Risp 4 MG Tablet Health Feed

You can get the same medicine in India with a different brand name, SIZODON LIQUID, with a doctor's prescription.

Dear Lybrate user,
its good that your husband is responding to treatment. Side effects are inevitable part of any treatment. However we can find ways to reduce them by modifying the medicines and adding on counselling. Don't worry. Feel assured. Fix an appointment with a psychiatrist either in person or through tele consultation. You will get appropriate guidance.

Some side effects of risperidone may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine.
Let's connect over a call so that we can discuss your concern in details and make a suitable treatment plan for you.

Dear lybrate-user,
please don't change the medication on your own. Discuss your concern with your doctor. Haldol acts at various dose differently. At 0.25 mg dose for tourette syndrome, at 2 - 8 mg dose like risperidone. For insomnia haldol may not be a good choice.

Dear Arti,
At the outset, i will tell you about quality of life years. WHO mentions for this millennium, it is not death rate, but quality of life years that matters as outcome of treatment. Please think about 50 years of life with active interest or 100 years of cursing life daily.
Both depakote and risperidone don't reduce your life span by themselves. They are NOT poisons - not even slow poison like cigarettes or sedentary life. Both of them cause weight gain that in turn causes sug...more

Dear Shadab,
Nice to know that you are concerned about your father. High cholesterol levels cause ischemia that can cause slowness.
Another possibility is there, please check on it. Is he taking Risdone plus (containing both Risperidone and THP) or Risdone (only risperidone). If he took risdone without THP, he might have got little risperidone induced parkinson. It might have slowed him down. Probably in the native place, risdone plus was not available.

It is not clear what you mean. Risperdal is not a disease and is a medicine given for mental illness. Please ask clearly.

It can be taken for long duration 2 to 5 years but monitoring should be by psychiatrist. Long term side effect of antipsychitics are tardive dyskinesia ,metabolic syndrome & weight gain etc so proper follow psychiatrist.

Dear lybrate-user, There are a lot of effective medications (mood stabilisers) available for bipolar mood disorder. However,these medications differ in their mechanism of action and side effect profiles. The dose of the medications also has to be adjusted for every patient so as to have maximum benefit with minimal side effect.
I will strongly recommend that you should not self treat but start treatment only under the supervision of a qualified psychiatrist. Hope you find this helpful.

Dear Aishwarya,
Aggressiveness may be a part of your paranoid schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia needs to be treated with antipsychotics. There are many different types of antipsychotic available. One had to try few of them before deciding the proper drug and dose. May be soltus 200 did not work that well the doctor changed to risperidone (risdone plus)
Once your paranoid ideas come down, the aggressiveness will be controlled. Please continue treatment and consult the doctor repeatedly.