Posted by e503 on May 21, 2003, at 9:18:44
In reply to Re: ABILIFY HELP » e503, posted by Ritch on May 20, 2003, at 22:38:09
Interestingly, about 9:00 last night Ben seemed to be his "old" self again. I gave him the 2.5 mg. abilify about 10:00 and within a few minutes he was asleep.....It has also been more difficult to get him up in the a.m. Used to be he would get up around 7, but now he has to be woken at 8.
My question is this: Right now he is taking: 50 mg. zoloft a.m. and 2.5 mg. abilify; the teachers say in the a.m. at school he is compliant (I am guessing he may be too tired to fight!), after lunch he is "belligerent, etc.". After school I give him 25 mg. zoloft. He seemed difficult and sedated until about 9:00 p.m. I know that when we were having big troubles with ben's meds a year ago or so, you (I think it was you?) said something about zoloft's metabolites....since we were giving him all of it at night could be a problem. We, in turn, gave him the zoloft in the a.m. instead, and he was MUCH calmer and MUCH better. So, I would say that zoloft, in its active state (?) calms him,,,,SOOOOOOO...... I am playing around the how I could dose these meds... can it be that the abilify is decreasing out of his system later in the evening (since he didn't have a dose in 12 hours or more), and that's why his behavior is better (happier!!!!!) Or what?
sorry to ramble, but gotta figure this out.
thanks,
elise
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