RedPanda20: Hi! Risperdal and Carbamazepine have made my life a living hell! :'( Idk what to do...

[RedPanda20]

Hi, my name is Roberto! You can call me Rob. I'm 23 and I'm from Venezuela. :'3

 

Sorry for my English!

 

I started with this psychiatrist in late September and since day one she told me that I had to take risperdal 2 mg and carbamazepine 200 mg (the first one to organize my ideas and get a better sleep, the second one to stabilize my mood)... I started to take them in early October and then around early November she dropped me the Risperdal to 1 mg because I was feeling extremely exhausted . 

 

The side effects were hurting me a lot ( problems with my memory & libido, apathy , low energy, feelings of slowness) and since I was taking the meds for only one month I thought that quitting cold turkey both of them wasn't going to destroy me! I was wrong... I lasted 7 days cold turkey, the shivers and suicidal thoughts were heavy! This time I had to take Risperdal/Risperidone 3mg and Carbomazepine 400 mg( day and night) and seeing more mg really hurt me! TnT 

 

My psychiatrist doesn't want me to stop taking them, but I want to stop... Just that I don't know how! 

 

I was thinking in going 2.50 mg of Risperdal and then 2 weeks after 2 mg then 2 wks 1.50 then 2 weeks and take 1 mg until I get to 0...  But is that too fast??? 

 

I'm feeling slow, emotionless, struggling with my memory,really afraid of all the plans that I had planned and that now were sabotaged! 😢

I want my life back!!! I want my spark!!!! I want my creativity! 

Please, help me!!! 

I send you a huge hug for reading my story! 

[hayduke]

On 11/27/2022 at 8:20 AM, RobVel said:

Hi, my name is Roberto! You can call me Rob. I'm 23 and I'm from Venezuela. :'3

 

Sorry for my English!

 

I started with this psychiatrist in late September and since day one she told me that I had to take risperdal 2 mg and carbamazepine 200 mg (the first one to organize my ideas and get a better sleep, the second one to stabilize my mood)... I started to take them in early October and then around early November she dropped me the Risperdal to 1 mg because I was feeling extremely exhausted . 

 

The side effects were hurting me a lot ( problems with my memory & libido, apathy , low energy, feelings of slowness) and since I was taking the meds for only one month I thought that quitting cold turkey both of them wasn't going to destroy me! I was wrong... I lasted 7 days cold turkey, the shivers and suicidal thoughts were heavy! This time I had to take Risperdal/Risperidone 3mg and Carbomazepine 400 mg( day and night) and seeing more mg really hurt me! TnT 

 

My psychiatrist doesn't want me to stop taking them, but I want to stop... Just that I don't know how! 

 

I was thinking in going 2.50 mg of Risperdal and then 2 weeks after 2 mg then 2 wks 1.50 then 2 weeks and take 1 mg until I get to 0...  But is that too fast??? 

 

I'm feeling slow, emotionless, struggling with my memory,really afraid of all the plans that I had planned and that now were sabotaged! 😢

I want my life back!!! I want my spark!!!! I want my creativity! 

Please, help me!!! 

I send you a huge hug for reading my story! 

Hi there Rob.  It sounds like the dose changes from the risperidone would be quite unsettling.

 

Please create a drug history in your signature with the exact dates of each change, and then we will be able to suggest dosage changes and tapering methods.
 

 

 

 

[RedPanda20]

Hi, I'm Rob. Nice to meet you! 

I'm 23 and I'm from Venezuela (sorry for my English!) 🙊

I went to the psychiatrist around late September this year(2022)... She told me to take Risperdal in the night(2 mg)to organize my ideas/getting better sleep and Carbamazepine (200 mg)in the morning to stabilize my mood. 

I started to take the medication around the beginning of October (2022)... Risperdal was making me feel like a zombie and ironically I was having a hard time organizing my ideas so It was reduced to 1 mg around the beginning of November.  🥴

I quit cold turkey both of them on November 12th because I hated feeling sedated... Oh, lord. It was painful. 

Suicidal thoughts were extremely hitting my head... and I was feeling too paranoid and anxious to function, I was shaking at night and having too many nightmares. 

On November 19th , my mom ,who was worried, called another psychiatrist and she told us that I had to take 3 mg of Risperdal and 400 mg of carbamazepine (in the morning and in the night)... That shattered me because I wanted to escape from the pills! 🥲🥲🥲🥲

The worst part was the increase of the dosages!! Noooooo! *Cries internally*

 

The 3 mg of Risperdal were making me too drowsy and ... I decided to reduce the dosage to 2 mg on November 28th (yes, I know. I'm impatient) . 

 

Today is December 8th ...  I'm doing better compared to November 12th onwards.  I can do exercise at least.  

 

I'm going to reduce 0.5 mg of Risperdal on December 11th... 

 

Not gonna get rid of carbamazepine yet. 

 

Any advice? Could I make it reducing 0.5 mg of Risperdal every two weeks? Reducing 3 mg to 2mg wasn't too traumatic, it helped me to move more. 

[manymoretodays]

Hello RedPanda, @RedPanda20

And welcome aboard.  You don't need a new topic, or Introduction.  Looks like we got you started, but then your stuff was still invisible as we waited on your user name.  So.....here you are.  One topic per member please.

 

And thank you for getting to your signature.  Yay!  No other drugs prior to this past October?

 

 

So you are currently on 2 mg Risperdal at night and 200 mg of Carbamazepine in the morning and another 200 mg at night?

 

Would you consider a less drastic drop of the Risperdal?

Like maybe only to 1.8 mg from 2 mg?

And okay.....you might have already jumped to 0.5 mg of Risperdal yesterday.  Me, I'd sure back up, and go to 1 mg at least.

I don't want you to crash again.

 

Now you can see the replies made to you earlier.

And so.......have you had a chance to look at the topics?

Especially the why taper by 10% and our harm reduction protocol.

 

Have you checked interactions on your 2 drugs?  That's always a great idea to do so.  We often use Drugs.com to do that.

And I'll run one for you now and link:

https://www.drugs.com/interactions-check.php?drug_list=497-0,2019-1305&types[]=major&types[]=minor&types[]=moderate&types[]=food&types[]=therapeutic_duplication&professional=1

you can switch back to consumer if you'd prefer.

 

Good to see you back.

Do clarify, just in a reply, what you take, name of drug(s) and dose(s) and when.  Thank you.

Sorry, for your experiences to date.

 

Can you also tell how it is going for you now?  What is a day like?  Do you feel like yourself?  Are you having any emotional or physical symptoms from your drugs or WD(withdrawal)?  You can also look up your drugs singularly on Drugs.com.  Just go to the top and put your drug name in, and then you will know of the side effects from them.

 

Dr. Glenmullens withdrawal symptom check list

If you look at the downloadable PDF, you'll see the range of WD symptoms

 

I'll stop here.  Hoping you find your way back. 

 

L, P, H, and G,

mmt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 12, 2022 by manymoretodays