saw Dr. today, what about insomnia? Risperdal?
Question:
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I went to see my Dr. (psychiatrist) today. Even though my old medication regimen didn’t seem to be working, he wanted me to double the dosage levels. My new medication regimen’s as follows: Risperdal (2 mg/night), Celexa (40 mg daily), and Klonopin (1-1.5 mg/night). He added Remeron (7.5 mg/night) to help me sleep. Does this seem right? Shouldn’t he have changed medications? Why didn’t he? When I complained about insomnia, he said upping the dosage of Risperdal would calm me down and help me sleep. This doesn’t sound right. Risperdal’s not a hypnotic (sleeping pill). I don’t think it’s a tranquilizer either. What’s his reason for making me take more Risperdal? Might it help me stop thinking my food’s contaminated? What about Remeron? Will it help with sleep? I need something powerful to sedate me because I’m so upset about things, especially my illness. I’m ashamed I can’t make myself better thinking different. What about insomnia? I can’t wait and see what happens when my depression’s cured to get a night’s restful sleep. I’m obsessed about sleeping sometimes. I can’t stand being awake when I know everyone else isn’t. What can I do to cure or lessen insomnia? Will Risperdal really help? All those anti depressants… sigh….I love them.
Make up your mind.
Response:
Same thing happened to me with my pdoc upping Risperdal then when we got to 10 Mg she added 2 Mg Haldol on top of it! I was so frickin wacked out that I ended up in the hospital for 12 days where the hospital pdoc quickly switched me to a moderate dosage of geodon (40 Mg) and I came out of it. I was so confused that I was a danger to myself and everyone around me. Now I question everything so I would say you need to get a second opinion. Jim Please have a look at my web site http://mybipolar.tripod.com/jim/
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I went to see my Dr. (psychiatrist) today. Even though my old medication regimen didn’t seem to be working, he wanted me to double the dosage levels. My new medication regimen’s as follows: Risperdal (2 mg/night), Celexa (40 mg daily), and Klonopin (1-1.5 mg/night). He added Remeron (7.5 mg/night) to help me sleep. Does this seem right? Shouldn’t he have changed medications? Why didn’t he? When I complained about insomnia, he said upping the dosage of Risperdal would calm me down and help me sleep. This doesn’t sound right. Risperdal’s not a hypnotic (sleeping pill). I don’t think it’s a tranquilizer either. What’s his reason for making me take more Risperdal? Might it help me stop thinking my food’s contaminated? What about Remeron? Will it help with sleep? I need something powerful to sedate me because I’m so upset about things, especially my illness. I’m ashamed I can’t make myself better thinking different. What about insomnia? I can’t wait and see what happens when my depression’s cured to get a night’s restful sleep. I’m obsessed about sleeping sometimes. I can’t stand being awake when I know everyone else isn’t. What can I do to cure or lessen insomnia? Will Risperdal really help?
