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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR RISPERDAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | schizophrenia | no side effect , little restless . and qt interval . | good atypical , good no additional - good mood . | M | 31 | 2 months 5 1X day | 11/8/2020 | 1 | Misdiagnosis | Tremor, restlessness, muscle twitching, libido decreased, depression, increased anxiety, apathy, fatigue, weight increased (+70lbs), prediabetes, gynecomastia | Poison | M | 25 | 3 years 1 1X day | 1/6/2020 | 1 | Pain relief | I was taking respidral for 1.5 years. After when was no psychological need in medication the doctor agreed to help me to quit respidral starting from January 2018. I used to take 2mg dose daily in the evening. The doctor suggested me to use 1mg, and in first 24 hours I had a strong headache and numbs in my right hand. On the second day of reducing pill from 2mg to 1mg I started felling my right hand is heavy. I continued to use the only 1mg of respidral for almost 4 months and after 4 months I drooped dose from 1mg to 0.5mg. I started to feel that all my right body side is heavy, the skin was sensitive (i started to get large bruises and marks, feel uncomfortable from touch or anything pressing). I quite respirdal fully and I experienced very sensitive skin and pain from any touch and press, even if I am just sitting, driving I had pain from chair pressing my legs. Also, I got a feeling of my eyes and tongue burning, muscle stiffness. This remained for 2 months. In September 2018 I | M | 37 | 1.5 years 2mg 1X day | 12/1/2018 | 1 | Unreal thoughts | Good afternoon! i was taking respidral for 1,5 years prescribed by the doctor. After when was no psychological need in medication the doctor agreed to help me to quite respidral starting from January 2018. I used to take 2mg dose daily in the evening. The doctor suggested me to use 1mg, and in first 24 hours I had a strong headache and numbs in my right hand. On the second day of reducing pill from 2mg to 1mg I started felling my right hand is heavy. I continued to use the only 1mg of respidral for almost 4 months and after 4 months I drooped dose from 1mg to 0.5mg. I started to feel that all my right body side is heavy, the skin was sensitive (i started to get large bruises and marks, feel uncomfortable from touch or anything pressing). After one more month, I quite respirdal fully and I experienced very sensitive skin and pain from any touch and press, even if I am just sitting, driving I had pain from chair pressing my legs. Also, I got a feeling of my eyes and tongue burnin | M | 37 | 1.5 years 2mg 1X day | 12/1/2018 | 4 | Bipolar delusions and pschosis | There are so many side effects dizzy, headache sore boobs eye sockets weakness in ankles and legs thirsty and urgency to urinate but mentally I feel great. | In the last 25 years i have been on lots of medications is by far the hardest before i have lots of side effects I would not take this unless you have tried and failed with others this is a hard road physical do research young people run if you can ifeel like im like 80 to 90 physically please look at reviews patients know more not doctors and mommy and daddy patients walk the walk. I could never get through it young because it does so much physically. Medication that I take are zoloft and buspar GREAT combination i take gabipentin and hydroxozine also. remember start all medicatin low dosage listen to your body and mind know one knows more then you the best of luck!!!!! it will get BETTER!!!!!!!! | F | 48 | 30 days 1mg | 7/1/2017 | 4 | Bipolar delusions and pschosis | There are so many side effects dizzy, headache sore boobs eye sockets weakness in ankles and legs thirsty and urgency to urinate but mentally I feel great. | In the last 25 years i have been on lots of medications is by far the hardest before i have lots of side effects I would not take this unless you have tried and failed with others this is a hard road physical do research young people run if you can ifeel like im like 80 to 90 physically please look at reviews patients know more not doctors and mommy and daddy patients walk the walk. I could never get through it young because it does so much physically. Medication that I take are zoloft and buspar GREAT combination i take gabipentin and hydroxozine also. remember start all medicatin low dosage listen to your body and mind know one knows more then you the best of luck!!!!! it will get BETTER!!!!!!!! | F | 48 | 30 days 1mg | 7/1/2017 | 1 | Obsess/Comp.disorder + poss. delus. | Loss of motivation to do anything (no more music, reading (philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, physics, astronomy, cosmology, math), video games, all things I used to enjoy). restlessness, shaking legs non-stop all day, walking, pacing. Inability to process. | I took Risperdal for four weeks and at the time I'm writing this have been off of it for seven weeks. The effects / changes from the Risperdal are still here. I do not read, I cannot enjoy music, I do not play video games (I literally have not turned on my console for seven weeks since I stopped the Risperdal), I cannot comprehend (when I read I jump around and I do not process what I'm reading, it's just flat, like nothingness), my memory is impaired, I'm basically like dead, or at least a large (and large percentage at that) and also the most valuable parts of me, that make me who I am, is gone. I honestly don't know how I can live or do anything anymore. I can't function because my emotions are gone. Emotion, satisfaction, enjoyment are the basis for which we do anything, work, study, hang out with friends. I'm not far from being a vegetable, if I am not a vegetable already. I'm not trying to be dramatic, what I want is for those of us who share the same experience to see if we can help each other. Has anyone with this situation improved, gotten their emotions back, their 'self' back? I definitely am very concerned. From some of the reviews I have read some people (a good percentage) are really struggling and one review in particular struck me because the reviewer was suicidal and had mentioned a scenario where if he took a large number of specific listed pills whether he would die instantly. This is serious stuff guys. Let's help each other out. My email is | M | 21 | 2 2X day | 5/4/2017 | 1 | Psychosis | Occulargyric crisis and awful restlessness | This drug is evil. Aside from difficulty driving when I'd get the eyeballs turning up I feel this awful restlessness and I can barely do housework or anything because I absolutely hate doing a lot of things. It is so goddammed awful and I am forced into having it. | F | 38 | 8 years 37.5 | 9/13/2016 | 1 | Bipolar I | I was on a much higher dose at first. That was pure hell. No emotions, severe akathisia (restlessness), not able to carry on a conversation. Now that I am on a lower I used to be an enthusiastic, happy, joyful person full of energy, fun, silly, a goofy, fun side to me. I used to have people drawn to me because of my fun side. I used to have somewhat of a euphoric high on life. THIS IS ALL GONE. I am on a civil commitment due to some hospitalizations when I was manic and had psychosis so I am forced to take this medication. I feel unhappy all the time. I only now have the depressed and suicidal side of me left without the happy ups I used to have. | I can't wait to get off this medication! Has anyone else experienced having a zest for life, passion, happiness, an overall joy that is gone now? I also have nothing interesting to say anymore. Has anyone experienced that? If so, did you come off the medication? Did the happiness, joy, enthusiasium for life come back and are you interesting again? This guy tried to date me after I got diagnosed and was put on this drug. He said I need some spice in my life and a spark. I use this example because this is what has happened to me. I am no longer interesting, no spark or spice. No more euphoric joy. I used to be, at times, high on life. Has anyone experienced this? Did it come back after coming off Risperdal? This drug is not good. I don't like it. | F | 34 | 6 months 25 2X M | 6/23/2016 | 1 | Muscle pain | I tried to quit with Risperidon for the 3th time. Now the dosage was decrease to 0, 25 mg each 2 weeks. When I go from 2 mg each day to 1,75 mg each day, after a few days I started to became more happy and less restless. Than afters 2 weeks I decrease to 1,5 mg each day. I feel much better, and the restless disapear. After 9 days, I woke up with a very agitated feeling and pain on my chest. Also more anxiety, and also the restless feelings starts again. I decided to increase the dosage back to 1,75 mg. So I explained my negatives to my doctor, and ask him if it is alright to increase the dosage back to 1, 75 mg each day, and he agreed. I thougt this was the right dosage for this moment. But after a few days, I feel only emptyness. And again: The postive working of cannabis disapeared. Also restless feeling are back. What do I have to do, to get rid of this medication? | M | 33 | 2 years 1 mg 2X day | 4/13/2015 | 1 | Muscle Pain | When I was on 4 mg Risperidon each day I have a lot of side effects. My doctor prescribe it for muscle pain , but he also knows I smoke Cannabis. He is anti Cannabis use. I found a website in Dutch about interactions between Cannabis and Risperidon. But it was already too late when I discovered that. Because I have a lot of pain in my lower back , and my doctor don't want to prescribe me stronger painkillers than Diclofenac, I went to another doctor. I asked my new doctor to quit Risperidon because of the side effects and interactions. So he told me to taping it off slowly. 