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Mental Health Coming off Invega Sustenna (paliperidone)

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Do you think after one year they will just say oh now you're cured just go and live your life, and let you go like that?

This medication is not a cure it's to keep symptoms on check, they lie to you and you are just brainwashed the only reason you are thinking to escape now it's because you starting to develop resistance to the medication...after one year of it..so you start actually see what it's doing to you.
 
It's a good sign that you thinking to escape, your brain is finding its way to react to the drug and its telling you something ...most people is not like that, their mind is weak and they become lifetime puppets. Its because of those people that this business still run. Think about this, if you tell your psy that you thinking to leave and stop the drug they'll just put you on a more higher dose to suppress your mind even more.
Nobody here can help you apart yourself, you need to think clearly and the only way is without the drug.
 
Try this.

Take a paper sheet, now write on it " I WANT TO BE FREE " all capital letters and large.
Now place it on a wall in your house where you spend most of your time and where you would see it the most..
Now go back doing whatever you were doing before and see if you still can do it.

Take care.
 
Approaching the thousand replies mark, could do with another success story to keep the spirits up as we go for the final push to break free from the poison, I'm looking at the eight month mark to be close to recovered from this nightmare, it does get easier at six months out in my case, but I'm thinking at the eight month stage that should be five half lifes at the maximum 49 days for one half life, that the remaining depression will clear up and I can find some determination and ambition to get on with the rest of my life.
 
Hi, in my case I was injected Xeplion (Invega sustenna) for 3 months. First 150mg (=234mg inv. sust), second 100 (=156mg inv. sust), third 100 (=156mg inv. sust.) Since 8 months ago I do not take AP anymore and I have improved but I still feel very tired all day, especially in the morning. I take St. John's wort, vitamin c and noopept. The latter is fine for me to leave home, see friends and do errands without looking like an idiot. I still do not practise any sport because I get tired quickly. The other day I did 20 push-ups and I was puffing during three minutes when usually it does not cost me any effort.

I hope to continue improving in the coming months. I know other people from my country that has left it and say that one begins to be a person until 1 year have passed. Crossfingers.

If you want to live life I recommend inmediately to stop taking this poison. Regards
 
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Approaching the thousand replies mark, could do with another success story to keep the spirits up as we go for the final push to break free from the poison, I'm looking at the eight month mark to be close to recovered from this nightmare, it does get easier at six months out in my case, but I'm thinking at the eight month stage that should be five half lifes at the maximum 49 days for one half life, that the remaining depression will clear up and I can find some determination and ambition to get on with the rest of my life.
 
Bad Robot said:
Approaching the thousand replies mark, could do with another success story to keep the spirits up as we go for the final push to break free from the poison, I'm looking at the eight month mark to be close to recovered from this nightmare, it does get easier at six months out in my case, but I'm thinking at the eight month stage that should be five half lifes at the maximum 49 days for one half life, that the remaining depression will clear up and I can find some determination and ambition to get on with the rest of my life.
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Hi, looks very good. By the way how many shots of invega and dosing did you have?
 
Ripoffap said:
The other day I did 20 push-ups and I was puffing during three minutes when usually it does not cost me any effort.
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Yeah. When I first started on these injection meds, I went from being able to bench 165 pounds or 75 kilos (when I weighed 140 lbs or 63.5 kilos) to being able to bench only about 100 lbs or 45 kilos.

Invega Sustenna and Risperdal Consta can make a person dangerously weak. I say "dangerously" because I wouldn't even be able to defend myself if someone jumped me.
 
I've read somewhere that the medication keeps releasing from the muscle for 120 days, it's not active while in the muscle and it starts breaking down only when it enters blood stream that makes it 120 days + additional 245 for the medication to clear out completely. That's one year.
At month 8 most of it is gone so you should wake up and start reasoning if you didn't yet, count 50 more days from the 8th month to clear the initial release from the muscle which is the biggest brick.
 
