What would be the side effects of not taking risperdol after being dependent on it for 2 years?

[523206720]

My dad is forcing me to take medication because he is an atheist who hates God and he has concluded that my belief in God is a form of schizophrenia. If I refuse to take the medication, he will kick me out of the house and I will be homeless since I'm a full time student and don't have time to work a job so this is what I do. Every night I pretend to take the medication by straddling the pills between my teeth and then I spit it out when he is not looking. I have not take my medication in 8 days but I have A LOT of trouble falling asleep at night. Most nights I don't fall asleep until 5:00 or 6:00 a. m. and I think it's because my body has become dependent on the medication to help me fall asleep so now that I'm not using it - my body doesn't know how to make me fall asleep at night.

[AJElectric]

The most common adverse reactions that were associated with discontinuation from clinical trials (causing discontinuation in > 1% of adults and/or > 2% of pediatrics) were nausea, somnolence, sedation, vomiting, dizziness, and akathisia [see ADVERSE REACTIONS, Discontinuations Due to Adverse Reactions].

The data described in this section are derived from a clinical trial database consisting of 9803 adult and pediatric patients exposed to one or more doses of RISPERDAL® for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar mania, autistic disorder, and other psychiatric disorders in pediatrics and elderly patients with dementia. Of these 9803 patients, 2687 were patients who received RISPERDAL® while participating in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. The conditions and duration of treatment with RISPERDAL® varied greatly and included (in overlapping categories) double-blind, fixed- and flexible-dose, placebo- or active-controlled studies and open-label phases of studies, inpatients and outpatients, and short-term (up to 12 weeks) and longer-term (up to 3 years)

[AJElectric]

exposures. Safety was assessed by collecting adverse events and performing physical examinations, vital signs, body weights, laboratory analyses, and ECGs.

[AJElectric]

If you are on these meds, it means you were medically examined and given them with a doctors recommendation after observing you. I would go back on them and let a doctor tell you weather or not these medications are necessary. It seems you have a severe psycho-illness and leaning off you medication is not a very good idea.

[Kinstrome]

I think you've faced the side effects after 8 days. I don't think you're going to face anything you've haven't already seen. I've been on it two or three times, and my memory isn't perfect, but as I recall the problems I saw were sleep loss and weight loss (losing the weight that it had put on).

[Kinstrome]

Thanks! I hope things are going a little better now.

[Iron_Lions]

Weight gain, thoughts of suicide, schizophrenia