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 | They think Bipolar disorder | I became extremely over anxious over everything, the beginnings of it turning into convulsions and being compelled to do things such as run in a straight line into traffic while spinning my head around in a circle AND I WAS NOT AT ALL SUICIDAL. These things went away for a while when the mediciine went down, then for some reason, the doctors decided to up it again and I was anxiety ridden and became extremely OCD. This turned into total loss of muscular control and speech. My words would come out garbled. Later, I would get these strange bursts of...not pain, something different through my body, like I was literally crawling out of my skin. I would scream and not be able to talk. This felt like the worst pain in my life, except it was not pain. All of these things caused me to miss the first quarter and a third of my eighth grade school year. Now, I'm going off it and the three to twenty hour half life is disgusting me. I just need to wait it out. This medicine is cruel and unusual. An | M | 13 | 5 months | 10/28/2008 | 1 | daughter took risperdal for bipolar | DEATH! | My 12 year old daughter. Kayla, suddenly died from a heart attcak possibly caused by the side effects from Risperdal and Zoloft. Take head everyone about this drug because it is very dangerous! It causes anything from heart problems to liver disfunction. Doctors are getting lavish kickbacks from pharm reps and the drug companies for prescribing Rsiperdal. I have gone through a dozen or so attorneys and I cannot sue anyone because Kayla was born with a heart condition and the dr's are saying this is what caused her death, even though she has liver problems and cyst on her ovaries. Buyer beware of this horrible drug. | F | 46 | 9 months | 9/18/2008 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder | I was prescribed low dose Risperdal (0.5mg/day) to treat chronic anxiety in my early 20s. I took Risperdal for nearly 2 years and experienced Parkinson's symptoms, severe EPS, needed to take anti-parkinsons to stop violent shaking, tremor, speech disorder, SEVERE AKITHESIA, SEVERE DYSKINESIA, SEVERE RESTLESSNESS, nothing comes close to describing how this drug made me feel. While taking Risperdal for anxiety I developed depression, phobias, insomnia, paranoia for the first time in my life (and I don't have psychosis), wrecked sex life and made so many decisions I regret because I was turned into a vegetable. THIS DRUG SHOULD NEVER BE USED FOR ANXIETY. I REGRET TAKING RISPERDAL EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE and still wonder why my doctor didn't warn me that this drug could cause me to develop a LIFE LONG MOVEMENT DISORDER. | I was prescribed this drug for anxiety in my early 20s, told it was completely safe and how much better it was than benzos. I didn't know a lot about how these meds worked at the time and my doctor didn't explain to me the dangerous long term side effects of taking this drug. I truly believe I have experienced long-term brain damage from taking this drug, and I was only on a small dose of 0.5mg/day. I am sure that there are situations where drugs like Risperdal are life-savers in severe psychosis but they should NOT be prescribed for everyday anxiety. My view: if you are so unwell it comes down to hospitalisation versus Risperdal give it a try, but if you believe you can carry on and get through without it you should. This drug has ruined my life - even though I have been off it for 7 years it is still affecting me. | M | 20 | 2 years | 9/14/2008 | 1 | OCD | Horrible weight gain. I was extremely skinny and never had to worry about weight. I was very thin and then I took the pill and it damaged my metabolism and caused my blood sugar to be messed up. I was extremely skinny my whole life before taking the pill, then I took the pill and seven years later I still have to do extreme exercise and dieting to get rid of the extra weight. This pill ruined my life and I'm still trying to get my thin body back seven years later. | This pill ruined my life. I was very skinny and never had to worry about weight, I was the most thin person in school. I took the pill and it caused a lot of weight gain and damaged my metabolism and blood sugar level. Seven years later I still have to do extreme exercise and dieting, over 1 hour of treadmill per day to lose all the extra weight. This pill completely ruined my life. Horrible, horrible pill. Doesn't help that the perosn who gave it to me lied about the side effects. | | 9/13/2008 | 3 | Treatment-resistant depression | Loss in motivation/drive, poor short-term memory and word retrieval, substantial anhedonia (inability