Posted by baseball55 on October 18, 2013, at 19:45:43
In reply to Also, Switch to Latuda (Lurasidone)?, posted by LouisianaSportsman on October 18, 2013, at 14:07:42
I had the same experience on ability, as I have written before. I worked like magic for my depression -- no EPS or other problems. But I gained crazy amounts of weight. I tried other AAPs and found that either they worked like ability -- rapid improvement, rapid weight gain -- or they had no effect at all (geodon, seroquel).
I take parnate now and that has helped a lot, but not completely. I still have episodes of severe depression. I have started using abilify on a sort of prn basis. If the depression starts to get out of control, where my thoughts get dark and suicidal and I can't get out of bed, I take abilfy for a week to pull myself out. Since I have other things that are working (DBT, parnate) I find that this is enough -- pulling myself out ends the depressive episode.
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