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Raziel
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05 Jan 2014, 6:33 am

A friend and I are both autistic and we both take psychiatric medication. She gets an antipsychotic, Risperidone and I something for my ADD, Bupropione. We both got side effects, but they first appeared after 8 to 12 weeks and we both had to reduce out dosage. Is it common to experience side effects after such a long time so that the dosage has to be changed?


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05 Jan 2014, 7:21 am

Yes. It is very normal for meds to have changing effects over the course of treatment. Keep your prescriber updated (as clearly you have :D)!


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05 Jan 2014, 7:56 am

NEtikiman wrote:
Yes. It is very normal for meds to have changing effects over the course of treatment. Keep your prescriber updated (as clearly you have :D)!


Thank you for your answer. :D

Actually I just called on December 30th, but I've an appointment by my psychiatrist on January 7th.

... and why is it that way that there are changing effects over time? :?


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