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<blockquote data-quote="jpete" data-source="post: 304858" data-attributes="member: 8004"><p>I have no idea what I'm doing here so bear with me. I have a 16 year old who has just been diagnosed with "maybe" bipolar. They aren't sure because right now she's refusing to really talk to anyone about how she's feeling so everything is based on what I'm telling the docs. Things started getting bad at the beginning of the summer and escalated as the summer went on. August was horrible. She has a lot of anger and flys off the handle at everything. She is at times so manic that you can hardly talk to her. She was started on abilify about 2 weeks ago at 2 mg/day. That was upped to 4 mg/day about 5 days ago. She says she doesn't think it's doing anything. She seems calmer at times but not at others. How long does it take before you really start seeing an effect and what should I be looking for? I have read other posts about kids being very fatigued and sleeping alot on abilify. I'm not seeing that with my daughter. Any input from experience would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jpete, post: 304858, member: 8004"] I have no idea what I'm doing here so bear with me. I have a 16 year old who has just been diagnosed with "maybe" bipolar. They aren't sure because right now she's refusing to really talk to anyone about how she's feeling so everything is based on what I'm telling the docs. Things started getting bad at the beginning of the summer and escalated as the summer went on. August was horrible. She has a lot of anger and flys off the handle at everything. She is at times so manic that you can hardly talk to her. She was started on abilify about 2 weeks ago at 2 mg/day. That was upped to 4 mg/day about 5 days ago. She says she doesn't think it's doing anything. She seems calmer at times but not at others. How long does it take before you really start seeing an effect and what should I be looking for? I have read other posts about kids being very fatigued and sleeping alot on abilify. I'm not seeing that with my daughter. Any input from experience would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, [/QUOTE]
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