Respiridone

[bluebeard]

This drug has been suggested at o.5mg as an add on to citalopram

Has anybody else been on such an anti psychotic ?

Many thanks for any information

 

[Heather]

I was taking Respiridone when I was having pretty bad hallucinations. The highest dose was 3mgs. I found it pretty helpful.

Thankfully I don't have any hallucinations anymore and I'm not on the medication any longer.

 

[bluebeard]

thank you heather

 

[pi314159]

I was taking invega which is a metabolite of risperidone. It was supposed to stop my obsessive thoughts. I stopped taking it because it made me soooo tired.

 

[swreetpea86]

Im about to have 0.5 risperidone added to my duloxetine. How is your experience going with it?

 

[Venusian]

I have been on risperidone 0.5mg for 3 weeks now, it was prescribed to help me sleep.

It seems to work, there has only been a couple of nights when I have only been able to sleep 2 hours but it is usually 6 hrs now. In the past year I was getting an average of 4 hrs sleep a night and most weeks I didn't sleep at all for 2 or 3 nights at a time.

I am worried that my system will get used to the dosage and it won't work for me anymore. It has helped with the nightmares but during the day the flashbacks are just as bad and the anxiety attacks seem to be getting worse.

I still have a couple weeks before my next doctor's appointment to assess the medication.

 

[Barberian]

I'm on 1mg Respiridone. I have to take it at night because it makes me sleepy. My mind races a lot and I have fragmented thought paterns. My mind tends to follow several trains of thought at once, doing a piss poor job of following any one of them.

The respiridone helps a lot in allowing me to have just one train of thought at a time, and I'm not so easily distracted from my thought pattern by other thoughts. Of all the different meds I've been on, it is so far the best in slowing down my mind to level where I can think properly (in order, not all over the place, back and forth).

It's not a cure for the fractured, fragmented thought pattern, but it sure helps.

 

[Ricanoland]

While I was in foster care they put in on Respiridone 5mg for sleep also, due to mind racing.

I noticed that my mind was still racing but it forced my eyes closed. Which is good for your body; not so sure about the mind so much. That is just me personally, I think every pill works differently for everyone.

 

[Grace Hope]

Bluebeard

Welcome to the site

I was given Respiridone after I went through a series of traumatic events and was seriously ill. I had been diagnosed with PTSD years before but not treated for events that occured over a six year period. My PTSD symptoms were not recognised for what they were and that I had a psychotic breakdown, I think because of it. I had this psychosis for a couple of years or so before it got treated.

The Rispiridone was helpful. I took it over a period of about three months. The problem was at the time Id had a wrong diagnosis and with that, my prescription and no proper support that made me more ill in a different way. My PTSD went out of control. Panic attack, after panic attack, around the clock and so I had to go and stay with someone for weeks before I felt well enough to return home.

What I want to say is sometimes it is so frightening taking some meds, especially when they are not very well understood. Anti-psychotics are not at the moment; perhaps it is good to try a small dose first to see how you get on.

BUT they are also used as a chemical cosh medication. There are precautions needed as you need to be able to take care of your personal needs that you have in your life. There is also a big problem if you have an illnes that relates ot heart, stroke issues and muscle, soft tissue problems as they can worsen on these meds.

I think being practicle and getting a note book for a side effect and symtoms diary for a few weeks is a good idea for any new or changing of meds and also to note mood and any change in physical problems too. I do this and I find it helpful to look back on to see what is really going on with this stuff. After all we PTSD sufferers can't always count on what goes in in our own minds all of the time.

God Bless
Clan Destany

Sorry if there are any smelling pistakes or any thing like it as I haven`t slept all night and I feel strangely more awake and relaxed now than I did the whole of yesterday. Or is that the meds I took - tramadol, more tramadol, stilnoct, codydromol and then I stopped before I over did it and had to sit out the pain.

 

[Schmitty]

I get medicine from the VA where I live, and I have taken Risperidone, Citalopram, and Benzotropine. You have to take the muscle relaxers with the risperidone, because your body can have twitching side effects. The risperidone also can give you dry mouth. I also got to the point where if I took so much medication, I had a hard time taking a #2. Overall though, the good that came out of it was I was less anxious, has less nightmares, and slept pretty good. I would say for the overall aspect, taking the meds are good, but I don't like the side effects. I am coming to a point where I should just take the meds again so I can at least focus.

 

[Barberian]

Recently I've developed a "tic" with my neck muscles. It's a hard repetitive flexing of my front and side neck muscles.

I'm assuming its from the Resperidone, but can't definitively say. I'm waiting for my next psychiatrist appointment to discuss it with my psyciatrist.

 

[kimba]

I am on this med to help with the sleep and racing thoughts so I can get to sleep. It does work so far.

I have only been on it for a month but am getting a block of sleep now where before I was waking up after a couple of hours all night long. If I woke up and it was getting light, I was awake for the day. The lack of decent sleep just made anything that went wrong doubly bad. As much as I hate being on "another" med, I am grateful for this one.