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What does it do? Why was it given to me? Yes I'm bipolar but they didn't tell me what it means & what my meds do..... Help me? sweatdrop rofl

Risperdal was the first medication I was given to deal with the bipolarness and was on it for a little more than two years. Over that time I was getting even worse and my dosage was tripled. The lack of stability at the time didn't help matters and my chemical and smokable habits never knew such extremes.

I kept taking my medication because the best advice you can get and live is to stay on the meds no matter what but Risperdal just was not doing it for me. My depression might not have been as deep as I have known it but I was in the lows for months.

About a year ago, I had another doctor prescribe zyprexa for me. Within only a couple of days my mood was brought up and my sleep was better and even my hormones felt a little more balanced. The icing on the cake was that I gained some stability for myself once again and I was really starting to do well with freelancing.

I still have my dark moments sometimes where I feel I must be hurtful and have hurt myself more than anyone ever should. But for the last year everything has been getting better. The only thing that sucks is the chub that I have put on with this medication. People say I am underweight but I feel like I am compelled to feel obsessive about having the body of a dancer or else sometimes I am stupid and think my looks are the only thing guys will love me and want me for.

But lately I have learn to feel beautiful with my thoughts, comfortable with myself, and happier than I have been in years! Even though a lot of things in my life are better than they have been I still think the change in medication made a big difference. I feel like making babies!

I met this great guy who loves and is devoted to me and understands me. I never thought I would meet someone again who would come to mean the world to me. He's bipolar too so he knows what I know. He treats me like an empress! I can trust him intimately more than anyone ever. He loves me enough that every time he is with me he wants to make up for all that pain that made so many scars on me. I have given myself so deeply to anyone and never got much and in way feel innocent again. He's someone I more than want to have a family with....awwwwww! yeah that is how i feel heart rofl heart rofl

All I can say, is if it not working keep trying different meds until you find the right ones and stay on them. Plus, the best medicine sometimes is just cuddling. Everybody needs somebody. Love is a powerful medicine and another one hell of a drug!

Good luck on it all working out and know you'll get through okay hun! wink

Bipolar might be a curse sometimes and the haters and mean girls can really make it a rough time for us mutants. But if you know what joy it is to feel about life and have the perception I do then you know what it is a great blessing and one that I give thanks to the Creator for.

And sometimes all we really need is some:

Peace
Love
Unity
Respect

and yes even shopping! wink

It doens't help me one bit scream
It's my second medication, and I hate it! I'm up all night.
And it blocks dopamin and seritonine, if you want info, I can find you the link. I just google my meds.

Risperdal is risperidone, what's known as an atypical antipsychotic - basically, it's in a relatively new class of drug that acts in a manner to stabilize your moods and behavior patterns by blocking some of the neurotransmitters in your brain - in Risperdal's case, it's a very, very strong dopamine blocker, and also affects serotonin as well.

"To use a stereo analogy, let's assume all the crap in your head is like having a radio tuned to a station you don't like that's turned up too loud. [...] The antipsychotics work like earplugs, the volume is still turned up, but you can't hear it so it doesn't make a difference."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15169694 - Rapid anti-mania effects with Risperdal in bipolar disorder

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10221288 - Risperdal maybe useful as an adjunct treatment in major depression

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15206670 - Risperdal trial in schizoaffective disorders

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9672054 - Risperdal trial in adults with autistic spectrum disorders

And finally, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11817503 - Review of Risperdal in various psychiatric disorders overall

it killed my sex drive, i think its because it made me depressed 24/7

Its an anti-psychotic, as far as I know. I was on it at
one point.

No it's more for ADHD, but they were trying it for bipolar, when they were putting me on it they told me it wasn't common meds for bipolar, but they would try it.