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 | Having a vivid imagination | Turned me into a zombie. The mechanism of action of these drugs is by suppressing all though! That is how psychiatric drugs work. You cannot only some things, you have to supress everything. This drug is very effective at turning you into a zombie with no feelings, imagination, though pattern or anything. Took this when I was 9, luckily only for 60 days though. Probably still have some damage from it. | Drugs used to turn happy children into zombies. Psychiatry is bullshit. | M | 9 | 60 days 1X day | 10/5/2013 | 3 | Selfharm/anxiety | Sleep weight gain paranoia drained zombie like behavior bpd.... I'm 14 and I started this drug in a mental hospital (I attempted suicide). At first I was sleeping all day and feeling sick but that side effect wears off. I gained thirteen pounds in. The first week but I have been working out and have lost weight since then. I also take other meds so if any be positive every side effect is from this. I went one night without this drug and I've been up every two hours... This sucks it's 5 am I just wanna go to bed | F | 14 | 4 weeks 1mg | 9/29/2013 | 1 | Been diagnosed as bipolar 1 | I used to be very energetic and lively person full of flair and energy for life. Since I am taking this drug I am boring, speech less, cannot come up with anything interesting to say, cannot regain my fitness, lost my creativity, it is also slowing down my metabolism, life seems empty and worthless. I even lost interest in my beloved children whom I know are the biggest treasure in my life yet I cannot express this. | Horrible drug, should be taken off the market and the company producing should be sued. | M | 39 | 10 months 12.5mg 2X M | 9/22/2013 | 1 | Bpd | Never again touch this even at 1mg so so sedating can't shower for 3 days until drug leaves my system completely mind so foggy couldn't even drink fluids or a have a cup of tea I was sleeping around the clock dreadful drug for light weighted person I certainly won't be willing to take in future | F | 26 | 1 weeks 1mg | 9/17/2013 | 4 | Bipolar I | I gained 13 lbs in 2 weeks although I worked out 4 x a week, and I ate less than 1700 calories a day, sometimes only 1200. | My symptoms greatly improved. I am thinking clearer and sleeping. However I gained 13 lbs in 2 weeks! My ankles, and legs are swollen like tree trunks. | F | 43 | 15 days 2 mg 1X day | 6/18/2013 | 4 | Schizophrenia | M | 42 | 8 years 1mg 1X day | 6/2/2013 | 3 | ssri induced mood swings, paranoia | Started on 0.5mg which increased symptoms I was trying to avoid- on the first night I would have shot myself if I had had a gun. Had to begin with 0.25mg. Feeling irritable, more hungry and foggy. Finding it harder to exercise in the gym and worried I won't be able to loose weight and increase my self-esteem on this drug. Stretch marks, burning sensation on hips. | Anxiety much much better, less depressed and able to reduce my ssri. Mood swings and paranoia seem to be triggered by starting and increasing this drug! I will give it some more time as I am so much calmer but because of potential unwanted effects may ask for a change or go to back to 0.25mg as I expect my recovery to include peace of mind. | F | 38 | 21 days 0.5mg 1X day | 5/1/2013 | 1 | A witch that cursed me | weight gain(40kg) 1year Slurred speach, Can`t write, can bearly walk, can`t remember mom or dad or any thing from school, no thought pattern when I speak! | HORRIBLE drug!!! Life has been horror on this. Lost my job. All friends. Welfare. Weightgain, scared of people now,can bearly walk,layed in bed all day for 5 years, Lost my entire life! People were out partying and getting girls while I was in bed!! Gave up on life! Crying all day in bed! Waiting to die! Asking GOD to let me die. | M | 33 | 5 years 37,5 2X M | 4/17/2013 | 2 | Schzioeffective Bipolar I | Oversleeping (12 hours), Weight Gain, Lethargic and Antisocial. | Its is unfortunate that I have endured the negative side effects that I have on Risperidal, for it has taken away my halluscinations and racing/obsessive thoughts. I plan on switching off of risperidal soon, because of the intense oversleeping (12 hours) I experience and the great burden it causes me. | M | 31 | 5 months 3 mg 1X day | 4/11/2013 | 2 | Tourettes | Tiredness, bodily tired, feeling like 