Honestly if you've been on both meds since 2008 and haven't had any problems, I wouldn't worry about it. If you were going to have a bad interaction odds are you would have had it by now.

Drug trial results are required to list every possible side effect / interaction even if relatively few people experience it. When I started on risperidone, my pdoc told me not to be freaked out by the list of possible side effects listed on the patient handout. When I got the patient handout at the pharmacy I freaked, but I've had minimal side effects from the drug and I've been on it since 2005.

I think what pharmacists tell you will vary by pharmacist too and their own level of knowledge. I know for a fact, for example, that risperidone can cause bone density to decrease, but when I asked a pharmacist about it she flat out said it wasn't a side effect. I also heard the same pharmacist tell another patient that seroquel was a sedative, not that it was an anti-psychotic. Sorry another pet peeve of mine is seroquel overprescribing. Sorry didn't mean to hijack your thread

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