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Mental Health Coming off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v3

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Bogdan
Bogdan said:
I’m glad that you are feeling better Jonny! invuns you are on the right road to recovery! Hope we will get more recovery stories soon and updates from the members! I had an appointment today with my doctor and we agreed to stop the shots. Now,my road to recovery starts from here..had my last shot on 7 January..hope I will get better soon
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I wish you luck on your recovery. Can you tell us how many shots you’ve had? And the reason you were put on the medication? For me it was drug included psychosis. I was totally fine but this was about my 3rd psychotic episode. I was diagnosed bipolar. And was in denial of it for 4 years. I believed I wasnt sick. Then I became erratic to the point where I had once jumped in the back of someone’s truck and many other things before that which exhibited totally psychotic behavior. So at the same time I’m glad I initially got the shot because it kills your psychotic behavior instantly. However it also puts you into a deep depression shortly after the first dose. I’m lucky I didn’t lost my job. I will try other medication and even supplements if I have to in order to manage any symptoms.
 
From August till November 2019 I took Risperidone (6mg)and Olanzapin(20 mg first month,15 second,10 3rd month and 5 4th) ( yea’ they put me in Hospital on high doses of antipsyhotics) and after i stopped the pills I had 3 shots(150,100 and 75 mg)..i had also a drug induced psychosis..i got drunk at a party,smoked a little but the mistake was that i snorted a little cocaine and that fucked me instantly,i felt like everything was in slow motion, blurred and i was losing contact with reality a little..I’m 21 years old and I just hope that i will be ok without shots if i don t do drugs again..it s my first episode and i really want to believe that my dopamine receptors will recover after this experience and that i will be symptom free in a few months..also I really hope that all of you will recover
 
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Bogdan said:
From August till November 2019 I took Risperidone (6mg)and Olanzapin(20 mg first month,15 second,10 3rd month and 5 4th) ( yea’ they put me in Hospital on high doses of antipsyhotics) and after i stopped the pills I had 3 shots(150,100 and 75 mg)..i had also a drug induced psychosis..i got drunk at a party,smoked a little but the mistake was that i snorted a little cocaine and that fucked me instantly,i felt like everything was in slow motion, blurred and i was losing contact with reality a little..I’m 21 years old and I just hope that i will be ok without shots if i don t do drugs again..it s my first episode and i really want to believe that my dopamine receptors will recover after this experience and that i will be symptom free in a few months..also I really hope that all of you will recover
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Bogdan said:
From August till November 2019 I took Risperidone (6mg)and Olanzapin(20 mg first month,15 second,10 3rd month and 5 4th) ( yea’ they put me in Hospital on high doses of antipsyhotics) and after i stopped the pills I had 3 shots(150,100 and 75 mg)..i had also a drug induced psychosis..i got drunk at a party,smoked a little but the mistake was that i snorted a little cocaine and that fucked me instantly,i felt like everything was in slow motion, blurred and i was losing contact with reality a little..I’m 21 years old and I just hope that i will be ok without shots if i don t do drugs again..it s my first episode and i really want to believe that my dopamine receptors will recover after this experience and that i will be symptom free in a few months..also I really hope that all of you will recover
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You sound a lot like me. I’m 21 as well and I’m hoping that after the shots my imbalance has fixed itself enough. I had months where I was completely normal and months were I’d be talking to voices and shit. It was manageable psychosis until I went overboard one day. Thank god I didn’t have court order or anything just my grandma telling me I need to see the doctor and scheduling me and appointment in which they suggested invega for me and I said yeah. I got like 5 shots. I’m hoping my brain will go back to normal and I won’t have psychosis anymore or at least now I can know what’s it like to not have it. Like I said, I was in denial. Like a few people here I thought I was kundalini awakening, chakras, psychic power, I was even cutting my skin and practicing black magic. Then I got the shot and I stopped all of that. The psychosis itself was quite interesting not going to lie. Then I went overboard a few times with my thoughts. What caused it for me was a change in my weed guys strain. It was super potent and I remember I was smoking with my grandma and told her they laced it with meth and shit that’s how high I was getting lol. I even hallucinated a meth recovery. I sometimes wonder if I could just manage psychosis and not have to take meds. It felt like apart of me. Just don’t wanna be unstable.
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I want to mention that i never had any kind of hallucinations..the worst things i had during my psychotic episode were 2 things: paranoia ( I thought that police was after me because my father worked in the Police and i thought that he found out that I did drugs and he spoked with some colleagues from the work to watch me where i was going what i was doing and i also thought that some people were trying to do something bad to me but i was not aggresive) and a catatonic phase( I stayed in bed looking at the ceiling and doing nothing)..but that was over when i took antipsychotics..now I’m a normal person and I go to a language course here in Germany but I want to go back in Romania in summer to finish my Computer Science University.For the moment I just want to see more updates and recovery stories from members because I want to believe that is a light on the end of this long tunnel..I want to have hope on my recovery road..wish you all the best, Bogdan
 