1 mg each 2 weeks. When I was at 0 mg , and I quit use it. My legs become very restless. I also got panic attacks, and I want to jump out of my window. I was crying, and my thoughts go very bad. It almost feels like i was dying. Than they put me on Alprazolam. It helps a little to calm down. But very soon my use of Alprazolam rise to 6 times 0,5 mg Alprazolam each day. And I feel still very ill, and only want t | Risperidoomed! | M | 33 | 2 years 1 mg 2X day | 2/28/2015 | 1 | Autism | Horrible weight gain, agitation, zombie like days. Restlessness and extreme sleepiness | This drug is poison to our bodies. Will start tapering off very slowly to avoid side effects and withdrawl symptoms. Sorry we ever started him on it and looking forward to getting our sweet boy back. | M | 21 | 4 months 2mg | 2/4/2015 | 1 | Schizophrenia | Shaking, Horrible Nightmares, Restlessness, Lactating | Risperdal did not work for me whatsoever, and when I started lactating - I stopped taking it cold turkey and had HUGE withdrawl symptoms which lasted for over a month. | F | 24 | 1 years 5 mg 1X day | 5/15/2014 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | Weight gain but nothing serious, zombie-ish feeling, became anti-social and withdrawn, restless leg like always having to rock back and forth. I've been off the medicine for about 4 months now and some of the aide effects have gone away but I don't feel correct yet. I still can't hold conversations properly, I used to be funny, outgoing and someone people got along with, now I feel like my soul has been ripped from my body. Im always tired and fatigued, it takes me around 2 hours to get out of bed. If anyone has found a way out of this hell on earth contact me, my number is 201 674 0653. | M | 21 | 6 months | 8/16/2012 | 1 | For Bipolar Illness | I got extremely sick; cold sweats, tongue got heavy (slurred speech), twitching of arms and legs, nervousness, headache, clouded thoughts, diarreah. Landed me in the Veterans Hospital emergency room. | This is a dangerous drug, should be taken off the market. I know others who told me to watch it, and they were right. Avoid this drug, i rather be locked up for a while than to experience this again (the bad side effects that landed me in the emergency room). | M | 41 | 1 days 4MG 1X day | 7/5/2012 | 1 | various reasons, mostly aggression | acute tightness and panic if given too much at once; confusion, loss of ability to speak; depressed mood, loss of motivation, anger; blurred vision, zombie stare; constipation, difficulty controlling urine; swelling and weight gain; unwanted movements, difficulty starting movement; tremor, restlessness; muscle stiffness, muscle pain, weakness, difficulty with coordination | My son is the patient in question. He called this the HELL DRUG. It and others of similar type contributed much to ruining his life and denying him the future he might have enjoyed. At VERY LOW doses it can help with depression or tics but past a certain point it bites back viciously. Unfortunately well-meaning doctors can be so eager to solve the 'case' that they overlook the suffering of the patient, especially if he is a handicapped minor. This med is also a favorite PRN--basically used as punishment for bad behavior or to increase the drug load without having to admit how much to parents. Unfortunately nobody in the 'system' dares to think outside the box (there are cheaper, safer alternatives) or to question medical authority. I believe that administration of any antipsychotic to people under 18 should be illegal; they can be as dangerous as some of the street drugs. | M | 16 | 2 years 0.5-2 2X day | 5/9/2012 | 1 | Post-Traumatic Stress/Depression | More than moderate tiredness, congestion, rigidity, depression, suicidal thoughts, stress, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, slowness of thoughts, constipation, high blood pressure, weight gain, headaches, acne, twitching, and muscle soreness. | I was first