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 |
| 2 | Chronic Insomnia/paraniod phycosis | 2 half stone weight gain 4mg a night + taking venlafaxine 225mg night + 5mg nitrazipam<>groggy in the morning<>just need more sleep pls doctor | it gets me about 5 hours asleep a night, ive tryed uping the dose, still can only get 5 hours sleep, which means my brain dosent get any rest still leading to paraniod delusions ( cant cope with that ) dont like the weight gain at all... tryed my best asking the doctor to change my medication, no result. still suffering after 5 years ( not happy ) wish i could get 8 hours sleep, if only | M | 37 | 5 days | 1/13/2007 | 3 | Schitzotypal PD | Tired all of the time, troubles getting up in the morning. Lack of ejaculate during sex. | I've had to go up to 6 mg a day as stress in my life increased. It helps with psychotic episodes, but the side effects are difficult. I frequently have orgasms without ejaculate. If I go 20-24 hrs without it I can ejaculate, so turn around is quick, but it's a difficult trade off. | M | 32 | 7 years | 1/12/2007 | 1 | nervous breakdown caused by PTSD | extreme nervousness, paranoia, felt like a zombie due to sleeping difficulty, inability to focus on simple tasks, frequent panic attacks | i would strongly recomend a through and correct diagnosos before taking this drug. I was forced to take this during a 4 day hospital stay without being told what it was commonly used for, I assumed it was another antidepressant. This drug was very difficult to withdraw from for me. Once I got this out of my system and got back on my regular antidepressant I was much better but it took some time. | F | 45 | 2 months | 1/3/2007 | 4 | bi-polar mixed | Lactation, acne, weight gain, increased menstral periods, not wanting sex at all! | well.... I am on 3 meds not sure which is causing what...Geodon, lamictal, and risperdal.... feel the same before I started taking it so not sure what it has done for me.. | F | 25 | 1 months | 1/1/2007 | 4 | znxiety | none | 28 days | 12/31/2006 | 1 | asshole | Loose interest in sex, eatting when you're not hungry, inability to wake up and start a new day, blunting of emotions and slowing of cognitive abilities. | If you're ill, then this may shut you up, and make you seem better, but likely at the cost of an acquired depression. It's a toss-up I guess. | M | 19 | 800 days | 12/25/2006 | 1 | Psychosis involved with depression | Extrapyramidal symptoms (Tremors), Weight gain, Decrease in Libido | I took Risperdal for 5 months, having just gone off of it within the past month. The medication caused me to gain 30 pounds and i suffered from twitches, normally in my eyes, but also occurred throughout my body. | M | 18 | 5 months | 12/24/2006 | 4 | depression/anxiety with obsessions | well the first four days I felt dizzy and felt like I was floating on a cloud.Then on the fifth day I started seeing results. I am taking it with paxil 60 mg. Risperdal is being used to augment paxil | I am crossing my fingers and hope I continue to get better | F | 40 | 7 days | 12/22/2006 | 1 | Nightmares | TARDIVE DYSKENSIA! MEMORY LOSS! BRAIN DAMAGE! DEMENTIA! BEWARE! | I posted several years ago about this same drug. My Mother is now 63 years old and has had a battery of tests done. Sad to see a lady so young with no zest for life left? She will have to go into a home soon I am afraid? | F | 63 | 3 years | 12/21/2006 | 1 | Nightmares | TARDIVE DYSKENSIA! MEMORY LOSS! BRAIN DAMAGE! DEMENTIA! BEWARE! | I posted several years ago about this same drug. My Mother is now 63 years old and has had a battery of tests done. Sad to see a lady so young with no zest for life left? She will have to go into a home soon I am afraid? | F | 63 | 5 years | 12/21/2006 | 5 | Schizophrenia | Risperdal Consta 37.5mg (fortnightly) - Initial tiredness which got better after a few weeks, some weight gain (5–10 pounds) | been well for 3 years on this drug, it gave me a chance to get my life back together after being in and out of hospital for 2 years due to not taking tablets. One good point is you're not reminded that you need to take medication every day like you are with tablets | M | 25 | 3.5 years | 12/20/2006 | 3 | Autism "Spectrum" | Weight gain, and after 10 months, uncontrolled movements in body and stomach pains. | While it approached something like a cure for much of my son's problems, and adults he knows could see him opening up ( connecting ) and being able to listen and do as opposed to ignore and fly into outrageous behaviors, we are stopping the medication ( gradually ) due to involuntary movements, which we pray will go away. For those that have left judgmental criticism towards those in choosing this drug, I empathize with their motivation, but, it is a very personal thing to have to decide if your child can go to school and have friends, or if he lives in torment, being constantly rejected due to the outrageous behavior of autism. I will not be able to forgive myself if his TD does not go away, but we were watchful, and stopped as soon as we noticed it. I now gear myself up once again to being hit and kicked regularly and having to "help" him do basic things that he believes he cannot do by himself. Before this med he would never