Original Comment:
| Anonymous | abilify | May 12th, 2008 | Rating: 6.5000 |
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| I have been on Abilify for 2 weeks, 1/2 of a 15mg tablet and it is about to drive me up the wall with shortness of breath, shallow breathing, headache, aches all over, sleepness nights, having to sit up in recliner to breathe and sleep. Sure it does not have the effect that paxil and other antipshchotic medications do on the sex life but the side effects are harendous. I had to stop it last night as I could hardly move I hurt so bad all over and felt as if I was having a heart attack. I was dizzy and very tongue twisted at times to get out my sentences, is it possible I was taking too much or too little for a balanced feeling or what could it possibly be? | |||
Replies:
| Tracey | Abilify BIG NO | December 2nd, 2005 |
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| Ive been on Abilify 5mg for around 4weeks great no more hallucinations, I have multiple personality disorder & epileptic. BUT!!!!!!! I can hardly move with muscle pain ,foul headache everyday shortness of breathe etc, it is painful to hold up the weight of my head & typing this is near impossible as is reading (decressed visual understanding,) Driving my 3 kids around is out of the question .Abilify gets a BIG NO from & im stopping tonight. | ||
| Anonymous | No Subject | December 3rd, 2005 |
| Yeah when I was taking abilify I couldn't seem to complete my thoughts...it had kind've a thought blocking effect where if I tried really hard to think about something the thought would just go away and I would forget what I was thinking about...i think it has something to do with the d2 receptor sites for dopamine, and the fact that its an agonist tends to stop the dopamine from attaching to the receptor site especially when you try to concentrate really hard...its like the harder you concentrate the more it works against you. | ||
| Araina | No Subject | December 3rd, 2005 |
| I understand what you are going through. However, I did not experience such severity as you. I did feel as if I was jumping out of my skin, couldn't keep still yet felt as if I had been ran over by a bus. At night I couldn't sleep because my tongue keep pushing against my teeth invoulunarly. I would just lay in bed unable to think about anything other than how I couldn't fall asleep. I started to have twitches which were visable by other people around me. My facial muscles were out of control. I guess I can't take anti-psychotics because they all seem to have given me some form of involuntary movements. I couldn't wait until the medication went out of my system. I am terrified at the thought of trying it again and don't want to try any other anti-psychotic. | ||