Trust me... that's not what it sounds like when I try to read that phrase.. it's more like "shuzzi shehs she shehs by da she shoah"..
I went to my shrink about two weeks ago and told him that I wanted to get off of my anxiety meds (again).. and that I needed to change my regular anti-depressants because they weren't doing 100% and i was relying too heavily on the anxiety meds that should have been PRN (as needed) versus needing them daily. I'm not on the best terms with my shrink since we had a bit of a disagreement over his random ill-informed crapshoot of a diagnosis that he pulled out of his ass a year or so ago.
Anyway.. I told him that I wanted to try the Abilify, which was a med we had talked about before but hadn't tried it. So why not.. right? So here I am.. about two weeks into it. My speech started getting wacked at about the one week mark and so we dropped my dosage to 1/4 of a tablet.. the speech thing just got worse. I've been off of the new med since Saturday now and I think my speech is slowly getting better. It could be all in my mind.. but I'm going to assume that it's getting better.
In the meantime.. i'm ROYALLY pissed off. As it turns out.. I felt AMAZING on this new med. I felt calm.. relaxed... thoughtful.. interested.. interesting.. I was waking up before the alarm and getting up and ready for the day. I've had energy. I've laughed a lot. It pisses me off that I finally find a med that might be onto something and I have to stop taking it because i have that rare potential side effect.
In other news.. my cat is hacking up a hairball. I need a vacation to someplace warm...
Wish you could feel better,Jen!!! Couldn't your neurologist work with your shrink dr to agree on a med that would work as well without the bad effects of Abilify? Love to you!!
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