Hi everyone,
I have a question about drugs that may have the side-effects of decreased performance.
A couple years I ago I did triathlons and road running and I started to finish well in local races despite only a year of serious training.
Because of some mental health issues I went on a low dose of Risperdal, 1mg per day (an anti-psychotic) and Celexa, 20mg/day (an anti-depresent), 20mg/day.
I remember after I went on the Risperdal (a few months before the Celexa) all of a sudden I lost something in my hard workouts (while dealing with my mental health issues). Like I couldn't redline it when I wanted to and my body stopped completely responding to hard training.
Over the next couple years I had to constantly tone down my workouts. My running decreased from the point where I was running better than 6 minute miles for distance races to this year where I could barely run an 8 minute mile for anything longer than a mile. My cycling suffered too, I used to be able to take my road bike up to almost 40km an hour (loop course as a triathlete) for 20 minutes and by this year I could barely exceed 30km an hour for anything but a 30s sprint no matter how hard I tried.
Now here's the punchline... I went off of the Risperdal a couple weeks ago and all of a sudden I can run faster (I still run two times a week although I really want to focus on cycling) and cycle faster (I cycle four days a week), I just ran my best 400m and 800m intervals in almost 3 years with zero change in training!!! Same with cycling, I time my climbs and I can climb faster without even trying than I could just 2 weeks ago.
Does anyone else know of this sort of phenomenon? Maybe there are some people with medical experience that might know? I tried to do a literature search and couldn't find very much. It was suggested once in an article on Graehm Obree that his treatment for manic depression killed his cycling. And Risperdal is some horribly funky stuff!!!
I have a question about drugs that may have the side-effects of decreased performance.
A couple years I ago I did triathlons and road running and I started to finish well in local races despite only a year of serious training.
Because of some mental health issues I went on a low dose of Risperdal, 1mg per day (an anti-psychotic) and Celexa, 20mg/day (an anti-depresent), 20mg/day.
I remember after I went on the Risperdal (a few months before the Celexa) all of a sudden I lost something in my hard workouts (while dealing with my mental health issues). Like I couldn't redline it when I wanted to and my body stopped completely responding to hard training.
Over the next couple years I had to constantly tone down my workouts. My running decreased from the point where I was running better than 6 minute miles for distance races to this year where I could barely run an 8 minute mile for anything longer than a mile. My cycling suffered too, I used to be able to take my road bike up to almost 40km an hour (loop course as a triathlete) for 20 minutes and by this year I could barely exceed 30km an hour for anything but a 30s sprint no matter how hard I tried.
Now here's the punchline... I went off of the Risperdal a couple weeks ago and all of a sudden I can run faster (I still run two times a week although I really want to focus on cycling) and cycle faster (I cycle four days a week), I just ran my best 400m and 800m intervals in almost 3 years with zero change in training!!! Same with cycling, I time my climbs and I can climb faster without even trying than I could just 2 weeks ago.
Does anyone else know of this sort of phenomenon? Maybe there are some people with medical experience that might know? I tried to do a literature search and couldn't find very much. It was suggested once in an article on Graehm Obree that his treatment for manic depression killed his cycling. And Risperdal is some horribly funky stuff!!!