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I want to mention that i never had any kind of hallucinations..the worst things i had during my psychotic episode were 2 things: paranoia ( I thought that police was after me and some people were trying to do something bad to me but i was not aggresive) and a catatonic phase( I stayed in bed looking at the ceiling and doing nothing)..but that was over when i took antipsychotics..now I’m a normal person and I go to a language course here in Germany but I want to go back in Romania in summer to finish my Computer Science University.For the moment I just want to see more updates and recovery stories from members because I want to believe that is a light on the end of this long tunnel..I want to have hope on my recovery road..wish you all the best, Bogdan
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I’ve done a ton of research online and have read many success stories too. People do recover. Just hang in there man. I’ll recover soon so I’ll keep in touch.
 
It’s like I see people recovering in 9-12 months from their last shot but yet I’m approaching my 11th month off and still no improvement. Still can’t retain information like I used to, no emotions, sex drive still ain’t as strong as it used to be, nothing holds my attention and music still just sounds like a bunch of noise. I just want to know what do you feel when you start recovering like is there some sort of way of knowing you are getting better?
 
About 3 months since last injection. From December 12th to January 12th, I was having withdrawals. Severe depression and hypersomnia. I also didn't want to talk to anyone even on Christmas Eve. I was just a vegetable. Now February is upon us and I'm not sleeping all day long but I'm tired all day and just lay down on the couch with my eyes closed a lot. I go to bed around 11pm to midnight, wake up around 6am, go back to sleep on the couch till 11am or noon, get up for a few hours then back to the couch till 5pm. After dinner, it's mostly back to the couch or play a computer game.

Does anyone else suffer like I do? Just can't really get motivated to do anything? I take Adderall as well but I'm cutting back and trying to get off of it because I just feel good for about an hour then crash. It also gives me anxiety. Before the poison, it cured my depression and lasted all day.

Does anyone else experience depression or extreme lack of motivation and extreme tiredness? Also, I'm diagnosed schitzoaffective so how the hell do I know if these aren't negative symptoms???

All I can tell you is that I didn't have these symptoms before Invega. Also if you Google WebMD avolition, finally someone admits that antipsychotics can worsen avolition (lack of motivation.) My emotions are fine, I don't have sex issues and lots of other complaints others have. I just want to know if there is anyone else out there that gained a bunch of weight and is damn near bedridden/non-functional even after being off it for nearly 3 months?
 
Invega9976 said:
About 3 months since last injection. From December 12th to January 12th, I was having withdrawals. Severe depression and hypersomnia. I also didn't want to talk to anyone even on Christmas Eve. I was just a vegetable. Now February is upon us and I'm not sleeping all day long but I'm tired all day and just lay down on the couch with my eyes closed a lot. I go to bed around 11pm to midnight, wake up around 6am, go back to sleep on the couch till 11am or noon, get up for a few hours then back to the couch till 5pm. After dinner, it's mostly back to the couch or play a computer game.

Does anyone else suffer like I do? Just can't really get motivated to do anything? I take Adderall as well but I'm cutting back and trying to get off of it because I just feel good for about an hour then crash. It also gives me anxiety. Before the poison, it cured my depression and lasted all day.

Does anyone else experience depression or extreme lack of motivation and extreme tiredness? Also, I'm diagnosed schitzoaffective so how the hell do I know if these aren't negative symptoms???

