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 | DID(Dissociative Identity Disorder) | Severe Weight Gain, first night I was on it, I wet the bed. | Good for sleep. | F | 18 | 6 months | 8/26/2006 | 3 | depression | swelling of both ankles and feet,always hungry,deep sleep, | not sure if helped because i am overwhelmed with the side effects | M | 44 | 2 weeks | 8/23/2006 | 4 | Autism - aggression | 1 mg per day appeared to control 95% of his aggressive behaviour without any noticeable side effects, apart from slight weight gain. | Has been of this drug for two years, and almost like overnight it has suddenly stopped working. Increased to 2mg per day and found it to be actually counter-productive, his voilent behavour has worsened. Waiting on Dr's advice. | M | 18 | 2 years | 8/20/2006 | 5 | Manic episode due to induced trauma | Worked like a charm at first. Definitely not for long term use for me. 2 mg a day led to me being extremely agitated during daytime. An underlying restlessness-which led me to resort to anti-anxiety drugs: 20mg cipralex did not do anything. Effexor reduced the daytime restlessness/anxiousness. I did however gained too much weight. Excruciating to stop risperdal. Very difficult! O yes, I had pains in my feet every morning when woke. | It is preferably to be used for in-patients. | M | 29 | 5 months | 8/12/2006 | 1 | drug overdose-misdiagnosis | has anyone taken risperdal and gotten pregnant/had successful pregnancy? | has anyone taken risperdal and gotten pregnant/had successful pregnancy? | F | 27 | 2 months | 8/9/2006 | 4 | First Psychotic episode | Weight gain was the main side effect. | I feel a lot better after taking this medication pretty much back to my old self.But I gained about 10 kgs which was upsetting. | F | 21 | 10 months | 8/3/2006 | 3 | To help with PTSD | None yet | I just want to see what other people have to say about it | M | 28 | 1 days | 8/1/2006 | 2 | Bipolar II | Severe lightheadedness, fatigue | I started at .25 mg of this drug while in inpatient psych care. For the first few days I would faint if I stood up too quickly, and my blood pressure (very low normally) was so low that I had to have EKGs to make sure my heart was okay. My doctors thought it was helping my impulsive behavior and mania, but I didn't notice much. I went off it after a month. | F | 25 | 30 days | 7/24/2006 | 5 | schyzotypal personality disorder | drowsiness, need to sleep more than 12 hours, rather difficult to get up in the morning, lack of interrests | Help me very much after psychotic atack, decrease my racing toughts and help me again think normal. It enabled me to finish high scholl and now I am able go to work regullary also. | M | 24 | 9 months | 7/22/2006 | 1 | schizophrenia | Increased intrusive thoughts, extreme agitation | The agitation was so extreme i could not do anything but rock and pace around. It led me to a hellish state and with an increase in intrusive thoughts. i stopped after 7 days after being prescribed valium and finding even this did not stop the agitation. | M | 34 | 7 days | 7/15/2006 | 1 | Dr.s wanted my money | I felt tired all the time. Too tired to be depressed. I guess that's how they consider this a successful drug. You just don't feel anything anymore. But you don't feel better either. Your head is full of clouds. | Reading all the rave reviews about this drup I couldn't help but wonder if they had been paid by the manufacturer. I was put on this junk at 16. That was over 5 years ago when this was a relatively new drug. Admittedly I don't know how long this has been on the market but I do know that it hadn't been properly tested on young people. As such it should never have been marketed to children. And the reason I was given this was because I complained about bullies at school. Don't do anything to improve my situation at school, just put me on drugs to shut me up. If this drug helps you, fine. But if you've been given a prescription know that it will not help if there are conditions in your life that are making you miserable. It won't stop the bullies, the abusive parent, etc. I told them the drugs weren't working and they wouldn't listen. I asked them to re-evalute my diagnosis and aknowledge that were factors in my life (not chemicals in my head) that were making me miserable. Being tormen | F | 24 | 1 years | 7/14/2006 | 2 | To augment my Antidepressant | Not sure that I noticed anything significant | Did not help to improve either my anxiety or depression. | M | 54 | 1 years | 6/30/2006 | 1 | schizophrenia | Risperdal linked to Tardive Dyskinesia or Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. | M | 29 | | 6/30/2006 | 1 | Anxiety | Side effects while taking risperdal: drowsiness, decreased speech and word retrieval problems, stiffness. Side effects while tapering off risperdal: jaw (chewing) movements, tremors, panic attacks, facial grimacing, ringing in ears, abnormal movements in arms and legs. Side effects started calming down toward end of taper but jaw movements have still not gone away. | Risperdal did not help reduce my anxiety. It initially caused insomnia but at higher doses just the opposite - hard to stay awake. This is a nasty drug to withdraw from - I started quitting after only four months on risperdal from a dose of 1 mg per day. I was tapered off by ten percent weekly increments over ten weeks, and the withdrawal side effects, especially the movements, have been frightening to me. | M | 17 | 6 months | 6/28/2006 | 1 | not sure, diagnosis PTSD and ADD | SEVERE weight gain (50lbs. in 3 months), sleep most of day, possible seizures, dissociation, out of body experiences, mood swings, concentration problems, depression, increase in SI after quiting for long time | My doctor also put me on Topamax for the weight gain which didn't even put a dent in it and i was excersizing every day and ate a lot which was needed for how much excersize i was doing. She would not take me off of it and insisted i was schizo. I got 2 opinions from 2 different docs and the only similar thing was ADHD. My current doc says i also have PTSD but now i am off all meds and succeeding in school, and losing some of the weight i gained. DO NOT trust doctors to put you on tihs medication especially if you are a minor because they do not consider your misery from side effects. But hey if it helps you, it helps you. My whole personality changed while i was on it also and drug use began. | F | 16 | 3 months | 6/22/2006 | 2 | bipolar I | RAVENOUS, constant hunger that overwhelms all logic and makes it impossible to think about anything else. muscle stiffness, intense headaches. paranoia. makes it difficult to distiniguish night-time dreams from reality. i had a dream about my own death and was unable to know this was a dream and awoke in a state of terror. scary drug. | side effects too disabling | F | 21 | 3 days | 6/18/2006 | 2 | bipolar, depression | I have been taking Effexor for many years before starting this drug. After taking this drug for one year, I am having problem with concentration at work. Fail to pay attention to details. Missing instructions. For a programmer, this is very bad. Lack of sex desire. Even Viagra does not help. This is at 0.5 mg level. | This drug is supposed to balance my mood, so I do not lose control when depression kicks in. The drug does that. I must switch to another medicine. | M | 57 | 1 years | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 2 w/borderline tendencies | extremely calm and drugged when first taken at night before bed (might regret something you say to someone) | All I can say is eventhough I've only been taking this for a week, I know its the right drug for me. I am currently on Concerta, Celexa, and Klonopin- and none of them stopped my nightly suicidal thoughts, my self harm, and my moodiness. I would be extremely irritable and have weird thoughts but now I feel like I'm back to my old self. I am no longer afraid of when my next mood swing will hit because if I don't have a reason to become irritable- then it won't come! Before this drug, I would just get irritable every other hour but I feel like this drug is great! I'm just scared about the weight loss... | F | 19 | 1.5 weeks | 5/31/2006 | 4 | Tourette's Syndrome | Ejaculation problems, low sex drive, breast enlargement, erectile dysfunction, 100lbs. weight gain in first year, panic-like states | Very effective at controlling TS in me. I'd say 80% reduction in tics, with dose at 3mg/daily (1mg x 3). Now switching to Seroquel in attempt to escape side-effects. I'm told I actually tolerate this medication VERY well. | M | 25 | 5 years | 5/26/2006 | 3 | manic depression | F | 27 | 6 months | 5/21/2006 |