It usually gets better with time. You're only 7 days in, and you are clearly much more calm and rational than you were before taking it. You need to give any drug at least 2-3 months before making a decision on changing up your regiment. While it is true benzos can help, that's a whole other dark road you don't want to be on unless absolutely necessary.
Please, just wait 2 months so you have some period of stability.
Forget about Vraylar in your current state. It is significantly less effective (number to treat is like 12 versus 4 for abilify). It may work for you, but now is not the time to go there.
I will never take vraylar again, well highly unlikely, made me umm I guess maybe it made me manic idk. Just was extremely agressive inside my head if that makes sense. And it was starting to overflow onto others at the treatment center a little . I have a very low tolerance for fake people and so many were there trying to play gangster kinda lost it here and there with vraylar in my system.
I’m not that guy normally. So yeah nah vraylar is always off the table. I’m just not willing to risk becoming that dude again. It’s not me.
I have stuck with the 5mg abikify (Down from 10mg) akathesia was getting bad and been having bouts of kinda severe irritability. As in the reaction I know is extremely unequal to the situation. Overboard.
That is not like me. Really think it may be just too high a dose on my T coupled with quitting nicotine. Maybe I’ll hold off on the nicotine a bit.
Yeah I’m staying on it at least for the foreseeable future. I can see I was and well let’s be honest here am still slightly manic I think.
But nothing too risky other than bouts of ummm I guess rage. Very seldom. But not good. I really think they need to lower it. I’m 200 past the max T level. But they say it’s not that much past lol. Bro…200 is a huge difference imo. It’s 1098
They are going to run labs again next week.
Anyway, in regards to the abilify. I did decide to not CT it and trial the lower dose. I just don’t have alot of patience for guessing and checking with psych meds. Hate the process…
You really feel like I’m calmer? I did think so last week but idk anymore to be honest I have had my moments. And to be honest, I’m not that guy man, but I can’t tell you how many times I was thinking if I had my weapon on me I’d put one in them driving down the road just because someone cut me off. I mean wtf…and I’m really sitting there wishing I had it on me.
there’s been other incidences too but nothing ever came of them. It’s just in that moment I get scared after it passes like wtf was I thinking type shit…probably Norma.