Posted by Honore on March 26, 2007, at 10:55:07
In reply to Re: ABILIFY/Med empowered/Football, posted by stargazer on March 26, 2007, at 10:47:12
I use 2.5 mg/day of Abilify with Emsam and it's extremely helpful.
I had a pretty good response to Emsam over the course of four months previously, but had to stop for other reasons.
When I started again, I asked my pdoc about Abilify, and he said it's a good combination. (He's very uptodate on things and very good.)
He also said the following:
1. about 20% of people experience nausea, which causes them to stop
2. about 20% of people experience agitation which causes them to stop
3. you'll pretty much know, if you've done ADs and have a sense of your reactions, if the Abilify is helping within 10 days or maybe 2 weeks at most. Could be less.He gave me 2.5 mg== and there' s no question in my mind that it's making a very great difference. I had a much better, and also fuller and quicker response to Emsam with the small dose of Abilify than w/o.
No reason to take more Abilify than you need. Lots of people stick with small doses and have good results. So if you're not in the 40% with bad SEs, it might do you some real good.
Give it a while, but you should have a sense of it without waiting that long.
Good luck,
Honore
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