My mother is currently on resperidone and what a relief! Prior to taking the med she was highly agitated, argumentative, combative, suffering delusions, hallucinations, up all night with a flashlight looking thru closets, moving things around, sleeping til afternoon (she wasn't getting her sleep, being up all night).
She's like her old self. Asks questions, responds, wants to go out shopping, etc. Quite a mood enhancer. Working for us!
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Today they are still prescribing Risperdal as an aid for dementia. What can we do to act on this violation???
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The thing is he is now himself again since being off that drug. I would say he has some dementia typically of a frailer 92 year old but what that drug did to him was unbelievable. I really thought we had lost him. Relatives questioned our decision to bring him home saying there was no way he could come home he was so out of it. And they assumed it was that he had severe dementia. I was told by the staff there that he didn't know if he had to pee, that he wasn't capable of forming food in his mouth and other nonsense.

While he isn't the person he was at 85 mentally, that drug caused him to be out of his mind.
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Off label is not necessarily illegal, many drugs are deployed this way. Schizophrenic behaviors during dementia are part of the course of disease.
Some will argue the patient was drugged into delusions, hallucinations, but the MD and the RN will document behaviors prior to assigning the medication.
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Anyone involved in a class action suit against risperda?. My father was put on it in a rehab/nursing home and as a result of being drugged out of his mind, lost his chance for much needed PT. Which in turn caused medicare to stop paying for his stay and us having to pay an outrageous amount of money until he got him home.
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