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Originally Posted by costello
Thanks. I hope that's what he has in mind. Maybe that's why he's asked me to attend the next appointment - to see if I'm up for helping. I am, and I just hope the dose will be lowered very slowly. He's only on 2.5 mg right now. That's the smallest pill. So if we have to resort to cutting it into smaller pieces we're probably looking at a 25% reduction in dosage. 
It is really, really scary. I hate the thought of relapse, because my son is so angry and so lacking in insight when he's in an episode. He's promised he'll go up again if it doesn't work, but sometimes when they lower the dose, he feels so much better, but he's making everyone around him miserable.  I guess we have different definitions of "doing better."  |
i was on 3 mg risperdal and we lowered it by .5 every 2 weeks. im on 2 mg right now exept i had a brief episode and we put it back to 2.5 for a time. because i take the risperdal shot too and it wore out before i could get the new one. it was my fault really. but anyway. yes go slow. and i bet its scary for u because hes ur son and u dont want to see him go psychotic again. but i would ahve an open dialouge with your son to see what symptoms start to happen first and how u both can be alerted to them if they come up. because it happens in stages. for me at least. i dont know about ur son.