For me Abilify was the unique drug that made me able to “work”, specially creatively. It happens that side effects are severe in three aspects: restless legs, sleep quality and the worst for me, flatulence. I am in a phase that the antipsychotic medication I am taking takes nowhere in terms of being productive. So, I imagine the best drug I can have access is Abilify if I could learn how to surpass the worst side effects of it. Any experiences or ideas so I can suggest something to my Doctor?
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Nothing you can do about flatulence. Are you sure that’s the abilify and not another med you might be on?
As for sleep and restless legs, those side effects could go away on their own after a while.
If they don’t you could try l-theanine. It’s available over the counter. I use l-theanine to survive abilify.
Beware, you should treat l-theanine like a med and not just a supplement, and you should taper off it and not quit it cold turkey.
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What dose of abilify are you on?
Hi @everhopeful I was before on different dosages of Abilify, 10 to 30mg, More Abilify means that more flatulence occurs as weight drastically decreases to normality. It was identified the cause of flatulence the fermentation in the gut caused by aripiprazole but I did not go further with a treatment with probiotics because I could not stand it any more. The smell is different and like intense smell of medicine. Thanks for your reply.
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Interesting that you mention flatulence. Its increased since starting Abilify. But also my diet has not been ideal with the binge eating.
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For me the worst side effects were the intense hunger and akesthesia. B complex vitamins actually took away the hunger and benzos stopped the akesthesia, but benzos were not a good long term solution so I ended up going off of it. Sigh.
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Just to complete: I do not have flatulence as side effect on Xeplion, just on Abilify…
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