Risperdal Withdrawal, Risperidone Tapering Help, Side Effects & Alternatives | Alternative to Meds.
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- This Q&A session with the Founder of Alternative to Meds Center, Lyle Murphy, Top questions about Risperdal Withdrawal, and Risperidone Withdrawal are covered.
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1. What is Risperdal? Risperdal is an atypical antipsychotic manufactured by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
2. What is Risperdal prescribed for? Risperdal is used for the treatment of manic attributes of bipolar, schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and mood disturbances.
3. Is Risperdal safe? Risperdal has caused young boys to develop enlarged female-like breasts, a condition known as gynecomastia. This has resulted in thousands of lawsuits. Additionally, the manufacturer was inappropriately marketing the drug, specifically to minors, which resulted in billions of dollars in fines.
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4. What does Risperdal do to the brain? Risperdal is thought to hold back dopamine, a neurochemical associated with reward. This often results in a flattening of affect, loss of normative drive for life, and even can result in a slumped posture as dopamine is involved in spinal erection musculature.
5. How do I get off Risperdal? Typically, a very slow and careful taper is necessary. Some people use Depakote, Lithium, and or gabapentin for bridge medications. ATMC will usually reduce the Risperdal first, leaving mood stabilizers for last.
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6. Is Risperdal like Invega? There are differences in pharmacology, specifically the way in which the drugs are metabolized by the body. These drugs are however very close in action and chemical makeup.
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I'm so glad I found you. You're amazing and a life saver. I have a new Psychiatrist and although she's amazing it frustrates me when some Drs think that you should just take antipsychotics when you're not experiencing a psychosis or delusions, extreme paranoia. Meds work different when you're in a traumatized state vs back to a healthy state of mind.
Just quit it altogether, you cannot thank yourself enough for that. Yes, the journey would be difficult. It would take 2-3 years to become 90-95% normal. But it’s totally worth. Anti depressants/ Anti Psychotics can’t do shit, they can only make things worst. They are like statins for heart disease.
Thank you for your caring and knowledgeable wisdom on this topic . I can't believe I let a person I love take something made by bloody Johnson and Johnson 🤦🏼♀️. Thank you for your enlightenment and your suggestions, we now have some options to present to his doctor. Also weight gain has been a massive issue that we need to tackle now.
My head has not stopped hurting for months after coming off this medication the doctors put me back on it I feel stuck I need help please pray for me
You gorgeous
I had the same symptoms head aches every single day omg
Lemon balm will sort you out it did after I came off this medication.
God will help you. He is just waiting for you to ask. ❤️
@@theway3660I cried out to God every night last year for deliverance from my medication. God never helped me. He just kept me alive through the agony. I’ve felt His presence and love many times but now it’s a foreign thing to me. God puts people through hell and I don’t understand why.
In my honest opinion it felt potencially dangerous. The effects of time thinking slows down,it gives you apathy and melancholic depression,short term memory,unable to concentrate ,and your sexdrive is compleatly null,turns you like a cabbage head,and increases insecurities.That said I wouldn't recomend it to human beings .It is more effective on a wild savage beast that just will not cease the rage,but again I say not for humans
How about withrawal of 1 mg ?
@@soumiabouchair623 it was on 1.0 mg since I was 10 years old. I’m 33 now…
I’m on 0.3 now… it took me 2 years to gradually get to this level. It was a painful slow process. But the good news is I’ve been successful so far, if you do it gradually.
Lookup Dr. Peter Breggin. He can help. He has books not in favor of “toxic meds.”
I’m starting to feel like I want to be ambitious again as a man should feel.
In my experience being on my risperidone / risperdal will keep you like a little boy practically speaking. And nations cannot stand on the shoulders of boys.
About to start tappering off this drug. 0.5 mg twice daily going down to once a day to start. Hope I’m doing the right thing
Thank you for describing me, I don't know finally I got an explanation for crying the hell out because of how insecure I am.
i started at 6 mg now im starting to come off and now im just starting to notice the side effects
man thank you so much ...
