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Starting our first night of Abilify--fingers crossed!
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<blockquote data-quote="tessaturtle" data-source="post: 495474" data-attributes="member: 3510"><p>Abilify has been excellent for our difficult child...this time around. The first time he was put on it, he was 8 years old and they combined it with Lithium. This turned out to be a horrendous combination for him and he wound up in the psychiatric hospital for the second time in his life due to visual hallucinations, suicidal ideation, constant encopresis and enuresis. We were told by the psychiatric hospital at the time (2006) that the prescriber should have never combined those two drugs. Whether that's true in general, I don't know, but it was clear in his case.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to his 3rd psychiatric hospital stay in 2008 they restarted him on Abilify but paired it with carbamazepine and guanfacine. Up until the recent discontinuing of the guanfacine (in Dec 2011) this has proven to be the BEST mix of medicine he has ever been on. Now, he does have significant other issues - but those appear to be more conduct related than medication related. He is now at the highest dosage of Abilify, I believe, and we are told that the abilify helps tone down his angry and aggressive bx (yes, he used to be even more aggressive than he currently is). The number one (GREAT) thing about it is that it knocks him out at night so that he sleeps through the night. Prior to the Abilify, we would wake up in the middle of the night to find difficult child standing next to our bed just staring at us....</p><p></p><p>As far as the appetite goes, I have heard that it gives the kids a "false" sense of hunger so they will eat massive amounts of food at dinner, for example, thinking that they are still hungry - so weight gain is a problem.</p><p>Hope the abilify is a good fit for you and your difficult child - keep us posted!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tessaturtle, post: 495474, member: 3510"] Abilify has been excellent for our difficult child...this time around. The first time he was put on it, he was 8 years old and they combined it with Lithium. This turned out to be a horrendous combination for him and he wound up in the psychiatric hospital for the second time in his life due to visual hallucinations, suicidal ideation, constant encopresis and enuresis. We were told by the psychiatric hospital at the time (2006) that the prescriber should have never combined those two drugs. Whether that's true in general, I don't know, but it was clear in his case. Fast forward to his 3rd psychiatric hospital stay in 2008 they restarted him on Abilify but paired it with carbamazepine and guanfacine. Up until the recent discontinuing of the guanfacine (in Dec 2011) this has proven to be the BEST mix of medicine he has ever been on. Now, he does have significant other issues - but those appear to be more conduct related than medication related. He is now at the highest dosage of Abilify, I believe, and we are told that the abilify helps tone down his angry and aggressive bx (yes, he used to be even more aggressive than he currently is). The number one (GREAT) thing about it is that it knocks him out at night so that he sleeps through the night. Prior to the Abilify, we would wake up in the middle of the night to find difficult child standing next to our bed just staring at us.... As far as the appetite goes, I have heard that it gives the kids a "false" sense of hunger so they will eat massive amounts of food at dinner, for example, thinking that they are still hungry - so weight gain is a problem. Hope the abilify is a good fit for you and your difficult child - keep us posted! [/QUOTE]
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