[ronironi9088]

hello guys. i had psychotic syndrome and was taking antipsychotics for years.well i am tired of these drugs. the last drug i was taking was abilify.
i stopped it 2 weeks ago but i dont see any diference at all.
does anyone knows when will it stop working in my brain?
well the half life of this drug is 75 hours , and i ve read on the net it needs 5 half lives to leave the blood. but this is not the question.
i know that it hasn t stopped its action. i hate antipsychotics.
for anyone who questions, no i didn t ask my doctor for this, i did it on my one decision.

when will it stop working?

has anyone similar experiences from antipsychotics?
has anyone stopped them?
what happened to them?

I came off abilify three weeks ago and have only had one hallucination. The drugs stopped working for me pretty quickly. I am back to my old self. I no longer am lethargic slightly slurring my words. Others have started noticing too.

love and hugs,
tara

[ronironi9088]

thanks for the reply tara.well i ve read some of your other threads and i also agree that stopping three medicines cold turkey was not pretty good thing to do.
we should be telling each other about our expierences because we were taking the same med and we stopped it almost the same period.
i never used to have hallusinations, only delusions which i dont mind coming back.the thing that matters me a little bit is that i say weird dumm things when i am delusioning.
you wrote somewhere that you feel better already. i feel the same as i was when i was on med. someone told me that the med may stop working after 5 months and i am disapppointed about that.
i feel like i ve lost some years of my life with these medicines and caused damage to my brain, my motivation, my feelings, my body.

[Perna]

I would think since it may take 6-12 weeks for it to get completely up and running in your system, it might take that long for it to completely stop? Think of a car when the engine quits/disengages (had that happen on a "beltway" :-) it can still roll for a long time at a pretty good speed before coming to a stop if you aren't braking.

Heya,

I do feel tons better not taking my meds but I'm cautious too. Many people have told me not to go back on meds because i'm so very different off my meds. Of course I will go back on my meds if I become delusional, paranoid, hallucinatory or other such things. I did have one "hallucination" if you can call it that while I was driving and that wasn't good. but it was only once. So I see my psychiatrist tomorrow and will be totally honest with her about what's going on. I no longer feel lethargic, depressed or muted. I feel opinionated, more dominant less submissive (yes that's a side effect of the meds - making me more submissive). I have more energy. It's crazy what the meds took away from me. Granted they also took the paranoia, the delusions, the hallucinations, the depression for the most part (left a low grade depression).

My problem is it has been three years since I've been majorly symptomatic so i've lost some respect for the illness. I'm hoping that doesn't come back to bite me in the tush. We'll see but so far so good.

Love and hugs,
Tara

P.S. Feel free to PM me if you want

Hiya,

I will say that only you can know what is right for you. What I've done is give a list of symptoms to people who I spend lots of time with. They are on the lookout for delusional thinking, paranoia etc. I think it's wise if you're quitting your meds to do this. Then others who you trust now when you're healthy can tell you if you're getting sick again. and you can know when you're sick that you did trust these people. Hopefully that won't be happening but just in case.

love and hugs,
Tara

[DePressMe]

I was on abilify for a long time. I regret wasting so much of my life--the abilify changed who I was. I've changed to seroquel and I've had better luck.