Don 2 MG Tablet Health Feed

Your doctor is not making money but giving you good advice. Your condition is not as simple as it appears and needs a lot of treatment. Your problems showed up around your late teens, and is a very vulnerable stage. This means that there were some mitigating circumstances in early childhood. This needs to be investigated. The reason the doctor advised you not to go for meditation is probably that it is ill-advised in your current state of mind to do unguided meditation: you should do only guided...more

Dear Yubaraj,
Your wife may be having psychotic symptoms also along with depression. Amitriptyline and clonazepam have side effect of sedation. However she is taking rest and getting up for food and toilet. She would have got used to these drugs in 2 days. Now you can give risperidone also. Risperidone does not come as 5. Maybe it is 0.5.
However discuss with your doctor about drowsiness without stopping the drug. You should weigh whether drowsiness is worse or her symptoms are worse.

It is not advisable to take clozapine only for Sleep. There are several other alternatives to use to improve sleep especially if you find risperidone is helping to improve your condition and there are no major side effects. If so Please stay on risperidone and ask your Psychiatrist to add sleeping tablet.

I hope you are taking the medications under the directions of a doctor. Please do not increase it decrease or change the dosage without the doctors advise who is treating you. Simply depending on medicines for all kinds of complaints is not judicious and can be harmful in the long run. Start afresh with a disciplined daily routine with balanced diet, exercise with sufficient rest being the major pillars of healthy lifestyle. Learn yoga as it can increase your stamina in a natural way which last...more

If you are having anxiety disorder or depressive state you need to take psychological treatments like psychotherapy or CBT from a trained psychologist also. This will improve your situstion. Take care.

Hi Lybrate user
for your problem you use yoga and meditation daily routine. And use ayurved medicine. Thanks regard.

No need to take it for life time take for a while then consult again to the doctor whoem you have consulted before ok.

Not at all, it is mostly medically managed and reversible condition. I am surprised someone has suggested surgery for you.

Dear lybrate-user,
Risdone was controlling your husband's symptoms of mood swings, murmuring and self laughing. Now risdone is not given, he is having all these symptoms. Please consult a psychiatrist who can prescribe tablets or long acting injectables for your husband. You can ask for side effects of risdone liquid, if it prescribed.

Dear Saikat,
Though you were suffering from depression and anxiety, the diagnosis must have been different. Depression and anxiety occurs in many psychiatric disorders and few medical conditions.
Risdone plus and oleanz is usually prescribed for psychotic features. Doctors usually try to treat with minimum dose of drugs. Many persons respond well to that dose itself. If you are not finding any improvement, please consult the doctor again. She/he will increase the dose, add another drug/t...more