I decided to try Abilify again to see if it could improve my cognitive problems. I did try it before, but it had some nasty side effects for me: nausea, increased sweating, blurred vision, difficulty speaking... I didn't even try its antipsychotic properties since I discontinued it quickly.

Abilify is well known for its transient side effects which pass within two weeks, so I decided to give it another try. This time, I titrated it from 5mg. To avoid nausea, I took it with food, and indeed, it worked, bacause the pill didn't dissolve in my stomach. Nausea causes increased sweating, so I fixed this also.

I figured out that some antihistamines cause difficulty speaking, but Abilify has a very weak affinity for H1 receptor, so it shouldn't cause any problems, but it does cause difficulty speaking regardless. This is the main reason I discontinued it again.

I suspect that antipsychotic properties suck as well at 5mg, because after decreasing my previous antipsychotic (sulpiride), I felt some anxiety and psychosis returning. Well, it shouldn't happen, because I decreased the dose of sulpiride by only 33%. 5mg of Abilify should compensate for this, and I'm not willing to experiment with that when it obviously sucks.

Of course, it may work for someone else.

Now, I just want to try lurasidone (Latuda) once it is available in the Czech Republic. It's supposed to improve cognitive skills better than any other antipsychotic, and it has no affinity for H1 receptor, so no difficulty speaking for me (hopefully).

Weird how things are different for different ppl, ariiprazole has worked wonders for me.

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I take abilify and I can't differentiate a side effect to a symptom. I think some side effects I have is nausea and difficult speaking they come and go and at the worst times.. I'm working on lowering my dose to the lowest possible, i'm afraid to take other pills but my doctor hasn't mention anything new that would qualify for me. just afraid of change cause i'm doing so well and if i could just get the low dose and be stable i'll be happy. thanks for your post, help me i'll tell my doctor now that i can be sure side effects occur. do you know of any others? i know of muscle spasms or what not that it though... what does abilify cause..?

The nausea can be dealth with (it's in my post), but difficulty speaking is one of the most annoying side effects. Lowering the dose doesn't work. You have to find a drug which doesn't have this effect, which is very hard, because most antipsychotics cause this (at least for me).

Abilify has many side effects (as pretty much any drug you can name). You can find them in the leaflet that comes with the package, or here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aripiprazole