I honestly can’t believe I found this ! It just saved my life :) More than 20 years, at Least 6 mg a day, this is the best thing I’ve ever seen! Thank you so much! ✌️🙏😌✨
holy your an inspiration. 9 years for me. gonna practice being grateful for everything
Great information, thanks.
I'm comming off it thanks very much.
How are you now I have suffered terribly since coming off it almost overnight about a year ago and it’s continually getting worse and worse day by day 4 visits to A&E constant numbness lack of connection to emotions all I can say is absolute hell
@@CraigTara113 how long have you been on it? And I’ve been on it a few days but afraid it might be too late
@@CraigTara113yes.
I’ve been on it for 25 years. No one should have to suffer such torment. Outwardly life may be fine,
but inwardly it’s like being nailed to a cross ✝️ and simply breathing becomes agonizing.
Thank you
You Are So Welcome!
Can I take herbal teas such as chamomile tea. Stress teas and sleepy time teas
I live in Indonesia. My daughter (17) was prescribed 2 mg Risperidone and 500 mg Depakote ER for bipolar. She did feel better but she gained so much weight that she wanted to stop taking them and the psychiatrist finally agreed she didn't have bipolar disorder. The psychiatrist told her to stop cold turkey and she said my daughter would be okay because she was also on 500 mg Depakote ER. The idiot was wrong. My daughter was in pain! Then I tried to taper off the Risperidone using a digital scale without telling the doctor, in 74 days. During the tapering my daughter didn't feel any pain but I guess the tapering was still too fast for her because even 3 months after she was off Risperidone, she has been feeling unwell, having difficulty sleeping and intrusive thoughts.
We went to 2 psychiatrists in Indonesia. The first one prescribed Clobazam, Hexymer, Depakote, and Risperidone. We had to move so we went to the second one who prescribed Depakote and Risperidone and made my daughter quit the other two drugs cold turkey. And for Depakote and Risperidone, now I'm trying to taper those two on my own because I figured the doctors won't help me, they never warned us about withdrawal symptoms, and the way they made my daughter quit taking the drugs was just to quit cold turkey. I have no choice but to take things into my own hands.
@@cuekinajahow did everything go for you and your daughter? Thankfully you understand about withdrawals.
Yes insomnia is the most biggest pain in the ass and withdrawals can last up to 3 months for Risperdal. Is like quitting nicotine
I hope she is doing better. How long did she take them for? Did she recover her sleep.
I had the up and downs due to ptsd event suicide of my son. Caused my bipolar to not be managed. They put me on Gabapentin which was not good. Now they went with risperidone 2x day and Depakote 500 2x day and lorazepam prn hydroxazine prn. I went from high function to barely able to flip an egg vision is shot no drive for anything but have days I won't stop eating. And I have hours of shaking every morning and evening and suicidal ideation events during the moon cycles and sex drive is freakish on the 3 days before the fullmoon and after with no inhibitions the mind wants without deciding if good or bad. So I isolate during this which also causes heightened aggressive bouts. And once this wears off I start getting light headed kinda like fainting they prescribed antivert for dizzy. All I have is going good for me is not addictive personality. And the lack of sleep and evil death visions is hardest to deal with. Right now disassoiciative episodes keep me from working and was recommended to file for disability until they stabilize me. I also get the glycemic issues super low energy dizzy and if I do the sugar or even cheddar cheese helps. Takes about 2 hrs to stable. I want to take charge of my life as the drugs have IMO made me worse. Not looking for advice just an opinion. And I am all for natural.
Find some old Edgar Cayce books about healing. ❤️
God bless and guide you ❤️
Thank you so much. You are so spot on. And you do it without a tin foil hat. Wish I could do that.
Can you come off invegga injections by staying on the depot lowering the dosage slowly so that you don't have to switch to oral meds?
What if you’ve been on it for a month
I calculated 70 something days to finish tapering 2 mg of Risperidone but now I regret that I didn't follow the conventional tapering speed which is 10% reduction per 4 weeks, recalculated every 4 weeks (1 year minimal). Because during the tapering, my daughter didn't feel bad, but afterward she was feeling terrible and she still is after 3 months the tapering ended. I've been giving her supplements like L-Theanine and B vitamins to cope with.
