[Wildlavender]

So I'm on risperdal at night 1mg and haven't stopped that,but I had 2mg then 1mg during the day for two weeks and am trying to come off that.

I thought because I only had the increase for two weeks, I could taper in two weeks instead of the 10% months and months I'd read.That was a mistake I should have tapered very slowly.When I got down to 0.12mg in the second week I developed some sort of anahedonia (lack of enjoyment of things) it's the hardest thing to explain but when I look at food I have no reaction it's like looking at a rock,when I read my favourite thing - fairy tales,I don't feel enchanted or anything,nothing evokes.I looked at Christmas things and couldn't feel what Christmas feels like.

But I was still enjoying things and the last three days the food thing seemed to improve quite a bit,then today for whatever reason I exoerienced what felt like withdrawl - nausea and the food thing became bad again.

I am still on 0.12mg btw,should I increase it back to 0.25mg to prevent any further withdrawl? That's my main question.My main concern is that when I jump off that in 4 weeks this will just happen again.Maybe even worse?

But obviously I can't go through any further withdrawl.also when I have the 1mg at night which should cure any withdrawl it doesn't really fix anything, so I don't know that increasing the med and tapering will help.But it may prevent further withdrawls.

Any help on withdrawls/tapering appreciated.

If the anhedonia is too bad for you to cope with, then you should try going back up a bit and tapering slower. But if you feel that you can push through it, then keep going. It shouldn't last long. Only you can decide which option is best.

*Willow*

[epthe2]

I tapered off very slowly from a different neuroleptic (Geodon), and it took the better part of a year to get completely off it. And I still got withdrawal symptoms (insomnia, hot flashes, sweating, followed by chills, nausea, vomiting, hallucinations, etc.), but from what I understand, tapering slowly reduces the intensity and duration of them.

Anhedonia is still a big problem for me.

I was skinny before I started taking any neuroleptics, then i gained weight on them, and now I have lost too much weight because I don't care about food anymore at all.