misdiagnosed with schizophrenia that was later changed to post-traumatic stress and major depression, after they said they could find no evidence for schizophrenia. It was a very traumatic experience to be forced to take this drug and it took months for the adverse affects to fade, only recently has the headaches stopped. I was prescribed the drug after I left the hospital, but my psychiatrist disagreed with their reasoning and asked me not to take it, told me to go home and rest, only to come back if I felt I needed medicine. If I ever wanted a medicine that could let me be insane enough to hurt myself, this would be it. | M | 24 | 8 days 1 2X day | 4/23/2012 | 2 | Psychosis and anti-psychotic withdr | 25 mg Consta shots, disconnect from reality, cognitive functioning greatly reduced, weight gain, hard to communicate like normal, always moving my legs at night, overall mentally and physically very tired. | When I tried to quit this drug and tapered it, felt like I was already dead but in some kind of weird afterlife. When I watched TV, it felt like the T.V. was live and was communicating to me. I reached the limits of the human mind and was thrown into a psych ward (literally) but was thankful because a few more days how I was, I was definitely going to end up dead. As far as the drug itself, controlled my "symptoms" which existed from withdrawal from other anti-psychotics. | M | 25 | 3 years 25 1X W | 1/16/2012 | 1 | I was diagnosed with 'schizophrenia | I feel tired and down; i feel drugged; i feel the head heavy; extreme drowsiness, I need to sleep more than 12 hours a day, sometimes I get to sleep around 14 hours,otherwise I feel tired, very sleepy and with the need to reset the sleep; sedation, a feeling of sedation; feeling of wanting to leave the skin itself; extremely dry mouth; want to puke but nothing come out; tremor of the hands and arms; muscle stiffness with contractures and facial spasms; arrhythmia; uncontrolled reflexes of the arms and legs; problems of motor control, motor retardation, the legs move in the opposite direction to the desired; in situations of fear or emotional stress as well as euphoria, more intense emotions, triggers a serie of physical reactions ranging from extreme muscle stiffness with contractures and facial spasms; breathing difficulties; chest pain; ringing in the ears; blurred vision; liver pain; pain in the testicles; palpitations (pulsar) in different parts of the body; swollen fingers, mak | I'm living a nightmare, I can not wait to free myself from it to continue with my life, I'm in it for almost a year and I'm always considering suicide. I was hospitalized for about one month and a half (arrested we mean, and the only people who knows this, is whom already passed through the same). I started with the maximum dose, 50 mg and i stayed there for a few months, they lowered me to 37.5, where I stayed for a few months and i am now at the lowest dose that is 25 mg. At the time of receiving the injection i'm in an absolute terror because i know I'll feel bad again and I'm always terrified when the day of receiving it is approaching. Apparently there is a lot more people than the general people think, that is currently in the same situation as me, and know this is terrifying. It seems it is a widespread phenomenon, a witch hunt in the XXI century, 'diagnose' and drugging. Yes, I'm being forced drugging me, if i offer the least resistance, I was warned, I will be hospitalized again, against my will. I had never thought of suicide until i started with this 'treatment'. This is not treatment, is torture, and I think many of them who prescribe this drugs know that.This is all pure merchandising. | M | 22 | 1 years 25 mg 2X M | 4/11/2011 | 3 | bipolar 2, general/social anxiety | 50lbs weight gain; near total sexual dysfunction; restless legs, stuffy nose and intermittently blocked ears for the first few months; physically and mentally turns me into a zombie | Works well for my bipolar 2; seems to keep me from waking up before I'm ready to (although often makes me sleep seemingly too long); quite possibly does nothing for my anxiety. For the bipolar alone it's something of a lifesaver and I might have rated it a 4 or at a push 5 if it wasn't for the numerous side effects which constantly make me want to try lowering the dose, which I often do and this usually leads to a brief high followed by my mood plummeting to dangerous levels and me having to increase the dose again. | M | 34 | 11 years 1mg 2X day | 3/31/2011 |
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)