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Re: I am loosing it » hansi555

Posted by SLS on November 28, 2012, at 14:08:09

In reply to Re: I am loosing it, posted by hansi555 on November 28, 2012, at 8:12:11

> > Are you free-lancing with your meds...adjusting dosages on your own. Did you double your Abilify dose for 3 days? Curious.
>
> My pdoc initially suggested 5 mg and I looked it up and decided to start on 2,5 mg which I stayed at for 7-8 weeks, then the swings between bad and normal returned and I went to 5 mg for a few days before I discontinued it completely.
> Please remember that I during the last 5 years never got to a satisfying level of normal/good, this is why we tried Abilify and before that Lamictal.

I hope you weren't required to discontinue the Abilify in order to take Lamictal. Taking the two drugs together makes a good treatment for some people, and it makes little sense not to combine them as soon as either proves inadequate.


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