Haloperidol for Aggressive Behavior User Reviews
Brand names: Haldol, Haldol Decanoate
Haloperidol has an average rating of 3.1 out of 10 from a total of 10 reviews for the treatment of Aggressive Behavior. 20% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 70% reported a negative experience.
Reviews for Haloperidol
- Glad...
- Taken for less than 1 month
- June 11, 2017
"I was prescribed haldol for aggression (agitation) when I was hospitalized for bipolar disorder. The psychiatrist I had had a very abrasive personality and prescribed it after I hauled off on staff without telling me anything about it, not even the name. I became extremely shaky, could not hold my head up, was very drowsy and just couldn't function. I literally screamed at my doctor to take me off of it when he gave me something to counteract the shakiness. I was fine then. When I was discharged he was going to give me straight haldol, but I argued with him (and won)."
- Camilla
- July 19, 2020
"I was given this haloperidol with an injection of Ativan a few days ago for aggressive behavior due to my bipolar. I was so freaking angry and annoyed and was also crying my eyes out and throwing things so at the crappy hospital I was at they had several “nurses” screaming at me even though I was hysterical. They strapped me to the bed and this dude said he’s going to inject me with HALDOL and Ativan. And I freaked out and told him that I demanded only Ativan and he said “all patients who are hysterical have to take haldol it doesn't matter if your are allergic or not" so I got injected with both haldol and Ativan. In 5 minutes I started feeling unusually sleepy and my legs were insanely restless at the same time. I slept for 15 hours that night and the feeling in my legs were so extreme that I wanted to scream and launch out of my own body but I massaged my legs with lotion to get rid of the feeling. The feeling wore off 17 hours later."
- IGotY...
- Taken for less than 1 month
- August 2, 2022
"Blocks strongly dopamine in the brain, you will stop feeling joy and interest in anything, if you complaining about this side effect the doc will just make up a psychiatry disease you have and lie that it is not from the drug. You develop anhedonia from this drug. You have been warned"
- Cora...
- Taken for less than 1 month
- December 18, 2020
"I’m 22 and in July I went to the hospital for extreme destructive and aggressive behavior due to my bipolar and schizophrenia. I stayed in the mental health unit for 8 days and before I left they injected me with haldol which I started feeling very calm which is perfectly fine for me because Ativan makes me calm and I thought haldol was the same. But I had the WORST month of my life! I was insanely sleepy I slept up to 9 times a day, was very anxious, very restless, I had extreme slurred speech where people couldn’t make out what I was saying, I was slobbering and drooling then one night I had a panic attack so bad that I was hyperventilating, sweating, screaming, vomiting, hitting my head, so I went to the hospital again and they gave me a shot of Benadryl and Ativan and the side effects of haldol slowly went away and when I got discharged in the morning I felt like me again. I'm on Zyprexa, Zoloft and Depakote now"
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- Cel
- October 11, 2022
"So after trying so many antipsychotics I finally found the 2 that work for me! I actually have bipolar disorder. We were at the point of giving up hope, I am on Seroquel 200mg at night and it wasn’t enough so we started 1mg of haldol in the morning, I immediately noticed so many changes. I wasn’t so angry anymore. Things that I used to throw fits at (I mean yelling screaming punching and throwing) I no longer do! If anything now I get reasonably annoyed! I CAN LAUGH NOW AND FEEL JOYOUS! I am back to myself without the added anger and mania/manic symptoms of anger that controlled almost every aspect of my life. Haldol has been so so amazing to me! I would just advise that before you read so deep into reviews, just try it out. What works for some, may not work for others and vice versa. Everybody’s chemistry is completely different. Don’t give up hope!!! I too was tired at one point and ready to give up because nothing seemed to be working. Push through! You got this!"
- Anonymous
- Taken for 1 to 2 years
- June 1, 2022
"Haloperidol took my emotions away I have got no feelings of love, joy, happiness, hunger. This drug takes your personality away. All I can say I hope my feelings come back because when I see people laughing, joking and having inter-actions with each other I hope one day I get it back. To me I think it's a bad drug. Maybe I was on it too long."
- Zoe
- Taken for less than 1 month
- September 6, 2018
"Horrible side effects. Given by ER staff. Now 1 day off the meds still restless and feeling uneasy!"
- War...
- Taken for less than 1 month
- May 12, 2017
"The pill form is poison, avoid it if you can, seriously. Stiff muscles, fidgety random body parts, weird dreams and grogginess after sleeping longer than you want. Avoid it."
- Unjesc
- Taken for less than 1 month
- March 1, 2024
"It is great; it gives me breakthrough mood swings and helps me sleep."
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"haloperidol is the most horrible drug I have been given. Loss of personality, anhedonia, music doesn't bring me joy anymore, boredom, mask face, slow mental processes, loss of emotion, lose of care, chemical straight jacked, feeling like I'm not living. Don't be brainwashed by the good reviews of this med. Stay away from haloperidol"