You shout try the Niacine flush and vitamin C . Is always better to get help with a hollistic dr. Buy according to Dr Abaham Hoffer this treatment can even be a cure in some cases.
my mother is having pains and tingling on and off different sites of body
L theanine is bad it is helps produce dopamine, people with schizophrenia should not take it, even though some research says it is ok. seriously stop the theanine. try natural sedative like I mentioned american skullcap, lemon balm. even garlic concentrated caps is better than L theanin.
How long your daughter was on this drug and how is she feeling now as it was a year ago.
How about l-theanene supplementation when getting off of risperdone?
Yep. It can help. High dose niacin, C, and lithium are best
@@MurphyLyle i took lithium orotate 5 for two weeks Also liposomal vitamin C 1000 Didn’t feel anything
Didn't feel the withdrawal symptoms?
Have been taking 1mg for 6 weeks to help w sleep. I had been prescribed high dose steroids and given a steroid injection that created a major imbalance in hormones so I only sleep 4 hours. At first .5 mg helped for a week, then hormones took over. My cortisol is also too high throughout the day probably from the lack of sleep. I don’t want to take any meds. But I’m desperate for sleep. Appreciate your thoughts.
Lions mane and reishi would help with the sleep
Did it help you with sleep and how about weight gain
lemon balm or american skullcap . both natural sedatives.
Thanks GOD who makes me find someone like you and I hope it won’t be too late to benefit from your presious advices. My brother has been taking Risperdal with all its dosages and versions for nearly 25 years (2, 4, 6 mg liquid and pills and finally Risperdal Consta 37.5 mg every two weeks and Risperdal pills 2mg every night together with quitapex 50mg) and his now in his worse cases ever. Our life turned into hell … isn’t there any way out😢
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My son took it for 2 weeks but he was a complete robot on them. He discontinued second week would he recover
Start my first drop in may 19th wish me luck.
How did it go?
@@adamo36532 not so good he said I had schizophrenia and I should stay on the meds , but I'm getting off this stuff any how haha .
@@danielcarney3487 Did you try it and something bad happened?
How are you ?
(Sorry if I’m misspelling half of this in advance). Adderal caused a chemically induced manic/psychosis episode within my wife. We didn’t know what was going on so naturally I take her to hostpitle. She comes back on 6mg of Risperidone and 1500 mg of Depakote even though they knew her episode was chemically induce and avoidable in the future. Only instructions were to keep taking the meds or it will happen again. She progressively became more lobotomized by these horrible drugs over three months so we are now tapering her off for about four weeks now, starting with just the Risperidone and later with the Depakote.
We are avoiding anything that can cause her brain to produce more dopamine during this phase since she is going to be sensitive to it. No emotional or exciting television, social media, music or movies. No favorite craving foods. Nothing that can give an extra dopamine hit like salty or sugary foods and trying to keep everything bland and calm.
how can someone stop them,,???? my bro was prescribed this by a doctors mistake he had no psychosis,,, but now he is addicted to it,,,, it is so unfair
Time and patience and compassion
Please explain why this is prescribed for adhd child ( 5 years old)?
Is a 10 percent tapering advisable if ‘only’ taken 8 weeks?
Greed. I'd start with 15% cuts, because of short time span, wait a few weeks and adjust the taper based on the withdrawal symptoms.
How can a 5 year old kid be diagnosed with adhd? They are not even in school at that age! (At least in my country.) There's no way you can diagnose this condition in this age, only in adults because the brain is still in development and that varies from person to person. I'd really not use any drugs prior to 20 years because of those chances in the brain, there's a reason why kids shouldn't drink alcohol, coffee or smoke cigarettes.
You may support the neurodevelopment with alpha lipoic acid and omega 3, because the drug is neurotoxic, to counter the damage.
Greed. I'd start with 15% cuts, because of short time span, wait a few weeks and adjust the taper based on the withdrawal symptoms.
How can a 5 year old kid be diagnosed with adhd? They are not even in school at that age! (At least in my country.) There's no way you can diagnose this condition in this age, only in adults because the brain is still in development and that varies from person to person. I'd really not use any drugs prior to 20 years because of those chances in the brain, there's a reason why kids shouldn't drink alcohol, coffee or smoke cigarettes.
