Risperdal

Off to the doctors today. I am settling in to a new medication called risperdal so have seen the doc 4 times in the past 3 weeks. I had been on Zyprexa for about 4 years but found that it had simply became less effective for my schizophrenic symptoms as time went on. The past weeks have seen my dose of the new drug increase to 4mg a day (started on 2mg, then 3mg, then 4) which seems to work for me. Strangely I will probably start going down in mg's before being switched to the injectable form of the drug today.

This will mean an injection every fortnight that releases a steady dose to me and removing my need to take tablets twice a day. I detest going to the doctors office as he is never on time and I end up sitting in the waiting room for an indeterminable period of time surrounded by people from my small town. I am not very good at smalltalk and suffer the discussion of the weather (usually), how many millimeters of rain we got and how well the town's creek is running. depending on my mood that day this experience can sometimes make me very uncomfortable...