Risperidone "Flat"

Thanks for the post! It's been over 2 years since I quit the drug. As I said previously the first year was hell! In my original post I also forgot to mention that the first month I quit the drug I had 3 menstral cycles in one month even though my blood tests came back normal! This drug can really affect your hormone levels! I cannot imagine giving this drug to a man.

I can honestly say that there has been a great improvement in my emotions this year. At the beginning of the year I was able to have a spiritual experience but no emotions at all so I began to exercise more often, take vitamins, and spend a lot of spiritual time at Church. Even though I didn't feel like it I tried to get myself to socialize and lead a normal life in addition to everything else. My naturopath found several mineral deficiencies in my blood work due to diet and too much caffeine. Caffeine makes you absorb less Iron, Zinc and Magnesium which are needed to produce hormones in your body! Caffeine also has a negative impact on female fertility as well as Ibuprofen but no one wants to tell you that now do they?

I was even able to experience a bond with someone and married them. The bond helped to lift me out of the daze a bit. However, my emotions are not the same intensity as before I started Risperidone. I can experience some emotions such as happy, bored, frustrated, under pressure, and content but they are not as intense or complex as before the drug. I don't think it'll ever be quite the same as before but it is good enough.

I really recommend cutting out coffee (it depletes your body of nutrients), taking vitamins, getting acupuncture (by someone who knows about this situation), spending time with trustworthy loved ones, and getting some spirituality into your life.

This modern life is to blame for all of this. We are brainwashed into chasing after money and success at the cost of spending time with loved ones and having children.

hi,could you please tell me what happened next ? I mean did you get your sex drive back?

Hi I was wrongfully given risperdal consta injection almost 3 months ago by a really stupid dr, after someone drugged my drink in the fall and speaking to this id**t psych he pressured me to take this. It has absolutely ruined my life and i have been brain fried zombie that doesnt think, speak move go out or anything. I cant feel anything, reality, my life. I dont talk at all just home zombie and i have to say it is the worst torture that you could ever experience. I almost didnt make it this far and i dont think i can continue. I was a very happy bubby girl always smiling full of life. One bad experience and led me to this hell. I did not deserve this. Not everyone reacts the same but it has been pure poison to my body. I feel like i dont have a mind. Just blank sedation and im starting at everything absolute worst nightmare. I will look at suing that a** but i would rather just have my life. I cant think to organize anything, stopped cooking, nothing. Cant go out shoppping etc lost ability to chat to friends like i feel like ending my life. I was hoping you could remove it or make it go away faster. I just dont want to live mentally

and personality is of course gone.. I barely say a few words and it seems like its putting me into a mental state. My life is over :(

Help I have only been on risperdal a couple months and wonder when my emotions, pleasure, and libido will come back? 

You have to quit the drug before emotions come back. I was a complete zombie while on the drug. I was on this drug for 6 months at a low dose. I had withdrawals for 9 months. It depends on you and how long you have been on it but there is light at the end of the tunnel. For 1.5 years I thought I would never feel again but it does very gradually come back. It took me 2 years after quitting the drug to gain any emotion back. It can and does come back but it will be extremely gradual and the emotions will not be as intense/irrational as before. Libido does come back too but it also took 2 years. It will probably take even longer to feel like your old self but then again you will be older and different anyways.

Yes, your emotions and sex drive can and will come back. You have to quit the drug safely and begin a healthy lifestyle. It took me 2+ years after quitting the drug to have emotions or a sex drive at all. The process is extremely gradual and you will not suddenly snap back into your old feelings again. I must say though the intensity of emotions is not nearly as strong as before the drug but I am able to enjoy activities and feel bonds with others/miss them etc. However, by the time you recover you will be older and more mellow and probably dealt with any issues that made you want to take the drug in the first place so it's very relative.

But I've only been on a low dose for under 2 months surely it won't take two whole years right? Also I am a very emotional person normally how long will it take for my emotions to begin coming back and shouldn't they be as strong?

hunnie! get off of your drug! you are too sweet to want to die. Cut the crud and get happy! Go to church. Love you much!

Hi Everyone, I'll get straight to the stuff you want to know... I have been off of ALL antiphychotics for about 6 months now. It's been slllloooooowly getting better... But it ain't all better yet... The doctor forced me to take the drugs [Colanzapine and then Risperidone]. The Phychiatrist was by law in Toronto Canada able to enforce me to take drugs for a 6 month long period, by force... The Colanzapine made me into a huge fat ass, I gained 50 pounds! So then I complained about the weight gain and the doctor switched me to a drug called Risperidone, which killed my sex drive... Anyways the doctor told me I was mentally sick and when my 6 months of legal, forceful, drugging, had expired, he then urged me to continue with the drugs or else I would bedcome very sick again... I told him politley to go F himself, Anyways... It's been six months later!!!! Want to know how I feel?! I'll start with the emotional numbness, I am a musician and I have a recorder, while I was drugged and I gained 50 pounds on Colazapine, during that time I made 5 or 6 songs, I DONT REMEMBER MAKING THEM!!! They are actually pretty good... But... I havent the slightest memory of making them... Anyways, I don't remember much from that time... I have not experienced any serious emotional numbing! My music is basically the same, it's just as good as it was before the drugs! but I will admit, I did have an issue with anger, yes, and i do admit, the anger was starting to get serious.... I can honestly say I had a problem... After the drugs I no longer have that problem with my anger... (just incase your curious, I had a very terrible life, and, I was really pissed off about it, like, REEEEEEEEEEALLY PISSED OFF...) So the drugs did help me... Now to the part your really want to know... LIBEDO!!! SEX!!! Did it return? Well, at first I would masturbate and a small tiny bit of sperm would come out, like, a tiny drop... I fealt zero pleasure... It was horrible... After about 3 months more sperm started coming out, but it did not shoot out of my penis like normal, instead it just sort of drizzled out... The pleasure was negligable and pretty crappy however it had a marked improvment... Ok now then lets look at six months later after taking no drugs what so ever... I have even more sperm, and it shoots out very little bit... Sometimes it just drizzles out, sometimes it shoots out about 1 or 2 maybe 3 inches out of my pee pee hole... Pleasure is better... I'm definatley happier now, pleasure is decent, but I still expect much more... I'm 27 years old BTW, I expect a lot out of my sex life... Ill tell you without any shame, I expect my sperm to shoot out 5 inches out of my pee pee hole and I expect the orgasm to be orgasmic, and not a shitty orgasm... Anyways it has slowly gotten better, and other people say it takes up to two years for things to return to normal... That seems just about right... I HOPE to see myself being content at the one year mark, and back to NORMAL at the two year mark... Maybe even sooner... Anyways, I saved this website, and I will come back in about 3 months to let you guys know how things have continued to improve, or, if nothing has improved, I will still make a post to let you know

Have you tried Lithium ?

I was very depressed when put on risperidone after having a psychotic episode. I had suicidal thoughts and felt emotionally dead. I improved when taken of the medication. Please talk to your psychiatrist ASAP, I would never recommend anyone to use this medication from personal experience.

did you take the injection or the pills

did you recover from Risperdal consta shots and other stuff

are you better now did you recover from Risperdal consta