Re: Experience with Risperdal for OCD?

August 2, 2007

Hi , My 13-year-old daughter started resperidal about four

months ago after already being on 100 mg of zolof. Her issues were

eating disorder related, disorted thoughts about people. We were

amazed how those thought subsided after only a few weeks. She is now

doing extremely well with those thoughts and we are basically dealing

with her anxiety OCD issues. She did have some dizziness at the

beginning, but now only seems to have a headache everynow and then

but nothing too major and often.

Good luck and I hope it works for your daughter.

Carol

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

August 2, 2007

Our experience was not good, but I have read and met several people

for whom it made a huge diffence - mainly for aggression.

Barb

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

August 2, 2007

Our experience was not good, but I have read and met several people

for whom it made a huge diffence - mainly for aggression.

Barb

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

August 2, 2007

> >

> > Greetings!

> > My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

> day

> > (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

> Makayla

> > told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects,

and

> > dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> > grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

> by " hurting " ,

> > and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been

largely

> > sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> > grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> > Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> > called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

> told

> > me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

> reluctant

> > to tell me about OCD problems when others are around.

Psychiatrist

> > has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

> start

> > with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she

does.

> Has

> > anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD?

If

> > so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your

help!

> > in GA

> >

>

Hi ....this is less in regard for using risperdal for OCD as my

son was put on it for aggressive behavior and anger issues. I am

concerned about the use for eating disorders as it tends to pack on

the weight and both of my kids put weight on from it. My daughter

also had eating rages were I had to physically keep her out of the

kitchen as with other antipychs the satiation message never gets to

the brain from the stomach. Just " food " for thought.

Laurie

August 11, 2007

Hi ,

My daughter was on Risperdal and we had to discontinue due to akathisia and lots

of drooling. I have heard of lots of excellent outcomes with this med, except

for the weight gain that most children experience on it.(My daughter tends to

respond to many meds paradoxically)

Hugs

Judy

August 12, 2007

---, Our Dr. has now put both my DD on risperdol. One

started about three weeks ago and just had the dose upped to

..50 at night. the other DD (8) started at .50 just a couple days ago.

lets continue to chatt. I hated started this drug but

now have hopes it might be what we are looking for.

Kathy In Ohio

In , " shellyleidig "

<shellyleidig@...> wrote:

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

August 12, 2007

---, Our Dr. has now put both my DD on risperdol. One

started about three weeks ago and just had the dose upped to

..50 at night. the other DD (8) started at .50 just a couple days ago.

lets continue to chatt. I hated started this drug but

now have hopes it might be what we are looking for.

Kathy In Ohio

In , " shellyleidig "

<shellyleidig@...> wrote:

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

August 12, 2007

Hi -

My son(8) is on .25 in AM and .50 at bedtime(well and hour before). It has

done wonders for him. Most of his issues are related to spectrum stuff, but he

was experiancing OCD symptoms in many areas as well.

It scared me as well when I started-but my son has done really well with it.

It mostly helps him control his temper and hitting etc-not so much with his OCD

issues-

but all issues have come down quite a bit-so I think overall its been good

for us. I have only wished we had started it sooner-as he has already learned

many wrong coping techniques he has taught himself- and now we are just trying

to unlearn them with other better coping mechanisms. Which is hard-had we had

been on Resperdal sooner-he might not have taught himself so many bad

techniques-kwim?

Love ya,

Tammy

stinkydogkid <stinkydogkid@...> wrote:

---, Our Dr. has now put both my DD on risperdol. One

started about three weeks ago and just had the dose upped to

..50 at night. the other DD (8) started at .50 just a couple days ago.

lets continue to chatt. I hated started this drug but

now have hopes it might be what we are looking for.

Kathy In Ohio

In , " shellyleidig "

wrote:

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

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August 12, 2007

Hi -

My son(8) is on .25 in AM and .50 at bedtime(well and hour before). It has

done wonders for him. Most of his issues are related to spectrum stuff, but he

was experiancing OCD symptoms in many areas as well.

