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

[Invegaman]

I'm on a waiting list to see a urologist, my testicles have shrunken since taking Invega and I have lost so much strength. Possible hormonal imbalance due to high prolactin, Highly depressing for a guy.

 

[paranoid android]

I actually meant impaired renal function not liver. Paliperidone as it is the active metabolite of Risperidone is not as extensively metabolized. So kidney function would be the big one here on how fast your body clears it. Though no doubt liver function would play a part as well. Either way id suggest lot's of Cranberry juice and water to flush it out and don't let yourself get dehydrated. I always drink extra water because of my meds anyway as i get godawful dry mouth from them.

 

[PhuckInvegga]

Most kidney health pages online refer to overall kidney health. Avoiding disease etc. But to actually supercharge your kidneys and make them work harder, you want to top it off with natural diuretics. A diuretic is any substance that promotes the production of urine. Follow all the advice in article 1 with some diuretics from the list in article 2, drink lots of fluids, and your kidneys will be supercharged. We should all do this religiously!

http://morningletter.com/how-to-hea...way-what-doctors-wont-tell-you-will-kill-you/

http://www.healthline.com/health/natural-diuretics#1

 

[iridescentblack]

^That part about eating several large watermelons while peeing in a bathtub was pretty funny.

 

[MisterTi]

Hey there ma peopleez , how u doing ??

Well it's been a while since my last post here on the forum, so as you might know I dropped invega pills on 5th March of 2016 and I was with 89kg (196 pounds), I am doing gym since last august (going 4 days a week), but the weight just start dropping since I drop the pills, so from 5 March its been 2 months and I lost 4kg, I am now 85kg (187 pounds), not so bad, I would like to be it faster, but at least I see my weight dropping.

On the psychology/brain part I feel more responsive to my daily tasks at my computer programming job, feeling more sharper I guess, before I would take a while on fixing bugs and get to know the cause of problems, now I can respond more fast to problems that arise, it's just the feeling I have. Also it seems I am understanding movies better, can read all subtitles and don't pause the movie many times as before.

I think my only problem for now is the depression, but I honestly think that's doesn't have nothing to do with my psychosis problem, I mean.. I always have been a lonely person, just had a few friends (like 5 that I talked more) and I always had problems when it takes to talk with people and make conversation, a bit shy too, sometimes I think I have social anxiety/phobia. My dream always was to be a social person, going to a lot of parties, having bunch of events with friends and laughting everywhere as I see from other people (it makes me so sad to watch it every day). I think this is not related to the psychosis, and actually there isn't a cure for it, am I right? what to do you think?

I have been taking a morning cigar and coffee to start the day with more energy

How are you all guys? I have notice that Tina is not improving at all (I am so sorry about you my dear, I wish you the best, you can do it).
Glad that Decisive made it out of the dark tunnel!!! And is finnaly happy, thats very good.
What about you Bad Robot? did you already start exercising finnaly ? ahahha

Wish you all the best,
Mister T

EDIT: I just forgot to mention my sexual drive is back, everytime I go to the gym and catch a hot girl on those tighty pants I just start dreaming about it, and just masturbate myself easly after workout at the shower. Feels good

 

[treesaregreen]

Hi guys,

I just got on Invega Sustenna four months ago, and am getting 156mg monthly. Until a week ago, I had horrible fears at night with nausea. I also would be up pacing most of the night because of akathisia. I was constantly in and out of bed. I would get tired, but as soon as I hit the pillow, I would feel the restlessness well up again. You might ask what happened a week ago that I don't have such bad sleeplessness, nausea, and urge to move about. Well, my pdoc put me on 100mg Seroquel, which I take nightly. When I went to my pdoc a few days ago, I told him all was well. I keep wondering if this was a mistake. Is is possible for worse symptoms to crop up later? About my situation: I'm on the Invega Sustenna because I was noncompliant with oral meds before. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after believing I was being watched, harassed, and sabotaged in life by people. I wanted to share my story in which the meds situation is functional, and in which I might need the meds, to test if you would still oppose me being on Invega Sustenna.

 

[treesaregreen]

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[treesaregreen]

Hey there ma peopleez , how u doing ??

On the psychology/brain part I feel more responsive to my daily tasks at my computer programming job, feeling more sharper I guess, before I would take a while on fixing bugs and get to know the cause of problems, now I can respond more fast to problems that arise, it's just the feeling I have. Also it seems I am understanding movies better, can read all subtitles and don't pause the movie many times as before.

I think my only problem for now is the depression, but I honestly think that's doesn't have nothing to do with my psychosis problem, I mean.. I always have been a lonely person, just had a few friends (like 5 that I talked more) and I always had problems when it takes to talk with people and make conversation, Wish you all the best,
Mister T

It is inspiring to see someone who is in programming here, which I what I want to get into. You mention you were largely lonely and had just a few friends. I ended up like that, but i used to be extremely outgoing and made friends with almost everyone I met. I never had trouble with conversation but now i have trouble coming up with new topics to spark something with new people. Maybe it's because I developed a fear of people, because I believed I was being persecuted so secretly. To more fully respond to what you were saying, I think we all want to be that person who is the life of the party and I think it's a pipe dream. People who are able to do that must have some deep problems they don't tell anyone about.

