So I decided to stick with my first practitioner as I don’t want to come off risperidone since I’m hopeful it will help with voices. For those who’ve been on it what are your experiences with risperidone? I’m on 2mg & they’re not letting up. I need to hear something hopeful. These voices kick my butt. I’m not worried about the side effects since not hearing voices is better than anything at this point.
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I was on risperidone multiple times and it never helped my voices. That’s just my experience
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Two thoughts for you, one immediate and one long-term:
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Do you have any grounding exercises you can do or any calming rituals? Your positive symptoms will ramp up as your stress level ramps up. Any thing you can do to calm yourself some will help dial back the voices and how they affect you.
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I strongly recommend looking into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It is something that doesn’t reduce your voices so much as change how you react to them. Years of CBT have given me the ability to mostly shrug my voices off. I still need meds, but I’m on a very lose does.
Hope this helps! (And welcome to the community.)
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I listen to headphones when I can to drown out the noise. It helps. I try to sleep as much as possible as that’s the only time I’m not hearing anything. I’ve heard CBT helps a lot. I’ve just recently started therapy so hopefully I get some good coping techniques going. I’m really hoping medication helps. The visuals have gone away almost completely but I’m stuck hearing voices, phones, sirens etc. & thank you for the warm welcome!
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Just please be careful with that - the hearing damage piles up over time.
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Will do. Sometimes the music gets stuck & I continue hearing it afterwards so I’ve cut back on it but it helped there for a bit
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2mgs is a smaller dose. Most find that you need to go up or down on meds as time goes by. Just the nature of the disorder and the meds themselves. Keep your doc in the loop and hope you get a bit of relief. Risperdal isn’t a bad starting med for a lot of people so you need to give it at least 6 weeks or so to see genuine effects.
I think I’ll be increased to 3mg next week. My dr seems to be increasing my dose 1mg every month until I see results. I hope her plan is effective. So far I haven’t had relief on low doses but I do like risperidone. Haven’t had any bad side effects as of yet.
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What voices do you hear?
Stay on your meds and you will improve
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All kinds. Mostly blasphemous. They say things about Jesus, they call me stupid. They say they’ll be here for the rest of my life (which I’m hoping isn’t true) They’re abusive in nature. I started out hearing one - two voices & as time progressed I now hear dozens at a time. It’s exhausting. I used to be healthy & active & that’s all changed since hearing voices. I mostly lay in bed now as I’ve fallen into depression from all the hallucinations. I never minded the visuals & they’re mostly gone now. All I have left are voices. I’m two months into meds so I’m hopeful
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