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Originally Posted by splitimage
But as a cautionary note, risperidone is one of the stronger atypicals, and can have some serious side effects. I briefly went up to 4 mg last summer when I was in a depressive episode. It fixed my depression, but after about 3 months at the higher dose, I started having bad extra-pyramidal side effects such as having trouble walking. Fortunately that went away when I went back down to 3 mg.
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Hmm.. maybe I don't want to talk to my pdoc about incresing my riperidone dose then, even though the current dose is no longer working for me. Maybe I should just ask to switch to something else (even if risperidone has worked for me for over 2 and a half years).