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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR RISPERDAL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Tick Disorder, Anxiety, Breakdown | Meige Syndrome, Tardive Dyskenisia, Zombie like, No emotion, Blepharospasms, I walked like a robot my husband would say. Major weight gain almost 80 kg's gained. | It cured my tick disorder, but then caused the Meige Syndrome, that I have lived with for the passed year, until I went to a neurologist in November 2011, he gave me 4 weeks to get off the drug, & touch wood, since the new year, 2012, I have not suffered from Meige Syndrome again & my Tick Disorder has also not come back! | F | 43 | 3 years 1mg 1X day | 2/16/2012 | 1 | Mood Disorder NOS | I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt when I was 15 years old. At the time I experienced extreme anger out bursts (which were destructive only to myself through superficial self mutilation), mood lability and burgeoning features of Borderline personality disorder. While at the hospital I was oppositional and non-compliant. A burnt-out psychiatrist talked to me for about 15 minutes and then decided to put me on a high dose of risperdal. Risperdal is commonly prescribed in institutions, as it is well established, cheap, makes non-compliant patients lethargic and slows higher cognitive functioning. I am now a practicing clinical therapist who works with children who experience severe emotional dysfunction. No matter the issue, I would never recommend this drug to any young person in the process of going through puberty, who is prone to weight gain, or has personality/self-esteem issues. This drug WILL make you gain weight rapidly if you are at all prone to weight gain or an athletic 15 | In working with schizophrenic adults, I have seen the risperdal shot be very effective. I would only considerate in adults who cannot gain weight, or are at the end stages of their disease where any intervention would be beneficial to the homelessness, victimization, and/or delusions that they experience on a daily basis. | F | 27 | 6 months Unknown 2X day | 2/16/2012 | 3 | bipolar | Made.me.dumb!...but.helped.anxiety. | F | 37 | 3 days 3mg | 2/15/2012 | 5 | Major depression, suicidal thoughts | I take two other drugs, so it would be unscientific to attribute my side effects to any one of them. My libido is nearly adsent. I'm not as quick as I used to be. My short-term memory is a bit dulled. I think risperidone may have augmented all of the above, but I was already experiencing them to a degree from the two SSRI's I take. So who knows. I haven't had any weight gain, tics, or acne, thank heaven. | I think I have to give risperidone credit for having kept me from suicide. I was at great risk two years ago, and now I'm two years older, so I guess it has worked. I had brief manic periods each time the dosage was increased, but they only resulted in a few possibly inappropriate e-mails late at night. Oops. | M | 51 | 2 years .25 mg 3X day | 2/11/2012 | 2 | Asd | My son been so hyperactive he even flaps his hand too much... No attention, cant focus. He hurts people, he had constipation he cant swallow well he always vommit. He cant pedal a bike. Before he took it he didnt hurt people but i admit he doesnt have good attention but i think it became worst. Before giving it to hIm i expected that he will become calmer and will lessen his behavioral issues but after almost a year nothing change and even worsen | M | 3 | 1 days .25 ml | 2/3/2012 | 3 | Paranoid schizophrenia | I experienced a worsening of my symptoms, started to feel more paranoid than ever, couldīt sleep, thought someone was going to find me and kill me. Plus in the daytime I had blurred vision, and felt really `flatī. I put on a pound a day, which I really hope comes off once I stop. This is a drug that works for some, but not for me. | Try the drug, it may work for you, but be prepared to buy a new wardrobe because this is going to make you put on weight FAST!. | F | 29 | 14 days 2 MG 1X day | 1/30/2012 | 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 | 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 | Currently diagnosis is schitsoeffec | Not able to concentrate very well on conversations and also not interested in watching tv. Memory loss, weight gain.. Now that I'm slowly getting off Of this medication I'm seeing a big difference | F | 32 | 6 years 4 mg | 1/8/2012 | 1 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Canīt remember mom and dad. Loosing speech and writing. No emotions. Zombie like tv watching all day. No fantasy. (Weight gain 80 pounds). No want for women. Donīt understand what people say. Will never have kids because of the medicine. | Used to have a IQ of 135 before they gave me the medicine. Now I have a IQ of 70. | M | 32 | 5 years 37.5 MG 2X M | 12/28/2011 Patient History | 4 | bi polar diorder | I have.recently had chest pain been diagnosed with angina at rest I constantly feel like there is something stuck in my throat I have high cpk levels and high prolactin levels I have to now have a scope surgery to see how much damamge has been caused | M | 16 | 2 years 2mg | 12/18/2011 | 1 | Misdiagnosed psychotic depression | Extreme sedation, noticed problems thinking and concentrating and remembering when I went off which lasted for months after going off. | This stuff stays in your system for months even though I was given it for supposedly psychotic feautures accompanying depression for 2 weeks. My brain was left severely out of whack and the only way I felt ok again was to take an ssri called celexa (citalopram). We are all different and I had to go through a few ssris before I found one that would make me feel human by raising up serotonin again. I swore after risperdal I was through with psych drugs but really needed the extra help to get over the horror drug that is risperdal. Best advice I can give is to try ssri to take you out of the hollow pit of despair that this drug brings. I noticed a positive difference very quickly. | F | 40 | 2 weeks 2mg 1X day | 12/11/2011 | 1 | High-functioning autism? | Depersonalization & derealization, tiredness, rage (that I managed to hold back), irritable constantly, no emotions apart from the 2 I experienced, loss of appetite, dizziness, low blood pressure (I've came close to fainting almost everytime I got up to walk or do something), headaches (constantly), increased sleep, didn't eat as much, slight sickness after eating or drinking certain things, constipation, loss of memory (forgetfulness, I even forgot how much dosage I took after being told so many times) and loss of cognitive skills. | I was misdiagnosed with high-functioning autism, I was diagnosed because I'm shy and wasn't good at the tests he made me do. I was put on this medication twice, once last year and again this year. I know the medication does all these side effects because it done the exact same thing twice now, can't be a coincidence. It literally feels like someone's squeezing on my head and I don't feel like myself. This is hell, I've been put on a drug for being falsely diagnosed with autism. Autistic people want to be alone, I want friendship but I'm just shy and get bullied a lot, they have delayed speech and some of them don't even talk. There's an autistic person in my class and I'm nothing like him, all I am is a shy person and just get bullied a lot. I know I'm not autistic and I won't stop saying that until everyone who surrounds me acknowledges that. I've also been misdiagnosed with ADD and anxiety disorder. This drug makes me feel autistic, fucking hell! I've just got off of this medication but nothing's happening, I'm still experiencing the same side effects! How long does this shit stay in your system for? And if this does cause permanent brain damage then I'm going to go crazy! | M | 14 | 3 months Forgot 1X day | 12/2/2011 | 3 | asperger's-related anxiety | Weight gain | Decent and did the job for a while | M | 26 | 2 years 2 mg? 1X day | 11/30/2011 | 1 | Tic Disorder + OCD | My blood pressure droped so much i couldn't stand or sit without fainting. I had slurred speech, couldn't walk in staight line, very wobbly on feet and sent my bladder to sleep. I felt brain dead. | I really wanted it to work so I wouldn't tic as much, but sadly it made me feel evern worse. Was a big disappointment. | 22 | 1 days 0.5 2X day | 11/26/2011 | 1 | Manic episode, Bipolar I disorder. | At first no effect at all. At 2 mg/day, I started getting extremely dry mouth and body, despite drinking lots of water. Shortness of breath and rapid heart beat from minor physical exertion. No symptom relief at all. If anything, I felt less in control of my symptoms. | Horrible medication for me. | M | 31 | 6 days 2 mg 1X day | 11/22/2011 | 4 | BPD with psychosis | Weight gain (24lbs). | I've been prescribed Risperidone for a few years but struggled to take in in its oral form. I've been on the depot (injection) for a year and haven't missed a dose. As a result, it's been one of the more stable years of my life and have only spent 1 week in hospital as opposed to 5 months the previous year. It hasn't made everything fine by any stretch, but has improved my quality of life and made me feel a bit more human. I also haven't experienced any particularly bothersome side-effects outside of the weight gain (though did struggle badly with effects when I was put on the 37.5mg dose - wrongly - a couple of years ago). I am looking to come off it now as I was never informed that there can be long-term side-effects with use of antipsychotic medication. | F | 24 | 1 years 25mg 2X M | 11/13/2011 | 1 | major depression | Akathesia like I was going to go out of my mind. It was so hard to stay alive until it wore off. | Beware before ever taking a neuroleptic. They are very hard to get off and can do permanent damage. | F | 56 | 3 days 30mg 1X day | 11/5/2011 | 2 | dunno | tired | want to come of it but my mum don't want me to, I don't believe in mental drugs I think its bullshit I don't know whether to come off it or not don't want to go back to hospital | M | 23 | 1 years 37.5mg 1X O | 10/31/2011 | 1 | hey | the microbes in the product will make your balls fry | this product has microbes in it and lasts for years with one injection | M | 22 | 12.5 1X day | 10/29/2011 |