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Originally Posted by Jojool
I've been off Abilify for about 3 weeks. The first week I was fine...but the last 2 weeks have been hell on earth. I am dizzy, lightheaded, feel like I'm going to faint when I stand up, generally feel sick. I tried to get in to see my pdoc, but she is booked until July! I don't know what to do. Can't go on this way, but I don't want to start the meds again only to have to deal with this all over again. Suggestions???
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If you taper slowly its not as bad----we cut the dose by 2.5mg every 6 weeks...if you're on an anti-psychotic dose you can actually induce a break just by quitting cold turkey----this happens for all the anti-psychotics its called supersentivity psychosis. So my first taper I had to go back up we originally went from 10 down to 5mg but I went up to 7.5 and stayed there. I guess the question is whether you want to risk triggering a mood episode or psychotic break. Personally I would just go up a little and start tapering from there it would not be worth it for me to become psychotic---if you taper slow enough you don't really feel it at all.