Posted by mouse on July 5, 2002, at 19:31:34
In reply to Re: diagnosis, antipsychotics, pdoc suggestions wanted, posted by Schuyler on July 5, 2002, at 5:11:46
> It isn't clear to me why you have taken Risperdal for 5 years if it is not helping. Could you explain that?
Well, when my old pdoc suggested that I take it i didn't know why I was taking it. I was told for the anxiety and trusted him so left it at that. Then he retired and I switched to a different pdoc. In the process I also went to a different GP and he said something about me having thought disorders. I didn't know what he said but he was talking about the Risperdal and so I did some internet research and realized why I was given it. Duh! So when the first pdoc said is it helping I said sure because my anxiety was not so bad, but I was still having disturbing thoughts. Didn't connect the two. I'm better informed today. That is why I'm here. Trying to find a solution. The new (actually old by now) pdoc doesn't want to mess with it since i don't have side-effects. I want to "know" what to tell him so that I can get something that works either by increasing this or changing. I just don't want to have side-effects either. So I sort of understand his conservative nature.
> I can only say that I have been taking Risperdal for 3 weeks now, (currently at 1 mg per day), and it has helped reduce my obsessive, "ruminative" thinking a *lot* (together with 40 mg of Ritalin per day). If Risperdal doesn't work for you, why not try another "anti-psychotic" mood stabilizer?I am looking at that as an option, just don't know which one to look at yet.
mouse
> Schuyler
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