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Mental Health Coming off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v3

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Good news, I’m starting to have trouble sleeping at night so I think the antipsychotics are starting to wear off. I had my injection late April 234 mg. It doesn’t quite make sense considering the half life, I don’t think it would be so abrupt. But I have withdrawn from antipsychotics before and every time I have I can’t sleep for one or two nights, and I don’t see any other reason why I’m having trouble sleeping. It’s 86 days today. I also started to get goosebumps from music and excitement from video games again. I’m taking 1200 mg of St John’s Wort everyday, two 600 mg doses ~12 hours apart. I’m also taking a multivitamin, iron, magnesium, fish oil, and extra D3, which help a lot.
mrwelladjusted, I had a 400 mg abilify maintena shot in September and October 2019, and I started to get waves of emotions returning 6 months after, so I believe I was close to recovery, but then I had the Invega sustenna shot days later.
 
wholetthedogsout56 said:
Good news, I’m starting to have trouble sleeping at night so I think the antipsychotics are starting to wear off. I had my injection late April 234 mg. It doesn’t quite make sense considering the half life, I don’t think it would be so abrupt. But I have withdrawn from antipsychotics before and every time I have I can’t sleep for one or two nights, and I don’t see any other reason why I’m having trouble sleeping. It’s 86 days today. I also started to get goosebumps from music and excitement from video games again. I’m taking 1200 mg of St John’s Wort everyday, two 600 mg doses ~12 hours apart. I’m also taking a multivitamin, iron, magnesium, fish oil, and extra D3, which help a lot.
mrwelladjusted, I had a 400 mg abilify maintena shot in September and October 2019, and I started to get waves of emotions returning 6 months after, so I believe I was close to recovery, but then I had the Invega sustenna shot days later.
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I'm almost five months after injection and I'm really curious how I'll feel after six months. I don't expect too much, but everyday is one day closer to recovery. Most times I can get goosebumps listening to music, too. My emotions are there, but I can't feel anything but sadness, so I don't know if it should be this way. I'll probably have a year of staying home and I'm wondering what I should do during my recovery, I don't want to waste this time. I'll probably start reading some science or psychological books and I'd recommend doing this to everyone that doesn't have a job or anything to do at this time.
 
got my St. John's Wort last night. hopefully this stuff does the job. they're 700mg capsules.
 
Antipsychiatry said:
Well I'm drinking 47.8% rum and i can feel a bit of a buzz. About the only thing that keeps me going. That and cigarettes. I smoke half to a pack a day. It doesn't do anything to me but i just enjoy the throat hit. Someday i will look back on all of this and say wow, i survived that. All this and video games is about that only thing i do. I'd rather be working but i literally can't right now. My brain won't allow me.
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yeah all i can feel from pot and alcohol is just a small buzz but that's about it. i can down the whole 1.75 bottle and won't surpass that small buzz. same with weed. just a small buzz. still pleasant i guess. wish i could go back to normal. makes me feel old. smoking and drinking and feeling the effects only in moderation. i live for the throat hit of cigs though. that harshness reinvigorates me lol. i can sometimes get this weird buzz from cigs but nothing special. i just only get a fix from cigs.
 
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John78 said:
yeah all i can feel from pot and alcohol is just a small buzz but that's about it. i can down the whole 1.75 bottle and won't surpass that small buzz. same with weed. just a small buzz. still pleasant i guess. wish i could go back to normal. makes feel old. smoking and drinking and feeling the effects only in moderation. i live for the throat hit of cigs though. that harshness reinvigorates me lol. i can sometimes get this weird buzz from cigs but nothing special. i just only get a fix from cigs.
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I mix doubles. Its about the only way i can get a buzz. I have to say i was pretty tipsy last night
 
Antipsychiatry said:
I mix doubles. Its about the only way i can get a buzz. I have to say i was pretty tipsy last night
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i haven't had doubles since the Conor McGregor fight back in January. i had a decent buzz though from steel reserves about a month ago. i had that slow feeling when i turned my head so i know i definetely felt something. but lately i haven't felt much; or i feel a little for like 20 mins. idk if the risperdal is just giving invega the final touch and ridding me from intoxication completely (i was on risperdal last year and i could get high and drunk though) or if i built up a tolerance to what little effects there were which would be pretty easy.
 
How do you say it's been 4, 5, 6 months etc? You count a month after 30/31 days have passed, I mean, for example - 7th July, 7th August, 7th September or you just count every day and divide that by 28? Cause I do it the second way and I think this might be called cheating, lol
 
mrwelladjusted said:
How do you say it's been 4, 5, 6 months etc? You count a month after 30/31 days have passed, I mean, for example - 7th July, 7th August, 7th September or you just count every day and divide that by 28? Cause I do it the second way and I think this might be called cheating, lol
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where'd you learn that? i thought everyone went by 7/7 8/7 9/7 etc. since you're dealing with months and not just february lol. i think it'd be more realistic to go with #1.
 
