Posted by jay on March 9, 2003, at 18:57:21
In reply to Re: Best/fav combination of mood stabilizers??..etc.., posted by canwetalk on March 9, 2003, at 11:32:38
> Jay I had read your post and found it rather interesting. Hope you can give me your feelings on this. My daughter has been on abilify 15mgs now for 2 months. She has been agitated as well as aggressive.
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> Her psdoc prescribed Busoirone 10mg twice daily for the aggitation. It really is not working.
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> She was originally on Risperdal 7mg total which was divided up 2mg in AM and 5mg in PM. This did eliminate any aggitation and aggression. However since she has been on Abilify this has magnified itself.
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> Now my question to you is do you feel that a low dose of risperdal might help to eliminate the problems she is experiencing? Any suggestions you might have would be most welcomed.
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> canwetalk
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> ps any suggestions anyone else might have would be most welcomed as well. Thanks
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>Hi:
I am not sure what to think of Abilify. I haven't tried it, as we don't have it here in Canada. From what I have read, and research et al, it is one of the more slightly activating antipsychotics, and I don't see much use for it in calming the agitation/anxiety-like symptoms.
For all around tolerance and even possible relief of agitation, have you and your doc considered Seroquel? A good dose of this 2x a day I would think would be much, much better for agitation than Buspar/Buspirone. Seroquel is quite sedating, and has strong anti-anxiety properties.
How about a mood stabilizer? Has Depakote or Tegretol been considered? I'd see no problem in one of them being used with Seroquel.
Please let me/us know what your child's doctor thinks. There are many good medications, but it takes a LOT of experimenting. What is your daughter's diagnosis, do you know? (For example, they say the average time for bipolars to find correct meds and help is about 9-10 years often. I think that is just taken into consideration that so many effective medications have come around this past decade.) I find this last part kinda sad for many people who where heavily drugged large amounts of older antipsychotics, for really is was a lot to do with timing, and having worked in a group home, have seen many of the effects of years of large doses of the old antipsychotics.
Talk to you soon..
Best,
Jay
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