The depot fiasco. I had a different person come to do my depot as my usual one wasn’t available. He had to read through instructions as to how to assemble it, and was very unsure of himself. He comes to do the depot and tells me some has spilt out. As I’m on the lowest dose anyway it seems I haven’t had a therapeutic dose.
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Sounds like they behaved in a really amateurish, unprofessional way. Shame. Utter shame.
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Oh that is a fiasco. Is it possible to make up for the shortage with a partial dose dr approved of course.
He’s going to talk to the pdoc,but it’s kind of hard I think as I’m on the lowest dose anyway.
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Yea spilling some out of the shot would be hard to even guess what amount was needed to meet your full dose…
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Yeah I had a similar problem last month. A lot (if not most) leaked out. Problem is there is no way to tell how much you have in your system. This sucks man.
I expect you will be told just to stick it out.
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A nurse just phoned back. I’m to phone if I feel anything bad in the next fortnight. I shouldn’t think I will as some will still be in my system I think.
Absorption
The absorption of risperidone from RISPERDAL CONSTA is complete.
After a single intramuscular injection with RISPERDAL CONSTA, the release profile consists of a small initial release of risperidone (< 1% of the dose), followed by a lag time of 3 weeks. The main release of risperidone starts from week 3 onwards, is maintained from 4 to 6 weeks, and subsides by week 7. Oral antipsychotic supplementation should therefore be given during the first 3 weeks of RISPERDAL CONSTA treatment (see section 4.2).
The combination of the release profile and the dosage regimen (intramuscular injection every two weeks) results in sustained therapeutic plasma concentrations. Therapeutic plasma concentrations remain until 4 to 6 weeks after the last RISPERDAL CONSTA injection.
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Yea i remember those days of the injection.
I remember the one person was so scared to give me a 600 dollar injection she had to call the other nurse.
She then spent about 15 minutes reading about it.
It made me even more paranoid than what i was
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I have nothing but psychiatric nurses caring for me. And they are all experts with this new fangled injection system they are working with. Theoretically, they are supposed to be safer to handle, as far as needle sticks are concerned. But, in reality, they are not. It’s just a way for Big Pharma to pull in even more money.
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