I thought I would mention some positives about mums experience on Risperidone. Mum has been on this for 3 months now and she has got some quality of life back at last. She will interact now with family, delusions, hallucinations have almost gone, aggression has gone. She seems calmer with much less anxiety. Mum is not sleepy or zombie like, she is a very active lady. Her consultant will now reduce and stop the drug to see if it is Risperidone that is helping her. If her aggression and her dreadful sundowning and abusive behaviour starts to show again we can introduce Risperidone longer term. I must add that myself her daughter 24hr carer, I do use a huge amount of other distractions and diversions constantly. I never wanted to see my mother on antipsychotic drugs with all the bad side effects I have read, but I am so glad I tried so far it's worked for mum. It's lovely to see her smile again, even though she has no idea who I am or where she is. We will see what happens in the next few months. I will keep you posted x