Any experience out there for those who have had Risperidone stopped?
I posted on another thread that mum's been told to stop taking it due to akathisia (this is all the fidgeting, restlessness and an extreme compulsion to keep moving) and an altered gait (she stands very oddly in a way that she did not before)
On Monday we have a member of the psychiatric elderly mental health team coming to see how we're coping, but in the meantime, she is incredibly bad, and utterly exhausted from the CONSTANT movement. Any one else had experience of this?
We have been told to increase her Lorazepam to 3mg in 24hrs if needs be to calm her, and obviously we will try this (I expect that the Lorazepam is probably causing some other issues too...but who's to say, when do we know what's the Alzheimers and what's the drugs.....)
I posted on another thread that mum's been told to stop taking it due to akathisia (this is all the fidgeting, restlessness and an extreme compulsion to keep moving) and an altered gait (she stands very oddly in a way that she did not before)
On Monday we have a member of the psychiatric elderly mental health team coming to see how we're coping, but in the meantime, she is incredibly bad, and utterly exhausted from the CONSTANT movement. Any one else had experience of this?
We have been told to increase her Lorazepam to 3mg in 24hrs if needs be to calm her, and obviously we will try this (I expect that the Lorazepam is probably causing some other issues too...but who's to say, when do we know what's the Alzheimers and what's the drugs.....)