risperdone medication

Risperdone dosage depends upon age and weight, so I imagine that a slight change in the dose (even .1 mg) can alter the treatment results.

In a study about personalized dosing, a team from the Univeristy of Kentucky found that the tolerance of Risperdone and the need for higher dosing is not totally understood --- other brain receptors, such as other dopamine, serotonin, and adrenergic receptors may explain the need for higher doses.

I hope this helps!

More info

http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/conten t/abstract/49/3/258
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/risperid _cp.htm#CS

Thanks rooted for reply and info!

Has anyone else made the switch from Risperdal to Risperdone? If so, have you seen a difference in your child?

I have never heard of Risperdone. Risperdal is actually the trade name for the drug Risperidone, so they are one and the same. My son takes Risperdal - only 1ml twice a day, and it has been an absolute godsend. Without it he can become impossible to live with. Unfortunately it has been responsible for a major gain in weight, but I guess nothing is perfect. Fat is better than violence!

I am of the opinion that respiradal is good for anxiety and violence. However, you also need to work out what is causing the jealousies that makes someone anxious/violent in the first place. For example, when I was younger (and even still happens now) whenever I used to invite my best friend to my house my younger sister used to take over and eventually my best friend used to hang around with me at school but hang around with my younger sister when I invited her back. Now this provoked all sorts of questions in my head that I never discussed with anyone - I had feelings of unfairness, jealousy and feeling scared of going to school as it was difficult to make other friends because my best friend was always there. Gradually the situation became a little better as my younger sister moved away from home and made seperate friends there, however she has no local friends so as soon as shes visiting my parents house, whether my parents are home or not, she's visiting my best friend (haha! can hardly call her that the trouble/aggrevation she's caused me hanging round with my younger sister. As well as the obvious feelings of inadequacy, jealousy and feeling of anxiety going to school. When I was 20, I fell very ill with schizophrenia where i was even extremely scared of going outside my bedroom to the bathroom, downstairs to eat or even out the house, I had troubles completing my degree I was doing then because I could not concerntrate and had memory problems.

So my advice to you is, please please if you have more than one sibling, even if they/re in the same year group or 1,2 3 years apart they must have seperate friends for there not to be any jealous feelings or anxiety caused by the friend situation. Other factors that create jealousy and therefore violence may be one behaving like they are being treated superior to the other sibling even though all your attention is shared evenly amongsth them. There may be more going on between the siblings than you are aware of, for example your child on respiradal may be not sleeping properly or may not be able to relax in your environment. His brother/sister may constantly be asking him questions and not leaving him alone to get on with his own activities and making his own fun. The child may need one-to-one help for studying to get good marks and make good development. I would tackle these issues soon and ask for help from a psciatrist to try and deal with everything surrounding it.