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

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What's up with it vanilla faces:D (go watch Borat it'll make your day) its your homeboy; Unexpected, coming to you all live, from Sunny Los Angeles, CA on this beautiful October Sunday Afternoon just about 31.1 degrees celsius not a cloud in the sky and its about to be the last one of the season... fall and autumn are officially here... so get those last few days of sunshine and get ready to dress warm... shoutout to anyone in florida right now... this global warming is no joke...

But ANYWAYS.... *******update time.... boy do I have some good news, especially for you boys.... as Per exactly what Koz26 had said earlier in the posts quite some time ago... about 4.5-6 Months off the shot... my stuff... works... is it fully working, no, of course not, lol not yet ;) we got 1 down... 1 to go... lets just see if I can put this in plain English so theres nothing coy or ambiguous about what I am saying... This medicine took alotta strength pride confidence and the will to fucking live away from me... but NOW and especially looking forward It's made me stronger because I realize at about 5.5 months in. Im almost halfway there because I'm fairly certain the wait time is 12-15 months (18 Max)... and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... am I right??!! I am SO GRATEFUL NOW for what I was given and blessed with by god that If I get even just a little bit close back to what I was I might just potentially be the happiest man alive!!!!! :\

I'm not even kidding... I'm straight killing it in the gym too... I mean I'm boxing and kickboxing and the 2 guys who run the gym a man from Croatia and a dude from the Phillipines said I'm looking mad lean straight beast mode yo.... 5'9 and 163.5 and I got my hand speed back....!!!!!!! I was 178 back in January Feb I'm Playing Tennis and I just found my old soccer and rugby cleats and I'm running up grassy Hills.... I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a real RUSH!!

I also highly recommend making weight loss along with sobriety and no FAP your priority adjustments during this adjustment period that we have all been involuntarily subjected too... (you can FAP once a week and smoking marijuana once a week before a workout if you got nothing to do) Blend Kale Parsley Ice cold water and Frozen Pineapples and Watermelon together B12 vitamin in the morning on days you workout.. Multivitamin every morning.. High fiber oatmeal.. high fiber whole wheat grains cereal w/bananas raspberries blueberries blackberries cranberry juice... and WATERR.... LETS GO we can beat this IT GETS BETTER WITH TIME... theres no reason why this shit won't fully exit our systems and our get our receptors to return to preinvega levels... we gotta be patient!!! we can do it %)
 
@Invapo it's 6 months for me and I feel no improvement. How much improvement did you make on your 6 month? By my 15 month will I fully heal? I had a total of 2 injections. Will I ever be able to run 10 miles... I would run 10 miles in a day in 1 hour at 6 min pace. I was fast and I miss it.
 
Ya'll worried about your emotions and what not coming back I have words for you. Lately I find myself more empathetic than before Risperdal/Invega. It's like I flipped a switch and suddenly I just care more about everything and everyone. The idea of people suffering and dying, ideas presented as I watch these debates between Hillary and Trump, just makes me want to do something even more than ever before. Good things come to those who wait. If hell you must go through...


Heaven awaits.
 
dull said:
can anyone feelk ciggarettes i feel nothing when i smoke
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That sucks Im really sorry to hear that. I myself still suffer from anedonia and severe cognitive impairment and I have not had a shot in over six months.. I have stopped drinking so I can try and get my body healthy, but I doubt I would even be able to get drunk or even feel a good buzz if I tried.. which is beyond weird if you ask me and frankly quite scary.. What you said is just proof that this drug is in humane and sick.. it shows that many of your dopamine and serotonin receptors are still being blocked by this poison.. that you can't even feel something like smoking. These receptors are soo instrumental in everthing we do and every emotion we feel, thats what makes us feel like a human being, and the idea that doctors or psychiatrist feel they can take this away from us is sad. They should seriously be prosecuted for medical malpractice.
 
@Lazar I've been put on the Risperdal and Invega injections for years, basically since 2010. It's because of them that I have a history of med noncompliance; I hate so much what they do to my body that I don't start taking anything after them. They had me doing all sorts of research and paying for all sorts of blood and saliva tests due to hormone imbalance. It really is terrible, I agree.
 
Joey2358 said:
@Invapo it's 6 months for me and I feel no improvement. How much improvement did you make on your 6 month? By my 15 month will I fully heal? I had a total of 2 injections. Will I ever be able to run 10 miles... I would run 10 miles in a day in 1 hour at 6 min pace. I was fast and I miss it.
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Joey, I feel sympathetic towards you very much, because you sound so similar to myself. You will heal, you will run again. I can best gauge my improvement by if my body allows me to lose weight, and I know that at six months the last time I was still at the same weight I was when I was on the medication. Like iridescentblack has said, it is kind of like a switch flips. I too got only two shots this time, but I gained six pounds last month even after being off it for two months. You've really got to focus on getting over the slump. Keep in mind that being off your feet for a bit causes your body to atrophy, so I would highly recommend doing some walking just to get your muscles going again. You should certainly be in a better place 6-10 months from now. You will run 10 miles again; it was after being off Invega the first time that I was out running for hours. It will happen, just keep focus.
 
