I will be going from 37.5MG of risperidal consta (risperidone) injection to 25MG of the same medicine. Given your experiences, what should I expect?
I’m sorry I don’t have experience with this particular medicine, but I just cut my Saphris dose in half. I can’t tell a difference at this point. I think my pdoc is going to put me on risperidone.
It’s okay, thanks for your response. So far you feel the same?
Im on 25mg injection of risperidone.
I was on 3mg pills before, the main thing i noticed was i started pacing again. Also i started feeling like i was falling whenever i tried to sleep.
Thats about all, i get some voices sometimes but its not too bad.
Were you ever on a higher dose?
Yes, so far I feel the same. But Wednesday (yesterday) morning was my first morning without Saphris. I’m only on 10mg at night now. The nice thing is that I didn’t sleep all day, and when I did wake up, I actually felt awake! It was such a nice change. I just hope I don’t have any ill effects from the decreased dose. Before this, we had decreased me to 5mg in the mornings. In 2 weeks, we go to 5mg at night. Our hope is that it will decrease my TD symptoms if I go on another med. That new med, lumateperone, sounds really promising because it is supposed to have less extrapyramidal side effects and be a bit more like clozapine in that sense. So I’m hoping my pdoc will let me stay on 5mg/night of Saphris until the lumateperone has been around longer. She won’t prescribe it until it’s been out for at least 6 months.
Everything will be good,you need to prepare for the withdrawal of lowering.Like maybe insomnia,anxiety etc
For me i dont feel any difference
I just need to put on medication
Oh I see I see. So you seem to be better in a way?
Are you speaking from experience?
I Wouldn’t Know, All My Doctor Does is Up The Dose…,
Wait!, Wait!,
Lowering…,
Oh Sorry!.,
I’ll Leave… . …
Two years ago when I lowered my dose of aripiarzole from 5mg to 2.5 mg during the tapering process I did not notice much difference although there was slightly less if the zombie effect. It was only a few months after coming off completely that I truly felt a difference.
However, the change from 5 to 2. 5 did make a worthy difference
At higher doses, lowering to yet still high doses barely made any difference
Yea.I have stopped ap for 5 times.I always got insomnia and get racing thoughts at night
It should be same as lowering risperidone, it comes with a bit of anxiety and feeling lethargy, thats just the withdrawal which lasts four weeks tops. After that your cognition improves as does your mood
Yes it does…I don’t wish to go through these again since I am stable.I will stop with doctor guidance
I have experience with risperidone.
I had tardive dyskinesia from it.
Lower doses with pdoc’s approval
I see. So you got off the meds completely?
Are you speaking from experience that after a month you improve?
yea I did in 2018,took a while to see improvements though but steadily they came yea
why are you going on a lower dose?
Interesting! How’s your symptoms now? I am tired of the side effects