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Re: slight case of prescription drug dependency

Posted by utopizen on May 16, 2004, at 23:57:18

In reply to Re: slight case of prescription drug dependency, posted by 1980Monroe on May 16, 2004, at 22:00:28

Abilify came out in January of 2003.

It's possible your doc may not have heard of it, unless he's cool about listening to sales people.

Also, docs tend to take their antipsychotics very personally, as though they invented them themselves in their basement one night. I've never met a doc who doesn't "pride" him or herself in their choice antipsychotic to give everyone.

Hopefully your doc will bend to Abilify, because let me tell you, the others will make you incredibly tired, and for me, dysphoric/depressed.

Abilify is a dopamine antagonist, otherwise known as an atypical antipsychotic. It has the fewest side effects, doesn't require blood monitoring, is clinically insignifigant to induce fatigue versus placebo, and acts rapidly in the body.

While most drugs take several weeks to notice any change at all, you're likely to notice an effect within 7-10 days, and any side-effects should go away within just a few days or within a few weeks.

Side-effects are minimal, and it is helpful for patients who have difficulties with responding to amphetamines (e.g., are depressed, and require increasingly higher doses just to seem to feel any effect at all). It would help you feel less depressed, more motivated to do work, increase your energy levels, and drastically reduce your desire that Dexedrine is necessary at doses higher than your doctor prescribes.

While I sound like a textbook, I am merely relaying to you what I felt when I was on it. I wish I didn't stop taking it when I felt restlessness, since many drugs can quell this effect. I hope I go back on it again, but you know how it goes-- docs have a focus, and they like to deal with one drug at a time, and I'm about to go on Straterra and Provigil combined.

Abilify can easily and safely be added on to your Wellbutrin to potentiate a response from the Wellbutrin. The two should help your ADD quite well, allowing you to feel more control with your symptoms along with reasonable doses of a stimulant and/or Straterra.

You should also talk to your doctor about Straterra if he is either opposed to Abilify or you go on Abilify and don't become the superhero I felt after just a week of taking it.

(Wait a couple of months with the Abilify if you trial it, and try escalating to doses in weekly intervals, since responses are noticed in 7-10 days in clinical trials for schitzophrenics).

It clears your thoughts up, motivates you to do stuff, and makes you feel in control of things without sucking up your energy. Unlike the other meds out there, it actually GIVES you energy within a week rather than suck it away and making you feel depressed while you "adjust" to it.


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