All I can tell you is that I didn't have these symptoms before Invega. Also if you Google WebMD avolition, finally someone admits that antipsychotics can worsen avolition (lack of motivation.) My emotions are fine, I don't have sex issues and lots of other complaints others have. I just want to know if there is anyone else out there that gained a bunch of weight and is damn near bedridden/non-functional even after being off it for nearly 3 months?
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Yes we all do. Allegedly it’s because Invega is a huge dopamine and serotonin antagonist. These two neurotransmitters are responsible for mood as well as confidence, and happiness. I know the difference between scizoaffective depression and chemically induced anhedonia, which is what you’re experiencing. I was diagnosed as well scizoaffective. Apparently you will feel better after 6-7 months then heal completely at 8-12 months depending on the amount of shots you’ve had. The first 3 months are the worst you should notice a difference soon. My bedridden behavior fixed itself thankfully after sometime. My sexual functions have healed as well. Adderall is a stimulant which is most likely why it helped with depression but you sound quite sane and sound so I’m hoping you have enough personal insight into your condition. The bad news is that you still have a long way to go. The good news is that recovery happens. And for those of us that actually have a condition, the medication did it’s job but at what cost? The cost is surely too high, to me it was like a slap on the wrists for not taking my medication at all and smoking myself into a drug induced psychosis; which seems common amongst us. The invega will immediately stop all psychotic behavior once it’s got a grip on your neurotransmitters. Just take what you can from the experience and move on. Don’t make whatever mistake you made that allowed you to be put on invega. Now because of this, my mental health is one of the main things I look after in my future. You willl get better. It just takes time. The symptoms you have are from the invega.
 
Hopefuldopeful said:
Yes we all do. Allegedly it’s because Invega is a huge dopamine and serotonin antagonist. These two neurotransmitters are responsible for mood as well as confidence, and happiness. I know the difference between scizoaffective depression and chemically induced anhedonia, which is what you’re experiencing. I was diagnosed as well scizoaffective. Apparently you will feel better after 6-7 months then heal completely at 8-12 months depending on the amount of shots you’ve had. The first 3 months are the worst you should notice a difference soon. My bedridden behavior fixed itself thankfully after sometime. My sexual functions have healed as well. Adderall is a stimulant which is most likely why it helped with depression but you sound quite sane and sound so I’m hoping you have enough personal insight into your condition. The bad news is that you still have a long way to go. The good news is that recovery happens. And for those of us that actually have a condition, the medication did it’s job but at what cost? The cost is surely too high, to me it was like a slap on the wrists for not taking my medication at all and smoking myself into a drug induced psychosis; which seems common amongst us. The invega will immediately stop all psychotic behavior once it’s got a grip on your neurotransmitters. Just take what you can from the experience and move on. Don’t make whatever mistake you made that allowed you to be put on invega. Now because of this, my mental health is one of the main things I look after in my future. You willl get better. It just takes time. The symptoms you have are from the invega.
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I'm thinking that my symptoms are from Invega as well. Thanks for the encouragement. My grandfather died 8 months ago and I've taken his death harshly. I think this might be another reason I'm depressed. He took me out of a bad situation when I was a kid, now he's gone and I feel lost, anxious, sad, empty. So I'm going through a lot at once. It's just hard to tell where the symptoms come from sometimes...I second guess myself...I know I have avolition because I wouldn't go work full time right now for $100 an hour. I just don't have it in me. I should be working part time afternoon shift in the middle of the month. I just hope I can stick with it. I feel really bad when I wake up most days so I'm nervous. I used to not be this way. Something really bad has happened to my mind that's wrecking my life...has changed my life for the worst...that's all I know.
 
Hello guys! I woke up the past 3 days with on and off depression but today I feel a major difference. Mainly my senses are no longer dulled, for example my brain is able to take in multiple noises at once and enjoy them in a sense. Before invega caused a murky understanding of the things around me. Noises were just random effects that had no meaning whatsoever. Now coming off of this drug I am starting to understand how things should feel. My depression is waaaayyy down. I just have anxiety and regrets but my motivation and confidence is definitely up!!! I believe the substance I am taking which I mentioned a few times (that I am not allowed to recommend) is altering my neurotransmitters once again. This makes total sense because it can be known for actually inducing psychosis which means it increases dopamine and serotonin levels. I’m not hoping for psychosis, but I AM however reliazing that either my dopamine and serotonin are going back to normal or the medication is wearing off faster than expected. I am 5.6 months off at this point. I’ll do more research on what I’m taking but I’ve mentioned it a few times above.
 