to enjoy anything), complete apathy and loss of interest in former hobbies, akathisia (restlessness), emotional numbing, weight gain, loss of libido and premature ejaculation (who would have thought you could prematurely ejaculate when your libido is so crap!) | My experience of Risperidal is somewhat complex. After being severely depressed for around a year my (emminent) psychiatrist decided to augment the MAOI with Risperidal, informing me that it had no real side effects other than possible spasms if taken for a very long time. I trusted him. I am now writing 15 months on, having taken it at 1-1.5mg per day. I cannot say for absolute sure but I think it has actually helped the depression. However, I have now come to realise that many things I thought were symptoms of the depression are actually side-effects of the Risperidal (I know this because they persisted even when I did not feel depressed). I would say overall my life is a lot better than it was, and I honestly do not know how much is attributable to the Risperidal, but by God the side-effects are ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. Isn't it ironic how although my baseline depression has improved, but it's now the side-effects of Risperidal that make me feel crap. I would like to thank all you for wri | M | 23 | 15 months | 9/2/2008 | 2 | bipolar disorder | Trying to wean myself off of seroquel by adding risperdal. Taking I'm taking one pill at night with 1/2 tab of seroquel. Not as I'm taking it to increase my sense of well being. I've been using it in place of seroquel. The first week it worked great, except for not giving me the necessary sleepiness at night needed to sleep (which seroquel worked stellar for).I used to be on 1-2 tabs of seroquel and wanted to go off of it because it flattened my mood to a semi-depressed state. It was like I didn't care much about anything while on it. A lack of zest for life- comatos-ish. | initially good results more affect without the depression, but isn't helping me too much with sleep-- yet! I'm praying it will, because it seems like a sound medicine. | F | 44 | 20 days | 9/1/2008 | 1 | - | I got chemically neutered and chemically lobotomized by Risperdal. Since the medication clamped down on my nervous system in late November of '06 (one month into "treatment"), I've had zero feeling in my testicles, zero libido, erectile dysfunction, low motivation, and absent emotions, among other symptoms. The kicker is I've been off Risperdal since January 2nd of '07, a year and seven months ago. All the unwanted crap that started with Risperdal persists, in spite of the Risperdal being long, long out of my system. The only medication I'm on now is clonazepam, a small dose, which helps with some of the symptoms that Risperdal caused. | I certainly wasn't expecting brain damage when I agreed to go on Risperdal, but it seems like I got it. The medication is fit for no living creature. | M | 33 | 68 days | 8/27/2008 | 1 | complications of delerium tremens | The medication was physically addictive. I shot a man when I was in withdrawal from it after raving insanely for months with a risperdal induced tick. God's truth. | Anything that affects the serotonin level in the brain is kind of a synthetic cocaine isn't it? | M | 40 | 12 years | 8/21/2008 | 3 | adhd, aggressive behavior | increased thirst, constipation, tiredness, continued aggression. | Family doctor recomended Risperdal due to aggressive behavior at school and with friends and family. Worked for a while right off the bat but when aggression returned the Dr. wanted us to up the dose which we did. We still havent gotten the results we wanted and cant see upping the dosage any further. We decided to take him off and see very little change (2 weeks) since we did. I am seeing facial tics show up and that is troubling. | M | 8 | 3 years | 8/11/2008 | 1 | Bipolar 1 with psychosis | Severe akathisia. The word "restlessness" only begins to describe it. Each day was worse than the one before. It was so bad that I became suicidal and had to be hospitalized to come off the medication. | It helped me sleep and improved my moods. But the restlessness while awake was simply unbearable. | M | 26 | 2 months | 8/10/2008 | 3 | schizophrenia | very calm...ticks and sharp pains...lower sexual desire and function...significant weight gain. | dont rely only on the meds try to suppliment the diet with foods rich in glycine (orange gelatin...and my favorite maynards wine gums)...start to eat wild pacific salmon or take daily omega-3 tablets...but really try to ingest more omega-3 and glycine. i came out of a really bad schizophrenia with the meds and more importantly the maynards wine gums, omega-3 oil, wild