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Hello @CJ I take abilify and I recently started taking Wellbutrin about 3 weeks ago. No changes or improvements yet. I also tried sertraline a few months back.
Hello everyone I have returned to update my progress. I have had 8 shots. I have gained about 30 pounds. I have been off the invega for 8 months now and I feel great.
Sexual function has returned. Sometimes I go multiple times a day.
Thinking and speech have returned. Thoughts have returned back to normal. Inner thinking is good. Good reaction time in video games.
Physically I need to start working out again. I now have had a job for 2 months as a caretaker for the disabled. Life is really much better for me. I can have sex. I can vape on weed ( make sure you get a safe source of weed because that's how I got fucked on this stuff) and I take Adderall when I need to. I also take welbutrin and I feel much better.
So yeah. Even my personality is coming back. But I won't forget what they did to me. I have definitely changed as a person from this experience. I was started on invega and zyprexa. I thought I was going to die
The longer I spent on invega the worse it felt. I finally convinced my dad to let me quit 8 months ago because I knew I was misdiagnosed. I was reacting from spiced weed and I had a guilty concious about something I did which amplified my anxiety and I had psychosis. But they injected me and kept kept me on invega because I attacked my family. So yeah. It was a one time incident but no doctor's wanted to take me off the medicine so I just quit and I knew I would be fine.
So yeah. Keep hope in your hearts. Find a loved one who will be with you at your side as you work on getting better. It will get better. Slowly your functions will return. Just don't give up. We need to keep faith for the others who will need the help in the future.
I will check back once in a while here but I don't want to get too involved again as I am moving on from the experience too.
If you have questions just ask me.
So yeah. I would say I'm recovered. Weed helped ironically and welbutrin and Adderall. I felt all senses recover. Reaction time is back. No more pacing. Able to focus on videogames for 12 hours straight. I'm so thankful that it returns. I didn't do much exercise but I vaped alot of weed and I just started to feel better everyday. Eat healthy. I ate junk food and gained alot of weight. Now I got a job I am eating healthy and starting to exercise.
Personality has taken damage from this shit. My confidence isn't what it was and I feel bad about my weight and I lost a girlfriend during the whole event. I went through alot. Anyone on this shit is going to need therapy after because you won't be the same.
Also I been going to therapy every week where I practice talking about my feelings and being human again.
Also I can journal now. Even my handwriting looks better from on invega vs after. It's great. But yeah I have proof that invega will kill you. I am a survivor just like the rest of you will be too.
I'm 26 male I'm 200 pounds mostly just got a chubby stomach haha but I can work it off didn't develop man boobs but did lose all definition I had.
That's about all I can think of. I have a journal I can write about eventually. Just wanted to check on you guys. I saw Zack here that's good that he recovered congrats!!
Keep the hope alive everyone. It's possible to recover.
I also feel good enough to play videogames or watching movies, but I'm not gonna lie, it's not like pre invega, I can have a decent life but my brain simply doesn't "feel" anymore, no emotions, no pleasure, no libido, I can't feel, end of the story.
So I would say if you had many shots like me you can improve for sure, you will reach a point where you will be able to have a good life but maybe things are never gonna be the same as pre Invega.
I now understand Dirtyinvega when he told me his emotions didn't come back but he adapted, when I read his post I couldn't accept it but now I realize I don't have any other option, this is the only life I have and I accept my limits.