Comments: Two Readers Comment
Glad that the second reader found something that works for them. As someone who is in somewhat of a med-limbo due to various allergic reactions and a tainted immune system and is highly suspicious of thorazine's grandchildren (the "atypical anti-psychotics") being used as monotherapy for bipolar disorder, I have to have something clarified- did you begin Abilify in February of 2004 or "as of May"? It is not clear from your post. I'd really like to know, as Abilify is being touted by my psychiatric nurse as one of my "best available options!"
Posted by Lily Lynch at May 27, 2006 07:17 PM
Lily~
I am a huge fan of anecdotal stories regarding medication efficacy. I feel it can be one story sometimes told by several different people, that can help us decide which medication to try.
Regarding Abilify, this is a good example of the psychiatric medications work for some, not for others, what doses are best, and then the complexity of paradoxical effects can make the decision making more difficult.
I want to add to the Abilify discussion, first, stating I too, am glad someone found a medication that works for them, that is a day of victory, no doubt about that.
I have a daughter who has many paradoxical reactions to medications, though she can tolerate some antipsychotics and not others. Abilify was right up there with antidepressants and Ativan for paradoxical, opposite, effect. She was completely manic on Abilify, could not sleep for a week, and what stopped that, was the removal of the Abilify.
It leaves many people at the very place you are standing now, asking and reading, and wondering if this med can help you, and unfortunately, all you can do is try it.
I wish you good luck, and hope if you try it, that you will too find something that works for you. What is most important, is that you do not give up trying.
Posted by Stephany at May 29, 2006 12:52 PM