pacific salmon, and canned sardines...just pig out on the omega-3 oil, but go easy on the fish (just 2-3 times a week)...and absolutely devour the maynards wine gums...seriously to mention again i left a seriously bad schizo episodes. i am looking forward to switching to ziprasodine/geodon to heal into reality. hope this helps | M | 30 | 5 years | 8/4/2008 | 4 | Mood Disorder NOS | Sleepy, dizzy, dull | Calmed me down quite a bit. | F | 17 | 5 months | 7/24/2008 | 1 | Autism, Aggression | Got Gynecomastia and had to have surgery and taken off medication. caused prolacten levels to be high causing a lacting in the breast. | This medication did not help my little boy at all with his head banging and aggressive behaivor he was having. The side effect he had I was not told that this was one,so Be Careful !!!! This drug is not safe at all !!! And my son is non verbal so who knows what all he went thru with this medication.He is doing better with out this medication. STAY AWAY FROM THIS MEDICINE! | M | 4 | 3 months | 7/23/2008 | 2 | paranoid schizophrenia | My head felt tight and heavy beside my temples. I was withdrawn from excitement. I developed nervous side-effects and social dysfunctional symptoms. | I didn't like it at all. This is not a thing you do when nothing is wrong with you. /I took risperdal for spiritual reasons. i don't need it anymore. i took respredal for 5 years. 5 years. | M | 26 | 5 years | 7/22/2008 | 2 | supposed schizophrenia | huge weight gain,severe unfitness,bloating,inability to think,heart palpitations,tiredness,inability to have an orgasm,stopped my periods,bad acne,inability to speak properly | I went off risperdal consta almost 2 months ago and havent had a period for 3 months also still got acne and is very hard to have an orgasm.The doctors said i was schizophrenic because they assumed the neighbours i was hearing were voices in my head.Doctors assumed too much and didnt know a damn thing.Im glad to be off it and hope i dont have any permanent damage from it. | F | 27 | 6 months | 7/16/2008 | 5 | autism , self-injury, aggression | My daughter gained a lot of weight, sleeps better at night, lethargic, limited interests, when dose is low has a lot of facial movements and shakes head violently like withdrawal. | Almost immediately stopped all self-injury (head banging, scratching, etc), amazing decrease in aggression - no longer beats me up. My daughter seems happy - smiles more, less irritable and angry. This medication kept my child out of an institution and at home and the community. I am concerned about the long-term effects but certainly has raised her quality of life for the past 5 years. | F | 16 | 5 years | 7/5/2008 | 1 | psychosis | dskinesia (involuntary movements / jerks of the arms and legs - movement similiar to if your body received an electric shock), sexual dsyfunction. | I took 6mg Risperdal for a year. My arms and legs involuntarily move almost as if they were given strong electric shocks. They jump like this several times daily. I have had problems with not ejaculating or ejaculate volume being minimal. Most of the time I ejaculate without orgasm or have a extremely weak orgasm (about 1% of normal). I have been off risperdal for almost a month now and have not regained my ability to orgasm and my involuntary movements are still occur daily but not as frequent or as strong. I would not recommend this drug to anyone, only for short-term (1 month) use to extinguish a major psychotic epsisode. | M | 32 | 1 years | 6/17/2008 | 4 | delusions - bipolar disorder | Gained a ton of weight - 60 lbs in 3 months. But , to it's credit it did take my delusions away. I took 3 mgs a day for a few months. Switched to abilify years ago which serves the same purpose and is weight-neutral. | M | 31 | 3 months | 6/12/2008 | 1 | - | Continued side effects one and a half years after going off the med. Quality of life SEVERELY, SEVERELY, SEVERELY compromised. Sense of self damaged. No drive, no ambition, no wants or cravings. Lethargy and a lack of vigor. Been turned into an "it" with no end in sight. A barely functional ghost. | Imagine you go to a doctor. He lifts off the top of your skull, reaches into the middle of your brain with a pair of scissors, and cuts out a 2x2x2 inch clump of brain matter from behind your eyes. Pleasant? Desirable? F*** psychiatry and f*** pharmaceutical companies. | M | 32 | 2 months | 6/11/2008 | 1 | Bipolar II | lack of emotional response, reduced sex drive, muscle twitching, trouble doing math and with deep thought, trouble thinking of words | This is only a useful med if you're actually delusional, I have bipolar disorder and it made me feel like a zombie. | F | 18 | 2 months | 6/8/2008 |