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Mental Health Coming Off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v.2

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I'm so fucking close now.

You just gotta keep moving. Keep active. Talk a walk. Go for a five minute jog. Make it a ten minute jog the next week. Go farther, harder. This medication is just a guise. It gets better. I know I'm not the one to tell you this because I'm not completely out of it yet. But the more you do, the quicker you'll feel those boosts - that energy.
 
I feel like I'm really close too. Its been 4 months. All the side effects are gone now. I feel pretty good for the most part, but still no energy to exercise. My intuition says another two or 3 months. I don't think it will take me ten months to recover if I'm feeling this good already.
 
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Week 33 off the poison
Another two weeks till half life five. Thought I'd be close to recovered at this stage, but jeez this is some battle, the only positive I'm getting from my days is lighting up a joint at night and having a couple of beers and the high only seems to last for five minutes most nights, taking five hours to drink three beers and smoke two joints whilst vegging in front of the tv is the highlight of my day. At least I manage to stop dwelling on this experience until I wake up the next day and am hit by whatever symptoms remain.
At the moment I always seem to be cold unless I'm in the sun or by a fire, zero motivation or energy, probably still got some mild depression that just seems to keep lingering and won't go away and my nose hasn't stopped running in a fortnight. Just don't feel like my normal self yet and its draining waking up each day in this state, when normally you might have a bad day, but after a good nights sleep you'd wake up the next day refreshed and ready to take on the world. Not on this poison you don't.
At this stage I'm not sure when I'm going to be recovered, thought at eight months that would be it, but maybe its going to be half life six and that will be ten long months, I'm sort of determined to make a recovery and not let this experience beat me, I just need to let my bitterness at the whole fucked up mental health system go and try and move on with my life, i probably just need more time and probably need to force myself to get things done.
 
Hello bad robot, I was reading that u took the shot because of a weed induced incident. What was going on with you exactly? Like I was hearing voices from smoking weed evday and that y parents forced me to see a psych. What happened to you exactly,, what did the weed do to u? Bts I had the pills but I'm also really fucked up. I wish I never agreed to take them. But the psychiatrist was really pushing me to take it
 
My drinking and weed smoking got out of hand a few years ago after a family incident. I was smoking weed 24/7 and starting drinking at noon for about a year and a half until I started hallucinating after sitting in my garden in the sun for a few days drinking and was ill in bed for a few days where I was just waking up and drinking more beer losing the plot and getting delusional.
Next news I'm coming around in the hospital where my problems where just about to get a whole lot worse.
I never really heard voices, but I was delusional and parranoid from the beer, weed, sun and not eating.
I think if I could of sobered up none of this would have happened, but I was smoking a lot of weed each day and was slowly losing the plot, but I had a good time doing it.
Sort of wary of weed now and I don't want to get back into waking and baking, but its a struggle being sober at the moment.
 
Stick to cigars Gdvffh if your hearing voices off weed unless you can handle it
And keep the tablet updates coming
Not a success story on the net since schizor went on mood stabilisers of peeps coming off tablets
 
Bad Robot said:
Stick to cigars Gdvffh if your hearing voices off weed unless you can handle it
And keep the tablet updates coming
Not a success story on the net since schizor went on mood stabilisers of peeps coming off tablets
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I don't hear voices anymore... I kept telling ev1 that I just need to stop smoking weed and I'll be fine. But ev1 was so Adament on me going on meds, the police, social workers, parents, friend, psychiatrist. Like I was against whole time and I was getting better so I believed I would just need to detox. When I would tell ppl I'm doing better ppl didn't really believe me, I'm telling them im not hearing voices as much, like b4 I would hear all time. But then when got off weed I would only hear at crowded places like the gym. Like I was telling the psych I've been doing better, voice getting quieter I t he just kinda ignores it. I guess he didn't care, he just wanted me as a patient and said what had to to make it happen.
 
