilify gave me severe anxiety and it also made me very paranoid.
I had to stop taking it.

This was years ago.