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 |
| 3 | Schizophrenia | Dry mouth, akathsia, tremors, tongue movements, insomnia, difficulty getting words out, aggression, agitation | Typical side effects but I experience I bunch of them. | F | 37 | 4 years 3 1X day | 12/5/2018 | 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 | 1 | Antidepressant augmentation | Loss of emotion, Concentration problems, memory problems | This drug basically turned me into a zombie, as all antipsychotics do. By limiting the amount of dopamine, this drug will take away your ability to feel pleasure, motivate yourself, and think clearly. I don’t feel depressed, really, just empty and robotic. Someone could tell me that my parents died and I would just stare at them blankly. | M | 21 | 3 months 1 MG | 11/2/2018 | 5 | sleep, anxiety, agitation | none | like it | F | 60 | 35 days 1.5 mg 1X day | 7/1/2018 | 1 | Schizoaffective disorder | Loss of libido, creative drive, and loss of ability to feel love and emotion | Would have never started taking this medication having known the side effects | M | 48 | 5 days 4mg 1X day | 1/26/2018 | 1 | mania | BRAIN DEATH! akathisia, complete anhedonia, OCD, suicidal depression, anxiety, depersonalization, PTSD, brain fog, obsessive rumination | Took this for 1 month at 2 mg then tapered for 2 months; had side effects whole time and tapering was nightmare. i am left disabled and a year being off this medication. I think it is truly criminal to give this to anyone. For a few days of mania I have been left nearly a year and half incapacitated with no end in sight. I am an accomplished person with graduate degree, worked in corporate job, volunteer in community, kids. I can hardly get out of bed every day. I don't care about anything or anyone. I can hardly do a load of laundry. I want to stare at the wall all day. This drug has made me a zombie, walking dead. I now feel severely mentally ill and disabled. I cry every day that I was given this drug. I wish I had researched it before I took it but trusted my doctor even when I told him I was having side effects. This is a DANGEROUS drug. I can't describe the agony of every waking moment. | F | 45 | 3 months 2X day | 1/14/2018 | 2 | Depression, Anxiety | Mostly emotional flatness, tired, increased appetite, sometimes early satiety(feeling full after little food), very little emotions. Only anxiety and some depression sometimes. No happiness or anger. Just too calm. | I got off this medicine a week ago. I took Invega 3 mg once a day for about 4 days. Then I couldnt get the pill down. I have trouble getting pills down. So I havent taken invega for two days and yesterday I just took risperidal oral disintegrating tablet in 0.5. I hope I dont get bad side effects from stopping cold turkey! Im sure I will though... ______On risperidal, I mainly stopped taking it so I could feel more again. That probably sounds stupid because I had depression and anxiety but I feel like im not really living life not feeling it all. I havent had romantic feelings towards anyone since starting this medicine and I dont want to live my live unhappy and without love. Main reason why I got off of it. I probably have more side effects but forgot and got used to them because I have been on this medication for a year now. But I definitely dont feel like my old self. I want the old me back! Ive heard no one is ever the person they were before taking risperidal. I hope thats not true.. Lets just hope I my withdrawals arent too bad.. | F | 16 | 1 years 1 mg 2X day | 10/11/2017 | 1 | Schizophrenia | I took Risperdal for 3 months. My teeth are now decaying fast. This is a terrible medication! | F | 37 | 3 months 2 mg | 8/9/2017 | 1 | Misdiagnosis | Nightmares, frequent waking up during sleep with a dry mouth, suicidal thoughts and actions, self-harm, loss of interest and motivation in everything I enjoyed doing previously, and a constant burning pressure feeling in head that lasted the entire duration I was on risperidone. | I was put on 2mg risperidone after I had a bad reaction after I used cannabis which had been contaminated. The next 10 months were a complete misery my sleep suffered (kept waking up and it would take ages to get back to sleep) I became suicidal and ended up in a psychiatric ward where my psychiatrist wanted to INCREASE my dose up to 4mg- what she calls a "therapeutic dose". I wanted off it so I came off it and after a few weeks off it I feel so much better I can enjoy life again and the burning feeling in my head has gone. I did not need to be on this at all and I regret not being more assertive in saying no (my social worker and a CPN were very persuasive to get me to accept the prescription). All I needed was some time for my brain to recover from the contaminated cannabis I used and I would have been fine but no apparently dishing out dangerous powerful anti-psychotics is the answer to everything. | M | 30 | 10 months 2mg 1X day | 8/7/2017 | 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 | 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 | Misdiagnosis | Suicidal thoughts, overwhelming intrusive thoughts, hallucinations, delusions, overall weakness, unbearable anxiety, flatness, unable to communicate, nausea & vomiting (during withdrawal period) | I was forced to take risperdal after nearly twenty years of being correctly diagnosed with, and subsequently treated correctly for depression / anxiety. A group of hard-headed doctors decided, after said twenty years, that I had become psychotic or was suffering from psychosis. I was forced to take the drug risperdal for a period of approximately 1 year, off and on, while experiencing side effects that I had