Posted by SLS on February 9, 2012, at 11:39:29
In reply to Re: Does abilify work for anhedonia, posted by n_shrimpie on February 9, 2012, at 11:20:01
> > > I read the opposite in another post; that abilify suppresses the type of dopamine that provides pleasure/reward.
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> > You are right. Thanks for correcting me. Abilify works as both an agonist and antagonist, depending on the structure where the neurons are located.
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> > - Scott
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> here is the thread. So should I stop the Abilify if anhedonia/numbness is a primary symptom? that fact that it may make it worse scares me, as dos potential for weight loss, but I haven't taken it yet today and is much harder to get any work done. I need the motivation. It was motivating at 2mg so maybe i'll just lower it. my doc is going to want me to up it to give it a full trial, but won't if i tell her i have insomnia, which has actually abated on the 5mg. should i just lie and tell her i'm not sleeping so she doesn't pressure me to up the dosage? I'm so confused. Regardless, none of the dosages have cleared my cognitive problems.I have never heard of Abilify causing or making worse anhedonia. I have heard of it making one feel somewhat cognitively slowed like having "brain-fog" when the dosage is too high. I do find Abilify to be motivating, though. Abilify causes weight gain.
I wouldn't let your theoretical concern that increasing the dosage of Abilify will produce anhedonia keep you from experimenting with it further. I do well with 10 mg/day. Some people cannot tolerate 5 mg/day. If you feel that 2.5 mg/day is too much, you can either split pills or take 2.5 mg every other day. If it were *me*, I would increase the dosage of Abilify until you encounter negative cognitive side-effects or unacceptable anxiety. Perhaps you have already done this.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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