What is Aripiprazole?
Aripiprazole is an antipsychotic used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia. It is also used to treat episodes of mania or mixed episodes in people with bipolar disorder.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Depression | 6 |
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1 | ||||
| Anxiety | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 2 |
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2 |
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Side Effects
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 50% |
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Expense
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1 | 50% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 50% |
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Other
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1 | 50% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Meta411
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: severe
- Physical Symptoms: moderate
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
- 698
- VL 18k
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- Meta411
- 20 mg daily
- since Sep 25, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips I had a great reduction of both psychotic symptoms and bi-polar manic episodes, but Ryan White stopped covering it because of budget cuts and the expense of ... See full evaluation
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- ShannonandJohn
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: moderate
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: mild
- 441
- VL 30
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- ShannonandJohn
- 15 mg daily
- since May 08, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Depression
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 3 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.