I am bipolar and started this drug today
2006-07-31 11:16:05 · 5 answers · asked by Caroline M 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I was put on abilify for my bipolar and I started feeeling the positive effects within a week. I do not have any bad side effects either. I hope you feel the positive effects soon. Hugs! Von!
2006-07-31 12:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by bry7josh 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I began to feel better in about 4 days. I've tried any other psychotherapuetic medication you can name during the past 10 years with bad results. I have a high-sensitivity towards them in general, but if I don't take some kind or another, my mania gets too unstable. You can't imagine the relief I felt when I tried Abiliify (I had no hopes for it to help) and it really helped and I had no adverse side effects to date. It's been about a year now and still no problems with it. Good luck to you!
2006-07-31 13:08:52 · answer #2 · answered by HisChamp1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in a psychiatric unit, and in my experience Abilify doesn't work at all! It's good in terms of limited side effects, but not a lot of use for symptoms of Psychosis.
2006-08-01 10:43:06 · answer #3 · answered by Fluke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it can take about 2 weeks to get in to your blood stream
2006-08-01 03:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by munchie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually 4 weeks...
keep the faith!!
2006-07-31 11:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by prettylass217 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