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 |
| 1 | Depression | Could not sleep through the night, even a week after stopping the drug. Nausea. High anxiety. | This drug is not good. I cannot believe people can put this in their bodies. My original condition was nothing compared to the side effects of this stuff. I have been off it for a week and i am nauseous, anxious all the time and cannot sleep through the night. Absolutely miserable. | M | 43 | 1 months .5mg 1X day | 3/7/2011 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | Tardive dyskenisa, Weight Gain, Lactation | Risperdal did help stabilize my moods but the side effects were too much to handle. All I wanted to do was eat, and gained 14 pounds in two weeks. The tardive dyskenisa was just weird. Once I began to lactate I knew it was time to get off of it. | F | 18 | 2 weeks 1X day | 3/4/2011 | 3 | Autism | Tardive dyskenisa - Weight Gain | I have an Autistic son who we are taking of Risperdol he was at 6mg and now at 1mg we are weaning him slowly 3 – 4 weeks between drops now at a 1/4 of a mg – but we are seeing a lot of the Tardive dyskenisa every doctor we talk to says it will most likley go away as soon as it started we started to remove him from the meds. It seemed to help in the beginging but his behaviors increased as they increased the doctor increased the meds. (son is non verbal) but when the Tardive came out and we started to take him off the drug it seems the behaviors are part of an reaction to the side effects of the drug. If you see facial ticks and uncontroled muscle movements in the face and body tell your doctor - the original doctor discounted what we seen but, now it's aparent that he had it. I would caution it especialy a the high dose | M | 17 | 4 years 6mg 1X day | 2/24/2011 | 1 | insane hell a nightmare in hell hell hell | consta shot put me in hell...every day screaming for someone to take it out of me....ruined a large part of my life | M | 22 | 100 days 1X day | 2/20/2011 | 1 | substance induced psychosis | Depersonalization, chronic sexual dysfunction, including near total loss of libido and desire, can't "feel" my stomach, feel like parts of my brain have been "shut down" or are not functioning (specifically in brainstem area, limbic system, frontal lobes, and "top" of my brain), difficulty feeling fully awake and present, apathy, chronic feelings of hollowness and emptiness, feel like I'm a bit of a ghost floating about most of the time | Four years and one month OFF the medication..."side" effects (if that's what one calls them), which started while on the drug, persist, although they have admittedly improved quite a bit over the four years since not administering the medication. Was only on the med for nine weeks. | M | 36 | 9 weeks .25 - 3mg 1X day | 2/10/2011 | 5 | paranoid skitsphrinik and bipolar | just tierd jettery | F | 35 | 3mg 2X day | 2/9/2011 | 1 | Bi Polar | Weight Gain, Emotional Numbness, lathargic, sedation drowsiness | THE WORST MEDICATION Ive EVER been on EVER I would not give this medication to anyone I felt like crap for 8 months and I gained so much weight I wanted to Die. | F | 18 | 8 months 2 mg 1X day | 2/1/2011 | 1 | Autism | Weight gain, 20 lbs in two months, lethargic. | My daughter is autistic and is on 1.5 mg twice a day. She says she is always hungry. She has gained about 20 lbs in two months. Believe or not, we walk/run 3-5 miles per day, she does the eliptical, bike, and swims twice a week. She is very lethargic since dose was increased to 1.5 from 1, wants to splip and says she is tired. Should we switch to Lamictal? Do they work the same way? Another doctor suggested taking a new drug that supposely works like Risperidone but w/o the weight gain effect.I can't remember the name. Please help. | F | 20 | 2 months 1.5 2X day | 1/22/2011 | 5 | PTSD | Overall this has been a great medication. It has alleviated my anxiety, something that wasn't possible on xanax. | M | 21 | 3 months 2mg 3X day | 1/19/2011 | 4 | Psychotic Episode | This drug stopped my delusions that people were taking over my husband's body and talking to me thru him. I slept very well on this drug, but had some discomfort with having a stuffy nose (especially at night). Initially, I became very focused and was able to get a lot of work done with no paranoia/fears. After several months though, I became void of emotions, had difficulty in following a conversation or contributing to one. I did not smile or laugh anymore and had zero sexual interest or feelings. I felt much less intelligent. I was extremely hungry, but was able to lose weight by staying on a 1200 cal/day diet and exercising. | I began to wean myself off this drug after 10 months by cutting it in half down to .5 mg for 2 weeks then .25 for 2 weeks then .125 for 