You must have it easy to say that, lucky you, you only took oral APs. What were doses of risperidone you were taking since that's the strongest AP of ones that you took. Paliperidone is much stronger than risperidone with more wide mechanism of action (targets more types of receptors), not to mention invega sustenna(paliperidone) is depot with overkill dose.
This is not a competition. And risperudone is not the strongest medication I was on, I was dosed up on 900mg of seroquel XR as someone who weighed 60kg.
I am extremely sympathetic towards this cause. I actually do not support wide use of psychiatric medication.
It is frankly somewhat absurd for you to say that because I took oral AP medication, including being megadosed on a medication that caused me to become so zombiefied I could barely crawl out of my bed for 3 weeks, that i do not understand side effects from AP medication.
I could say that since you only had two shots, and I've been medicated since I was in my mid teens through until almost being 30, that in fact you lack experience regarding the side effects of AP medication. I've been on lithium, valproate, seroquel, ability, lamotragine, lurasidone, risperidone, prozac and mirtazepine.
Most importantly, like many people in here, *I never actually needed to be on all these meds*, much less multiple at one time (my biggest dose of meds was 1500mg valproate, plus risperidone, plus abilify, AND lamotragine, AND seroquel.
I would be shocked to see anyone function on that amount of AP medication, and it is wildly unreasonable to claim that I lack understanding of these class of medication because I took a different form of it.
A lot of people posting in here seem to be concerned about two main points.
1 - their sexual function being negatively affected, which is something that ALL AP meds do, all SSRIs, essentially all psychiatric medications. This will go away relatively quickly after cessation of the medication.
2 - not being able to feel the effects of illicit drugs. Again, this is par for the course for all of these types of medication, and as above, ceases when medication ceases.
TD is a HUGE issue with being on these medications LONG TERM. It's not surprising to me that given you have only had two shots (and I say only not in the sense that having two is okay, but that you have not been medicated with these drugs for an extended period of time), that you don't have any concern about TD. As someone who was on psychiatric meds for a decade, and until my misdiagnosis got fixed, would have continued to remain on medication indefinitely for the remainder of my life, the risk of TD is immense. I count myself extremely fortunate that I didn't experience it.
Given your short exposure to AP meds, this issue isn't at all a risk for you. But that does not mean it isn't a risk for those of us who have been unnecessarily medicated with stupidly strong medications for no real reason at all.
