Posted by utopizen on February 18, 2004, at 17:24:36
In reply to Re: My diagnosis, started Abilify today, posted by jdgjdg on February 18, 2004, at 10:32:57
Augment with an SSRI, and, after letting your body adjust to your super low dose, I'd think about upping it to 15-30mg a couple of months down the road.
SSRIs+Antipsychotics, according to my GP even, appear to synergize, or "boost" the effect of the SSRI when it doesn't work alone... (in fairyland, apparently there's cases where SSRIs do work alone).
I failed Abilify because at the time i wasn't yet on Klonopin daily, and I believe had I had that I wouldn't feel restlessness (akathasia, think of it like comuplsive pacing). I don't have OCD, but given what lines I can recall from the movie K-PAX, "An Obsessive-Compulsive Doesn't Just Stare Out the Window All Day."
So I'm guessing you'd be prone to this. It's okay, there's a drug called... something your doc would remember... it's not controlled... easy to get. And it should go away, so hopefully you won't need to take that extra drug forever.
I've never tried Zoloft. Tried all the others, except Zoloft. I think I'd like to try that. I've been on Klonopin since April, and it only really helped for like 3 months, but still far better than nothing.
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