Invega9976 said:
I'm thinking that my symptoms are from Invega as well. Thanks for the encouragement. My grandfather died 8 months ago and I've taken his death harshly. I think this might be another reason I'm depressed. He took me out of a bad situation when I was a kid, now he's gone and I feel lost, anxious, sad, empty. So I'm going through a lot at once. It's just hard to tell where the symptoms come from sometimes...I second guess myself...I know I have avolition because I wouldn't go work full time right now for $100 an hour. I just don't have it in me. I should be working part time afternoon shift in the middle of the month. I just hope I can stick with it. I feel really bad when I wake up most days so I'm nervous. I used to not be this way. Something really bad has happened to my mind that's wrecking my life...has changed my life for the worst...that's all I know.
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First I am so sorry to hear about your grandparent. I know for a fact that the combination of Invega and events causes major depression because I found myself overwhelmed as well while thinking about the mistakes and regrets in my life constantly. Like I mentioned the first 3 months are the WORST but it’ll get a little better gradually. And yes, something did happen, you were injected with a powerful drug that killed your dopamine and serotonin levels. I PROMISE YOU. You will see improvements. But it’s extremely hard. I know that for a fact. This is literally the most extreme and horrible thing I’ve ever been through. But now I am healing. I would give it 3 more months and you’ll start to feel major improvements. My muscles even feel less rigid today which is also a plus.
 
I just tried smoking weed and I most definitely feel a major difference. I’m actually high right now, mind you, my anxiety is still there but I am able to lay back and just be high. When all of this is over and done with. I am making sure I avoid mental turmoil at all costs. I have 3-4 aps sitting around to help me with that. If I ever show wild signs that I’m becoming psychotic again. I’m going to the doctor and I’m gonna take medication in PILL form. There is no reason why a medication should last this long in the human body. This is horrible. I’m high asf right now and it’s also psychoactive so I’ll try to wait a day until I take another dose of kratom. Disclaimer: I am not recommending you take this. Anyway I take around 3-5 grams a day just one dose and then I try to wait at least one whole day before another dose. Then I’ll use those 6-7 hours to feel good again. It’s like the Invega temporarily leaves your body while kratom is ingested. I don’t want to get any form of dependent on it so I space it out as much as possible.
 
15 months off

Invega isn’t a thing I worry about now, I do believe it’s gone and my brain has fully recovered from the damage caused by the constant post-synaptic neuronal receptor blockage.
 
Rebelhassan said:
15 months off

Invega isn’t a thing I worry about now, I do believe it’s gone and my brain has fully recovered from the damage caused by the constant post-synaptic neuronal receptor blockage.
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Wouahh respect bro but are you able to work ?
 
It's been 11 month off from me no real change in planning to go work next month I wish I can do I call all people say they fully recovered it's a big bullshit it's just not possible but happy some recovered enough for function
 
Wokengenius said:
It’s like I see people recovering in 9-12 months from their last shot but yet I’m approaching my 11th month off and still no improvement. Still can’t retain information like I used to, no emotions, sex drive still ain’t as strong as it used to be, nothing holds my attention and music still just sounds like a bunch of noise. I just want to know what do you feel when you start recovering like is there some sort of way of knowing you are getting better?
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Me too its like 11 month off and nothing the same side effect I have like you I think all people say 12 month it's like for function work ect but fully recovered it's just not possible I can't trust anyone say they fully recovered because it's just not possible good luck try to go out see some friends see some movie do some sport meet some girl or boy if you a women good luck
 
Jonnyhalo said:
So I now I'm a 100% snapped back I know I repeat my self and I do it cuz I know I didn't wanna sift through old pages myself..

I'm noticing more and more and wanna get out and socialize with the ladies now I actually hold my intreste in what there saying, I get a natural high talking/ hitting on a beautiful chick, I feel alive again.. I crave connecting now.

I was locked out of my emotions for so long some feelings almost feel new, kinda like a virgins excitment for sex. Any way just update my statues

I mentioned this before but towards the end of the year mark I started forming my morning routine and at first it felt pointless but as months went by it got easier and easier, then one day I noticed I wanted to look my best it felt good


1-20-20... 1year and 5 months off invega sustenna
7 injections
156 dose

Currently do no meds
I drink beer to get drunk occasionally

I can feel euphoria from cigs and booze big time

1 more thing I came off invega cold Turkey and had no negative side effects
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Seriously 7 shot and you fully recovered I highly doubt but I'm happy for you my opinion is one injection of paliperidone fuck you up very bad for life it's just my opinion
 
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