Risperidone

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For about a month or so I've been taking Risperidone, at first two pills a day (one at night and one in the morning), but I have to say, I'm very unhappy, since I feel like I have no energy whatsoever, have lost interest and motivation in doing anything, am bored all the time, and have at times lost the will to live. Luckily, I'm seeing my physician and psychologist on Monday to talk about these issues, so I may be off the medication soon and may try something else.

Has anyone here tried Risperidone, and have any of you felt the way I do?

OMG; I was on 4mg of Risperdal for months and I was pregnant and knew that like this I would never be able to get up to feed or change or play with my baby, and my boyfriend said I would love him so much I would, and we both thought it was just me being unmotivated and my mental problems causing this, not the drug. Then for 2 weeks after he was born I couldn`t get up, nopt for anything, and they had taken away my Celexa a few days after he was born besides. Then my boyfriend sued me for custody, and one of the things he put in his petition to make me look bad was that I ignored my baby and didn`t respond to his cries, when as a matter of fact he aeven admitted he was just as bad as me, sitting in the living room eating with me while his mother attended to our baby, and he ignored the baby at first too because he expected me to get up and look after him, and I was expecting that he would do it if I didn`t, and eventually (like about 2 seconds after the baby started amking noise) he did, and his mother was there too. So it really wasn`t as bad as he made it out to be. And he says that me not wanting to get out of bed was a bad excuse, and months later I realized it was the Risperdal, and he didn`t believe me and said that most people are on 4 to 8 mg so I was actually on a low dose, but my pharmacy technician aunt and three nurses said that 4mg of Risperdal would knock anybody out. But then my boyfriend admitted that maybe Risperdal wasn`t the drug for me, so I think he`s coming around.

I hated Risperdal myself! 1st time I was on it it was liquid & I had constant grogginess, fatigue/no energy, & constant headaches + nausea (I rarely get nauseous). Second time a few yrs. later (no meds really working out) I took the swallowable version (1/8 of a cc) )sorry not good w/ conversions to milligrams ). I got the same symptoms as before plus major weight gain (I went from a 4'10''-11" & 90-100 lbs. at 11 or 12 to 4" 11" & 135 lbs. at 13). Than right after going off the meds I lost so much weight & had been growing (I was about 5' 1/2" at that point & age 14) I went from 135 lbs. down to 110 lbs. in less than a month! The reason my mom let me stop was b/c of the side effects & a rumor she heard from a friend that Risperdal can affect menstruation (not sure if it affected me their b/c that started as soon as I lost weight/in about 1st 2 weeks). So now I only take St. John's Wort & a vitamin. I hate pills! Pills for me =

I take 1mg of risperdal a day and it works fine with me. A few days ago my mother kept complaining about her job and I had a meltdown and got very nervous. As I wasn't able to sleep I took another pill of risperdal (then I took 2mg that day). I was able to sleep with the extra pill but the next day it was awful! I woke up 11:00 AM, (I usually wake up 8:00 AM), and I was very tired the whole day.

Due to my physical sensitivities theres no way I could take drugs. I get bad side effects every time. I remember I got put on something by a psychologist (can't remember his name or the drug name) and after a few days I got such bad migraines and things like that I couldn't take anymore. So I took myself off the meds, which the doc wasn't happy about but at that point my mom and I both agreed meds weren't going to help my situation and neither was seeing the shrink.

Least thats my take when it comes to meds and stuff.

i took it and had a allergic reaction to it. i think im also sensative to medications, especially antipsycotics

I took it for a year and a half, didn't cry for a year while I was on it. It was like, magic medicene.

On the contrary I can't afford it anymore so I stopped taking it and I haven't even noticed any changes. Maybe it was just the lexapro I was on too.

I was on Risperdol (another name for risperidone) before and had simular symptoms; It's a pretty powerful anti-psychotic (used off-label mostly to control cumpulsive behavior when prescribed for ASDs) and can have some pretty strong side effects. If you're feeling this way tell your doctors to take you off the medication or lower the dosage.

I think that is one of the worst darn meds there is. Doctors get you all jacked up on that till you become a walking vegtable!! ! if you dont believe me wait till they keep uping the dosage, I am sure they wont want to take you off of it, they will just keep uping the dosage till your a walking zombie.
I have started taking valerian root, it is a suplement you can get anywhere, I got it at walmart. It is a sedative and is about the safest thing you can take for this. Let me tell you that for me it definantly works, and I feel so great and happy and still got all my energy, but am calm, and man does it really help me with the sensory issues, things just dont get on my nerves when I take the valerian. I feel the best I have ever felt!! !
It is not adictive like risperdal or any of them drugs, and here is how it works,
http://www.anxiety-and-depression-solutions.com/insight_answers/gaba.php
I know this stuff probably will not work for everyone, but it is worth a try, and you can pick up a bottle of 100 pills for under $5 US

do you take it INSTEAD of taking risperadal? i might try it

"They"(a psychologist I saw once actually) tried to prescribe me a pretty huge dose of risperdal(I don't remember the exact dosage but according to my mom who use to work in the field it was as much as they'd give to full psychotics) After looking at the side effects I put a squash to that idea quick and never saw him again. I hardly talked to the guy so I don't know how he could responsibly prescribe something like that to just a kid. He apparently thought I had early onset schizophrenia but there's no way he could deduct that from such a short meeting where my mom did most of the talking. I'm a pretty quiet and reserved guy and certainly not psychotic. The whole experience left me pretty weary of any medication or help at all.

