Risperdal and medication

My daughter is a 14 year old mentally disabled child who will be 15 next week. She was prescribed Risperdal last month. Her doctor wanted her taking the lowest dosage ( 0.5 ). She's non-verbal. So to get you to understand her wants and needs she uses gestures. I noticed since she has been on the medication that she is always wanting to be held. Was very quiet. Sleeping a lot. She wasn't constipated like the others here have brought up, but she always had diarrhea. Was gaining a lot of weight as well. But it was what happened this morning that made me panic. When I was giving her a bath this morning I noticed that she had a white drip on her leg. I didn't think anything of it because it looked like the liquid bath soap. She gave me a hard time to take her out of the tub, so I put my arms around her from behind causing me to put pressure on both of her breasts. Milk shot out from both breasts. Of course as the mother who knows for a fact that her daughter is a virgin I began to panic. With the recent weight gain and the enlarging of her breasts, and now this, my mind began to think negatively. But from reading what I have so far here on this site I now see that it's happened to others and that it IS the medication.

I was taken off Seroquel immediately after having been taking it for several years. My psychiatric nurse said the dosage of Seroquel I was taking 100 mg at night was equivalent to a sleeping pill and not doing anything to stabilize my mood. I have only been taking 1 mg of Risperdal for 4 nights and I've been waking up suddenly at 4 a.m. My doctor told me to try taking 2 mg and again, I woke up at 4 a.m. for no reason. I always slept through the night with Seroquel but it was hard to wake up earlier than 9 a.m. I am able to go back to sleep for a few hours upon waking up at 4 a.m. and I only felt drugged when I increased the dosage to 2 mg. However, today (the 4th day) I feel very light hearted and dizzy. I don't know if it's the medication, sleep deprivation or getting off Seroquel so suddenly. I'm still having the same crazy dreams I had while on Seroquel, maybe worse. I have a feeling I'll gain weight on Risperdal unless I try hard not to snack.

WARNING ALL WITH TWICHES AND INVOUNTARY MOVEMENT SHOULD STOP USING THIS MEDICATION! THIS IS A SERIOUS PERMANT EFFECT CONSULT DOCTORS IMMEDIATLY

my 16 and a half year old son was put on this medication because of his temper; however he sleeps excessively, does not have a problem with libido and is still as angry as he was before being put on this medication. His diagnosis had something to do with his oppositional attitude?? But isn't that fairly normal as well as common for a teenager who does not always get his way?? My ex husband had him put on this medication so that he would be easier to deal with. I want to get my son off of this drug. He is still taking wellbutrin which I dont believe has the same adverse long term affects. What do you think?? A concerned mom

my daughter has been on this medication for about 45 days. She has gained 17 pounds, her nose is always stuffed up. No medication is helping her sinus problem. Does anyone have the name of any other medications that can be used to treat her personality disorder (bi-polar) that does not cause rapid weight gain.

Two of my female relatives have been given this medication. One a few years ago. Another has just been discharged from hospital. The most recent is why I had surfed the net looking for answers and found this site.

She is like the first is suffering from overweight, breast discharge. constipation etc.

The first time we managed to gradually cut down the dosage, but this took time. She had withdrawal symptoms complained of her heart pounding and a general feel feeling of nausea. I think the first step is feeling your ok and knowing you have to get off it. If you have the wherewithal to do that, its all down hill.

I had got mad with the doctor but his answer was, "Which is it to be, sickness or medicine? It seems to me that they could be a bit more careful with the dosage knowing the side effects and problems it will cause.

My husband does need a drug for temper management and cumpulsive spending. Is there another medication that works without the terrible side effects?
My husband also has the droppy eyelids as well as being afraid to do things that he has always done.

Has anyone been effected with vertigo while taking resperdal?

I need to know if this drug causes an elevated count in the liver because my grandson keeps comming up with one in his blood work since start of this medication.

Well, actually, risperdal was just prescribed to my daughter who is eight and a half years old. I gave her the first dose this evening, and after reading these posts, I have to say I am scared.....can anyone tell me what to do? Can I refuse to let my daughter take this medication? or will it make me out to be a parent who does not want to help her child by refusing the meds? Please help...thank you

I was prescribed riperidone over 6 years ago.I was wrongly diognosed as schiczophrenic.It made my life hell.i suffered phsically for the first 4 days of taking it.I was could not walk and was in alot of pain.Whe the physical side affects wore of,i started to feel strange mentally.I started to can not have very strange thoughts which made made mylife a misery.i often wished was dead because of this.I could not get on with my life.I might as well been mentally paralysed.
I dont know if a medication could cause such side affects
mentally.But I can not link it to anything else.It is strange that
the hese thoughts affected me less whn I stopped this medication.After a while I was put on another medication .The thoughts were still disturbing me but not in a major way that it did when I was on risperidone.I developed depression as well.I was a once healthy person who was now mentally ill.I stopped all the anti schiczophrenia medication.Since then these thoughts are insignificant and no longer disturb me.I am now so happy that it is all over.i never want to go through anything like that again

My son took risperdal for 3 to 4 months 2mg. twice a day. He has developed facial ticks, ie, squinting of the eyes, batting of the eyes, wrinkled up forehead, and downright ugly facial expressions that are uncontrolable. We have been told by the second opinion doctor that was on-call for his regular doctor that the ticks may be permanent. He is having trouble keeping his eyes open enough to see to drive, he has trouble reading because of the squints. What on earth is this medication doing on the market? He is young, ambitious, hard working, and I think if these facial ticks do not go away he will have to go on disability. He has children to support and am wondering if he will be able to keep his job. People are asking, "why are you squinting"?, why are your eyes shut?, very embarassing to say the least. Does someone who needs this kind of medication need side affects like this. I think not!

My doctor apparently forgot the side effect medicine called cogentin. By the fourth day, I was fully paralyzed. The cogentin newly prescribed has released me from not being able to move however, I will never use the medication again.