I am on about 3mg but the doc said I can tweak it up or down 1mg if I am over or under medicated. It works pretty well for me but it is kind of like adjusting the throttle on a car 
I really canāt function on less than 2mg a day but I am a little too lobotomized if I take 3mg or 4mg for too long a period of time. Unfortunately my stress levels tend to be a little chaotic with unforeseen events from my other mentally ill family members.
I take 3 mg daily.
Iāve been on risperidone three times, the first time I was on 2mgs, then 8 mgs then 2 again. the bad thing was when I was on it the third time it didnāt help anymore and I became paranoid and delusional.
When i was on risperdone i was on 4mg but i gained breasts from it so i changed meds to latuda
Iām on 1.5 mg Risperdal daily. I dunno how long Iāve been on it, a couple months maybe? But I quit taking it for a couple weeks or something in there. Donāt take any other APās.
I take 25mg every fortnight but ive been able to reduce it to 75% of the dose and the doc said i can have it every 3 week now i changed my diet gave up sugar and eat beef for the b vitamins and take a multi b supplement i dont have any symptoms anymore
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@mozart4646 Iām assuming you get an injection? Glad itās working for you
4mg of risperidone.
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What side effects do people expierence ā¦ as im on 25mg of risporidone depot injection and the side effects are to much .
They tried to get me up to 5mg at one time and it was way too much for my system. I had horrific akathesia. So much so that I felt like I was jumping out of my skin and I couldnāt sleep. I recently upped my dose from 1mg to 2 mg and so far the side effects are very manageable I tried Latuda and it was worse. I am afraid to try another med now.
I was on 3mg just out of the hospital. Symptoms were still there, I was sort of on edge all the time with all the intrusive thoughts. Some of these ppl are on gargantuan doses compared to me. Prolactin must be through the roof for them. Leaky boobs and no sex drive.
My boobs are fine but my low sex drive is even lower. I might be able to handle 3mg but that would be about my max. I prefer 1mg if I can get away with it. Just going from 2mg down to 1mg I lost 7 pounds, a lot of which was water. Now I have had to go back up to 2mg again. Hopefully not forever
I took it a few years back and was on 8mg a day. I was also on 1200mg of Seroquel and they both did nothing for my symptoms. The worst part of Risperdol was the increased Prolactin levels. It completely stopped my period. I think it made my breasts bigger also as I went up a cup size. That part wasnāt so bad. Must be a horrible side effect for men though. 
M boobs have gotten bigger now that I think about it. I donāt really like it. I feel like a cow. I had enough to begin with. Course Iād like to lose 20 pounds as it is so thatās part of it too
I went from little things that didnāt need a bra, to B cups. Iām happy. Invega sustenna here, risperdalās cousin.
1200mg Seroquel is a tremendous dose! You must be very treatment resistant.
Yeah it was a lot of meds. And that was after trying most of them. The only thing that brought me back to reality was the ECT treatments. I received them weekly, sometimes monthly, for a couple of years and I became more sensitive to the meds. Iām still on a high dose of Geodon and also Latuda but I just have symptoms now for maybe 10% of the time. I donāt mind when theyāre symptoms. Itās when youāre out of touch with reality that is painful.
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Hey, Iām on 3mg a day. 2mg at night and 1mg in morning. Seems to be helping very wellā¦