Posted by Christ_empowered on August 24, 2011, at 10:38:08
In reply to Risperdone question: typical treatment duration, posted by floatingbridge on August 23, 2011, at 12:37:43
You gotta watch it...and your doc, too. Since antipsychotics can tranquilize people quickly and they're not controlled substances, lots of docs up the dose and leave patients on them longer than necessary.
Since you're female and have a mood disorder, your TD risk is higher than, say, a male schizophrenic. Also, age plays into TD risk; middle-aged or older=higher risk, especially in women.
There's also a problem because sufficiently high doses of neuroleptics will cause an increase in dopamine receptors. Pull the plug on extended treatment too quickly and you end up with a rebound psychosis, sometimes even in people who weren't psychotic to begin with.
I'd personally advise you to keep your dose as low as possible, watch out for EPS, take your antioxidants (TD and other forms of neuroleptic-induced brain damage are partly caused by increased free radical formation in the brain), and taper ASAP.
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