You may support the neurodevelopment with alpha lipoic acid and omega 3, because the drug is neurotoxic, to counter the damage.
Is it safe to cold turkey from 0.5mg dose after 2 weeks of using? Also Now I'm tapering sertraline to 12.5mg 2 days ago should i wait around a week to stop sertraline first then risperidone or just cold turkey risperidone from now?
Don’t cold turkey, even it’s 0.5mg. I’m decreased to 0.25mg maintenance dose. When I forgot to take it, I experienced very uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms such as back pain, insomnia, racing thoughts, etc.
I took for 4days it's that to long for cold turkey 1mg, I don't know why my doctor prescribed me them I just was binge drinking I'm not crazy
I was on 1mg for a year 2 weeks ago I went cold turkey it’s horrible lol
@Togal going through it right now lmao I’m feeling better than when I wrote that comment tho
@@Hi-gr4fl how do you feel now ? Im having problems with sleep
Got off last month, I was on 1mg for about a little less than a month, and when I tried to taper off to 0.5 mg I started to feel this horrible feeling in my back of throat and In my head too. I was already suffering from depersonalization and derealization and I now feel these feelings and they change and get worse and two nights ago I felt like I was floating and falling backwards and it was mild but it is so bothering. I pray that I get better every day. I don’t know what to do, I hope I don’t develop serious ugly mental Illnesses, but so far everyday I feel horrible in my head and throat and I feel like I’m floating physically at times. I don’t know what to to. Will these feelings go away. I’ve been a little more than a month and I just want to feel better
How do you feel now?
I’ve felt weird things too going off risperidone from tapering to 0.25 mg from 0.5 for about 2 and a half months and then stopping a week later. I think things should get better soon but the question is how are you feeling now?
u can take American skullcap for help, natural sedative
@@happylife5654 what is that
@@jordannas.2149 Google it !
I went off respiradone cold turkey and regret it. I do not suffer from psychosis and I am not bipolar or anything like that. I had anxiety before but it was not as bad before I went off cold turkey. Now I am worse than even before I even took the drug. I can't do things like I did before without it seriously bothering me. I now have irritable bowel syndrome. I wish I was never on the stuff. There was no need for me to be on it. I could never have an answer to this problem at all it has been very frustrating for me.
I've been on this for 3 months started at .5 and went upto 5.. They brought it down to 1 mg now .. How do I taper it down ?
Was tapering down 1mg a huge jump? My son just went from 4 to 3 and he's having psychotic symptoms (schizophrenia) but abilify was added 2 days ago so im not sure if uts the risperdol or abilify
@@nativechique7589 how is your son?
they force you when you tell the truth about being
abused
I was prescribed this after a episode with Methamphetamine...it worked after the intial psychotic episode but after a week I feel like it is debilitating.
Same... Exactly the same 😂 I noticed u can't really get as high when ur on it either, but the comedowns are sooo much better. I still take it, shit helped me kick meth about 4 months ago. If it didn't make me feel so drained & the snuffy nose... Otherwise, I halfway like being on it. Makes the world so much more peaceful
I do not recommend this drug. I spent 4 years on it at multiple different doses, the highest being 6 mg. I was prescribed it because I was suicidal at the time over a breakup. I only stopped taking it a few weeks ago. Those 4 years were the most gruelling, most painful years of my entire life. Plagued with endless suffering. First came the tinnitus, randomly, for seemingly no reason. I was devastated and confused, but I learned to cope with it. Then my heart started pumping extremely hard, for once again, seemingly no reason. To this day It still does, day or night, It throbs my whole body. Then, arguably the worst thing, auditory hallucinations, a voice in my head would constantly say my name every second, 24 hours a day, non-stop. While I slept, these voices would engulf me, saying random phrases, screaming at me, no sensible meaning to anything said, a lot of it was sexually explicit or violence related. I was in denial for a long time, thinking maybe I was just predisposed to schizophrenia or something, but now I realized this was induced by long-term use of the drug. Now that I weaned off with the help of my doctor, the voices are quieter, my heart is calming down ever slowly, and a lot of the minor symptoms have disappeared. I just have to get through the withdrawals, which has included a lot of visual hallucinations, strange behaviour (I pace constantly and make up stories in my head) But, I am more motivated than I’ve ever been, and more happy. Though that could be a withdrawal symptom too, I am not taking it for granted. Thank you for listening.
