Posted by ROO on November 6, 2002, at 8:27:24
In reply to Re: Risperdal questions, posted by Essence on November 6, 2002, at 7:22:19
dinah--
Geez....don't really know how to answer this one...I'm
on a tiny..and I mean TINY dose of an AP...like 1 mg...
of one of the older ones called Navane...I don't really notice
it at all...I'm not sure what it does for me....but I don't go off
it because I notice when I don't take it I'm a little more anxious
without it...whether that's withdrawal or not, I don't know, but I've
haven't been at a stable enough place in my life yet to tamper with that
yet. My pdoc says it just makes you able to "handle" things better, to
have more confidence that you can handle things. I can tell you that
it doesn't blunt me or flatten me like the ssri's...my dose isn't high enough
for that. I don't notice anything in the way of side effects from it. I noticed
a tiny bit of sexual side effects from it, so I just did my thang, if you know what I mean,
before I took the durn thing, and everything was fine then.I don't know, if I had it all to do over again, if I would have bothered with taking
the AP...because I'm not sure really what it's doing for me...but I feel fairly sure I'm
addicted to it (because everytime I try to stop taking it, I freak out)...so maybe I
wouldn't recommend it)...or maybe you could take it for a short time and if you find it
makes a big difference in the quality of your life without major side effects, it would be
worth it...I don't know...
poster:ROO
thread:126625
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