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Does Abilify help ?

Quilp

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Those of you in the UK, were you able to ask your GP to be placed on Abilify or did you meet a road block ? I really need to try something. At this point I feel like I have little to lose.
 

YippeeKi YOW !!

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Second star to the right ...
Already an existing 70 page thread on Abilify—better to use existing threads than to keep making new threads on same topic.
While I generally agree with this, I think that it's a lot to ask of someone going thru fairly extreme ME symptoms to read thru 70 pages (!!!!!) with various opinions/input/experiences with Abilify.

Generally, seeing 'Abilify' in the title of a thread will hopefully call in members with direct experience or input @Quilp , so just wait and see what comes up here ....
 

Quilp

Senior Member
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Thank you all, and yes going through 70 replies/pages is a little too much right now. I am aware of the FB page too.
I am so upset for those for whom it worked and then stopped working, Jessie, might I ask how it has helped you and what dosage you are on ? The same to anyone else.

Also to those for whom it worked, has anyone taken a break of say a year and then started again ? Could it be that it worked a second time.

I would really like OMF to say more ( apologies if i've missed it ) in respect of how many people and to what extent and for how long this is working.

Is it expensive ?

Finally, weight gain seems to be a theme, but has anyone suffered from any serious side effects ?

Many thanks, Mark
 

Jessie 107

Senior Member
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Thank you all, and yes going through 70 replies/pages is a little too much right now. I am aware of the FB page too.
I am so upset for those for whom it worked and then stopped working, Jessie, might I ask how it has helped you and what dosage you are on ? The same to anyone else.

Also to those for whom it worked, has anyone taken a break of say a year and then started again ? Could it be that it worked a second time.

I would really like OMF to say more ( apologies if i've missed it ) in respect of how many people and to what extent and for how long this is working.

Is it expensive ?

Finally, weight gain seems to be a theme, but has anyone suffered from any serious side effects ?

Many thanks, Mark
Abilify has helped me in many ways.
I have been bedbound for almost 4years now, since starting Abilify I no longer have the ill/ malaise or flu like symptoms.
I can have a bath using a bath lift,
Rest downstairs every day using a stairlift,
Lay outside,
Talk more,
Use my phone more,
Feed myself,
Tolerate more light,
Less crashes,
All these things were not possible before.
I take 2mg, I've no idea why it is still working I dread the day when it doesn't because I don't want to go back to how I was before.
 

GlassCannonLife

Senior Member
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Abilify has helped me in many ways.
I have been bedbound for almost 4years now, since starting Abilify I no longer have the ill/ malaise or flu like symptoms.
I can have a bath using a bath lift,
Rest downstairs every day using a stairlift,
Lay outside,
Talk more,
Use my phone more,
Feed myself,
Tolerate more light,
Less crashes,
All these things were not possible before.
I take 2mg, I've no idea why it is still working I dread the day when it doesn't because I don't want to go back to how I was before.

You slowly went up to the 2 mg right?
 
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@Jessie 107 did the abilify effects seem to kick in pretty immediately? I guess might be hard to say since you titrated... I'm on 15mg already and am considering trying a quarter pill for a few days. I don't want to stay off my usual dose for too long though so I wonder if there's value to be had in the experiment.
 

Jessie 107

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Brighton
@Jessie 107 did the abilify effects seem to kick in pretty immediately? I guess might be hard to say since you titrated... I'm on 15mg already and am considering trying a quarter pill for a few days. I don't want to stay off my usual dose for too long though so I wonder if there's value to be had in the experiment.
To be honest, I can't remember, I will say it was a few weeks.
 

Wishful

Senior Member
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Alberta
I am so upset for those for whom it worked and then stopped working,

That seems to be all too common for ME treatments of any kind. I've had quite a few things that worked well for a few doses, and then stopped working. My experience is that once they stop working, they never work again, even when I tried years later. :( There's no guarantee that it won't work again, so it may be worth trying again occasionally. It's also worth stopping a treatment occasionally to make sure that it's still actually making a difference, or checking to see whether the dosage should be changed.
 

Judee

Psalm 46:1-3
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Great Lakes
It's also worth stopping a treatment occasionally to make sure that it's still actually making a difference,

However, if a person knows something is working stick with it. I stopped Mutaflor when it was working because cycling it was recommended on one site. Then :bang-head: it never worked again. IF I ever have it work again, I'm going to keep taking it until it stops working.
 

Wishful

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Alberta
I stopped Mutaflor when it was working because cycling it was recommended on one site. Then :bang-head: it never worked again.

There's no guarantee that it would have kept working at that point even if you hadn't stopped taking it. Of the many treatments I tried that never worked again, I think only one occurred after stopping it, but that was prednisone, which my doctor wouldn't prescribe long-term. I think if he had prescribes another bottle, it's very likely that it already wouldn't have worked.

I only had four treatments that continued to work until they were no longer needed.