only experienced with illicit drug use (taken in my MUCH younger days, and far in my personal past- yet, in retrospect, I'm glad I have something to relate the feeling of the forced drugs to) namely, LSD. Within a few weeks, I woke up in the morning with feelings of horror and could not function at all. I remember not being able to figure out how to function, and asking myself how to do basic things, such as eat, brush my teeth, and comb my hair. Some side effects of this drug for me were overwhelming intrusive thoughts, hallucinations, delusions, and overall weakness that became so bad I could barely get out of bed and, over a period of four months, my muscles began to atrophy. I was also overwhelmed with anxiety, and at points, I was denied anixiety medication, which often led to nausea and dry-wretching. The first time I stopped with this drug, which affected me so dreadfully, the withdrawal from it led to constant nausea. I am, in my normal state, a woman on the go, so it was embarrassing to be dry-heaving in the middle of airports. For me, this | F | 39 | 1 years 2 - 6 mg 1X day | 6/27/2017 | 3 | I have schizophrenia | Weight gain, increased anxiety and crying spells, memory loss, feeling scared all the time, feeling like people are out to get me. | I would prefer that people come out with a different product that does not increase weight gain and make people sick with crying spells everyday. | F | 23 | 12 months 2 MG 2X day | 5/28/2017 | 1 | Miss diagnosis | My struggles with risperdal is very vast and it has done nothing but take my joy for things away. It changes everything when your emotion and dopamine receptors are screwed with. Like the persons account of it before me i have the absolute same conditions. So tired and lethargic all the time and the longer your on it the eorst it gets. Not only does it physically change you by making everything in your body feel right off invluding your man hood. It makes you weak and feel fragile like some wimp and then if thats not enough your zest for life your feeling of joy and happiness is not there and its the most lonliest svariest feeling that i can imagine while the people giving it to me iv me with a smile and i complain over the top everytime they dont vare what u think not at all. How could they there taking the only feelings that make up who you are. They started giving it to me so i wouldnt get high on any drugs and put me on a high dose which is way too much but wont lower it unless i get 1p0 per cent clean for 3 months then theyll lower it slowly but i can tell they dont want me off it thats why i pushed that question last time i was there they look at it as long term treatment. So everytime i stand it goes black and dizzy most days and so tired and confused and not myself at all which makes me spiral into a obvious deppression which anyone would. When im at that point so tired and fucked up when i could be normal without it makes me so helpless in a way so i take a stimulant | M | 27 | 1 years 50 | 5/18/2017 | 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 | 4 | Schizophrenia | Side Effects: Weight gain-makes you want to eat but are never satisfied. Impotence- hard to get erection and messes with your sperm count | Overall the benefits for me far out weigh the Bad. But every med. is different for people just got to find one that has the least side effects. Very clear thinking, and a sense of peace and calmness no voices or uneasiness. I had taken this med before for 2 years the only major problem for me was weight gain. Recommend. | M | 27 | 14 days 3mg 2X day | 4/23/2017 | 1 | Volunteerly admitted myself to hosp | Extremely tired,had hard time lifting head,hard time eating and more sad.felt lifeless. | Didn't help at all but stupid psych doctor (mind you I was in hospital just due to anxiety, klonopin would have helped),made me keep taking even though I was having bad side effects.Definitely would not recommend. | F | 32 | 5 days 10mg | 4/12/2017 | 1 | Skiz | Fatigue. Lack of motivation. Flat moods eazly brused. | When I was about 23 I had a sycotic episode which then the doctors put me on the 100mg depo injection. Which was probly what I needed at the time. I don't think this drug should be long term used at all I would personally not go over a year Around that time I took up smoking sigerets because the sycittrest would not allow me to smoke weed which is what I usually smoked. Now I'm 28 and find that I'm getting bused really easy and no where near the energy I used to have. Risperadal basicly slows your whole body down to a very unhealthy rate. Iv lost a heap of mussel since first stating it whitch has caused my posture to slouch and cause bone problems. And there is the raised levels of prolactin(a hormone which is produced in high quantity a while pregnenet) it dropped my testosterone levelled to really low levels. I think the doctors start the dose level to high on most people because it is a very powerful drug. Basically if u are on this drug u will have a lot shorter life expectancy. | M | 28 | 1 years 3 | 3/18/2017 | 1 | bipolar type 1 | Irritability, headaches, nausea, tremors in my hands, severe mood swings, suicidal ideations/thoughts. | This medication landed me in the hospital. I was having a manic episode that began before taking the medication, (my thoughts were racing, I couldn't sleep, couldn't calm down) and this medication did not help with any of these symptoms. I began to feel seriously suicidal after taking the medication for three weeks. It began as visions of harming myself, then ideas I wanted to put into action. I do not reccomend this drug, especially if you experience severe mania. | F | 19 | 3 weeks 2 Mg | 2/18/2017 |