Posted by avid abulia on June 14, 2003, at 12:03:24
In reply to Seroquel vs. zyprexa vs. abilify, posted by AWorriedMom on June 14, 2003, at 11:33:16
my personal experience on these meds was that 15mg of abilify taken once kept me awake for 3 days, 5mg of zyprexa taken once put me to sleep for 4, and that 6.25 mg (smallest size tablet cut into quarters) of seroquel put me to sleep quite well but i had residual grogginess in the morning.
i believe the more usual dose for seroquel in bipolar disorder is 100mg b.i.d.-t.i.d. they say that abilify works for some refractory patients, but it has relatively low efficacy and not a real super response rate (my p-doc said that it was around 40% in his experience, and it was mostly with schizophrenia and autism, fewer in b.a.d.--i ask him questions about all sorts of drugs even if i have no luck on them cuz i have a real thirst for knowledge).
~AA
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