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Old Aug 11, 2011, 02:59 AM
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Some of the side-effects are minor common ones from Abilify. However, Abilify is reported to have less frequent side-effects than many other anti-psychotics. Abilify less frequently increases suicidal behaviour but the fact you're having many side-effects, minor and severe may mean you'll become a guinea pig with trying to find anti-psychotics that can help.

You may instead find relief in something such as Tetrabenazine, which is mostly for treating muscle spastic movements, such as in Huntington's disease. It also has a mild anti-psychotic effect. It doesn't use the same mechanisms of action as the atypical class of anti-psychotics you're taking, so it may help either on its own or with another anti-psychotic.

Alternatively, you may find relief in other classes of anti-psychotics, such as Serentil as a type of phenothiazine, which has anti-psychotic and anti-histamine functions.

Tell your doctor about how Abilify is affecting you and if he/she prescribes another atypical anti-psychotic that leads to very bothersome side-effects, you may need to abandon that class altogether and take other types, such as the ones I mentioned (although there are other classes I didn't mention as well).

Anti-psychotics can also be used as a treatment of bipolar disorder so hopefully you can hit 2 birds with 1 stone.