troop111 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Hello, I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share your experiences with taking abilify as an add-on drug with an anti-depressant for major depression? I was taking 2.5 mg/day with effexor, and it helped a lot with the depression, but created a lot of anxiety and worry. I have since spoken to people who say that they had the same thing happen at 2.5 and 5 mg doses, but that when they increased the dose to 10mg, it actually helped with anxiety and still took care of their depression. Anyone have experience with this in particular? I have gone off the abilify because of the anxiety, and am switching to Cymbalta from Effexor (slowly). I am thinking of trying the abilify again if I still need to after the Cymbalta activates, but this time shooting for a 10 mg dose. I could use some advice. What have been some of your experiences with abilify for depression, what dose were you on, did it work, was anxiety an issue, did a higher dose curb the anxiety? Thank you so much. troop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netsavy006 Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Though I took Abilify for a different purpose than you, I never had relief from anxiety no matter what dosage I was on. It happened with 1mg, 15mg and everywhere in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Emperor Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Okay, let me start this by saying that I don't know WHAT kind of depression I have. I was originally put on Abilify (2.5mg) for paranoia. I was also depressed at the time. I think it helped tremendously with the depression AND I've been a long time sufferer of anxiety and like Andy said, it seemed to help me right away. Then I had a hospital stint where they upped it to 10mg (from five because I was depressed again) because I seemed to be depressed again (no shit) and that helped a lot. This time I'm not on any AD and seem to be doing well with just the Abilify and Lamictal. But it did work well even with AD's, for a little while at least. That was my experience. YMMV a WHOLE lot. I've heard of people who just can't stand the anxiety no matter what dose they are at. For some it helps with the anxiety. I was one of THOSE people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I'm on Abilify (20 mg.) and Cymbalta (120 mg.) (among others) and have had no problems from the Cymbalta, but the Abilify causes what my pdoc says is TD, so I have to take cogentin to stop the twitching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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