User Reviews for risperidone oral

I was only on .5 a milligram but it was absolutely terrible. It was making me so dizzy I couldn’t even stand and was throwing up from the dizziness. I had to lay in bed with my eyes closed or id be extremely dizzy and sick

I have had Bipolar Disorder for as long as I can remember. Up until around April or May of 2020, I was actually holding it together. But, starting around April/May, I have uncontrollable mood swings, depression, mania, brief visual/auditory hallucinations, etc. Despite myself AND everyone in my family thinking otherwise, our psychiatrist insists it's due to lack of exercise, social stress, my Social Anxiety Disorder, etc., and denies the medications being ineffective. I'm assuming this is PARTLY due to also taking an ADHD stimulant that's been taking forever to get off of, but I still feel as if I'm slowly losing my mind and this medication has become ineffective. I feel as if it may be quite a good medication for some, but it has been becoming less and less effective over the past years of my life.Read More Read Less

Causes short migraines, terrible face and body acne, hair loss, feels like your face is fighting from making weird faces, cotton mouth in the morning. Morning soreness. Makes you feel terrible in the morning. Blurry vision I couldnâ??t read a soap label in the morning while sitting on the toilet while the soap box was in the shower. Dehydration. Hunger-ness, hard to hold back negative thoughts about individuals and makes your mood swings shift in a negative manner. Causes an addictive feeling. Makes me extremely happy when I take 1mg instantly. Makes me feel itchy. Makes my eye lids itch. Irritable bows. Figity, hard to maintain focuse and keep a straight thought with task at hand Makes you stand out in a weird way. Did I mention major mood swings. Gives you major trust issues. Me personally I am able to control these feelings but others Iâ??m not so sure about. Hard to control your bows makes u have to use it every hr honestly. Didnâ??t make me trip or see things. Hard to sleep and go back to sleep once woken. Dizziness when wakes up. Hard to remember things especially. Tends to feel like u have to throw up in the morning. Makes you open to being defenseless lowers self esteem Read More Read Less

I had took this medication for a year, for bipolar, and psychosis I have gained 50lbs from this medicine and now Iâ??m 194lbs. It helped my anxiety , and manic issues but didnâ??t help my thoughts because now Iâ??m fat. I had no motivation, as well as no confidence . My thoughts would be racing non stop. I was on 2mg twice a day. Moved it to 1 and I was still experiencing bad symptoms; such as being very hungry, and very lazy. Iâ??d take it and get so relaxed I wouldnâ??t get up from my bed. Since I am off of it now, Iâ??ve gained all my motivation back, working out , walking, and able to control my eating . If anyone is experiencing these problems or trying to find out about this medicine , I recommend you to not take it . Unless you like being over weight. I am still taking something else for anxiety btw . Everything else is fine BUT this medication. Donâ??t take it .Read More Read Less

I have been taking this medication since I was 15 (I am now 22) This medicine was working very well in the beginning but after 6 years of taking it I Started to feel my symptoms coming back ( feeling suicidal once a week, feeling a slight manic high once a week). So I began to take lithium as well (since last year) and I haven't felt this good EVER! would def, recommend those two combined

First day taking 2mg risperidone I felt alittle dizzy. After first day no high feeling at all. I have been increased to 4 mg and after 4 weeks I have noticed my focus and concentration is better, side affects medicine makes alittle tired not to bad.

New to Risperidone. Just came off Seroquel because of the nasty side effects!!! Then I see all these reviews of 30-150 lbs of weight gain, oh no way! I am so short, and have severe crippling back, I can't support 20 more pounds! I told my doctor that. But I have been on Latuda in the past as well. All three of these are Anti-psychotic drugs, women....you are lactating because the increase in prolactin in the pituitary gland (brain). My ob-gyn had me tested back in 2017. It wasn't the side effect "missed periods" it is more like, if you stay on this medication ladies, it STOPS ovulation. I know, I didn't have a menstrual cycle the entire time I took Latuda, and Risperidone is pretty much the same. I'm going to see how much weight I gain after a week, and I will weigh the pros and cons then.Read More Read Less

I just started taking this medication and I'm coming off Abilify. I've been taking it for 3 days and so far, I had a very deep sleep last night but the first night I had insomnia. I'm starting to feel a little sedated. Will come back to review it when I've taken it for a longer period of time. I'm so scared I'm going to gain weight on this medicine because that's what I read like everywhere!

I do see improvements in function. I can usually lose weight with a regular workout routine and just about any food. However, about 3-4 after taking this medicine if I eat some food from Denny's my metabolism is screwed. Maybe I should follow a low carb diet on this medication (50 g).

We give this to my hubby who suffers from Alzheimer's anger outbursts and confusion. This med has completely eradicated the outbursts, but his affect and personality are totally flat. He has no emotional reaction to ANYTHING, which is preferable, but not ideal. We sometimes have to make these choices, I guess.

I am on 3mg of Riperidone. So far, I have gained 40 pounds because I have been off and on it. On days off, I sleep 12 or more hours a night, not including occasional 2 hour naps. When I don't sleep this much, I am tired beyond compare. I do not know if it affects my period since I am also on the Evra Patch Birth Control, but I do get tender leaky breasts. For me, this symptoms are livable. The only I don't care for is the weight gain, but I also don't exercise. Although I stayed in the mental ward for a week, it doesn't mean the medication didn't help. Without it, I wouldn't be the happy, fairly-stable person I am today. I have been on risperidone for 2 years and it helped me keep the psychosis reasonably quiet enough to let me learn how to cope with it on my own. At times, it'll seem like the medication isn't working it all. It will feel like you're on them for no reason. This is because there may be other causes (stress, etc.) that will make you have some "mishaps". It would of been a lot harder to handle my psychosis if I never took this medication. For me, it was worth it. However, it seems to have given me liver problems (waiting for diagnosis) and I may have to discontinue the meds. I think I am ready to take on my psychosis one-on-one.Read More Read Less

My loved one has been taking this for about three months and it made him gain a bit of weight and it made him feel like he wants to be the opposite gender now. This helped with his psychosis but this has damaged him more than did him any good. He stopped taking it but the after effects break my heart.

I took Risperdal to treat hallucinations caused by major depression. While it did ease my hallucinations as it was designed to do, it made me gain an unbelievable amount of weight & seemed to turn me into an emotionless zombie. I am obviously glad it helped with my hallucinations, but it did more hurt than help in my opinion.

I have schizoaffective disorder and I take Wellbutrin an Risperidone. I like both of the medications but them together makes my thought process and memory terrible. It makes school a lot harder for me.

Ive been prescibed this medication because of severe anxiety and panic attacks . My first few days on it , I thought My life was saved , I could see and think clearly , Great great ! , But then I had a panic attack and then another . Im still home and afraid to drive .

Does it cause weight gain

After failing multiple meds for depression, I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt. Risperidone in combination with Lexapro helped me dramatically and gave me hope. Yes, I've gained weight, but I'm developing a strategy for controlling my appetite.

My daughter's were both perscribed this for Asperger's/Autisim and it gave them a big appitite and rapid weight gain. It also gives them higher cholesterol. The older girl was taken off it for a little while by their doctor, and the had less appetite and lost weight, she's now a healthy weight. When she was on it the first time her cholesterol was high too. Strange thing was the doctor that gave her the medication sent her for the blood work and didn't even mention the results. It changed her mood, but it is not worth jeapordizing her arteries or her getting over weight again. The younger one is irratable, and tired when she's on it.Read More Read Less

Gave me suicidal ideation, increased psychosis, increased aggression, lack of empathy, restlessness, 30 lb weight gain, extremely difficult to withdraw from