Re: Risperidone nightmare.

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
ChrisC <chrispche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My psychiatrist gave me 4mg of Risperidone and it is causing me hell,
I can't sleep.

A lot of the psychotropic drugs the quacks prescribed me gave me that
sort of problem. Nightmares in many cases - really evil nightmares
that woke me up screaming and sweating. Not nice at all.

I have decided to stop taking it.

If you really, really must take an antipsychotic, that's not a good
one (although there are worse). There are those which are less bad -
olanzapine is less bad than risperidone from what I can tell.

This is the list containing the not-so-bad antipsychotics - even
risperidone is better than the old stuff they used to clobber loonies
with. Free registration required, but it's seriously worth it if you
want the official gen on drugs:

<http://www.bnf.org/bnf/bnf/57/65561.htm>

(twenty five years ago, it was normal to dose loonies up with
antipsychotics to a level that is now described as `abusive'. And I'm
sure of this because I've had the BNF from 1984 (gave it away, damnit
- should have kept it) and more recent ones and the older BNF did
indeed list huge doses for loonies in hospital and the new BNFs
really do call those old big doses `abusive'. Bear that in mind -
the medical opinions change over time, which indicates that medical
people cannot be trusted to get it right...)

I wonder if this is
wise, my feeling is yes. I can't do without sleep.

Lack of sleep has been shown to be the cause of a lot of mental health
problems - especially including psychosis. A lot of shrinks are
ignoring that evidence at the moment, but getting your sleep sorted is
probably the best thing you can do for your mental health.

(good diet and daily exercise are two things that can help with that.)

I'll contact the
Doctor tomorrow. I only had 2 hours sleep last night and I'm not
suffering again tonight.

There's no reason not to make the decision yourself, you know. What
do you think your GP knows about mental health anything? Bugger all,
at a guess.

But if you've been on any given psychotropic drug for any length of
time, it's usually a good idea to taper the dose down to nothing
rather than just suddenly stop taking it. But I'd guess not so in
this case.

Well, look, any time I've stopped taking a prescribed psychotropic
drug, I've stopped taking it suddenly, and that's only caused me
trouble when it was the drug that they'd got me addicted to -
chlormethiazole.

(horrible stuff - deadly, really. Sneaky - gets you hooked, makes it
bloody hard to let go, the only way I could manage it was going cold
turkey and that led to a day of being really, really, really badly ill
and throwing up almost constantly /despite/ the anti-emetics and when
you've not eaten all day, that's nasty. But you won't be prescribed
chlormethiazole - look it up and find out why...)

Looking on Google it seems this is a common side effect of the drug.
No thank you.

It's cheap, that's why they like prescribing it.

This is better info than most sources - free registration required and
it's worth it:

<http://www.bnf.org/bnf/bnf/57/3249.htm>

Rowland.

Are you trying to make the case for suicide as the only
viable option to madness. It certainly sounds like it.

Do have any idea how hopeless you make the prognosis for
mental illness sound ????.

You might have an excuse is you were telling the truth, but
you are so divorced from reality its sick.

Your problem is that you're ill, self medicating with god
knows what illegal ***, and not under any form of medical
supervision.

As I've posted here before, the nature of your personality
and your illness makes you a dangerous and inappropriate
individual to be giving opinions to vulnerable people.

--
Munty



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