i started on 6 mg was on it for about a year now im coming off and i experience pretty similar symptoms and weight gain
The withdraw is terrible, this isn’t like an antidepressant
Nope. Antidepressants are like a feather compared to and antipsychotic Anvil
@@MurphyLyle antidepressants are like taking Advil lol barely any psychotic side effects, it’s just crazy they call them *anti*psychotics when there’s nothing antipsychotic about them, the side effects made me feel like I was being punished
@@JZGreengo sameeee 😮 how is the withdraw process when you fully stop ??
@@downtowndior depends on your dose and how long you’ve been on the drug, I was on max dose instantly and had withdraws after a month. I’d rather not tell you about what happened to me
@@JZGreengo help me out mate I stopped mine 10 months ago and been suffering every day and visits to A@E and constant numbness and loss of taste touch brain shit I just cannot explain. Today is worse than ever. Think I am going to collapse as my balance is all over the place. Addictions worse than ever.
funny that risperidone means dead impotent kid in Greek/Latin
If you really want to help do not charge astronomical prices for your services!!!
I can't afford 65,000. It's crazy. N i need help getting off this stuff
I was put on this trash do to benzo withdrawal and this drug withdrawal is worse then that benzo wtf is wrong w these people giving this trash out
What did you experience?
@@CraigTara113 a holocaust beyond anything you can imagine
@@CraigTara113 shaking seeing triple w needles all over my body hullination homicidal thoughts and pain so bad ya think your in hell for over 2 yes straights it left w brain damage and chronic ptsd among other issues
@@_blew_a_fuse_7372 I came off mine this year just spoke to doctor ask for help
@@CraigTara113 dont bother anythi g you add will make it worse im over 2 yrs off and still a reck taper as slow as possible theres nothing else out there to help it your gaba receptors are mutated and cut now it gonna take a long time expect anything to happen dont bother w drs there useless !! Powers benzo coaching look him up on here he kept me going throught this holocaust gopd.luck w your journey
Withdrawl...one day..constant suicide hallucination..two weeks..conciousness ripping itself to pieces..
I stopped mine 7 months ago I am a mess now physically mentally emotionally dont know if I will live or die now. Absolute hell
@@CraigTara113 that sux... Maybe go back on them??? Or pray to lord satan for reademption....
@@CraigTara113 do you recover? How you do it ?
@@Feelbetterfungi I was was going through a difficult time at that point. At the end of September my mum passed away so I was under a lot of stress. There were no signs of positive symptoms at any stage but definitely lots of stress and so signs of neglecting my self care. My physical health has continued to be an issue due to losing both my mum and sister. I came off the meds myself with no plan I practically stopped them over night but just before my mum passed I took them again and I’m still on them. I choose to focus on the things that I can be thankful for in life full stop. Everything else just drags one down. There is so much to appreciate every moment sending love ❤️ ps talk with your doctor everyone is unique
@@troyhayder6986 I think you need an increase Troy lol 😂
Quit everything cold turkey tired of it
no it is a powerful drug, u risk a psychosis induced by withdrawal effect. not tappering is very bad. how much do you take ? if you take a big dosage u can cut it, dont go below 2mg really . this is pure chemistry.
how are you now? were you able to fully recover?
no, that was a bad idea. I ended up being hospitalized. I’m now on a different medication.
Just quit it altogether, you cannot thank yourself enough for that. Yes, the journey would be difficult. It would take 2-3 years to become 90-95% normal. But it’s totally worth. Anti depressants/ Anti Psychotics can’t do shit, they can only make things worst. They are like statins for heart disease.
I need help
@exoticindia how you come of it.
What about people who are on poly drugs - risperdone + ativan + lithium - taper all 10% each every month 0r taper off one of them first then another then the last??