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 | CP - hyperactiviy & aggresstion | 4 yrs. on 1 mg. Risperdal. Increased from twice a day to 5mg. daily in divided doses. Instead of impriving hyperactivity, it has increased with more aggression. It's only because of the school, that I haven't taken my daughter off the medication and looked into more natural means of control of her behaviour. | My daughter now has skin discoloration on her lower limbs. She has been seen by 2 different specialists (vascular and dermatologist) with dx. and a possible medication side affect. | F | 21 | 4 years | 3/28/2007 | 1 | BP | Man BOOBS?? Not good for the guys. I also couldn't stop pacing while standing, taping my heal while sitting and I still felt depressed. | Resperdal and Lexapro didn't work for me. My doctor switched me to one med Seroquel 300mg w/in a week and it seems to be working A LOT better for both my depression and aggitation! Time will tell ... | M | 40 | 3 months | 3/27/2007 | 4 | Severe depression, insomnia | Vivid dreams, no ability to orgasm, weight gain, night sweats, back pain, nasal congestion | This medication killed my suicicidal thoughts, but 2 months was plenty - I couldn't stand the side effects! It DID help me sleep and pulled me out of a place I didn't think I could be pulled out of. Good, for the short term. | F | 31 | 2 months | 3/26/2007 | 1 | Psychosis | Increased confusion, paranoia, not being able to sit still, took more risperdal and landed up in the ER hallucinating and agitated. Now stopped drug and very tired, had trouble speaking, eating, walking ect. | F | 66 | 6 months | 3/26/2007 | 3 | schizophrenia | At 3 mg mental and physical numbness, a lowering of libido, sedation, and put on 4 kg. At 2.5 mg some of my feelings started to return and the physcial numbness was alleviated however the mental numbness was still evident. Libido started to return. | Risperidal, at 2.5 mg (I am a 75kg male)was an excellent drug for eliminating the voices, hallucinations and delusions. It did make me feel somewhat of a mental nothingness, a numbness, that was unsettling. | M | 32 | 4.5 months | 3/25/2007 | 2 | bipolar | At first, none. It seemed to work great, helped my anxiety a lot. My manic episodes were much better. Then it just slowly crept up on me, I gained weight, I started sleeping more and needing more and more sleep, wound up feeling like a zombie. I was on 2 mg for a few months. My doc stopped me cold turkey two days ago and I'm in hell. Facial grimacing, a constant feeling of tension in my body, I feel as though I want to get out of my own skin. I self injured which is NOT like me at all. I'm scared, I want it out of me. I am being switched to Abilify. | F | 41 | 4 months | 3/9/2007 | 3 | dissoc, fragmentation, high anxiety | it helped at first and i thought i had found a miracle drug. i went through a period of dissociation/fragmentation due to extreme anxiety and inability to tolerate my emotions. After some time it flattened me out and i had no emotions at all.no interest in anything. i just wanted to sleep to escape. i wake up in terror and when i reduced it this decreased but i still have it. i'm not sure what it is doing and what it is causing anymore. also weight gain. i was on 1 mg at night and .75 during the day. i'm totally confused and lost as to who i am. it's causes a foggy cloudy feeling. most importantly led to a severe depression that when i lowered it lightened up. i had suicidal thoughts all day long and i felt this torment feeling in my mind. i also feel something happening with my blood sugar and will need to get a test next week. | i am so confused as to whether i should raise it or lower it and it's hard to find any good help from doctors. it worked at first when my symptoms were severe but then something changed. the first month i would've rated this a 5 but over the last month i would give it a 1 or 2. the severe depression was related as it lightened up immediately when i decreased it. the blood sugar feels off. i wake up in terror and it feels chemical to me (if you know what i mean). if anyone else has these experiences please email me! | F | 39 | 4 months | 3/3/2007 | 5 | social phobia / depression | Altered Ejaculation | This stuff is a miracle drug. I feel like a different person. I only wish I had found it 20 years ago. | M | 58 | 1 months | 3/1/2007 | 1 | misdiagnosed with schizo effective | weight gain, nerve damage, walking through peasoup, lose of flexibility, memory loss... | I heard later it is in the process of being linked to osteoporosis and the onset of alzheimers. | F | 34 | 6 years | 2/21/2007 | 1 | she really didnt say i have pdsd | well i wasnt taking anything but elivil,then she gave me this med 3mg x2 a day and i woke up with my couch on fire,caught it early put it out,thank god i always sleep with water by my side then my eyes felt weird and half hr latter looked in the mirror and my eyes are so swollen and right arm hurts bad | i was on this before but only 2mg a day nothing like this ever happened,but i did sleep heavy,alot,hadn't had sleep for a long time becouse of all the things going on in my life right now but id rather be a nut case then caught on fire from smoking and nodding out like that and the