10 hours of sleep is not enough | M | 18 | 4 weeks 2 | 3/22/2013 | 1 | anxiey, insomnia | Was put on this in the mental hospital, self check in due to very high anxiety levels, no sleep and panic attacks. I just wanted relief, hate I ever took this drug. It made me emotionless (still haven't fully got that back), it worked on the insomnia but I felt like I had to think before I talked, slurred words and felt like I was in a dream. Both ring fingers on both hands drew up in my sleep at the same time, second time ring finger on left hand drew up and pinky was turned outward. Spasm in neck and sore calf muscles like I lifted weights. When I left home going to check in I cried like a baby but when I got back no emotion of happiness. So not me. | F | 43 | 4 days .25 | 3/18/2013 | 1 | Schizophrenia | extreme weight gain, hungry all the time, very bad flaking dandruff, no libido | I have been on Risperdal for 15 years. I just accepted the side effects for what they were and didn't think about it too much. I have tried to diet with limited success. I am sick of feeling hungry and sick of gaining weight so I am changing meds under doctor supervision. This is a horrible drug and should be taken off the market. The side effects are not worth it. If you want to gain weight, have an itchy scalp every waking hour, lose interest in the opposite sex completely. Also feel doped up all the time and sleep a lot. My advice: Choose a better medication than this one. I now have to somehow lose 55 kilos after I get off this terrible drug! | F | 38 | 15 years 6mg 1X day | 3/18/2013 | 5 | Bipolar II | This medicine has decreased my anger level tremendously. I can now function like a normal person. | F | 42 | 90 days 2 mg 1X day | 3/16/2013 | 3 | psychosis | experienced loss of interest in things i used to be interested it; life became less interesting because of it. can't enjoy music the way i used to for example. i also dont get excited when my boyfriend contacts me the way i used to. difficult living this way. switched to geodon 11 days ago and still feeling the same way | F | 23 | 5 months 2mg 2X day | 3/14/2013 | 1 | Schizophrenia | Unnatural amount of lethargy . total zombie | It's an awful substance. Places you in such powerfully lethargic stupor, you lose all your bearings to function meaningfully in life | M | 42 | 1 months 1mg 1X day | 3/2/2013 | 3 | tourettes | tiredness | M | 18 | 30 days 2 1X day | 2/26/2013 | 1 | Bipolar I | Night sweats, no emotions, fatigue, crying a lot, irritable, anxious | F | 41 | 2 days 2mg | 2/25/2013 | 2 | bipolar mania | Lactadid | F | 41 | 1 months .25 | 2/10/2013 | 1 | Psychosis | Blunted emotions, no passion, zombie like feeling, frequent urination,25 pound weight gain, slow thinking, loss of sex drive, dry eye, loss of motivation, longer sleep, high prolactin (4x), high cholesterol, low white blood cell, heart arythmia, jaw tightness. Personality became more low key. | I studied this drug alot and recommend it only be taken for short term use. It interferes with your neurotransmitters and causes brain shrinkage in your frontal lobe (animal studies). When you stop taking it there are terrible side effects like restless movement(akisthesia), sleep disturbance, emotional fluctuations, and tardive psychosis. Some people get psychosis because of withdrawing rather than from an underlying condition. The brain has so many additional dopamine neurons, that when you stop it you get extreme dopamine levels (like with psychosis). Be extremely careful and always do your own research. | M | 46 | 10 years 1-3mg 1X day | 2/3/2013 | 5 | Bipolar I | Seem to be holding water weight, but have gained 5 lbs. I'm on weight watchers and keep to my points so it's hard to see the 5 lbs. | Abilify combined with Zoloft gave the unpleasant side effect of sweating profusely. Zoloft by itself didn't do it, but the psychiatrist said Zoloft would be the culprit and for some reason the combination of Abilify and Zoloft caused awful sweating. At night I'd sleep with towels, not sheets. I couldn't stand it any longer and was switched to Risperdal. I like it so far. I take it at night and sleep well. Some perspiration, but nothing like it was on Abilify. I started at 0.5mg and was increased to 1mg at night. It hasn't affected my sex drive in a negative way. | F | 41 | 4 weeks 1mg po qhs 1X day | 1/25/2013 |