Posted by Maxime on May 29, 2005, at 10:57:45
In reply to Re: Risperdal rare side effect » Maxime, posted by yesac on May 28, 2005, at 23:25:41
Hi
Sometimes people develop tumours in their pituatary gland which raises your body's prolactin level. If you were able to take it before without lactating and then now you are lactating, then something in your body might have changed. And yes, you have wait 4 months since the lactation occured. I will be getting mine checked in July sometime.
At the same time you can take Zyprexa or Seroquel without it happening so there is probably nothing wrong. If you are going to continue with the anti-psychotic, you can't have your levels checked (to see if you have naturally high level).
You could try a lower dose, but I would just increase the Seroquel since so far you know it's okay. If you start to lactate on that then you will know that there is only a certain dosage your body can handle. I lactate on them all.
Maybe you should give your body a break before you increase the Seroquel?
Maxime
> > I lactate on all antipsychotics and it starts within 2-3 days of taking them. It is VERY painful. My doctor said that sometimes putting of the side effect can be worth it ... he is male. It is so painful that I would wake up in the middle of night when I turned over. This is not a side effect that goes away.
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> Yeah, it was pretty painful last night and all of today. I'm hoping it'll go away soon.
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> > However, since it didn't happen to you the first time, you should get your prolactin level checked. You need to wait 4 months from this last episode and go the week after you have had your period.
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> Why would I get the level checked if I just go off of it? I mean is there some reason that I need to know what the level is? And do you mean wait 4 months since the lactation that's been occuring recently?
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> I don't know, I'm not taking it now and maybe I'll just stay away from it. Seroquel has not done this to me. Zyprexa hasn't either, but I only take that on rare occasions. I hope that if I increase my dose of S, which I am thinking of doing, it won't start to happen.
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> Do you think that if I took a lower dose of Risperdal this effect would still happen?
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