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What could be the unintended side effects of the psychiatric mood stabilizer resperdal.?
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Risperidone: Side effects include jittery legs, stif muscles, occas sedation, rixk of tardive dyskinesia.
Answered 3/8/2014
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Risperdal: Common side effects are sedation, dizziness, falls, change in blood pressure long term and permanent side effects can be tremors of hands, face etc callled tardive dyskinesia, it can cause metabolic syndrome, please google it, and life threatening side effects can be heart attack, stroke, neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Answered 8/22/2013
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