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#1
Sep 21, 2012, 05:49 PM
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What's a reasonable amount of time? Granted, if something awful happens, say, akathisia, I will discontinue the trial right away, but given that the side effects are tolerable, when is enough time to make a call?
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Sep 21, 2012, 05:55 PM
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I'd say with antipsychotics 2 weeks is a good indicator. You are talking about abilify, right?
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Sep 21, 2012, 06:14 PM
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Id really say atleast 2-4 weeks before you know if a med is really working good for you. Atleast in my case that seems to be the reasonable amount of time. I can usually say yeah this med is really working or I can tell the doc its not working and lets try something new by week 4.
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Sep 21, 2012, 06:33 PM
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I agree 2-4 weeks should be plenty. I usually wait in between at about 3 weeks to make a decision.
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Sep 21, 2012, 07:10 PM
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I give most 4 weeks, unless I'm upping the dose (about 2 days to a week) or the psych tells me it takes less time to work (however long he says).
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Sep 22, 2012, 11:47 AM
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Sep 22, 2012, 11:48 AM
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2-4 weeks be it!
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Sep 22, 2012, 12:25 PM
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When do you start on it? What dose are you starting on? Im glad you decided to give it a try.
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Sep 22, 2012, 12:29 PM
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My doctor's appointment is on Oct 18. Then add a few days for the drug to arrive from mail-order pharamcy. I do not know yet on what dose he will start me.
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Sep 22, 2012, 01:20 PM
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Are you having issues with depression? It does a good job with this. When I first started it I believe it took about two weeks to pull me out of the deepest depression I had ever been in. The second depression was not near as bad just a slip from not having the meds for a week or so, then it took me about 4 or 5 days of taking them again to get it built back up in my system enough to take the depression away again. I believe these new meds they have come out with are great. Least side effects. Im doing really well with it so far. I sure hope it helps you too. Its supposed to help with mania as well. I havent had to deal with this side of it yet.
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Sep 22, 2012, 01:23 PM
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Sep 22, 2012, 01:32 PM
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Oh ok. Let me know how it works for mania. I have heard it works well both ways.
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Sep 22, 2012, 03:10 PM
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Hope it works well it helped me a lot for quite sometime, but I was on a super high dose so I got akathesia from the high dose I was on so we switched it to a different one to not have to use such a high dose. I was on 45 mg btw
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Sep 22, 2012, 10:04 PM
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............. i am somewhat new to all of this so I usually give it 4 to 6 weeks. Often the dose is increased during this timeframe if I am not having side effects.
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Sep 23, 2012, 09:39 PM
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That's what I'm always told is 4 - 6 weeks before you make a decision. But don't assume after that nothing can't happen. I was on the abilify for 6 months before I started having the tardive dyskinesia from out of no where. Just always be wary.
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Sep 23, 2012, 10:25 PM
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I agree- 4-6 weeks.
What was it about Abilify that you and your doc chose it? I often wonder if I should switch to that in place of the Seroquel, because it sounds like it helps with depression side and is not so sedating. |
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