Seen Pdoc today, med change// Abilify
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Seen Pdoc today, med change// Abilify
| Sat, 12-02-2006 - 11:20pm |
Hello Girls, How are you all. Seen my Pdoc today and he changed my medicine from zyprexa to Abilify! Does anyone know anything about the medicine. He seems to think it will help with weight gain, diabetes, and sleepie most of the time. I sure hope so. Plus I crave carbs, BAD! Oh by the way 15 mg is the dose. He said take it during the day it should keep me awake.

Hi Bigs,
I take Abilify, 10mg, and I now have to be tested for diabetes every 3 months. I'm a little confused to hear your pdoc saying that it would help with diabetes when it can cause diabetes in people who never had it. If you go to their website (I think www.abilify.com) you can read more information about it.
Hugs,
Peg
No personal experience with this one, but here's the Medline info on it:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a603012.html
There does appear to be special concern with the med for diabetics because it contains sugar & a tendancy for some to develop hypoglycemia, also weight gain is listed as a side effect.
Hey Thank you all for your input, and Marci thank you so must for the link to medications, and misc of them.
We just got finished with my 15 year old DD birthday party. It went super, she was very happy so that is all that matters. Any way got a few thing left to pick up so better go.
Later
Tks Again
shelia