Yeah, I only take the valerian, no meds. It has been years since I last took any of the meds, and I just recently started taking the valerian root, and it works great for me, it just has a mild sedative effect to it that makes it easy to relaxe, but it might not work for everyone, but it is worth a try. BUT, if your already taking the risperadal or anything like that I would talk to your doctor, as it is not recomended that people just stop taking the risperadal or meds like that because you need to gradualy stop taking it over time so you dont go threw withdraw

A few years ago I took Risperdal. I wasn't on it for all that long. I believe it was 2006/07. I had a lot of side effects from it. Some are very embarrassing and had the same side effects while I was on Abilify. Over the past 3 years, I have been on almost every anti psychotic known to man. I was also on this stuff when I was 13 (when I had my first psychotic break) and it knocked me out all day long. Thank God I don't take anti psychotics any more! The worst one for me was Moban. Instead of taking the psychotic symptoms away, it increased it 100000000%.

Do you have any idea how bad psychiatrists have made themselves look in front of me?

Risperdal is an antipsychotic, and nearly all antipsychotics are what we call 'dopamine blockers.' Dopamine is called the pleasure chemical. It allows you to focus and feel good about what you do during the day. Antipsychotics cause dopaminergic synapses to fire less. That could explain why the world becomes so dull and boring when you're on them!

Now, here's what I think's happening: the doctors are taking advantage of this. They want to sap your energy levels and possibly increase your chances of getting some other disorder so that they can profit more. Even medications that work are occasionally for illnesses that are partly genetic, meaning your kids could inherit them and end up having to pay the doctors more. And partly because of Christianity, you aren't allowed painless suicide.

Imagine this: a doctor stands facing a line of descendants walking aside him, all of whom are sick, inheriting the same genes for illness, each one 'curing' himself/herself by slaving to pay the doctor. Sure, it's nice to have some coverage for unpredictable injury and disease, but when it comes to lifelong medication regimens, we have to think about whether they're hurting us more than they're helping us. If they are, then the psychiatrist's role in society is precisely the opposite of what many think it: not a healer, but a necromancer who sucks monetary gain from human illness like a profit nipple. All under the law.

Those morons at my hospital told me that there was something 'odd and peculiar' about the fact that I thought mathematically! They actually tried to tell me I was delusional, but never named one specific delusion, and when I asked, they said, "We're not going to get into it with you." What rubbish.

You don't have to take that medication if you don't want to, as long as you don't get Baker Acted -- i.e., locked in a mental hospital by police and medicated against your will because they 'thought you were a danger.' What freedom we get there, eh? Absolutely abhorrent.

Hopefully our civilization will further emerge from the Spoiled-Jocks-Torturing-Retarded-Babies phase and learn to respect other conscious beings for who they are.

Dopamine blockers. Ugh.

ANTI{SYCOTIC,ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCOTIC htose things are terrible drugs they sare evil they kill the personality.

Antipsychotics interfere with your ability to think. When someone takes antipsychotics, they talk about their delusions and hallucinations less. They also talk less about their hobbies, interests, families, friends, etc.. But since they talk less about their delusions, the drugs are considered to have "worked."
Not to mention that lots of people start taking a low dose of an antipsychotic "for anxiety" because anxiety drugs can be addictive, so psychiatrists figure anything that causes people to have less energy must actually be good for anxiety. So they shove everyone on antipsychotics. People go crazy because they're taking a drug that does nasty things to them.. so doctors see this as evidence that the person is crazy, and up the dose. Then later, doctors will figure that since you were once prescribed an antipsychotic, you must need one.

Seroquel is the atypical antipsychotic prescribed most often for anxiety. It is incredibly sedating. You know why? At lower doses, it works as an antihistamine. An antihistamine, you know, like BENADRYL. But, rather than go to a drug store and buy a bottle of 100 benadryl for $4, they want you to spend well over $100 on seroquel for anxiety.
Moral of the story: If you're having trouble sleeping, or even with some anxiety, go to your local pharmacy and get some nice over-the-counter generic diphenhydramine (generic benadryl). Cheap, few side effects, no stigma attached. It'll knock ya right out.