Haven't been doing so well lately....

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Haven't been doing so well lately....
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Thu, 06-23-2005 - 5:45pm

Been racing between extreme depression and extreme irritation with everyone. Saw pdoc today who increased my abilify to 10 mg. She seemed concerned about side effects with the increased dosage...like jitteryness (is that a word). Anyone have any side effects at this level?

Missy

 
 
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Registered: 11-19-2004
Thu, 06-23-2005 - 5:49pm

I take 20 mg, and don't have any side effects, but my pdoc brought me up slowly starting at 5 mg.

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Thu, 06-23-2005 - 6:14pm
I am on abilify too and I went up slow from 2.5 to 10mg, and I was SOOOOOOOO lethargic and at the same time jittery I had to go down and am now on 5mg, though we are shooting for 15mg soon (uhg). I's hard to cope with that sometimes, but pdoc said abilify is one that has the paradoxical effect of causing sleepiness and anxiety-like symptoms at the same time. Just monitor it, and maybe you can ask pdoc to do 7.5 mg if you get side effects? I hate cutting those darn tiny pills in half, but it was the only way to do it for me!

littlemascara
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Registered: 09-01-2004
Thu, 06-23-2005 - 11:17pm

Missy,


Well obviously the computer is not completely done playing games as it ate my eralier reply!

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Fri, 06-24-2005 - 12:05pm

((((missy))) I don't take the med but I wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you. I'm sorry that you are racing back and forth like that.

Love,
Amanda

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