I’m thinking about trying aripiprazole

Medications
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I tried Geodon. I may as well have eaten sugar pills. It did nothing for me.

I also tried Seroquel. I was super paranoid and gained 90 pounds in one year. Never taking Seroquel again!

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Both those drugs helped me a lot. To each their own.

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Ooops. I got my psychotropic drugs confused. Geodon is called “Ziprasidone”. Aripiprazole is a different drug.

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Oh I see. Aripirazole is Abilify

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I knew that, but I just could not recall the name. My mind is going.

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Lol! That’s ok. I have what I call brain farts all the time haha

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You can try one tablet on haloperidol, but when I was on haloperidol and tried abilify ot gave me stiff muscles, dry mouth, very high anxiety and I was constantly eating every 2 hours and also insomnia. Maybe on its own is not that bad, but its a very weak med compared to other medication lile haldol, Invega

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If you are sensitive to the effects of medication, it affects my attention span.

But overall it isn’t bad for me.

Good luck :smiley:

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Abilify nearly killed me. It’s a strange drug, probably meant to drive people insane and then flatten them out, cause inner torment and illness.

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@Newlyborn I take 15mg of Haldol per day right now. I’m still paranoid though.

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Thanks @LittleMissSlothy

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@Cabra , I think it helps a lot of people it’s just not for you. I’m sorry you had such a horrible reaction to it. That really sucks!

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Haloperidol wasnt very effective to me also, aripiprazole is a low-mid tier antipsychotic. I found my syptoms are much more controlled on Invega, I heard good things about olanzapine as well, have you tried it?

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Ability works the best for me. I think you should give it a shot. Let us know if it works out.

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Probably because I never needed it, never wanted it, I was doing good until given a shot. After coming off abilify, I studied the drug extensively. The MH professionals are fed some crazy misinformation to mismarket the drug, by it’s mechanism it is impossible for it to be motivating, it is just a some level of akathisia, which is more common in abilify than other antipsychotics.

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It didn’t work for me. I was on 15 mg, I used to be on Zyprexa 20mg stable. On Abilify the first two weeks I would wake up in the middle of the night and talk alone, laugh, make jokes, sing… It gave me akathisia and after a month I was completely psychotic.

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Yes. @Newlyborn , I’ve tried both Invega and olanzapine. Neither helped.

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Ok. Thanks @Jake

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What misinformation? Can you send me a link so I can read it @Cabra ?

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Oh geez @CMBS87 . That sounds awful! I want to sleep through the night. I might give it a try still if my dr I’d ok with it, but I’ll look out for that for sure

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