I can’t stand the choking that started happening after going from 4 to 6mg risperidone. I choke on food, water and saliva, I even choke when sleeping waking up unable breath for up to a minute. I feel like I got brain damage for not breathing for up to a minute, I really felt like dying for the first time in my life. I am going to reduce to 5mg today and call my Dr to let him know.
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If I still have choking problems on 5mg, I will go down to 4mg.
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Hope your doing better🤗
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Hope your swallowing sorts itself out on a lower dose. And I hope you stay stable. Lowering my dose of Invega didn’t work out for me.
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I would suggest food intake, then meds.
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You have to take action into your own hands sometimes.
I hope your reduction works out!
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It was scary last night, I couldn’t breath for like a minute, I tried calling my parents but I couldn’t talk because I was choking, I couldn’t move either, I thought I was going to die from a lack of oxygen.
It seems like a lot of people on the forum have been having swallowing related issues lately.
Yes, please do. They may need to make changes soon.
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Perhaps switch the AP all together.
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It was hard to find Risperidone. All the others gave me bad side effects, akathisia, nausea, insomnia, positive symptoms, etc Last time I saw a Dr, she suggested Clozapine.
Doing fine on 5mg so far, down from 6. Was able to sleep well no choking, no more choking in the morning either which I used to have on 6mg.
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No schizophrenia symptoms or anger issues either so far!
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Still doing good at 5mg. I will stay on 5mg. I am tempted to go down to 4mg but will give it more time first.
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How was your Dr when you told them you’ve reduced? Are your parents being supportive?
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My Dr wants me back to his prescribed dose of 3mg. I told him to raise it to 6mg to reduce my anger issues. Its my gp who increased the dose, my pdoc was surprised and asked me why I requested to up the dose.
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