# Damn you, Abilify™, you DE-bilified my BOWELS!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009 "2010-01-14T23:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/1 "2010-01-14T23:57:34Z")
It’s just not enough for you to have the dumbest, GW Bush-iest made up name of all the pharmaceuticals, is it? You had to go and attack my relatively trouble-free personal waste disposal system. What the fuck did I ever do to you? Got a new scrip Friday…no sooner do I ingest the first dose - voila! **NO** PICO whatsoever for like 3 days, which for me is practically an eternity. It’s so different from my “normal” activities which can include but are not limited to 5 or so hurried (if unstrained) visits to the loo daily. Now I know how Elvis felt. After realizing yesterday that I was in a spot of bother, I devised a desperate last-ditch attempt to bust down the dam (where are the Monkey Wrench Gang when you need them!?); I ate 2 big bowls of Raisin Bran for dinner last night washed down with about 4 pints of H2O. :eek: I finally started feeling something happening this morning – at work of course, preceding a meeting with my boss. It was so disappointing, each visit resulted in little more than 10 minutes of huffing and puffing, I thought I was going to have to call 911 for an emergency caesarean. I went through this about 8 times before 9:30am, almost completely unsuccessful each time (so nice walking back to your desk feeling like you have an orange stuck in your bum). I managed to eke out a few little pebbles and lay there, exhausted, panting, suffering the after-effects of a simultaneous brain hemmorhage and 2 yards of prolapsed EVERYTHING. At last, after what seemed like a half hour and untold burst brain cells – KABOOM - Raisin Bran to the rescue. Jeeze, now I understand why people are so worried about “Irregularity being a problem”. I will stick with the inconvenient diarrhea, thank you very much. Fuck you, Abilify, and all of your fucked up side effects. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/2 "2010-01-15T00:08:02Z")
Wow. You make my concerns about Abilify’s tendency to cause diabetes seem so petty, somehow. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/3 "2010-01-15T00:28:56Z")
You used to shit five times a day? ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/4 "2010-01-15T00:32:22Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > I thought I was going to have to call 911 for an emergency caesarean. I should pit _you_ for that horrible bit of grossness. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/5 "2010-01-15T00:38:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > You used to shit five times a day? Oh hellz yes. And at this point I say that with some strong sentimentality. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/6 "2010-01-15T00:39:43Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > I should pit _you_ for that horrible bit of grossness. Shit, I was sure the first gross-out would be over the orange. Or maybe the multiple prolapses. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/7 "2010-01-15T00:42:02Z")
> [@Tenar](#): > > Wow. You make my concerns about Abilify’s tendency to cause diabetes seem so petty, somehow. 😉 \*Diabetes?! \*Jeeze,how about some _perspective_ here? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/8 "2010-01-15T01:10:57Z")
Ironic, because if I had to come up with a name for a powerful laxative and it wasn’t already taken… ---
**Author:** ![Mallory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mallory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallory)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/9 "2010-01-15T08:23:58Z")
I’m on Effexor, and it causes constipation also. I’ve found that a 4 oz. glass of prune juice each day really helps. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/10 "2010-01-15T10:27:31Z")
Abilify is a pretty interesting drug, according to what I’ve read here: [http://www.crazymeds.us/](http://www.crazymeds.us/) ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/11 "2010-01-15T11:15:40Z")
This thread smells like poo. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/12 "2010-01-15T15:25:18Z")
The Abilify ads almost sound like parody to me. All of the horrible complications and side effects that are possible make me think that if you’re depressed before taking it, just wait until you have diabetes \*and \*depression. Reminds me of Happy Fun Ball. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/13 "2010-01-15T16:08:51Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > The Abilify ads almost sound like parody to me. All of the horrible complications and side effects that are possible make me think that if you’re depressed before taking it, just wait until you have diabetes \*and \*depression. > > Reminds me of Happy Fun Ball. Do not taunt Abilify. I’m now reminded of a commercial for a sleep aid I saw recently, the name of which I can’t remember. Apparently, instances of talking, walking, eating, and _ **driving** _ have been reported. Also, hallucinations. I think I’d rather be awake. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/14 "2010-01-15T16:44:02Z")
> [@Mallory](#): > > I’m on Effexor, and it causes constipation also. I’ve found that a 4 oz. glass of prune juice each day really helps. It’s a warrior’s drink. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/15 "2010-01-15T17:15:13Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > It’s just not enough for you to have the dumbest, GW Bush-iest made up name of all the pharmaceuticals, is it? You had to go and attack my relatively trouble-free personal waste disposal system. What the fuck did I ever do to you? > > Got a new scrip Friday…no sooner do I ingest the first dose - voila! **NO** PICO whatsoever for like 3 days, which for me is practically an eternity. It’s so different from my “normal” activities which can include but are not limited to 5 or so hurried (if unstrained) visits to the loo daily. Now I know how Elvis felt. > > After realizing yesterday that I was in a spot of bother, I devised a desperate last-ditch attempt to bust down the dam (where are the Monkey Wrench Gang when you need them!?); I ate 2 big bowls of Raisin Bran for dinner last night washed down with about 4 pints of H2O. :eek: > I finally started feeling something happening this morning – at work of course, preceding a meeting with my boss. It was so disappointing, each visit resulted in little more than 10 minutes of huffing and puffing, I thought I was going to have to call 911 for an emergency caesarean. > > I went through this about 8 times before 9:30am, almost completely unsuccessful each time (so nice walking back to your desk feeling like you have an orange stuck in your bum). I managed to eke out a few little pebbles and lay there, exhausted, panting, suffering the after-effects of a simultaneous brain hemmorhage and 2 yards of prolapsed EVERYTHING. > > At last, after what seemed like a half hour and untold burst brain cells – KABOOM - Raisin Bran to the rescue. Jeeze, now I understand why people are so worried about “Irregularity being a problem”. I will stick with the inconvenient diarrhea, thank you very much. > Fuck you, Abilify, and all of your fucked up side effects. :mad: > [@Tenar](#): > > Wow. You make my concerns about Abilify’s tendency to cause diabetes seem so petty, somehow. 😉 Yea, don’t worry. Once you start spilling out sugar in your urine and contract lifelong type 2 diabetes from Abilify, they will then put you on Glyburide-Metformin and then you will suffer exploxive diarhhea, horrible stomach cramps, and loose stools for the rest of your life… clear that constipation right up ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/16 "2010-01-15T17:34:54Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > …dumbest, GW Bush-iest made up name of all the pharmaceuticals… I see I’m not the only one who though this. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/17 "2010-01-15T17:44:57Z")
Maybe you could take some ASS EFFECTS? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/18 "2010-01-15T21:24:12Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > I’m now reminded of a commercial for a sleep aid I saw recently, the name of which I can’t remember. > > Apparently, instances of talking, walking, eating, and _ **driving** _ have been reported. Also, hallucinations. > > I think I’d rather be awake. Ambien or something similar, probably. There’s a whole class of those drugs that, as I understand it, just shut down part of your brain. I had a roommate who was a hardcore insomniac who took the stuff. And you say you’d rather be awake now, but you’d probably disagree if you were like my roommate, who’d be up for days straight, desperately tired but unable to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/19 "2010-01-16T04:06:58Z")
Yet another lame-ass thread that should be in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-abilify-you-de-bilified-my-bowels/525009/20 "2010-01-16T15:40:46Z")
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