Posted by Zyprexa on January 27, 2009, at 20:27:31
In reply to Re: Abilify + Also Any Suggestions on My Cocktail?, posted by elbee1 on January 27, 2009, at 13:30:28
The name says it all!
When I started taking abilify I kept the zyprexa for a while too. Seemed to go ok at first. But then the zyprexa just stoped working and abilify went full force. I started getting tired all the time, not sleeping, couldn't function at work at all. I lost my job by the way. Probably due to the abilify. I knew things were starting to go wrong well before that and wanted to discontinue the abilify, but my doctor just kept pushing it. When I told him this he said lets try a higher dose, 30mg. I told him no. But kept taking the abilify at 10-15mg don't remember which. Anyways that was a year and a half ago. It has taken this long to start comeing around. I was taking realy high doses of zyprexa when I first stoped the abilify. It seemed like the zyprexa was doing nothing. I took as much as 50mg a few times, I was on 20-30 for the longest while, then 15 for a while and now I am finaly get 10mg to work again just in the last 2-3 weeks.
I was realy paranoid on abilify, I thought everyone in the appartment complex was listening to me thrue the walls. And talking about me. I got realy depressed.
I've tried all the AP's except for Seroquel and Haldol(may have had haldol in hospital, but don't know). None were like zyprexa enough to switch. Perphenazine was the closest, but not close enough. I still take perphenazine with the zyprexa and things are looking up.
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