Lowering Abilify by half

I started IOP today and the pdoc is lowering my Abilify by half. I just lowered it to 30 from 40mgs and now he wants me to go to 15. I am so scared of withdraw effects as I have been on 40mgs for a few years. Has anybody ever had that drastic of a dose change before? If so, what symptoms did you have if any?

I've stopped and restarted 10 mg doses of ability a million times w no taper and I've been fine. I know that's a little different than your situation. Technically, it shouldn't cause any physical effects. Abilify has a really long half life and kind of self tapers off, much like Prozac. You may have an increase in whatever symptoms the abilify was treating however.
Hope you do okay. Good luck.

I went from 30 to 15 straight away too, and didn't have a problem. No withdrawal effects.

When I came off of Abilify I didn't have any withdrawal side effects either.

I really hate drugs but I'm stuck on them, is Abilify safe to take, even at 2 mg? I'm already on a mood stabilizer for long term! I do not want to take any more drugs and terrified of trying it. The doctors wants to put me on it. Like risk of diabetes weight gain, I think I rather suffer with symptoms instead or deal with them naturally!

Can anyone please tell me their experiences on it ?

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I've had no weight gain, no pre diabetes type symptoms. As a group, Geodon is considered the least likely to cause weight, with latuda and abilify following closely behind. At 2 mg a day it's highly unlikely you'll gain weight or develop diabetes. That's a really low dose.

Thank you! I am still unsure about taking it. I'll have to think it over some more. I had enough experiences with medication thank you for the response pinkflower17!!!

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I went from 20 to 0 right away because I didnt like the panic attacks it was giving me, stayed in my system for a while because of the long half-life and then it was done.

At 2mg I don't know if Abilfy will do you any good either, I believe the effective dose is 10-20mg.

My depression has worsened since I first wrote the original post. Last night I decided to go back up to 30mgs and see what would happen. I don't feel like my normal self, however I feel 100% better than I did on the 15mgs. That pdoc can go stick it in the mud for all I care. I am going to continue taking the 30mgs until MY pdoc says differently or this pdoc wants to change my whole mood stabilizer or taper me down to the 15.