[snakeeater]

Hello there. Just over one year ago I started taking risperidone 2mg To get rid of some voices that I was hearing that gradually subsided in a few months. about a month ago my dosage was reduced from 2mg right to 1mg. With in a few days I started feeling weird, hard to discribe really just felt like I was more agitated, and seemed a little spaced out at times and was thinking about it all the time and started to get stressed out. I did not hear any voices. I was bad for a day then It seemed like it got slightly better in the next 2 weeks untill I told my doctor about It. I asked him if it was withdrawal and he told me there is no such thing as withdrawal from risperidone and if I feel bad in any way I should go back up to the 2mg. I took his advice. Im just wondering now if there is any possiblity my doc is wrong and I was just experiencing withdrawal because I really wanted to get off this drug. I thinking of asking him for 1.5mg the next time i see him and trying that for a month?

[onionknight]

It is certainly possible that you were experiencing withdrawal. Withdrawal from antipsychotics is certainly real. As I said in another thread, the safest reduction or withdrawal method is a 10% reduction every month.

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by snakeeater

Hello there. Just over one year ago I started taking risperidone 2mg To get rid of some voices that I was hearing that gradually subsided in a few months. about a month ago my dosage was reduced from 2mg right to 1mg. With in a few days I started feeling weird, hard to discribe really just felt like I was more agitated, and seemed a little spaced out at times and was thinking about it all the time and started to get stressed out. I did not hear any voices. I was bad for a day then It seemed like it got slightly better in the next 2 weeks untill I told my doctor about It. I asked him if it was withdrawal and he told me there is no such thing as withdrawal from risperidone and if I feel bad in any way I should go back up to the 2mg. I took his advice. Im just wondering now if there is any possiblity my doc is wrong and I was just experiencing withdrawal because I really wanted to get off this drug. I thinking of asking him for 1.5mg the next time i see him and trying that for a month?

I'm having the same problem but with abilify....much more irritation and anxiety upon withdrawl. I too went back up on the meds but only halfway up went from 10 to 5 to 7.5. The 7.5 has worked for the last year so I'm going to try going back down to five again. Too rapid a withdrawl from antipsychotics can actually cause psychosis to occur again. So there is such a thing as withdrawl and you have be careful I think 1.5 sounds good. The only time I actually got off risperidone was when I switched to abilify, but switching isn't the same as discontinuation.