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gotlifted
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Posted - 05/19/2007 : 11:46:09

Just like to say, this stuff is an absolute nightmare (Risperdal that is).
I'm taking it at night-time, i was initially given it after a recent exetreme set of mixed moods. Basically the last 2weeks i've been bouncing from Pure Mania to full blown major depression, then maybe a little hypo..

So anyways, i've just started on 4mg, not really a bad amount to start on but yuck, for me it's causing insomnia in the first 2hours, then bang i'm out cold.
I'm taking it at 23:00 and then sleeping at say 01:00, but not waking up till roughly 11:00 -> 12:00

Not good, alongside with the random dribbling that i'm getting at the minute

Me myself, it's too early to say if it's calming me down yet, or if it has had an impact on the mixed moods but fingers crossed that it'll do the job..

(just thought i'de share my rant on this one..)

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken

gotlifted
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Posted - 05/28/2007 : 03:45:25

Is anyone else taking Risperidone?
One question I have and wanted to know if other people get is do you suffer from risperidone style hangovers?

Me, i have a really strict routine regarding sleep to try to keep me from mood cycling rapidly (it kinda works, but not 100%) but since starting on risperidone i tend to wake up in the morning feeling really horrid, and just wanting more and more sleep. It's as if this med is giving me a nasty nasty hangover (bar the headache).

Any one else get this, just so i know i'm not alone with this? If so any ideas on how to counter-act it?

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken

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Posted - 05/28/2007 : 06:10:50

Hello gotlifted,

I was rx'd Risperdal to cope with paranoia. It didn't help me re: paranoia. I had no obvious side-effects from it except for my prolactin level higher than normal. The increased prolacted halted my menstruation for 6 months, so I stopped taking it. (My pdoc said there is no harm done with my period stopping, but I wanted my body functions as normal as possible, so I stopped taking Risperdal).

-EA

dx bipolar 1993

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stigmastomper (inactive)
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Posted - 06/08/2007 : 09:34:54

risperdal has been very good to me . i worry about diabeaties and tardive dyskensia, may have laqrger ***** because of it. but it combined with lamictal has for the most part stopped my deppression,mania,thought,attention,behaviour disorders in their tracks, i should also say that it has really diminshed my anxiety to, i read somewhere that an off label use for risperdone [risperdal]
is to treat panic anxiety . i will keep note to see if i have headaches and muscle spasms which i think i have been having

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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 20:22:55

I had the opposite reaction to risperidone. I started waking up in the middle of the night with awful anxiety attacks where I could not breathe. I felt like I was suffocating. I was stunned by the medication for the first month or so...(like a zombie). That dissipated, though never disappeared and then I suddenly started having so much anxiety I could not stay on it.

Like EA my prolactin level increased also and I started lactating...so my pdoc took me off the medication. I really did not like this medicine.

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Posted - 11/17/2011 : 06:27:36

I've seen it do some pretty awful things to people, and when it was tried on me I ended up with wicked Akathisia!

Worse still, I knew a young women who died of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.

Antipsychotics are overprescribed and the Atypicals are in some ways even more dangerous than the old ones, Thorazine and Haldol. Their usage should be much more heavily monitored in all countries and side-effects taken very seriously.

Scion of Nyarlathotep.

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Posted - 12/19/2011 : 04:11:41

hi welcome to our community

whats akathasia

and nuero malignant syndrome

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