Staying at 300mg Abilify

It's not possible to taper off abilify using injections. You'll need pills / liquid abilify or water suspension for safe tapering.

You have been on abilify for a long time, so please don't try to rush your taper. Doing it too quickly can be dangerous for your health.

You can learn about hyperbolic tapering in the resources -> blogs section https://www.reddit.com/r/Abilify_Aripiprazole/comments/1o98wqb/one_year_of_water_taper_from_375_mg_to_075_mg/ https://taper.community/resources/blog/horowitz-taylor-hyperbolic-tapering-research

Is your psychiatrist supportive of you tapering, or are they reluctant?

Thanks so much for the comment @Vilkvinn t's really valuable, but I have a few questions for you. How did you feel during this reduction journey? Did you have any difficult moments? Were you also afraid of withdrawal symptoms? One more thing: by 3/4 ampoule and 1/2 ampoule, what exactly do you mean? In terms of milligrams? How long did it take you personally to go from 7.5 mg to where you are now? Thank you so much if you could answer these questions.

If you don't mind, can you tell me why were you prescribed abilify ?

@DiSoleEDAzzurro overall, the only time I felt very affected by the reduction was when I tried to rush my taper (I wanted to jump from 2mg to 1,5mg) and I experienced debilitating insomnia. I fixed it by going back up to 1,8mg and taking it much slower. There were times when I also experienced the effect of the reduction but in a milder way (a few nights of reduced sleep time or light anxiety) when I jumped from the whole vial of 300mg to 3/4 and then to 1/2*. Nothing that lasted long or became concerning. Also, I do remember that the first week of taking the pills, there was some discomfort, mainly with digestion and feeling a bit on the edge, agitated, as if there was some overlapping of potency between the effect of the depot from previous months and that of the pills. Somehow I expected it because I had read somewhere that the intensity the first days would be strong so I kept going. As the days went on, the discomfort subdued. But I kept checking in internally every day how I was feeling and if there was a sign of upcoming psychosis, I would immediately jump up to 10 or 15 mg. So, I'd say, it has been a smooth journey, except when trying to speed up the taper. Regarding how I have been feeling towards the whole process, apprehensive would be the word. The more information that came to me the more the awareness of a possible development of dependency grew. However, as it proves from my mistakes, I needed to have 6 days of very little sleep to realise that it was a matter of more patience and taking it month by month. In August it will mark the first year on pills. Previous to that, I had been 8 months on injections and the reductions were subjected to the appointments I had with my psychiatrist since she was the one to modify the prescription. So sometimes the hold would be 2 months, sometimes 1. The last cut to half the vial, in june, lasted 2 months. Right from the beginning, something stuck with me: the psychologist I was seeing back then told me that there were people he knew who 15 days after the due depot, had to be hospitalised. That gave me the urge to closely monitor what I was doing to not to mess things up. The schedule was something like this: 2 months and half at 7.5mg by halving the 15mg pills. Then water solution and reduction to 5mg, hold for 1 month. Then cut to 2.5mg, hold for a month. Another cut and hold of 2mg. In my mind, I know recall trying to replicate what Zlatinb and Salaam were doing as I had read on the Surviving Antidepressant forum: big cuts in the higher range and then slowing down once I hit below 2mg. Somehow it worked. Next were 1.80mg, 1.65 mg, 1.45mg, 1.20mg, 1.00mg, 0.85mg, and now 0.70mg. This is no recipe for anyone. I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to tapering. It has been mostly trial and error. *that was the instruction my doc gave in the prescription to the nurse. I know it is a bit of rough specification because it is done by the nurse by eye, but that's how they did it. To me 150mg was the equivalent to half the vial.