Abilify

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I was just wondering if anyone else has taken or takes Abilify (aripiprazole) for symptoms associated with tehir autism/Asperger's, and what your experiences are? I have taken it since February and just increased my daily dosage from 5 to 10mg. I take it for anxiety and irritability.

I took it at the same time and Zoloft. One of then made me so anxious, it was unbearable. I'm not sure witch one though, and I quit both after a few weeks.

Could've been both. Antidepressants often cause anxiety when first starting them (will go away after a while), and I read anxieyt is also a pretty common side effect of Abilify.

Abilify made me want to move my legs all the time at one point I was kind of dancing all the time. Funny for other people but hell for me. It took a long time to wear off when I stopped taking it.

I was on Abilify for on & off for five years & it caused me to have twitches & ticks. My mouth was constantly dry & I had a hard time talking & slurred words. I was on a very low dosage of it. I hear in the commercials for it that those side-effects can become permanent. I've been off it for over a year & a half & my left eyelid sometimes still twitches but I was on other meds to that I guess could of caused it or the combinations did. If you have any kinds of problems with twitching or tremors or something; I would highly recommend NOT taking Abilify but I hear lots of anti-psychotics can cause those problems.

Did your doctor say you have tardive dyskenisia (jerky facial movements from long-term antipsychotic use)? If so, this could indeed be permanent. Abilify is notorious for causing movement disorders as compared to other atypical antipsychotics; my psychiatrist told me when he prescribed it that even at 5mg (veyr low dose), I could have movement issues, but thankfully I didn't. So far at 10mg no side effects either.

No one mentioned anything about tardive dyskenisia to me but I had a tremor disorder before but the meds made things a lot worse while I was on em. I started Abilify about 7 years ago; I think it had just came out & it wasn't really heard of then. I was on 5mg as well & a couple docs did seem a little concerned about tremors & I switched anti-psychotics a few times but kept going back to Abilify & started taking another med for tremors. Things got much better after I quit meds but they are still worse than before I started em. I tried getting treatment for tremors after I was off all the meds a while but the those meds made me sick & seemed to cause mental issues or made things worse. I had tried a couple tremor meds out before I had a break-down & I think they may of helped cause it. As I said in a recent thread I started in the Members Only section; the medication really messed me up. I truly believe I'm much better off NOT taking any meds or seeing any docs for mental or tremor issues unless things get extremely serious.

for me, it made me want to move around a lot, like everybody else, it seems. That made driving kinda dangerous. It made me really bored too. With everything. I fell asleep during nearly every movie i saw that year.

I didn't like it. I wouldn't take it again either. I took it for showing pre-dronal signs of schizophrenia though. That's what the diagnosis was at the time.