swollen eyes arn't pretty | F | 43 | 1 days | 2/21/2007 | 1 | head pain and ocd | lactation, completely destroyed my sex drive...a year after discontinuation have 0 sex drive and erectile dysfunction...complete erectile dysfunction i can't even get an erection anymore | this drug is complete poison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risperidone look at all the side effects if you give this to your son or daughter you should be shot...this will completely destroy them just give them good nutrtition and b-vitamin complex maybe even b12-shots...I want to sue I have no f*kin sex drive anymore and I'm only 22 im trying to get it back after a month on an organic diet but nothing has worked yet...don't believe the success stories its all bs who ever writes them..I took up to 4mg by the way | M | 22 | 5 months | 2/16/2007 | 2 | Chronic Insomnia/Schizophrenia | i was on 4mg a night, plus 225 venlafaxine, also 5mg nitrazepam a night, risperdal just made be gain loads of weight,,,still had loads of delusions at times and could never sleep, | my last comments on this drug is that the only side affect that i got was weight gain at about 3 stone over weight, ( no other side affects... currently changeing my meds for other antphycotic ( gulp ) | M | 37 | 5 years | 2/10/2007 | 1 | Bi Polar Disorder | Lack of motivation, loss of emotions, weight gain, severe fatigue, premature ejaculation. | This stuff just made me a zombie, my family suffered, I can not get enough sleep, I gained 40 pounds. I have no desire to do anything, not even care for my kids. I no longer do things that interest me. I would rather be bipolar and be happy half of the time instead of having no mood all of the time. This drug is OK if you don't want a life and just want to be a docile sheep. I wouldn't recommend this drug to anything other than a manic depressed convict on death row. | M | 27 | 7 months | 2/8/2007 | 1 | SAD and mood swings(so i thought) | weight gain after 1 month of use, fat face | i still take the prozac but i quit this stuff after a month. after researching SAD, the mood swings i thought i had weren't mood swings. they were up and downs, good and bad days of SAD. having a bloated feeling and eating more than i did when i used to get stoned is not for me. i am starting to look like a little buddha. no thanks last night was it. i will take the prozac by itself and see how it works. do research on your own in addition to therapy because doctors don't know everything going on in our minds. good luck and watch out for the munchies | M | 26 | 1 months | 2/6/2007 | 3 | hallucinations/delusions | constant hunger, extremely vivid dreams, unable to tell whether or not something was a dream or reality, and my nose was stuffy and burning like the air was dry, but nobody else had this problem. (the nose thing only lasted for a few nights, now I'm over it.) | I haven't really noticed any definite changes yet, and I'm still having hallucinations/delusions. But it's only been a little over a week, so I'm hopeful it will start to work. For some it takes several weeks to see results. | F | 17 | 10 days | 1/30/2007 | 2 | sleep/achizophrenia | weight gain, 30 lbs. in a little over a month, also bloating, and constipation, also raised my sugar diabetes level | it help me sleep but who wants the side effects | F | 44 | 45 days | 1/29/2007 | 3 | I was very angry and upset | I took them for 2 years and i was very dizzy and tired. When i stopped taking then it was a new world for me. | It help a bit on the tics but not enough. When i stoppes used risperdal i got lots off tics så i started at a new medicin. | F | 16 | 2 years | 1/25/2007 | 5 | Schizoaffective Disorder | I had some severe back and muscle pain in the very beginning. I was hospitalized and almost unable to walk at first but the doctor prescribed some cogentin to go along with the risperdal and it controled the pain. Eventually I was able to go off the congentin and the pain went away on its own. I still have some minor tightening of the jaw muscles and grind my teeth at times but the benefits much outweigh the side effects. | I have been on Risperdal for 4 years now. I am currently on 4 mgs. My delusions are gone and my rages are all but gone. I am a much more content and amiable a person on the medication. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I've been stable and out of the hospital for 4 years now. | F | 43 | 4 years | 1/20/2007 | 1 | Bi-polar, anxiety | Tardive Dyskenenisia, Spasmodic Dysphonia, Absurd Weight Gain +100 lbs in 3 years, Stoke, Brain Damage, Aphasia | You are better off insane! Try meditation and God. I am off all psychiatric drugs after 18 years of psychiatric slavery. I have larygeal spasms all the time, can't speak - it is miserable. Never was warned of the toxic side effects. I see my friends going taking neuroleptics without being advised about the side effects either. It is all about money and the drug companies. They couldn't care less about the lives ther are destroying. Angry, angry, angry. | F | 40 | 3 years | 1/16/2007 | 5 | Psychosis/anxiety | gained 60 pounds in the first 2 months | The medicine completely cured my psychotic episodes, and I am now off of it and doing well. | F | 17 | 8 months | 1/15/2007 |