Posted by LaurasMeds on March 27, 2009, at 8:52:46
In reply to Re: Question about Risperdal Withdrawal (pill form), posted by SLS on March 27, 2009, at 8:00:12
I was diagnosed as having bipolar ll. A couple of winters ago I had a lot going on in my life and ended up going into a pretty deep depression. Anyway, I take Paxil so my GP upped my dosage from 20 mg to 30 mg. I began to feel better so she upped it once again to 40 mg. At this point I began to experience extreme paranoia (to the point where I considered suicide). My psychiatrist lowered my Paxil back down to 20 mg and put me on Risperdal. It straighted out my head within 72 hours. I thought she was just going to keep me on this drug for a limited period of time but that was over 2 years ago. I have a lot of unwanted side effects so 10 weeks ago I decided to wean myself off of it. I've been experiencing flu-like symptoms and mentally my thoughts have been disorganized at times and I feel like I'm going crazy. Depression has been brewing as well. I've had a week during this tapering process where I felt really good. Now with the last reduction I'm back to feeling depressed. I've been trying to take this very slowly but the withdrawal is still bad. I was just wondering if anyone else experienced these symptoms while trying to come off Risperdal.
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