Its my birthday today. I wish nothing but a speedy recovery and I want to get healthy again. Invega user told me after 6 years the side effects lessened... I dont know if i can hang in that long and lessen doesnt mean they have gone away :((((((((completely:((( they are still there even if its a bit. i just wish i would have never NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER taken this shot. doctors forced me and i am scared that it will be permanent for me cause i wasnt schizophrenic the time they give it to me. I said I got murder threats and it was true. They misdiagnosed me with shizophrenia and gave me this medicine. I really wished I would have been forced on pills than that shit. :/(((((....The other day I had so many anxiety attacks and fears that I wanted to die. Its all from the invega and it just doesnt go away...well i hope everyone is doing better than me here and i hope you guys recover faster than i do.
 
Happy birthday dear Tina, stay strong I know what you've endured, I was in the same dark tunnel, but I swear that by the time everything has an end. If I recovered from this poison, it will be the same for you.
If I could give you an advice: go to your family doctor ask for a blood analysis for your creatinine and prolactine, just to see if your body has no problem eliminating this poison. If you are on other drugs, you better stop them...

Take care
 
I am doing Suicide next week. I wont drink anything anymore. I cant stand this torture any longer, I am sure that this poison will stay in my system. i cant stand the anxiety attacks anymore and the pain also not the crying attacks. its been a year now it wont get better.
 
Anyone claiming to have been off this medication longer than two years without a full recovery is a flat out liar. Recovery, even from injection medications, doesn't take that long. Withdrawal, as I'm sure I've said before, can mimic the symptoms of medications and also create other symptoms that are quite unbearable.

The only reason I can almost tolerate caffeine again is because my withdrawal symptoms are going into remission. AND I STRESS: without properly weening yourself off medications WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS CAN PERSIST FOR DECADES OR EVEN THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

I have a friend who had an amphetamine addiction and he was forced to quit the drugs cold turkey. He now has seizures and trouble sleeping. These problems began because he stopped the drugs cold turkey and have persisted since his early twenties. FYI, he's 46 now...

Consider that before you even begin to decide to kill yourself, Tina.
 
I don't care how much you are against medications. They can undoubtedly save you a lot of trouble in the future. Your abstinence is not admirable. Get with the program. It may take years for your life to get back on track, for your [withdrawal] symptoms to go away. But it's fucking worth it.
 
Tina we've all thought about it but that's not the solution, please don't.
We need to be strong
 
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Tina3000 said:
I am doing Suicide next week. I wont drink anything anymore. I cant stand this torture any longer, I am sure that this poison will stay in my system. i cant stand the anxiety attacks anymore and the pain also not the crying attacks. its been a year now it wont get better.
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We aren't technically equipped at bluelight to deal with suicidal thoughts and feelings. But I hope my words reach you...I know it's difficult to see into the future if in the present things are very difficult, but recovery is not unrealistic. Personally, I never thought I'd get as well as I am today. If you want to help yourself the most, we would like you to be evaluated at your nearest hospital as soon as possible. You don't even have to think, you just have to go. They can help you get back on your feet the fastest. If you will not go, then please at least see my private message.

Thanks
 
Most of us have experienced progress as the months go by, and by the end of a full year most of us will have recovered or come close. For Tina to still have noticed no progress after a full year is really freaking sad, I feel really bad for you Tina. Try to stay strong and take one day at a time. I know benedril helps with the akithesia.
 
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Come on Tina, don't kill yourself, that's not the solution... Calm down, even though it's been almost a year off it doesn't mean that those panic attacks will last forever! Just follow our advices, and if you have the time, go to your family doctor ask for a blood analysis for your creatinine and prolactine that may help you a lot.
To tell you the truth, the first month off I was so devastated by this anhedonia, blank mind and emotionless that the devilish idea of suicide ran through my head, it lasted a few days then it went away. Because life is so precious to be wasted like that, you have to fight for your life, be strong and patient, if I hadn't been patient during those 10 months off this poison, I wouldn't have been fully recovered right now...

We are all with you Tina, you're not alone
 
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