Posted by llurpsienoodle on May 9, 2008, at 8:02:31
In reply to Re: Help with the idea of adding Abilify to Wellbu, posted by James_Glasgow_UK on May 9, 2008, at 1:04:30
Hi med_emp, James_G, others
I have changed cocktails several times over the past year. I have dubbed myself the Princess of PolyPsychoPharmacy or PoPPP for short.
I have been on Abilify since? July 2007 or thereabouts. I cross tapered with geodon and noticed no startup side effects besides some insomnia. I use Sonata and at the time 1mg of clonazepam for this.
Whereas I was having extrapyramidal motor symptoms on seroquel (300 mg) I did not have any on geodon (240mg) or abilify (5 or 10mg).
I noticed when I increased abilify from 5 mg to 10 mg I got an instant sense of calm and well-being.
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regarding adding wellbutrin to the cocktail:
1) very activating. I was hypomanic for about 3 weeks
2) increased suicidal thoughts. These were intolerable for about 10 days. I went to the hospital after an overdose of sedating meds to make the thoughts go away.
3) effective AD. I stuck with wellbutrin and I feel much more alive
4) augmenting zoloft (ssri) with wellbutrin ameliorated sexual side effects. I still have a little bit of these, but it's not as bad.
5) I take 10mg abilify (my dose since october? 2007) and 300mg of lamictal (mood stabilizer and AD); 100 mg of zoloft, 150mg wellbutrinSR.take good care of yourselves
hope this helps--lemme know if there are more ?'s
-Ll
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