I was put on Abilify along with 300 mg Lamictal maybe 10 or 11 years ago. It started out FANTASTIC! I was feeling great, back to work full-time and kicking butt on a project, taking ballroom dance classes a couple times per week, and lost some weight (probably because of the dance). Unfortunately, "fantastic" that keeps getting more fantastic eventually turns ugly, for me. I ended up hospitalized with severe mania and psychosis, that turned into mixed features with psychosis. I believe that episode was one that created a year and a half of rapid cycling (meaning four episodes in a year). I think I had a series of five hospitalizations spurred by that combo. I had had two or three before that. Lamictal has always been too activating for me at high doses. It's even activating at low doses, but other meds keep it in check. I can't say if Abilify was activating, too, or if it was just not strong enough to keep my mania in check.

I do remember getting akathisia from Abilify, but no other side effects. I don't remember how, but at the time I somehow managed with it. Maybe my psychiatrist gave me some medication that helped it? I don't remember. I never had double-vision from it, but I do totally understand double-vision since I had that later down the road when I started Tegretol XR. It was a side effect of Tegretol XR that did eventually fade away.