Posted by blueberry1 on December 22, 2006, at 17:53:02
In reply to I feel sick...Abilify?, posted by Sebastian on December 22, 2006, at 13:58:24
You asked if it was the lack of zyprexa? What dose were you on? For how long? How recently did you stop? What was the size of your last dose and how long had you been at that dose?
I weaned off zyprexa very slowly, and that was from just 5mg. When I was finally done with it, I swear I felt flu-like for a solid month. I had no appetite. Food was not appealing at all. Sadly I ended up going back on it. I remember the day after my return 2.5mg dose how good it felt to be hungry, not nauseated, and enjoy food. Anyway, I have since slowly weaned down to 1.25mg. This is going to take some time. Sigh.
It sounds to me like zyprexa could definitely be involved. The side effects of starting a new med are probably mixed in there too. You could always test it by continuing the abilify as you are, but add in 1.25mg zyprexa, then slowly wean off of that in tiny chunks over a month or two.
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