Risperidone mg
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her doctor prescribed risperdone (1 mg). she has recently had a fall. for the past 4 days she has been experiencing stiffness of the muscles and loss of appetite. i wondered if this is due to the med or from the fall?
thanks buddy I told my friend to have 1 mg risperidone for 4 days and then 0.5 mg for 4 days and stop it.I also came down from 1.5 mg risperidone to 0.5 mg the same way without much withdrawl syptoms and he agreed.My Pdoc was out of town so a pharmacist told me to reduce it this way.Now I plan to stop my risperdal in 4 days time.
In India Risperidone comes as a liquid called Sizodon where 1 ml contains 1 mg and it is dispensed with a dropper which contains a marking for 1 ml and 0.5 ml.Someone told me that for tapering you got to take 0.5mg for a few days and 0.25 mg for a few days before stopping Risperidone totally which I intend to do as even my Pdoc thinks I can be maintained only on Tegretol.Only problem he is out of town till 25th and he wanted a very slow tapering which I did not agree to.
My question is on tapering risperidone how long does one need to taper risperidone from a dose of 1mg to 0.5mg in days or weeks?.
I am really happy today.Yesterday I took my last dose of Risperidone which I had been taking since the past four months and which had been tapered off by my Pdoc .I never liked this med which had numerous side effects of which I experienced some,thankfully not the worst ones.I will now only have to take my mood stabilizer which I have been taking for a number of years.
Have you explained this symptom to your doctor?
Hi Adel I took 3 mg for a month and it tired me a lot.Right now I am on 0.5 mg and 6 days away from stopping Risperidone totally.After that comes the harder part of tapering Xanax from 0.75 mg to Zero over 6 weeks as suggested by my Pdoc(reducing it by 0.125 mg per week)(1/2 tablet of 0.25 mg).How did you taper Xanax?.Please let me know.Thanks.
About one month ago, my energy has been reduced.I haven’t patience to do any working. Evrey Morning I'm napping up to 11 o’clock. I am taking paroxetine 20 mg, Depakine 200 mg and Risperidone 1mg. tell me what can I do to solve this problem?
About one month ago, my energy has been reduced.I haven’t patience to do any working. Evrey Morning I'm napping up to 11 o’clock. I am taking paroxetine 20 mg, Depakine 200 mg and Risperidone 1mg. tell me what can I do to solve this problem?
Hi I had been on Risperidone 1 mg for a year. I left it, and went cold turkey. Now the only problem I am facing right now is Insomnia. Can anybody tell me, how long this can go like this.
Hi,in my case my Pdoc has withdrawn me gradually from Risperidone from 3 mg to 0.5 mg over 8 weeks and from 1 mg to 0.5 mg over 2 weeks yet I am having these anxiety symptoms which I did not have prior to starting Risperidone which was started for a manic/hypomanic episode in July.I am Ok and am on Tegretol as a mood stabilizer and encountered plenty of side effects from Risperdal like lethargy,dullness so He decided to take it off me.I wonder how long this will go on.
The doctor put me on risperidone in Feb because I was going through a difficult time and can not take anitdepressents. I made decision to get off of it and came to the realization that I have become dependent on it. I was taking it twice a day @ .5 mg. The doctor said to take it down to once a day and this is when I realized after 20 hours without meds that my body and mind became dependent. I started to shake and anxiety went through the roof. An hour after I took one I was calm again.
I am in full blown withdrawal from risperidone and my psychiatrist is out of town.I got side effects(involuntary movements) so had to quit.My doc will be back 4 days from now.Any suggestions.
Doctor tried to up the dosage for Solian, it made me feel constricted again like the Risperidone and doctor suggested I try Risperidone again. This time, the same dosage as the last year, 2 mg Risperidone, made me feel okay and I began a new period, with a new job...I was also switched on Prozac(fluoxetine) 20mg and it worked fine for a while. I did a stupid thing, took 5 pills of Prozac because I was bored, wanted to use them sort of as drugs and I ended up hospitalized again...
I started to take invega because risperidone was making me gain a lot of weight. I changed but I can't lose that weight. I was already taking sertraline I still take it. I stopped having my period when on invega and Pregnancy is not on the table already done the test. Can anyone help me?
Please do not stop Risperidone cold turkey.Please remain at the dose he is taking for next 2 weeks and see his Psychiatrist and she will taper it down or replace it with a medication called Clozaril if it is Tardive.Most likely it could be a temporary movement disorder called Akithisia which will go away once Risdone is stopped.Stopping Risperidone cold turkey can provoke an awful withdrawal syndrome or return of original symptoms so wait till you see his new doc.
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