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Suggest Treatment For Nausea And Dizziness While On Ativan And Abilify

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Posted on Mon, 16 Jan 2017
Question: My daughter 18 is 1 week on Ativan 10am and 5pmEST daily and Abilify 10am EST in inpatient care released yesterday in NYC. We travelled all day home to Hawaii and due to travel and timezones we were a little off on our medication times. AT 2:30am HST she was agitated and I gave her a dose of Ativan (empty stomach). She stared getting severely dizzy. I gave her some oatmeal then gave her the Abilify. Within five minutes she threw up everything. She is nauseous and complains of her head freaking out.
She won't eat anything because of the nausea so I'm afraid to give her more medicine. She just fell asleep but I am worried when she wakes up if all the medication will be out of her system and if there is withdrawls.
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary (20 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Fortunately no chance for withdrawals

Detailed Answer:
Dear Jalene,
Thanks for using Healthcaremagic.

I read your query and understand your concerns.

First of all I will advice to give her anti-emetic medication such as domperidone 10 mg or ondansetron 4 mg before giving anything provided there is continued nauseous feeling or vomiting. This will help us in retaining the medication.

Now regarding withdrawal symptoms I like to assure you that there is little chance if any f withdrawal symptoms. My observation is based on the fact that half life of ativan is 10-20 hours which mean some portion of medication will be available in her system to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

Regarding abilify the half life is approximately 72 hours and there is no reason to fear withdrawal symptoms of abilify.

I hope this helps you.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for my future patients.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-ashok-kumar/67386
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Suggest Treatment For Nausea And Dizziness While On Ativan And Abilify

Brief Answer: Fortunately no chance for withdrawals Detailed Answer: Dear Jalene, Thanks for using Healthcaremagic. I read your query and understand your concerns. First of all I will advice to give her anti-emetic medication such as domperidone 10 mg or ondansetron 4 mg before giving anything provided there is continued nauseous feeling or vomiting. This will help us in retaining the medication. Now regarding withdrawal symptoms I like to assure you that there is little chance if any f withdrawal symptoms. My observation is based on the fact that half life of ativan is 10-20 hours which mean some portion of medication will be available in her system to prevent withdrawal symptoms. Regarding abilify the half life is approximately 72 hours and there is no reason to fear withdrawal symptoms of abilify. I hope this helps you. If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you. If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for my future patients. In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link: http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-ashok-kumar/67386 Thanks and regards.