Posted by Musica4 on June 10, 2012, at 20:58:15
In reply to Re: risperdal withdrawl causing more symptoms » SLS, posted by jjj on May 18, 2005, at 10:40:35
JJJ, You and I have such a similar situation (actually its freaky its so similiar! I would have said the exact same thing but I just copied what you wrote and added some other things that I have experienced. So below, is what Ive been through:
This is whats happened to me: hmmm. I'm not sure what I'm diagnosed with. I guess it could be considered psychotic depression, although I don't feel especially depressed anymore, yet the psychosis is still happening. I've had one MANIC episode in the past, but I believe it was induced by medication (Lexapro)(I was in a mental hospital for 5 days). It only happened once and hasn't happened again. Not sure if that rules out bipolar, if I am bipolar, it is a very slight case. (I do experience mood swings, from happy to sad, then feeling inadequate, then sad, then irritaded - all in 1 day) My pdoc has concentrated on treating my symptoms and hasn't provided a definitive "diagnosis" they are trying to label me Bipolar I now.I'm extremely self critical, although with treatment I've been learning to accept my faults and generally let things go instead of mulling over them and making myself upset about something I didn't do, or something I don't like about myself.
I have hallucinations, generally when going to sleep or waking up, I see robots/old school looking machines reaching for me at the side of my bad, the last one was a tine helicopter looking thing flying from my bed to the ceiling. Since I quit Risperdal a little bit more than a month ago i have heard voices (which never happened before, i used to only see machines at bed time, but no voices. and I have been extemely anxious, having hard time speaking/studdering, making stupid mistakes like replying an e-mail to myself instead of the person i want to reply to, anf forgetting the attachment, also things like going to return courines i bought, throwing them in a platic bag with the pole and all instead of putting in back in the package it came in and the lady at the store says: "oh really??!")
I have not experienced other hallucinations. They have been pretty contained and only happen in my apartment. I've grown accustomed to them. When it happens I can say to myself, "this isn't really happening". I think if the experiences were more diverse, it would be much more difficult.
the hallucinations would wake me up at 4:00am
IM AFRAID I'M WITHDRAWING FROM RISPERIDONE I QUIT A LITTLE MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, OR MAYBE IT IS THE NEW MED: GEODON THAT I HAVE TAKING FOR A LITTLE OVER2 WEEKS.Thanks all, good luck to you all.
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