Abilify

I was given Abilify by my psychologist. I began taking the starter pack for 2 weeks. I felt strange, but figured I just had to get use to it. It came a time for me to fill the first script. It was filled on a Monday, and by Thursday I was in the ER with symptoms of a stroke. At the time I went in to the ER, I didn't think then that it was the Abilify. I was so scared I was having a stroke, that I just totally didn't even think about it. They took the EKG and the CT scan and was given a diagnosis of Neuropathy.

I was released but advised that if I kept feeling like this, to come back to the ER. I took the Abilify again on Friday and Saturday, and I was getting so bad that I could not even think. Thank God my husband asked me if I had started any type of medication in the past week. I then told him about the Abilify. He looked it up, and to his amazement, every side affect that I was having was on the bad side effects list; numbness, twitching, and symptoms of stroke was the big one. That was when I stopped taking it, and it took me three to 4 days to get that drug out of my system, with the help of an anxiety tablet.

I today will not take any medication without reading the side effects. I am just so scared that people have been taking this drug, and having strokes, and health officials have no idea that, just maybe they were taking the drug Abilify. I still have trouble focusing on objects. It's like my eyes just want to roll back. I have real bad anxiety now, and off-and-on numbness on the left side of my body.