Re: I think its the abilify » med_empowered

Posted by greywolf on September 23, 2008, at 18:56:21

In reply to I think its the abilify, posted by med_empowered on September 23, 2008, at 12:42:29

> Hey. Abilify actually made me crave bad-for-you foods (sweets, high-carb foods, calorie-dense junk food). I thought initially it was all in my head (I could almost hear my shrinks voice "Abilify is the cleanest atypical on the market..." ringing in my ears), but I decided to go off of it anyway, to see how I'd do.
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> I lost 15lbs, and I'm still losing weight.
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> If your child needs some sort of mood stabilizer, you might be better off with an anticonvulsant-type mood stabilizer (trileptal, lamictal, even depakote, perhaps) than using an antipsychotic. Antipsychotics are being prescribed like crazy, but they're actually pretty heavy artillery and the side effects can be horrendous.
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> Good luck
I agree. You might want to see if the doc will drop the Abilify altogether and check if the sugar goes down then. It very well might.

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