smile a friendly smile or wave hello an | M | 6 | 10 months | 12/18/2006 | 1 | psychosis | Drowsiness, libido reduced to nothing, difficulty becoming sexually-aroused, weak erection when I'm able to become aroused, very very weak orgasms | Everything downstairs was working fine until I started taking this drug. Now, things don't work right. It sucks. Big time. I would strongly recommed that any males out there stay far far far away from Risperdal. | M | 32 | 1.75 months | 12/16/2006 | 1 | mood stabilization | major weight gain, extreme fatigue | I have been working out for fifty minnnutes each day and watching what I eat, but have still gained thrity pounds, I am switching back to geodon and wish that I had never switched in the first place, it was a large mistake. | F | 28 | 2 months | 12/12/2006 | 1 | Depression, Generalized Anxiety | Memory loss, drowsiness, breast enlargement, lactation, Emephilia, nerve damage, weight gain. | I went from a typical, flat chested teenage male, to obese with a B-cup breast. I GREW TITTIES!!! I also lost most of my memory and manual dexterity due to "Long term side effects" (By that, my shrink meant "Permanate Brain Damage"), I was misdiagnosed and over medicated with 6mg of the medication (The safest maximum is 5mg). To date the only side effects that actually have gone away are the drowsiness, lactation, and weight gain. I have to wear overly baggy clothing to hide my bustline, which mind you I shouldn't have because I'm a 20 year old man. I personally vindicated myself from the medication, and I've never been happier. Omega 3 acids and Vitamins B3 and B12 are a safer and more efective cure... No, wait! I didn't say that! I meant... I mean treatment! Yeah... Treatment. | M | 20 | 6 years | 12/7/2006 | 3 | bipolar2 and borderline | extremely tired and weight gain | Initially, I loved this medication (I even wrote a rating on here during the first week on it and gave it a 5) but within 2 weeks I had gained 12 pounds and could not get the weight off even when I stopped taking risperdal. I liked it because I could take it before bed and it would knock me out, no suicidal thoughts or reflections of the day that put me in a bad mood. But the weight gain is NOT worth it to me. I am bipolar and only use this (.5mg or 1mg) when I am hypomanic because Wellbutrin makes my mania 100 times worse. However, taking Risperdal for a week recently, 5 pounds were gained that I had lost from Wellbutrin. Good drug if your not concerned with weight gain | F | 20 | 3 months | 12/3/2006 | 1 | Have severe sleep disorder. | kept awake for the four days I consented to try it (as alternative to haldol and depakote) for sleep disorder misdxed as "chronic paranoid schizophrenia" by idiotic Russian "psychiatrist" in hospital where I was kept awake for 11 days by having my B/P monitored every 45 mins during the night and a flashlight shined in my face. Takingmy BP always caused the BP machine continuously to go into error as my BP was so low. Refusal to take the haldol/depakote medication resulted in calling "security" which forcfully and brutally hold you down and shoot you up with it. NYC Land of Wealth Care providers. Mt. Sinai Hospital. Turned me loose with free coupon for respirdol to replace other medication. Just like street drug dealers. . .the first one is free. Hopefully it kills the patient. | I wouldn't even pour it down the sewer for fear of poisoning some rats. I would, however, be willing to forcefeed it to all the "psychiatrists" on the planet who think of themselves as giving you "treatment" for a condition you do not have. | F | 60 | 4 days | 11/28/2006 | 2 | schizo affective disorder | mild weight gain, sexual disfunction, problems with ejaculation, tiredness | for over a year i have been on depot injection 50mg , additionally i was administered oral 2mg 6 months ago that went down to 1mg 2 months ago. it helped me a lot with delusions and decreased the intensity of inner voices and halucinations. within 6 months i gained around 1.5 stone. the problem with ejaculation started since i was administered the oral risperdone. | M | 22 | 1 years | 11/24/2006 | 3 | adhd, odd, possible bipolar | My son gained about 30 pounds in a little over a year, and he started getting large breasts. He is also very thirsty all of the time, wants to eat all day long. | I worry about the long term side effects it will have on his body. We are in the process of taking him off of it, of course Doctor tries to talk us out of it. | M | 8 | 3 days | 11/13/2006 | 4 | Asperger's Syndrome | Extrapyramidal movements, erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, lethargy, gynecomastia, weight gain | Works wonderfully for autism related symptoms. After 8 years of use got extrapyramidal movements that disappeared after Inderal added to the mix. Weight gain was 35KG over the decade and only lost after a intensive phase on a VLCD. Lethargy a killer (but not as bad as Seroquel). Gynecomastia embarrassing as a teenager but tolerable. Sexual issues crippling now. Any parent considering starting their autistic child on this medication needs to seriously evaluate the pros and cons of this drug, even if side effects may not manifest until later in life. | M | 25 | 10 years | 11/9/2006 |