2 weeks(Taking B complex,fish oil and E) and now I am off it and I can communicate and comprehend and feel emotions again. While weaning off this drug, I experienced headaches, and about a day of mood swings each time I lowered the dosage. I believe what initially caused my psychotic episode was due to iron deficiency: heavy menstrual periods lead to low iron, which affects dopamine transmission and increases risk of psychotic states. I've given up eating gluten which can cause heavy menstrual bleeding and I am no longer anemic or experiencing heavy bleeding (which I'd had for over a decade). | F | 48 | 11 months 1 1X day | 1/18/2011 | 1 | psych ward | Well theyll inject it into you at a mental hospital if you refuse medication and they say you need it every 2 weeks...what they dont tell you is it actually lasts for an 8 week period before it begins to eliminate from the system. | HELL Hated the drug and makes your brain fry. Leaves you impotent if you are a male. lowers your brain function to an all time minimum. The funny thing is jansen parmesuticals only charges 175$ for a drug that has you messed up for 8 weeks! 8 weeks messed up for 175?! yea that is a garbage chemical if you ask me. | M | 21 | 8 weeks 12.5consta 1X day | 1/18/2011 | 1 | Schizophrenia | I feel bad 4 others who must take this! I was "diagnosed" w/ schizophrenia 2 mths after my daughter was born & promptly put on Risperdal. Honestly it did nothing but make me managable 4 sane people 2 take care of me & I say "diagnosed" b/c the dr never did blood tests, just asked me & my husband ?'s. I DO admit I wasn't sane @ time & the way I acted & spoke were very in line w/ schizophrenic behavior, but had dr been competent, they would have done blood tests 2 ascertain.(Though it's a wash whether my ACTUAL condition would show in them anyways). In the end, it turned out I had mercury poisoning. I was extremely lucky & found a naturopathic dr. who put me on detox chelation treatments &, u know what? I was able 2 go off the drug almost as soon as I started the 1st couple treatments. Again, I feel terrible 4 people who must take RISPERDAL. (& I only took it for 2 freaking mths!! Can't image 2 years...or 20!?)If u have mental cond | Risperdal is NOT a cure, it is only a mask 2 the symptoms of the real problem. If u want a real cure find someone who can help u discover what your actual problem is (and by that I mean that MENTAL PROBLEMS are NOT the problem, but a SYMPTOM of what is wrong. Unless u were born w/ brain damage, if u want 2 live a happy normal life, seek out a naturopath who specializes in mental disorders!!! I was robbed precious early months of my daughter's life that I will never get those back because this drug messed up not only my memory but ability 2 function normally. (Well also to blame is a dr. who needs to get with the program--as well as almost every single other MEDICAL dr. out there--and learn what other avenues there are to truly heal. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS!! And just so you know where I'm coming from--I was SO crazy that I believed my neighbors were being murdered all around me and that evil spirits were trying to give my bones cancer and I thought I was talking to dead people and I believed i had goofed up raising my son and he was going to be the next satan. Yes, I was crazy, but I can attest (as well as every single person I've spoken to since I started chelation) That I am completely sane again. My med dr & psych failed me & so did RISPERDAL. Find another avenue other than drugs. THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING BUT MAKE THE "CRAZY" PERSON MANAGABLE FOR THE "UNCRAZY" ONES TAKING CARE OF THEM. | F | 25 | 2 months .25 mg/day 4X day | 1/14/2011 | 3 | Unauthorized use of creativity... | Glad I did some research, something I always do that noone around me ever does unless they are forced to in order to earn a piece of paper from an institution for the unthinking and uncreative. This, like every drug doesn't have "side" effects. It has EFFECTS. If growing breasts and having a heart attack are side effects... then doctors are brainwashed zombies from hell who don't give a damn about human beings. I suppose creative language, metaphor and euphamism are punisible by breasts and a heart condition... because really that's the only way to look at it. Mr. Alan Turing, the INVENTOR of the COMPUTER was PUNISHED in the same way, his crime was being a homosexual... What does that tell you about psychiatry? Got off risperidol, and FAST. | Was locked in a hospital for talking about freemasonry ... don't know why it's just an organization, and it's 5000 years old and counting. If they can't build you they destroy you... and I'm not being paranoid, read some of their literature, and look around at