Who likes Abilify šŸ’Š

Good stories please, and what dosage helped with the voicesā€¦?

I actually got an increase in physical strength when they put me on Abilify. I donā€™t know what dose I was on. It didnā€™t have a sedating effect on me. Of course that can vary from person to person. They had to take me off it because it got me a little too amped up.

Thanks Crimbly.

I have 25 mg. Voices are not gone. I become calm on Abilify. I got access to my brain more compared to Flupentixol I hade before.

I never heard voices. Abilify keeps me sane, Iā€™m on the lowest therapeutic dose of 10mg. I do suffer from the anxiety side effect greatly. I used to take benzos to counteract this, now I take l-theanine instead (2 x 300mg doses in the day).

Itā€™s supposed to be one of the safest APs metabolic wise, but your milage may vary.

Howā€™s the l-theanine working for you?

I like Abilify much better than any of my previous apā€™s. I have more energy and my mind seems clearer. Iā€™m currently on 30 mg a day. I gained a LOT of weight on Clopixol and Olexar but my weight has remained constant ever since Iā€™m on Abilify. I really want to loose weight and hopefully I can do it while Iā€™m on Abilify.

Still working, Iā€™m slightly concerned Iā€™m becoming tolerant to it. Actually, Iā€™ll update my benzo thread rather than derailing this one.

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I had to stop taking it. It increased positive sympthoms and gave me depression.

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What dose were you on?

It doesnt help me much at all. My voices are still loud and pretty constant. As far as hallucinations, it helps a little bit but I still feel like Iā€™m dreaming sometimes when Iā€™m fully awake. Im only at 5 mg though because Im only 16 and my doctor is afraid of weight loss/gain.

10mg is the minimum therapeutic dose for schizophrenia. I pig headedly tried doses of 5mg and 7.5mg and they just didnā€™t do the trick for me. So I guess ā€˜theyā€™ know what theyā€™re talking about when they say 10mg is minimum for schizophrenia.

Not me. Would include details but you said ā€œpositive stories onlyā€.

Abilify has been the best sz med Iā€™ve been on, and also the worst. The oral version was the worst, while the shot has been the best so far. On the oral Abilify, I believe I was on like 20 mg but Iā€™m not sure anymore, it was a long time ago, I paced all waking hours, the worst akathisia Iā€™ve ever had, sitting still for even 2 seconds was unbearable(car rides were great cuz it was like a need to move instead of a need to walk, stoplights sucked though), so I just paced, all day every day for some weeks until the doctor took me off it. So over 4 years later when I had to switch meds for the 5th time she told me I was going to be on Abilify again, but said the shot could be totally different. And it was, no noticeable akathisia. The first time around I also had some sexual dysfunction and pretty bad muscle spasms, on the shot I donā€™t have those either. Iā€™m on 2 other meds also, because 400mg is the maximum dose. And also when I started the pills I had terrible anxiety, too many panic attacks a day to count, which subsided in a week but it was just really bad and I was too psychotic to ask for benzos or something. When I got on the shot I had no anxiety even in the beginning. When they start you on the shot they give you pills at first, but they gave me a lower dose than the 20 mg which caused all the problems.

It stops my psychosis(abilify 5mg),I am much saner with it

I love Abilify I Am on the lowest dose which is 5 mg and have been for the past 13 years and counting and never had to change meds I did because of side effects several times but lived to regret it. Abilify keeps me sane and also calm and peaceful and collective. I take it along with Lexapro10mg those are the only two meds I take so I consider me Lucky.

not necessarily true I am on the lowest dose of 5 mg of Abilify and I am functioning just fine and I have Schizophrenia plus Bipolar and GAD been on that dose for years and Only once was I ever in a mental Hospital or had a mental breakdown against my wishes though and I wasnā€™t on Abilify then.

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