I am reading an article written by a Dr who says all partial dopamine agonists may cause addiction/impulse problems, uncontrollable, in some patients. I read about this and maybe thats why it happens in certain ppl like me, now idk if I should try Vraylar?
Different impulse control disorders have been described including gambling, compulsive shopping, eating disorders and hypersexuality. Behavioral disturbances, most commonly aggressive tendencies, are the norm. Psychosis is also common.
Maybe thats why Abilify and other partial dopamine agonists never work for lots of schizophrenics.
I don’t know Aziz. I don’t have these issues on Abilify. Maybe you won’t have them on Vrayler. I certainly don’t aggressive tendencies. But we are all individuals so I don’t know.
That sucks that you will have few options if you decide that it is not worth the risk.
I guess 6mg Risperdal or maybe 8mg for life.
I wish there was a way to have normalized dopamine lvl in all the brain like in blood tests where Drs adjust it to be in the normal range where there is no positive or negative symptoms and no side effects. I will keep dreaming about this for the rest of my life…
Currently everything’s a tradeoff. The aps tamper things down. And anythiing stimulating brings things up.
You gotta kinda go for a happy medium.
@Aziz I take Caplyta, and I don’t have any problems. Might be because I take a mood stabilizer with it.
I didn’t have these problems while I was on Abilify, but it didn’t have any effect on me at all. No side effects, but to therapeutic value either, I became psychotic.
In theory my Lurasidone shouldn’t work because it is a weaker antipsychotic than olanzapine, and I am on a much lower dose, relatively speaking, than I was on Olanzapine, yet it works wonders.
I get your curiosity, I research and read stuff too, but I’ve learned through practical experience you just don’t know how these meds will affect you until you try them
You can say that again!
My Mom said I was very mean on vraylar
Man thats bad news to me, I am mean off meds and on low dose meds. I hope its strong enough.
I’m usually not mean I think I was just irritable from all the side effects
You gotta balance this crap out.
Sucks then, the science definitely shows that 2 similar mechanisms of action have similar side effects.
I am trying out brexpiprazole soon as abilify hampers my short term memory a little
I am stopping the Abilify. I’ve been off it for about a week. I feel a sense of relief. No hallucinations. No delusions. No paranoia. Just relief.
Now I have to work on my impulses I have developed from Abilify. I have to learn to de-program myself from dependency on others for support. I have to stay clean of drugs or abusive toxic people.
My mom is on the Abilify injection–it does not seem to help a ton although she was ok today. She still is talking to herself in riddles, and sometimes shouts to the universe about her delusions. It hasnt done a damn thing for her except now she is over-eating and chain-smoking non-stop and she is sleeping even less than before.
My summary is that after 15 years of being trapped on Abilify its a love/hate relationship.
But I think it blunts my instincts, ability to say no, makes me gullible to abuse…it just makes me feel completely stupid. Im done with it. I can actually listen to someone rant about conspiracies or their delusions and not be convinced because Im not taking a pill that makes me gullible to false-information.
Its not like anything is going to change in my life if I keep taking it.
Keep taking abilify = keep being stuck in the house, keep gaining weight, keep feeling depressed always wanting to sleep, keeping feeling suicidal
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