I haven’t had a psychotic break in over 2 and a half years.
I get an injection of Abilify every 3 weeks. I’m going to ask my psychiatrist if we can extend this to every month or 6 weeks…see if he will agree to this.
I’m right as rain these days.
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I’m glad you are well and happy.
May you continue to be well and thrive with your family.
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Be careful.
Recently I just switched generic brand of Abilify and I went off the rails. I’m off that brand now and back to normal.
It’s a risk , so have a plan with your doctors on reverting to what you have now if it doesn’t work out.
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At that point my doc also agreed to reduce meds and see how it went …
I wish risperidone had a monthly injection, but it’s every 2 weeks for me.
Great news your stable on abilify. Abilify is a life saver for me too, but I take a tiny bit every 4-5 months to help with risperidone side effects.
Abilify was developed by Japanese researchers, just like PlayStation, Japan creates some epic stuff
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Yeah Abilify is Japanese.
Otsuka spelled backwards is “akusto” which reminds me of “acoustic” = having to do with sounds. It targets my voices with 100% success rate.
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That’s excellent @Andrey
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I agree with everhopeful, be careful. I had a psychotic episode in 1996. After that, I thought it might all be over. Never went off meds. Then, in 2001, I had another bad one. That was the first one I never became an inpatient for. Still stayed on the meds. Had another one in 2008 and was admitted to a hospital psych unit (again). Have had a couple more in the last 7 years, but not in the last 2 years. Still taking AP meds and an anti-depressant.
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Every time I think I am over SZ it winds up all over me instead.
Pride goeth before the fall, etc.
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I recently had my Risperdal dose lowered to 3mg and although I’m doing ok overall I am a bit more irritable but not violent
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