* '''Day 1-29:''' Maintain on oral risperidone (or oral paliperidone) and examine the effects.
* '''Day 30:''' stop oral risperidone (or oral paliperidone) and administer paliperidone-LA: see this switch in the main cross table.
Oral risperidone has better and more stable bioavailability properties than oral 9-OH-risperidone=paliperidone. Food can has an influence of about 50% on the latter.