@iridescent black I would so love to have a keyboard! I'm thinking of taking a few weeks or months off work if no place gets back to me here soon; I'm looking for a little part-time spot for the winter months. I am working my way to become a peer specialist :')
 
dull said:
does anyone take any stuf for libido not viagara over the counter thing
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beware the force that is hypersexuality. I don't know just how different it is for a guy coming off this stuff, but I would actually get so wild just over the thought of a boy I liked. It happened both times coming off Invega.
 
Tim32 said:
@ invapo

You seem to be very happy. Don't you feel depressed on invega?
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Invega, like any medication I'm prescribed, can make me feel quite flat. I experience the same thing when taking this Geodon I have; now that I have these pills, though, I can take a day off every now and then so that it is not too overwhelming. You have got to have a fighter's attitude when coming off this stuff, sometimes you will find you even forgot you were unhappy in the first place. I SO dislike what it has done to my body.
 
Hi guys, I thought I should give an update.

So 6 months ago I would drink a ton of beer and I would not get drunk at all. This Friday I went drinking and I got drunk, so drunk! It was great, having been drunk first time in over a year. I seriously thought.my receptors were dead so it's great they come back. Lately I also exercise and est healthy and I'm doing much better. I'm not as smart as I used to be but I'm doing ok
 
invapo, I know you don't like meds. I don't think any of us really do.

I've been doing some thinking. Perhaps the reason some of the original posters never posted their recovery stories is because of that reason. Maybe the experience of Invega Sustenna was so threatening to their wellbeing that they went of medications altogether and wound up hospitalized.

Back when I was in the mental hospital, after my psychosis, I was given a set of options. A: live in a group home and take Risperdal Consta (since I was deemed non-med-compliant and couldn't be put on a PTP) or B: stay in the mental hospital.

The options weren't that great but I went with the lesser of two evils; you see - being that I have some of the best insurance of anyone in the state (or so I'm told by medical professionals) I live in it's easy for someone like me to become a "cash cow". Patients can be confined to mental institutions for extended periods of time until their insurance runs out or until there's just not enough room to keep them.

What I'm saying is maybe Narshe and the others became cash cows.
 
I rather stay in a mental hospital Without medication. But here in Holland they don't give you that option. You get injections at the mental hospital or you go home and have to go and get the injections.
 
@Tim I feel the same way. I was only allowed to be med free at the hospital for about 10 or 11 days before they forced medication upon me. I have been in hospitals before, and now I want to stay just medicated enough that I don't have to go back.
 
@iridescentblack that is quite an interesting theory, and perhaps very true. There does seem to be some consistency between how long I can go off Invega Sustenna and how long I can go off Risperdal Consta (half the amount of time of Sustenna) before I arrested and drug back into the hospital, or simply thrown into the back of an ambulance and drug in. I deal with psychosis, which honestly I love, but I guess it was freaking my father out when he would wake up in the middle of the night and I was in my room talking to "myself" (I was speaking to the moon and the stars and the spirits, I mean cut me some slack right). So yeah I'll honestly admit I have something to be treated by medications, but my doctor wants me to be without any bit of uppity perk (hypo-mania-ish), and I won't have that. Sorry, but I've come to know myself as the life-lover I like to be.

But yeah, I've known of plenty of these "cash cows" who sit waiting around in hospitals until beds open up somewhere for them to stay. I used to get stuck in the extended care units for 3 months at a time; my insurance is not too shabby either.
 
11 months off and I still feel mentally handicapped.. like legit retarded. Still have no interest in talking to anyone.. No emotions except frustration and I can laugh at some things. I can't even feel happy when I see my 6 month old son. Been forcing myself to workout at least 4 times a week for about an hour. Haven't lost any belly fat though. I feel like I'm just wasting away playing video games and watching tv. I can get drunk, but that causes it's own problems.. I can't smoke since I'm on probation. That may be a good thing, since marijuana induces psychosis. And I'd rather not go through that again. I'm going to get a flu shot and see if that helps spread the poison in my arm or whatever.
 
I have been on Invega Sustenna for a few years and have noticed many shifts in my attitude, behaviour, emotional state and way of thinking during this time. Most of the time I was on it, I was, like most people here, clouded, zombified slept a lot etc.

I was on 150mg and in February I decided to drop it and convinced my PD to drop it to 100mg.. The next few months following was hell.. i was even more zombified, lazy and unable to do much.. I now realize that that was the WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS! As I was back on my feet in the summer and got a seasonal job and everything was great..

In the midst of all of this I started seeing a naturopathic doctor who 'prescribed' me supplements like B vitamins, Rodiola vitamin C and Omega 3... Within weeks I felt invincible.

I became even more empowered to tell me doc that I want a further reduction to 75mg... She ended up agreeing.

I'be been on 75 for the past 1.5 months and plan to continue slowly weening off this drug until I am off it completely.

Check out my youtube video if you are interested in hearing me talk about my weening off this drug @ https://youtu.be/3fjK19KGi5o

Wishing you all the best of luck with attaining maximum health

Lui
 
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