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<blockquote data-quote="lmf64" data-source="post: 295808" data-attributes="member: 7736"><p>My son has taken Abilify twice. The first time he was on it for about 2 1/2 years. I loved the behavior I saw very quickly after we put him on it, but there was a major bad side to the positive side I was seeing. He gained 70 pounds (doubling his weight) in the span of one school year. He then steadied out and didn't have major gains, but didn't lose either. November of '07 we removed the Abilify believing that he had matured enough to no longer need it. He did well for about a year without it, but then went over the edge necessitating the addition of Abilify again. While he was off the Abilify he slowly lost some weight while continuing to grow in height, so he was actually started to look like the kid I recognized (in appearance only).</p><p>Like I said in November of '08 we put him back on Abilify and by May he had gained almost 80 pounds. We took him off the Abilify and put him on Geodon. He is slowly losing weight again. He's down about 15 pounds from his high. So, does behavior improvement outweigh massive weight gain? I'm liking what I see with the Geodon so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lmf64, post: 295808, member: 7736"] My son has taken Abilify twice. The first time he was on it for about 2 1/2 years. I loved the behavior I saw very quickly after we put him on it, but there was a major bad side to the positive side I was seeing. He gained 70 pounds (doubling his weight) in the span of one school year. He then steadied out and didn't have major gains, but didn't lose either. November of '07 we removed the Abilify believing that he had matured enough to no longer need it. He did well for about a year without it, but then went over the edge necessitating the addition of Abilify again. While he was off the Abilify he slowly lost some weight while continuing to grow in height, so he was actually started to look like the kid I recognized (in appearance only). Like I said in November of '08 we put him back on Abilify and by May he had gained almost 80 pounds. We took him off the Abilify and put him on Geodon. He is slowly losing weight again. He's down about 15 pounds from his high. So, does behavior improvement outweigh massive weight gain? I'm liking what I see with the Geodon so far. [/QUOTE]
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