My belief is that you shouldn't go straight from one med to another without some form of tapering. Have you been told to just stop the Risperedone?
I do not know enough about the specific medications you are mentioning, but it is worth calling again and insisting that someone pays attention to how you are feeling right now and explains whether it is withdrawal from one, or the side effect of the other (my limited understanding says it could be either).
If they are not helpful - go and speak to your GP, if need be, they can call the Psych for you and (hopefully) get a better response from them.
Either way, it sounds like a symptom they expect to diminish with time and it may well be that they can only ask you to persevere with it. Horrible as that is to actually do (I have bad withdrawal from meds, so know a little what you are feeling).
Roiben x
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