It scared me as well when I started-but my son has done really well with it.

It mostly helps him control his temper and hitting etc-not so much with his OCD

issues-

but all issues have come down quite a bit-so I think overall its been good

for us. I have only wished we had started it sooner-as he has already learned

many wrong coping techniques he has taught himself- and now we are just trying

to unlearn them with other better coping mechanisms. Which is hard-had we had

been on Resperdal sooner-he might not have taught himself so many bad

techniques-kwim?

Love ya,

Tammy

stinkydogkid <stinkydogkid@...> wrote:

---, Our Dr. has now put both my DD on risperdol. One

started about three weeks ago and just had the dose upped to

..50 at night. the other DD (8) started at .50 just a couple days ago.

lets continue to chatt. I hated started this drug but

now have hopes it might be what we are looking for.

Kathy In Ohio

In , " shellyleidig "

wrote:

>

> Greetings!

> My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

day

> (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

Makayla

> told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects, and

> dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

by " hurting " ,

> and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been largely

> sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

told

> me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

reluctant

> to tell me about OCD problems when others are around. Psychiatrist

> has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

start

> with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

Has

> anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD? If

> so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your help!

> in GA

>

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August 13, 2007

---

I am glad he found the drug for him. That can be quite the time

consuming process. We have spent two years on SSRIs, which don't

work. You are right, my DD with the OCD still has OCD but her

defiance and hitting have come down some. I hesitated to put her on

this and wanted her to cope cold turkey because of the side effects.

YOu bring up a good point, that there are risks in not treating as

well. I would never thought I would say anything positive about any

of the medications. I hope we have saem reaction you do. Did he try

SSRIS?

Kathy

In , Tammy Britton <momonedge75@...>

wrote:

>

> Hi -

> My son(8) is on .25 in AM and .50 at bedtime(well and hour

before). It has done wonders for him. Most of his issues are related

to spectrum stuff, but he was experiancing OCD symptoms in many areas

as well.

> It scared me as well when I started-but my son has done really

well with it. It mostly helps him control his temper and hitting etc-

not so much with his OCD issues-

> but all issues have come down quite a bit-so I think overall

its been good for us. I have only wished we had started it sooner-as

he has already learned many wrong coping techniques he has taught

himself- and now we are just trying to unlearn them with other better

coping mechanisms. Which is hard-had we had been on Resperdal sooner-

he might not have taught himself so many bad techniques-kwim?

> Love ya,

> Tammy

>

> stinkydogkid <stinkydogkid@...> wrote:

> ---, Our Dr. has now put both my DD on risperdol. One

> started about three weeks ago and just had the dose upped to

> .50 at night. the other DD (8) started at .50 just a couple days

ago.

> lets continue to chatt. I hated started this drug but

> now have hopes it might be what we are looking for.

> Kathy In Ohio

>

> In , " shellyleidig "

> wrote:

> >

> > Greetings!

> > My daughter's Psychiatrist increased her Luvox to 100 mg twice a

> day

> > (total of 200 mg / day) about two weeks ago. Tuesday night,

> Makayla

> > told me she has started spitting, from fear of germs, insects,

and

> > dirt being in her mouth. She's also worrying about her

> > grandfather " hurting " her. I asked her what she meant

> by " hurting " ,

> > and she implied sexually (part of her OCD worries have been

largely

> > sex related thoughts - about anyone - even with God). (Her

> > grandfather would never in a million years hurt her). I called

> > Psychiatrist to give her an update, because just last week I had

> > called & told her Makayla was doing good, because that's what she

> told

> > me, but she'd had her cousin spend the week with her, and is

> reluctant

> > to tell me about OCD problems when others are around.

Psychiatrist

> > has recommended and prescribed Risperdal 0.25 mg once a day to

> start

> > with, and will increase in a few days, depending on how she does.

> Has

> > anyone else had experience with Risperdal for treatment of OCD?

If

> > so, was your experience good, or not so much? Thanks for your

help!

> > in GA

> >

>

> Our list archives, bookmarks, files, and chat feature may be

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August 13, 2007