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Originally Posted by Alonewithmycat
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Originally Posted by newtus
not yet but ill take a pill of my 2mg. it only comes in 2mg at a time.
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Ok but if you ever forget entirely you can probably take a 2nd pill with your night dose because you can take as much as 5mg at once. This should keep your blood levels up and help keep you stable.
I checked on Google and it says 1-2mg risperidone = 2mg haldol
So when I take 1mg (not like 4 million mg) but when I wake up it feels a lot worse than if you keep taking it continuously at the same time every day.
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1mg is an incredibly low dose of risperidone, I was on two mg but my pdoc was aiming for 4 mg but side effects kicked in. The max dose of haldol per day is 30mg so she is no where near the top but the problem is she is consistently forgetting her morning pill and I'm concerned because she just quit an injection worth 6.7-10mg per day so while she might be able to tolerate lower doses after more tapering right now it's really dangerous to cut from 2/3 to 4/5 the dose down to 2mg. Spreading it out would be best but what I'm suggesting is an alternative for when she does forget. If you have suggestions for remembering to take a pill in the morning other than some sort of alarm which she just turns off that would be super helpful.