Yeah, it hurt a lot... falling down all those stairs.
There are some meds like abilify that make people extremely sedated but also make others manic and insomniacs. Any med can cause any side effect, as far as I'm concerned. Even if the symptom you're experiencing isn't listed as a "known" or "common" side effect, it can still happen as a side effect. After all, drugs are only tested on a small -- and very focused -- subpopulation of people during clinical trials. So, it's impossible to capture every possible side effect when you're not testing it on a ton of people. Even 1000 people in a clinical trial isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, especially since you know that 50% of those people will be receiving a placebo rather than the med itself. How is 500 people fully representative of the tens of thousands of people who take the med? It's not.
Some doctors need to use common sense.
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