Last weekend with the agreement of my psychiatrist I reduced my risperidone dose from 3 mg to 2.5 mg. I had nasty side effects from the decrease. Now I've noticed a definite drop in mood. I'm not happy with this. I'm not sure if the decreased mood is correlated with the decrease dose, or if it's simply situational due to having gone through a rough psych evaluation, getting more Dx, not getting a job interview I really wanted, and contemplating the thought of requiring additional treatment, all downers.

I'm going to try to stick it out on the lower dose until my appointment with him in 2 weeks, but for now I'm thinking I'm going to have to go back up to 3 mg again.

This really dose not bode well for my desire to ultimately get off meds.

--splitimage