Hi,

I have a question. Has anyone gone off risperdal and what side effects did you experience? I was on 3 mg for years and my psych cut me back to 2 mg. I have been at that dose for 2 years but now have decided that taking it is not worth the weight gain. I do have an eating disorder so weight gain is scary to me. Over the past month I have tapered the dose down to 1mg. I have just started taking 1mg the last couple of days and I am experiencing a lot of anxiety and uncontrolled thoughts.

I am not schizophrenic or psychotic. I am not certain why I am on the medication to begin with. I am DID and have general anxiety disorder, but I have heard so many reports that risperdal does not help DID.

I know no one here is a doctor, but I was just wondering if anyone else has experience with tapering off risperdal. I cannot find anything about withdrawal effect.

Thanks.