RISPERDAL Reviews (RISPERIDONE)Average Rating: 2.3 (788 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare RISPERDAL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR RISPERDAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | My 88 year old mother | Memory and agitation worse. Verbal abuse and physical abuse. Will be taking her to a memory center for evaluation and med adjustion. | F | 88 | 30 days 0.5mg 1X day | 3/28/2012 | 1 | Fear and anxiety (hidden bipolar) | My mom was given Risperdol back in 2002 to help her transition off Thorozaine. She was taking 1mg and 2mg prescriptions and actually had a third prescription given which she didn't really take much from due to her reaction to the drug. This drug affects the 5-HT nerve receptors, about 8 of them that can control vascular flow of blood and also temperature regulation among other functions. I feel in our case, risperdol screwed up my mother's nerves or receptors. Her symptoms are feet that burn in response to many different triggers, salty food, spicey food, warm food, warm environments, normal skin temps on my moms feet cause pain flares and extreme pain. Bad enough to cause her to want to die. Mom developed a burning foot syndrome condition while on this drug and stopped using it after 6 weeks. The pain caused us to go to ER as her feet swelled up and that terrible pain and flares never went away. She had to chill her feet and is using cold air, fans elevated feet and limits w | Comments on statistics are regarding my mom, not me. Onset of burning foot syndrome started in 2002 and continue to this day. | F | 77 | 6 weeks 2mg 2X day | 3/28/2016 | 5 | Bipolar and hallucinations | This helped me greatly with my hallucinations and manic episodes. You just have to watch your diet and go on daily walks. | F | 75 | 10 years 1mg 1x day | 3/8/2012 | 1 | depression/post traumatic stress | Took it and started acting like a paranoid schizophrenic. Wired. Caused a seizure. Now on Keppra for who knows how long. Dont trust emergency room dr.s quick assesment. Very dangerous drug. If they dont want to take no for an answer, get rid of them and get another dr. I didnt. Am suffering guilt for my mom who never knew what hit her. Screw the dr or staff, take care of your family. Dr.s get away with murder as they all stick together.Dont be afraid to stand up to them if your gut tells you they are way off base in their diagnosis, or it will eat you up like its doing me. | F | 72 | 1 days 1 MG | 1/26/2012 | 3 | manic depression | no longer have halucinations that I had with haloperidol | F | 69 | 4 years 2 mg 1X day | 6/25/2010 | 1 | depression | Paranoia! Super-anxiety (driving blood pressure to 177/120 and pulse to 120), Hallucinations, inability to read/think/speak (sort of babbles random crap). | My mom had been depressed for 6 weeks - I took her to a new shrink just one week ago. He left her on Paxil 30mg twice a day, Imipramine 50 mg at night, and Ativan 0.5 mg 3x a day -- and added Risperdal 0.5 mg at bedtime to stabilize her mood. The plan was to (as in-patient) get her off these other drugs (she'd been on for 10+ years) and try new ones. My mom, by the morning following her first 0.5 mg dose, was acting very paranoid and psychotic. She has episodes now with extreme anxiety, where she gets sweaty and her blood pressure and pulse shoot through the roof. I finally yanked her from the psych ward, but she is still totally messed up. Please help! | F | 68 | 5 days | 5/20/2008 | 2 | Bi polar/psychosis | apathy, not talking, just staring, sleeping constantly, tongue movements,loss of sexual function | this is a very BAD DRUG. i had bi-polar for 20 yrs and was on Depakote. then i got violent and the doc put me on Risperdal. i went downhill fast but my wife says, take it, because i have MOOD SWINGS and a BAD TEMPER! so here i am in a mental straight jacket. plz, DO NOT put children on this drug!!! its poison. | M | 67 | 10 years 6mg 1X day | 9/1/2010 | 5 | My brother was psychotic for 30 years | No side effects | I was " lost " until my sister suggested Risperdal shots. I was so psychotic my family didn't want me around. Now I have a real life. I have my own apartment, manage my own money . Have some money in the bank. No psychosis for 5 years. A wonderful drug. I am administered the monthly shot and go about living. | M | 66 | 5 years 37.5 | 1/3/2017 | 1 | Psychosis | Increased confusion, paranoia, not being able to sit still, took more risperdal and landed up in the ER hallucinating and agitated. Now stopped drug and very tired, had trouble speaking, eating, walking