Request for Advice on Risperidone

[Ruth09]

I'm was on .5mg, but I've been told I'm sensitive to most head case pills. SSRI's make me into a emotional pumpkin. My Doc has cut me back even further,... .25mg everyday, or every other day as tolerated. I don't have a heavy case of PTSD, but it's fallout of OCD and hypervigilance. At .5mg, I was able to sleep without Trazadone, but now, I don't know. He told me I could take them both, together. At .5mg,...I began to have self distructive thoughts,...entrusive to a point of scarying me to stay up most of the night fighting the thoughts. He told me to cut back,... saying the thoughts are not normal, but could be a result because I'm sensitive to the stuff. Anyway,... here's to (hopefully), better living through chemistry. The only reason he wants me to continue taking the stuff, is because it works. I can get out into public, the checking is curbed, and I'm not looking for snipers, and stuff. I have to write down stuff more often, and my sense of humor is "oh, hum". Just saying,... but, this stuff doesn't work for everyone. I just hope the thoughts don't come back. Scary crap.

 

[Lionheart]

I am experiencing increased Erectile Dysfunction from only 1/4 mg per day and plan to switch medications soon.....and so, if my doctor still thinks a medicine change will not benefit me, I will switch doctors too! (That, to my mind, is why doctors are not healers, one shouldn't have to become more ill in order to get well.

 

[guy3500]

Anyone Using Risperdone?

I am wondering if anyone has or is using Risperdone (Risperdal) to treat their symptoms of PTSD.

 

[Mina]

There is another Risperidone thread which may be of interest:

[DLMURL="http://www.ptsdforum.org/showthread.php?t=4249"]Delusions of Grandeur - Anyone Know About Risperidone?[/DLMURL]