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Low-dose Abilify and Insomnia

Posted by stewie on August 8, 2012, at 23:50:20

I have had the same issue with low-dose Abilify for months now. It does wonders for depression, but at 5 mgs. gave me akathisia and insomnia, and even at 1 mg. every four days, there is nothing I have taken so far (trazadone, sinequan, remeron -low dose, klonopin, benadryl) that gets me sleepy! The exception is a muscle relaxer (tizanidine), which I keep needing more of to become sleepy, until I am taking so many that it makes me depressed, and I also run out of my prescription.

I have been taking medication for many years, just as a lot of you have, and Abilify has done the most for depression for me. However, not sleeping is pretty awful.

I am trying to keep this post short, but really -- this is the jist of it. For the past 6 months I have gone back and forth between sleeping and being depressed and being awake for night after night - which also eventually makes me depressed.

Someone recommended that I crush half a 2 mg. pill and drink 1 fourth of it every day, but that makes no sense to me.
Has anyone else dealt with this successfully? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
S

PS- If this seems somewhat cryptic, I apologize. It is rather hard to get this down cogently.


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