ect. | F | 66 | 6 months | 3/26/2007 | 1 | Nightmares | TARDIVE DYSKENSIA! MEMORY LOSS! BRAIN DAMAGE! DEMENTIA! BEWARE! | I posted several years ago about this same drug. My Mother is now 63 years old and has had a battery of tests done. Sad to see a lady so young with no zest for life left? She will have to go into a home soon I am afraid? | F | 63 | 3 years | 12/21/2006 | 1 | Nightmares | TARDIVE DYSKENSIA! MEMORY LOSS! BRAIN DAMAGE! DEMENTIA! BEWARE! | I posted several years ago about this same drug. My Mother is now 63 years old and has had a battery of tests done. Sad to see a lady so young with no zest for life left? She will have to go into a home soon I am afraid? | F | 63 | 5 years | 12/21/2006 | 1 | antipsychotic | I have great muscle pain, trouble finding words,feel anxious and drugged | F | 62 | 2 months 60 1X day | 7/25/2010 | 1 | insomnia | I feel like my heart is racing all the time. | F | 62 | 3 months 30 mg. | 8/7/2015 | 5 | sleep, anxiety, agitation | none | like it | F | 60 | 35 days 1.5 mg 1X day | 7/1/2018 | 5 | Bipolar 1 | Makes me very docile. | Next to lithium risperdal is my favorite drug. Along with lithium risperdal stops me from going phychotic, manic and racing mind. It doesn't do anything for depression. | M | 60 | 5 years | 10/19/2007 | 4 | insomnia, anxiety | somewhat lower sex drive, less discharge, a.m. "hangover", euphoria | Anxiety took over several mths ago, aggravated IBS, made sleep problems worse. I was on low doses of ativan or ambien for sleep, alternating w/ OTC meds (ie unisom) to elude addiction. Those stopped working completely. Usually only 3 or 4 hrs of sleep for four months, on some nights none. Obsessive thinking. Ended up in hosp. after suicide attempt; it took a week for risperdal to really work. Turns out to be "just the ticket", minimal side effects, full nights sleep, controlled anxiety. | M | 60 | 30 days 1 mg 1X day | 12/7/2012 | 3 | schiz | tired. restless feet. flat moods . | I have been taking this drug for 15yrs but I have only had 2 schiz episodes in 20 yrs. I'm not sure that i need to take them but to scared to try without it. I take 1 mg a day. I sleep 12 hours at night and a couple of hours in the day. I'm told my moods are flat all the time . Im told I rarely smile or show and other emotions. I have little motivation for day to day things. | F | 60 | 15 years | 5/30/2008 | 1 | nightmares | This is what my mother is on and we are currently involved in a nationwide lawsuit with the drug company because of this drug she has LIFE LONG EFFECTS! She will have to take it FOREVER! She has tardive dyskinesia! | BEWARE!!! | F | 60 | 5 years | 2/19/2004 | 1 | Have severe sleep disorder. | kept awake for the four days I consented to try it (as alternative to haldol and depakote) for sleep disorder misdxed as "chronic paranoid schizophrenia" by idiotic Russian "psychiatrist" in hospital where I was kept awake for 11 days by having my B/P monitored every 45 mins during the night and a flashlight shined in my face. Takingmy BP always caused the BP machine continuously to go into error as my BP was so low. Refusal to take the haldol/depakote medication resulted in calling "security" which forcfully and brutally hold you down and shoot you up with it. NYC Land of Wealth Care providers. Mt. Sinai Hospital. Turned me loose with free coupon for respirdol to replace other medication. Just like street drug dealers. . .the first one is free. Hopefully it kills the patient. | I wouldn't even pour it down the sewer for fear of poisoning some rats. I would, however, be willing to forcefeed it to all the "psychiatrists" on the planet who think of themselves as giving you "treatment" for a condition you do not have. | F | 60 | 4 days | 11/28/2006 | 1 | Misdiagnosed collapsed lung | Burning deep in hyper thalamus that destroyed happiness Center, a common phenomenon according to the nurse. | Why the F would anyone prescribe this. I understood the junkies wanting to buy it off me after I tried it but it’s not worth it. Intensive care 21 days I showed no symptoms or reasons to be on risperidone or olanzapine whatever and was weened off..happiness has not returned. | M | 59 | 14 days 4 | 9/12/2021 |
RISPERDAL (RISPERIDONE): Risperidone is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, irritability associated with autistic disorder). This medication can help you to think clearly and take part in everyday life. Risperidone belongs to a class of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain. FDA Approval Date: 1993-12-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)