You sound like you're making a lot of progress athletically. Good for you! I'm glad it's working out for you. I'm stuck at home with parents, with no car and an old bike. The weather has been bad so I don't get out much, and I have to wait for a check in the mail before I can join a fitness club. I used to be so fit. I'm 195 and I was 165 three years ago. I tell you, it was beer and pizza that did it, even when I was walking all over the place

 

[MisterTi]

It is inspiring to see someone who is in programming here, which I what I want to get into. You mention you were largely lonely and had just a few friends. I ended up like that, but i used to be extremely outgoing and made friends with almost everyone I met. I never had trouble with conversation but now i have trouble coming up with new topics to spark something with new people. Maybe it's because I developed a fear of people, because I believed I was being persecuted so secretly. To more fully respond to what you were saying, I think we all want to be that person who is the life of the party and I think it's a pipe dream. People who are able to do that must have some deep problems they don't tell anyone about.

You sound like you're making a lot of progress athletically. Good for you! I'm glad it's working out for you. I'm stuck at home with parents, with no car and an old bike. The weather has been bad so I don't get out much, and I have to wait for a check in the mail before I can join a fitness club. I used to be so fit. I'm 195 and I was 165 three years ago. I tell you, it was beer and pizza that did it, even when I was walking all over the place

Thanks for your words, I like my job, that one of the good choices I made in my life fortunately
Well you sound away better than me in relation to making new friends, I never had felt that comfortable to start talking with new people. I guess thats is something really intrinsic to our personality, and we can't change that sadly
Yeah it's my big pipe dream, I guess it will never be realized. Yeah I also think the same, the people that achieve that must have another kind of problems and situations to blame for, human is always unsatisfied about something..
Yeah I have been working hard on the gym, its really hard to lift the weights every day, I sweat so much, but I will not give up.
Well you don't really need to go into fitness club, just start training outside, even raining, go running like crazy listening music on your earpods, u will feel amazing, then you get home and take a hot bath! If I didn't had money to go to the fitness club and really wanted to lose weight I would do that
I don't eat junk food, I try to be as healthy as possible, eating salads/soups and stuff like that at least on the lunch. What made me fat were the pills thats for sure... try to avoid that pizza dude xD

 

[treesaregreen]

Week 35 off the poison
Thats five half lifes, hopefully at half life six I'll be recovered like decisive. Just going to work on my fitness and try and get myself back to my previous life before the poison over the next seven weeks.
I'll report back in seven weeks, need to stop dwelling on this experience and try and rebuild my life and get some fun back in it.
Au revoir

I do want to ask Bad Robot and all of you, what are the most common withdrawal symptoms after 5 months, 8 months, and 11 months. A lot of people gave the impression that it was really bad, but didn't give a name to the badness, and didn't describe it at its worst. (I'm not interested in things like sexual dysfunction and anhedonia, though I do sympathize). I'm guessing people experienced depression, mania, sleeplessness, shakiness, muscle weakness, akathisia, and symptoms of schizophrenia? I'm worried mostly about what kind of things sent people to the psych ward and/or got them forcibly re-medicated. Or, if there was something that was really pervasive that you couldn't shake off, talk about that too. If you please could be very specific, I'm just trying to gauge how hard it may be if I take Invega Sustenna for 10 years or more.

Thanks for your words, I like my job, that one of the good choices I made in my life fortunately
Well you sound away better than me in relation to making new friends, I never had felt that comfortable to start talking with new people. I guess thats is something really intrinsic to our personality, and we can't change that sadly
Yeah it's my big pipe dream, I guess it will never be realized. Yeah I also think the same, the people that achieve that must have another kind of problems and situations to blame for, human is always unsatisfied about something..
Yeah I have been working hard on the gym, its really hard to lift the weights every day, I sweat so much, but I will not give up.
Well you don't really need to go into fitness club, just start training outside, even raining, go running like crazy listening music on your earpods, u will feel amazing, then you get home and take a hot bath! If I didn't had money to go to the fitness club and really wanted to lose weight I would do that
I don't eat junk food, I try to be as healthy as possible, eating salads/soups and stuff like that at least on the lunch. What made me fat were the pills thats for sure... try to avoid that pizza dude xD

Thanks for the advice, MisterTi! You seem like a really nice person and I hope you make lots of new friends. I will try to run in the rain and will try to eat more salads. I am so glad I don't have to go to the fitness club, although it would be nice. Best of luck with your endeavors therein.

 

[Gdvffh]

Hi guys,

I just got on Invega Sustenna four months ago, and am getting 156mg monthly. Until a week ago, I had horrible fears at night with nausea. I also would be up pacing most of the night because of akathisia. I was constantly in and out of bed. I would get tired, but as soon as I hit the pillow, I would feel the restlessness well up again. You might ask what happened a week ago that I don't have such bad sleeplessness, nausea, and urge to move about. Well, my pdoc put me on 100mg Seroquel, which I take nightly. When I went to my pdoc a few days ago, I told him all was well. I keep wondering if this was a mistake. Is is possible for worse symptoms to crop up later? About my situation: I'm on the Invega Sustenna because I was noncompliant with oral meds before. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after believing I was being watched, harassed, and sabotaged in life by people. I wanted to share my story in which the meds situation is functional, and in which I might need the meds, to test if you would still oppose me being on Invega Sustenna.