the books in the hospital next time you are there. Unauthorized use of metaphor and passion is strictly prohibited in this world...especially when you are talking to a doctor... always remember that. I had to kiss serious ass to get out of the hospital, I'm lucky I caught on. Flattery gets you everywhere. Sorry Dr., I'm just behaving the way I was raised in PRIVATE SCHOOL. Low-class greedy pisants trying to make a buck! | M | 27 | 1 months 2mg 2X day | 1/7/2011 | 1 | psychosis | Very much increased length of sleep, 12 hours or more, waking up at midday after going to sleep at about 11pm. On waking no motivation to get out of bed just desire to sleep more, just wanted to stay in bed and go back to sleep. Had to use all my will power to get up at about 3.30pm. Felt like I had a Lobotomy, couldnt think, couldnt remember things (-short term memory), no desire or motivation. Loss of personality. Couldnt even read a book. No interest in things. Had to have very strong coffee coupled with something with a lot of sugar in it, just to motivate myself/get my brain working to some degree and this was at a far less level of function than before taking this drug. 2 and half stone weight gain. Very low sex drive. I was taking this coupled with 100mg of Fluoxamine (Prozac) so in such an elevated mood that didnt have the ability to realise these side effects were too problematic for me at the time. | I am now 3 and half years later and feel that my sex drive/ sensitivity has never returned fully. My memory and intellectual ability has been permanently damaged. My interest in things/life is also very much less than before taking this drug. |If you have first episode psychosis take this drug only for short term (few months max) even though the Psy/Doctor will say to you a mimimum of one year. Really talking about your stress and problems you felt you had before and at the time of your breakdown to someone would be far more helpful. Trying to get out of the environment that caused you problems in the first place would help. **Also Omega fish oils** in high doses (1300 - 3000mg daily (Boots chemist) with a multi vitamin (B vits are helpful) Exercise also helps to realign the chemicals in the brain and is anti stress/anxiety). Also doing things that are pleasureable/treats helps to increase you natural barrier to strees. When I read that parents are giving this anti-psychotic drug to their children (- their non-psychotic children) I was appalled. If your children have anger issues/or even other very significant issues do not give them this drug, at least I have some brain function developed through learning as a child/ young adult, it would be terrible to perscribe a drug that has the proven effect of brain shrinkage to a child. If I had this given to me as a child I would wish wish myself dead, I feel like the living dead enough as it is with these side effects that I have. I | F | 37 | 2.3 years 1-3mg 1X day | 1/4/2011 | 1 | strange thoughts | Somnolence, drowsiness, restlessness, hunger,suicidal thoughts, unable to move, lack of emotions, loss of sexual life | This med is the devil. For me didn't work well. I was tired all the time and when I stopped taking it the side effects didn't went away completely. It is now 7 weeks that I don't take it and I still feel tired, no sexual desire and can't concentrate on things. I can't learn new things is so as if a part of my brain is death. I hope is not forever and I will gain strenth and I will regain all my previous capabilities. | F | 36 | 10 months 50mg 2X W | 12/21/2010 | 4 | Schizophrinia | sleepiness and tiredness, some weight gain | Main problem is sleepiness and tiredness, although feel comfortable psychologically even at this dosage. I got some wait gain due to drinking behaviour - weight can be kept with some discipline, even lost with a good diet. | M | 27 | 7 years 2 1X day | 12/19/2010 | 4 | Obsessive Thoughts/OCD | None that I notice. | This medication seems to work really well for me, I started noticing a change in my obsessive thoughts within a few days. I'm glad I finally found something that works, with little to no side effects. | M | 20 | 90 days 1 1X day | 12/18/2010 | 1 | consta 50mg | coma | now disabled | M | 56 | 15 weeks 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 1 | schizophrenia | rapid weight gain 60lbs and still counting insommnia shortness of breath depressed suicidal lack motivation | M | 36 | 2 years 37.5 2X M | 12/11/2010 | 1 | Drug Psychosis | Weight gain, mental blanks, "being out of it" all the time. | After being off the drug for six months I still feel like a zombie. Its like this POS has caused me permanent brain damage. I've lost the social skills I used to have. I've lost my life. Don't take this drug. | M | 23 | 4 months 12.5 2X M | 12/8/2010 |