Posted by yxibow on June 15, 2005, at 15:47:31
In reply to Re: ANYONE-Tips to preventNausea/Vomiting on Abilify?? » Sabina, posted by alvin on June 15, 2005, at 8:10:14
> Sabina,
> Thank you for sharing your personal situation. I spoke to my pdoc, who has suggested that if the nausea persists, even after starting with half of 2.5 mg abilify and following some of the anti-nausea techniques you suggested, I should add .25 mg Haldol to help with nausea. Apparently haldol at such a low dose, is used to help cancer patients with chemo deal with nausea, something I did not realize. I plan to give the abilify another try, by halving my 2.5 mg dose at the beginning, just to see how the nausea goes.
I was going to add that nausea strikes me as counterintuitive on a neuroleptic because some serve dual purposes, for psychosis and other dx, and for uncontrollable nausea (I can attest to this, I was given Compazine for nausea for a flu, and had horrible akathisia.. but that's neither here nor there.) But perhaps this is not so much the case with new neuroleptics, I'm not sure.The touch of Haldol or something like Compazine would work; also less risky (EPS, TD) would be the newer anti-emetic 5HT3 drugs such as Ondansetron, Granisetron, and Dolasetron.
And then there's always raw ginger (an acquired taste), but does hit the tummy nice sometimes, or Australian crystallized ginger, equally.
If none of the above works, some meds weren't meant to be "forced" on the body, listen to it... but there may be treatment reasons to continue. Thats up to your doctor-patient relationship.
my 2c, and tidings
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