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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 18687"><p>I'm sorry things are so hard for you and your difficult child right now. Poor thing has got to be miserable - and your stress has to be through the roof.</p><p></p><p>You mentioned an increase in night terrors. Were you aware that one of the listed side effects of risperdal is nightmares? (It's either nightmares or just increased dreaming - I can't remember. Look at the printout from the pharmacy that lists the side effects.) When I was severely depressed 4 years ago, they put me on .5mg risperdal to take at bedtime. Both to help with sleep and because of the heavy suicidal ideation - it was for impulse control. I rarely have nightmares, but I was having them every night while on the risperdal - where I would wake up in a panic and it would take 5 minutes for my heart rate to slow down. I quit taking it at that point and just took it PRN for awhile. Even after I quit taking it, it took 2 weeks for the nightmares to stop. You may want to bring this up with her psychiatrist and see what she says.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 18687"] I'm sorry things are so hard for you and your difficult child right now. Poor thing has got to be miserable - and your stress has to be through the roof. You mentioned an increase in night terrors. Were you aware that one of the listed side effects of risperdal is nightmares? (It's either nightmares or just increased dreaming - I can't remember. Look at the printout from the pharmacy that lists the side effects.) When I was severely depressed 4 years ago, they put me on .5mg risperdal to take at bedtime. Both to help with sleep and because of the heavy suicidal ideation - it was for impulse control. I rarely have nightmares, but I was having them every night while on the risperdal - where I would wake up in a panic and it would take 5 minutes for my heart rate to slow down. I quit taking it at that point and just took it PRN for awhile. Even after I quit taking it, it took 2 weeks for the nightmares to stop. You may want to bring this up with her psychiatrist and see what she says. [/QUOTE]
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