Delusions Of Grandeur - Anyone Know About Resperidone?

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Risperdal/Risperadone worked pretty good for me - made the voices stop, took the emotional component out of the nightmares, and made my OCD tendencies a lot better. But it made me gain weight fast and wasn't doing enough so now I'm on something else.

My fiance was one it and it triggered his allergies so bad he'd stop breathing in the middle of the night, so off he went.

 

[raye4]

I fully understand that. One of my doctors did just that. I went against my better judgement and listened to him. And for three years I took risperidal, depakote and paxil. And I found out the hard way that it wasn't good for me.

And I found out I was supposed to have blood tests regularly. I had only two the entire time I was on that stuff. It was awful.

I found out later on in another state that the shrink recognized that I had PTSD and not bi-polar. So that really made me mad. Now, I don't trust them even if my life depends on it.

Stay off that stuff. Be very very very careful getting off of it. I can be a bad drug to ditch.

 

[raye4]

Most of the meds I'm on are all bad drugs to ditch--sad to say--I want to live my life med free--But thank you--at least I'm not the only angry one out there for mis-diagnoses- I had four children that could've been left completely without their mother. I don't trust anyone either--but I guess that's just one more downfall to having been cursed with PTSD.

 

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Yeah, the misdiagnosis stuff sucks. My fiance was diagnosed Bipolar type II for years until his counselor told his psychiatrist that he had PTSD instead.

 

[Babablacksheep]

I tried Resperidone for a little while a few years back, and the big side effect was a lot of muscle twitching...very unpleasant when you're trying to sleep.