Lol your symptoms which got u on the drug r the same as mine, only thing was that I was med compliant which was extremely stupid of me because they gave me bad effects and I just kept taking cause of pressure and not really realizing the meds doing it. However if I said no to meds I probably would have been forced on the injection as well... It seems like the only solution to this situation is to get meds, don't take them. But tell the psych your taking them. No other way out. When ppl find out that you hear voices your opinions don't matter because your "crazy" I was just as logical with the voice hearing and without so I don't understand why they treat us way they do. We basically have no rights and have to do as told. There afraid of us because we hear voices and they dont understand. So there soln is to give us a drug which impairs us and ruins are life so we're no longer a "threat". You know being gay used to be a mental illness, if it wasn't a mental illness still they would still be forcing them to see psychs and would put them on injections to cure there " gayness" it sounds absurd, but it is exactly what they do to us and no one is outcrying at the genocide there causing us. We have sympathy for all ppl except the "crazies", when they find out u can hear shit or whatever your basically a subhuman at thst point going forward

 

[iridescentblack]

Just passed half life 7 a few days ago. It will be a year since my last injection on the 27th.

Things are not exactly great. I would only consider myself about 28 or 29% recovered. But that number seems to be going up. Back to sleeping more than 10 hours a night and it's hard to get out of bed in the morning. But I don't want to get up too early anyway because if I do I'll just end up taking a nap later in the day and fucking up my sleep schedule. I've had some crucial steps here and there and every time I go for a walk my energy comes back - usually for the duration I'm walking. As soon as I get home, I just feel lethargic and don't want to do anything. Still, I'm taking the effort to get outside and get some sun and get some exercise.
I keep thinking about getting a gym membership. Will probably do that when I'm somewhere between 35-45% recovered. No sense in wasting away any more. I'm thankful for where I'm at, but I know I owe most of it to myself and this support team.

 

[Invegasucks]

Are you taking any vitamins to help you with your recovery? Also, how many shots did you have and for what reason?

 

[iridescentblack]

I don't take vitamins. Ginseng when I need energy, ginger extract when I need a cleanse, vitamin D from the sun, drinking plenty of water (1.5-2 liters a day), coconut water, little or no alcohol, vegetarian diet...

I had probably 13 shots altogether over the course of a year. I chose to take the shot. It was either that or deal with withdrawal symptoms for the rest of my life.

 

[Tina3000]

iridescent black.....do you take antidepressants or anything like that? do you have anxiety as a side effect?

I am really worried I ll never be the same again. I didnt recover 1 per cent and its been a year for me. This drug really ruined me. the worst is the anxiety. God please help us ....

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

Tina, I'm keeping you in my thoughts. If you or anyone else ever wants to chat, I'm here for you

 

[iridescentblack]

iridescent black.....do you take antidepressants or anything like that? do you have anxiety as a side effect?

I am really worried I ll never be the same again. I didnt recover 1 per cent and its been a year for me. This drug really ruined me. the worst is the anxiety. God please help us ....

I take 5 mg of Abilify daily. But as for my anxiety, it has pretty much all gone away except for when I take supplements or caffeine. For some reason I can handle caffeine or supplements when the Invega Sustenna seems to dip down.

 

[Tina3000]

iridescent black: the anxiety you had was from invega sustenna wasnt it??

 

[iridescentblack]

Nope. That was on Risperdal Consta... more accurately: from eating a mushroom that counteracted the effects of Risperdal Consta.

 

[ZombieMode]

Hey guys/girls,

Unfortunately I don't have much to offer in the way of a recovery story/progress. I was hoping to make each of you feel better by reminding you that it could be worse...

As some of you have seen i have been forcefully injected with antipsychotics for the last year. Maximum possible dose. This continues.

I simply told the racist pedophile of a "doctor" that i could hear my own thoughts... Which is, from my research and understanding, the PURPOSE of meditation. I would always meditate for the last 6 years, daily. He said i am psychotic and that we "have" thoughts, not "hear" them.

I believe it is a violation of my birthright to be forced and have no input as to what goes in my body. They took my life, so i must end it.

Nowadays, as im sure you can all relate, i am bed bound and have been transformed into a lifeless zombie with no willpower or desire to continue.

I feel recovery is not possible. For me. I dony want 50% or even 80% of the person i was. I want 100%. I want my self back. I no longer remember what it feels like to be involved in a happy life.

I am more excited to die than continue on, waiting painfully watching myself slip further away from good health and life.

My heart goes out to each and every one of you - we are all victims of this corrupt world we have been born into. I often wonder at what point in my life i subscribed to this police state.... But can never find an answer.

I wish you all a speedy and full recovery.

I have reached my threshold.

I die now, naybe it will set precedence for the many others who will follow. Maybe it will create awareness that these drugs are soul sapping poisons.

Love always,
Zombie