Has abilify worked for you? I don’t think it’s working out for me.
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I’m sorry to hear that 
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Several years ago I was on Abilify for about a month. I had the worst akathisia I’ve ever had. I was pretty messed up then so I don’t remember if it helped me at all. I do remember the akathisia though. How long have you been on it?
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About a week and 2 days.
Thanks Smokes! So many cyber hugs! 
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I’m sorry too. I’m trying to find a good med too. I’m on my second week of Invega. It’s been ok so far.
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I feel some strange anxiety on it. Is that akathesia related?
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That would be my guess. It was just awful for me. Very intense anxiety and akathesia for sure.
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It worked fine when I first started taking it. Two weeks later the vocational counselor asked me why I was pushing back my hair with my hand every 5 or 15 seconds? I didn’t have a clue I was doing the nervous tic and I basically told my doc and he took me off it and the weird nervous habit went away.
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Lol… I have the same thing. It’s a tic I can’t shake. I just didn’t know how to explain it. Thank you. Yes!
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I was on it for like 5 years about. It gave me a shot at life again. But it gave me horrible insomnia so I had to take a sleeping pill. I would be knocked out for about 12 hours a day and always exhausted and needing coffee. It also felt like I couldn’t fully empty my bladder. Now I’m on vraylar for the less than a year. It feels so good to get sleep and be able to pee properly. I also don’t spend as much time in bed anymore so I have so many extra hours of being awake everyday. But abilify got rid of my positive symptoms so I was able to get a drivers license associates degree volunteer transfer and work part time using abilify. Vraylar is much better for me though.
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Yeah, it’s kind of weird, I’m glad my misery helped you (joking).
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Sorry. I laugh at everything.
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Nah. my abilify is going decent at the moment since the docs raised it up a little.
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I actually got an increase in physical strength from Abilify, but it did make me too nervous. I knew one girl who tried to commit suicide with a shotgun on Abilify. She didn’t kill herself, but she did blow off her arm. If Abilify is giving you impulses like that I would say quit it immediately.
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I understand abilify is indicated in compulsive gambling.
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It doesn’t bother me.
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I had visual hallucinations about a week after starting it. I didn’t continue it any longer to see how well it would help the voices. I went to detox instead and eventually went back on what I was originally on.
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Abilify works for me. It does leave me with a sort of jitter. However for the most part it does get rid of the voices. I don’t really like abilify but I get worried about switching meds.
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I am on it for 15 days or something. Since then I wake up in the night for no reason. It must be the abilify
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