For those of you that were once on Risperdal, what made you come off of it?
What was the reason?
I’ve been on Risperdal for years now and although there are unwanted side effects like weight gain and raised prolactin, it’s basically the only AP that works for me.
I took one pill and it gave me immediate and strong suicidal ideation. They didn’t give me a second !
I take low dose for ocd. 1mg risperidone. its okay but i dont like the fact that i have to take artane(trihexyphenidyl) along with it for EPS. Artane worsens my cognition. Im thinking about stopping risperidone and artane.
I was on it for more than a year. It basically made me extra disabled, even though it was working well on my positive symptoms I couldn’t think clearly, to the point where I couldn’t even understand that I was having that problem until I tried working.
I started puking.
Every med is different for different ppl.
I wasn’t stable on most other APs, Latuda, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Olanzapine, etc
I am not 100% stable on Risperdal 4mg but I have never been 100% stable, there is always something that triggers me like middle east news, horror movies, blood, etc
Risperdal has been my best AP with no side effects. It makes me sleep too much but I drink strong coffee regularly to avoid sleep during the day and it works.
Because it was causing me problems in the bathroom which are getting better but may have been permanent. I like risperdal but also it stopped working. I took the risperdal everyday twice a day like I was supposed to but one day I hallucinated like 17 police officers on my rd and my aunt across the street opening and closing her door like she was checking out on me. It all seemed so real but that was my first overworld 3D hallucination other than a metal wasp in my porch with a plank cut out which wasn’t there the next day it wasn’t filled in it’s just there was no space anywhere to nail a replacement board in
When I was on it I threw up almost everything I ate, and still gained 40 lbs. My doctor switched me after a month.
I originally was going to come off risperdal because of weight gain, which still wasn’t as severe as abilify. But Vraylar didn’t end up working, so I’m back on 4mg of risperdal. It’s been the best antipsychotic for me. I’m now able to feel more emotions and my hallucinations are all but gone. We’re still going to try another one possibly, but we’ll see. For awhile there I was almost symptom free, at least for my positive symptoms.
It just didn’t work for me. No bad side effects either, though.
I am on 4mg and it usually works for me. I have been having some problems recently so they added some more medicine to take daily.
No bad side effects other than weight gain and sleeping a little too much.
Ive been stable on 6mg for the past three years, still experience symptoms occasionally but their managable. i think its a good drug for me. I didnt respond well to many other aps it took alot of time before i started risperidone
I’m sorry Vraylar didn’t work for you @John_Raven.
It didn’t work for me as well and I had to be hospitalized.
I switched back to Risperdal and now I’m back on track.
This was 4 years ago.
Raised prolactin. Made my nipples sore and that was good enough.
Because it was the absolute worst ap to be on. Boy did I feel terrible. Not that other aps are all that great either.
In my opinion, for me it is Caplyta>Vraylar>Risperdal and thats it. Nothing else worked. Ability, Latuda, invega are somewhat okay. Ive been on all the second generation APs practically except injections and Zyprexa i think. I tried Haldol too.
I quit Risperdal because it interfered with monsters some how and I got sick often, had severe negs, among other horrible symptoms. I guess it just stopped working. My mom said I was hospitalized constantly on Risperdal mainly because of psychosis and me constantly being depressed and feeling like ■■■■ bc of negatives. There were pros though. Don’t get me wrong. If I went back on Risperdal I’d have to take like 4-6 mg and maybe another light AP dose…
Vraylar kept me out of the hospital 95% of the time. Its the drug that I liked the most and was most stable on since 2017.l despite chronic delusions.
I think I was addicted or too comfortable going to psych hospital on Risperdal.
Ability i was on +20 mg. I had restlessness or something. I probably had a ton of addiction issues too. I gained a lot of weight.
Latuda was like water and did nothing, probably made me 10 times worse!
Haldol made me feel horrible and miserable to the point I begged my mom for help on the floor.
I tried clozaril briefly and hated it because I peed my pants, and almost died from NMS BECAUSE I was on other high dose, strong meds. Basically, I had a bad experience and am afraid of taking it again despite having possibly treatment resistant schizophrenia and that being the best med. My mom hates latuda and clozaril the most out of every AP I tried. She remembers more than I do for sure.
I refused Zyprexa because of the fear of weight gain and diabetes.
I had really bad negs to the point I thought it was my only symptom or worse symptom except the matrix delusion and not feeling like anything was real or existed.
Vraylar is a partial antagonist so should cause least negative symptoms. Did you get addiction issues from it like Abilify?
Sadly I asked my psychiatrist about Vraylar and he said its not available in Canada 
No additional addictions just the same old ones.
I felt my negative symptoms were worse on Risperdal and I felt more sluggish and dopey than I wanted to be