With invega trinza (the new injection that lasts 3 months) it's everything I've said above multiplied by 3... It will only get worse.
 
screwinvega said:
I've read somewhere that the medication keeps releasing from the muscle for 120 days, it's not active while in the muscle and it starts breaking down only when it enters blood stream that makes it 120 days + additional 245 for the medication to clear out completely. That's one year.
At month 8 most of it is gone so you should wake up and start reasoning if you didn't yet, count 50 more days from the 8th month to clear the initial release from the muscle which is the biggest brick.
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I completely agree with you, this is exactly what I've read too and what I'm feeling now at 8 months off this poison. My thoughts are deeper and it's been 1 week that I've started to revise to prepare the start of the new term in september, since I recovered lately my motivation and willingness. I sometimes feel emotions coming back, but they are weak and temporary, according to the informations you quoted, I'll have to wait 4 months to see some improvements.
 
Not sure of the doses Ripoffap, but I had two injections, the loading dose and another shot a week later.
All this talk of a year to recover is starting to get me even more depressed, eight months is bad enough, but I suppose it will be different for each person depending on the number of shots and how quickly they metabalize the poison.
I've noticed another problem, I've been going to the pub once a week just to get out of the house and having on average four pints of beer, but the hangover the next day is pretty extreme as though I'd had ten pints. I've been doing this for the last couple of months and was expecting the hangovers to go away considering I have three beers a night in the house without the same problems. Not getting the usual feeling from the beer aswell, there doesn't seem to be the usual euphoria and it seems to be sedating for me. Now I'm thinking it could be because my receptors are still blocked from the poison and because I'm getting limited dopamine its making them worse than normal or because I'm unfit and out of condition that is the problem.
 
You've been great so far Decisive, keep it up. I bet your period will be back soon and that will be good news.

Take care.
 
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You've been great so far Decisive, keep it up. I bet your period will be back soon and that will be good news.

Take care.
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Thanks for your support ! :)
I really hope we'll all recover from this poison, as ppl said really it's a waiting game...
 
After 4 - 5 months, it seems I am now back to normal. I had terrible insomnia since my injection. Everyday I could not sleep, always waking up before I could get enough rest (just 6 hours), and even then could not fall back asleep. For 4-5 months, I did not get even a single good nights rest! I hated it, I felt like crap everyday.

But now, I can sleep! Being fully rested feels incredible.

I only took one injection of invega. I dunno the dose, standard I assume. Don't lose hope mates! Like you guys, I was unsure it would ever end, but as long as there is a little bit of hope, you will keep going. Seeya later mates!
 
That's great news! Congrats on your recovery Metaltommy! I only had one shot too and at month 3 I just feel a little tired all the time. Hopefully that will go away in the next few months like it did for you! Hang in there everyone!
 
Hey dears, i am just so negative I lost hope. Its been 1 year i dont feel any improvement. i have panic attacks, fears, crying spells, pain all over my body and its all coming from the invega. :((((((
 
Tina3000 said:
Hey dears, i am just so negative I lost hope. Its been 1 year i dont feel any improvement. i have panic attacks, fears, crying spells, pain all over my body and its all coming from the invega. :((((((
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Are you still on other meds ? I think I've read that you're taking antidepressants, maybe that's the reason why you feel these side effects...
 
Just what I was going to say decisive and are you still on the zopiclone tina ? After a year the poison should not be still effecting you tina, its got to be the side effects of your other meds.
On the sleep issues I've only recently started sleeping through since I started on the cannabis at night, for the first five months I was waking up every couple of hours although after the first month I was managing eight hours interupted sleeep, but I'm still waking up with a mild sense of doom and am just lazying on the sofa for the first couple of hours each day while I come round. The depression lifts after my first ciggy and cup of coffee, but its quite annoying waking up every single day depressed, still feel its the poison effecting me considering how depressed I was feeling constantly at christmas time and I am planning on making some changes over the next few weeks on the exercise front.
 
Tina3000 said:
Hey dears, i am just so negative I lost hope. Its been 1 year i dont feel any improvement. i have panic attacks, fears, crying spells, pain all over my body and its all coming from the invega. :((((((
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Do blood tests, urine tests, talk to your family doctor and ask for general blood test and I suggest to do 24 hours urine test for cortisol, your symptoms sound to me like high cortisol issues. If you taking another medication you need to lower it and quit it because it's harming you and you still can't realize it.
 
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