Comments on: Consumer Advocacy Groups Call for a Caution with Abilify

By: taryn willson

taryn willson — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:57:15 +0000

i was on abilify for about a year, aside from lithium and zoloft as well. the entire time, i didn’t feel or act like myself at all. i was such an energetic person before, and it made me lose that completely. i’ve been off of all those medications since april 2010, i stopped them completely honestly. i didn’t have any side effects from it, other than losing 35 pounds i didn’t have before the medications, and feeling so much more positive and myself again. now it being a year after not taking them, and actually finding out for the first time, of all these supposed side effects. i wonder now if certain things were caused from those meds. i have on and off intense back problems, sometimes feels like i’m having a nerve spazum. like the post before, i twitch now frequently throughout the day. my major concern is why i feel so restless and “zombie like”, as compared to my better times the few monthes after i had just first stopped taking the meds…its been a problem for the last four or five monthes now it seems, and has been worrying me. wondering what i could do? if anything?

By: financial help

financial help — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:08:23 +0000

Good point! you re absolutely right.

By: Cindy Rodemeyer

Cindy Rodemeyer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:41:08 +0000

I took abilify in November of 2005 and a month later I got full blown Tardive diskinesia and Tardive dystonia. My life is ruined. My uncontrollable movements have crippled me as I feel like a 95 year old. My neck spasms are horrific and to relieve the cramping, I have to receive botox injections. My neurologist confirms that abilify gave me this neurological disorder. I wish I could sue Bristol-Myers for this defective drug that I had received. I look like a freak as my neck stays in a position that goes all the way back.