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As I've mentioned through other posts, I've been taking Risperidone for 3 weeks to reduce my anxiety.

Went to see the Psych. today on a review on the medication.

The appointment was meant to be at 4pm, waited for half an hour as the Psych. was late. He was busy, so we see (as in me and my mum) someone else. We tell her that there is no improvement with the low dose. She has a word with the Psych. who is busy seeing someone else. She comes back about 3 minutes later with..."He needs a higher dose."

I'm thinking What? Do they actually care? It's not doing any good for me except for making me more distracted easily (I wasn't distracted in the past though before I took it), It's been making me sick and with an upset tummy along with nausea, drowsiness and headaches.

When we saw the Psych. last month he said that "If the medication doesn't work, we might consider a change of medication."

It sounds like to me that he was busy seeing someone else and when she came in to have a word it gave me and my mum the impression that he just said "Oh, put him on a higher dose."

That has made me well pissed off.

So now, my mum doesn't want me taking the medication until after I've broken up for Christmas as she doesn't want my concentration to be broken by the medication in school.

I don't think they understand that I'm going through an important year with GSCEs and Coursework.

I needed to let that out + wanted to share this with you.

I assume that you told her about the negative side effects?Chances are that she did not relay this full message to him but simply said....."he isnt having any relief at the current dose"...answer,try an increase.They often do this with antidepressants.I dont know what the half life of your current med is,but many take awhile to get benifit and sometimes the side-effects go away with time.

There is another option,as to why this happened...some people in the medical profession are crazy and incompetent.

I hope things improve with you soon!

What are Risperidone?

I've been on plenty of anti-depressants over the years and they all made me feel worse. I only got depressed as a bi-product of some of my AS traits e.g. frustration, alienation, poor social skills, perfectionism, strong moral beliefs etc..

If they are treating the AS as a whole, fair enough. If they are shoving you full of Smarties to treat the symptoms of AS and not the causes, you have every right to feel pissed off.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Meditation - Replace the 'C' in medication with a 'T'

You wont get distracted like the meds make you (in fact, you'll be better focused), you wont get sick (in fact, it cured my nagging heartburn), and blah blah other things..

I feel medication is pushed so fast and I've personally experienced that and I see people here post about it all the time

Hi. Be careful with risperidone. You run a high chance of putting on alot of extra weight. I was put on risperidone and lithium to treat a severe depression 3 years ago and gained weight in a short period of time. Think the doctor recognized some autie traits in me.

That being said it is probably a good medication for spectrum people, it made me drowsy yes but I actually had an easier time being social while I was on it IRC. Hope you feel better anyhow, with or without it.

Thanks for the info.

Doesn't sound very nice. Mind you, I've never known a drug which did.