Abilify: SWEET SUCCESS!
YAY! Omygosh! Hallelujah! I am on week 4 of Abilify 2.5 mg and I am starting to notice a difference in my depression! I still feel like I am going to snap at any moment at times, but the difference is that I am able to better control my verbal outbursts about 70% of the time. In return, I am not angering those around me as much, less of a “save the drama for your mama” moment, and more happiness in the household! I am feeling quite a relief from my new found talent of withholding hurtful comments that were never meant to be said. I am so proud of myself! Ooooh, and the icing on the cake? I have yet to have any side effects from taking the Abilify!
Now don’t get me wrong. The Abilify is not a major change in my moods, but I am absolutely feeling the difference. I had my second appointment with the psychiatrist today and he said that I am able to increase my dosage of Abilify to 5 mg. If there is no difference in my moods from 2.5 mg to 5 mg then we will decrease back down to 2.5 mg, but to give the additional dosage a month to work into my system. The next step, if I still felt that I needed additional help, would be to increase the Cymbalta to a higher dosage than my current 60 mg. I would have to say that I like this psychiatrist very much so. He wants to take baby steps in my treatment and I am comfortable in this plan of action.
I let the psychiatrist know that despite feeling like I am on the right path, I still have a whole lot more room to improve on my actual mood swings. I can be happy one minute and feel on top of the world, and yet the next I want to break down in tears and my world is crashing down upon me. I have been having less of these moments, but they are still there and bothersome. Like I said above, I am able to control the feelings better, or is it that I am actually able to hide them better? I suspect a little bit of both!
This week I have been starting to get back into my crafty self and I have taken an added interest in learning to garden over the past couple of weeks. I am starting to feel a great sense of accomplishment in my meanderings and have a feeling that once we are able to find the right combination of therapy, I will be on the path to a mentally healthier new me. I know that I can accomplish great things, and I cannot wait to share those things with you all!
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T. Dunleavy
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I have had the same success!
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pasha satara
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You two have given me so much hope and I want to thank you for that. After suffering since the age of 15 with severe anxiety, agoraphobia, and depression, I had a new psych evaluation two days ago and received a diagnosis that stunned me – and upset me to the core. My psychiatrist believes that I am bipolar and put me on 2 mg of Abilify to go along with the 200 mg Zoloft and the Klonopin I have been on for a long time. I had to take my first dose of Abilify this morning as I see the doctor again in three weeks to let her know how I’m doing.
I was so scared to take the new medication due to possible side effects and no recovery but you have given me new hope and I am so grateful. Just had to share this and I am extremely glad that you two are experiencing success with Abilify. Maybe I will make us three! I hope and pray I do!
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Samantha
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Maureen
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Love, love, love this Abilify ! After my mother passed away I knew that I needed treatment for depression, after 9-11, I knew it was depression but after years have gone by and my life is pretty darn good………SOME of the symtoms returned. I went back on the medication to treat depression however it was different. I met with a new psychiatrist and we spoke about my father and his ” rants ” my granfather and his “rants” ME and my ” rants ” of anger . The smallest things would make them fly of the handle same goes for me . After about a hour or more of this appointment she says to me ” I do believe that your father, grandfather and you have Bipolar 1. After her findings she suggested Abilify, Holy Canoly ! over $ 500.00 ( $600 at CVS ) We are self employed and have medical but only discounted prescription cov. My Doctor gave me a Abilify discount card ( ask the drug rep ) Here is the best part…….. The first 30 days is FREE for the next 11 MONTHS I will pay a copay of no more than $25. If your Dr. does not have these discount cards, call Abilify 1~866~747~4956 OR better yet, you may even be able to receive it for FREE just ask them, they were very helpful for me. This is a great medication.Do not let the negative comments get in the way, i mean half the time those people are on 2-3-4 different kinds of drugs so I would think its hard to figure out the culprit. Best of happiness to you all
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Harold
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A caution: My psychiatrist added Abilify to my anti depressant. This was several years ago. I’m doing great now, but not because of Abilify. It caused me to have numerous unwanted symptoms: Shaking, unable to write, unable to think clearly, and so on. They sent me to a neurologist.They tested me for Parkinson’s. I could not work for 6 months.
Now I’m on an extremely low dose of another old antidepressant. Watch out…the new ones are nothing new, in my view. Psychiatrists with the strength of self esteem have admitted they barely know what’s going on in the brain or body from most of the drugs the hand out so freely. I mean, look, I’m happier without most of the pills I’d been given in high doses and mixtures than I ever was. It’s an infant science. THe new anti-depressants have not been taken by anyone for a period of years yet, so no one knows what effects they’ll have in the long run, but they are marketed. Handed out like candy by pschiatrists. This is bad form. I wonder: Do the drug companies push these on the doctors and on us? The low dose anti-depressant I take is ancient: Nardil. But only 15 mg per day………..full dose is supposedly 90 mg per day. I’m a male, about 165 pounds.
HPB
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Harold
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Sorry for grammatical errors and misspellings in my other message. Typed fast!
HPB
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