Antipsychiatry said:
Well I'm drinking 47.8% rum and i can feel a bit of a buzz. About the only thing that keeps me going. That and cigarettes. I smoke half to a pack a day. It doesn't do anything to me but i just enjoy the throat hit. Someday i will look back on all of this and say wow, i survived that. All this and video games is about that only thing i do. I'd rather be working but i literally can't right now. My brain won't allow me.
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I can get a good buzz from nicotine and I can get drunk. 3 months off here
 
wholetthedogsout56 said:
Good news, I’m starting to have trouble sleeping at night so I think the antipsychotics are starting to wear off. I had my injection late April 234 mg. It doesn’t quite make sense considering the half life, I don’t think it would be so abrupt. But I have withdrawn from antipsychotics before and every time I have I can’t sleep for one or two nights, and I don’t see any other reason why I’m having trouble sleeping. It’s 86 days today. I also started to get goosebumps from music and excitement from video games again. I’m taking 1200 mg of St John’s Wort everyday, two 600 mg doses ~12 hours apart. I’m also taking a multivitamin, iron, magnesium, fish oil, and extra D3, which help a lot.
mrwelladjusted, I had a 400 mg abilify maintena shot in September and October 2019, and I started to get waves of emotions returning 6 months after, so I believe I was close to recovery, but then I had the Invega sustenna shot days later.
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Yeah I had a 156 mg injection on April 10 and I think I’m recovering pretty well. My mind still goes blank pretty often but I think that’s just because of me not having a soul
 
John78 said:
yeah all i can feel from pot and alcohol is just a small buzz but that's about it. i can down the whole 1.75 bottle and won't surpass that small buzz. same with weed. just a small buzz. still pleasant i guess. wish i could go back to normal. makes me feel old. smoking and drinking and feeling the effects only in moderation. i live for the throat hit of cigs though. that harshness reinvigorates me lol. i can sometimes get this weird buzz from cigs but nothing special. i just only get a fix from cigs.
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What kind of cigs do you smoke? Have you ever had American Spirit Blacks? They’re blended with I believe 15% perique tobacco
 
Im currently on clopixol depot but my doctor wants me to switch to invega sustenna in 2 months time so that I can switch to oral medication in 4 months. I dont have much of a choice because I'm on a court order. This is my second court order and I hope that after I switch to oral invega I wont have to have another one. Should I just take the invega injecctions and hope for recovery after a year or should I just ask the doctor to stick to clopixol depot? Because I really want to switch to oral medication so I can just get away with not taking any medication at all. I used to look like my profile picture but now I look so ugly and old because of the injections. Has anyone else noticed that antipsychotics make you ugly?
 
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Im currently on clopixol depot but my doctor wants me to switch to invega sustenna in 2 months time so that I can switch to oral medication in 4 months. I dont have much of a choice because I'm on a court order. This is my second court order and I hope that after I switch to oral invega I wont have to have another one. Should I just take the invega injecctions and hope for recovery after a year or should I just ask the doctor to stick to clopixol depot? Because I really want to switch to oral medication so I can just get away with not taking any medication at all. I used to look like my profile picture but now I look so ugly and old because of the injections. Has anyone else noticed that antipsychotics make you ugly?
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Yes antipsychotics turn you into an infertile and ugly beta male with no drive for life and low testosterone. It could give you boobs as well as make you a cuckold. You’ll be jacking off while watching your girlfriend or wife fuck a black man
 
I’ve been on 5mg Abilify since February. There were some 5 day periods where I didn’t take it. I am suffering so much right now trying to come off it. No libido, anhedonia, when I sleep I wake up every hour or half hour. Am I going to be ok? How long do you think it will take me to recover? Any advice appreciated
 
Cantbe said:
I’ve been on 5mg Abilify since February. There were some 5 day periods where I didn’t take it. I am suffering so much right now trying to come off it. No libido, anhedonia, when I sleep I wake up every hour or half hour. Am I going to be ok? How long do you think it will take me to recover? Any advice appreciated
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Abilify has one of the longest half-life’s of any anti-psychotic - something like 90 hours. So it takes about 2 weeks to clear your system. As a result, it is generally thought that it does not really have withdrawal effects. However I discontinued 10 mg a day abruptly after being on it for 2 years and had terrible anxiety and intrusive thoughts for about a month (these were the symptoms of my original underlying condition but much worse). However after a month I seemed back to baseline normal. A few years after that I was back on 20 mg a day and tapered off by only taking my does every second day for a while, then every third day, then every fourth day and so on until I was only taking one pill a week. I had no negative effects this time except for gradually increasing insomnia which I still have a few months later but never had before.
 
Masterp423 said:
Yes antipsychotics turn you into an infertile and ugly beta male with no drive for life and low testosterone. It could give you boobs as well as make you a cuckold. You’ll be jacking off while watching your girlfriend or wife fuck a black man
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Are you on invega injections?
 
John78 said:
where'd you learn that? i thought everyone went by 7/7 8/7 9/7 etc. since you're dealing with months and not just february lol. i think it'd be more realistic to go with #1.
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I just thought that a month has 4x7 days=. 28 days, lol. But yeah, I should probably count it by the other way, so 2nd August it'll be 5 months in my case.
I'll divide my days by 30.5, since one month has 30 days, the other 31 and it goes in cycle.
 
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kuny67 said:
Im currently on clopixol depot but my doctor wants me to switch to invega sustenna in 2 months time so that I can switch to oral medication in 4 months. I dont have much of a choice because I'm on a court order. This is my second court order and I hope that after I switch to oral invega I wont have to have another one. Should I just take the invega injecctions and hope for recovery after a year or should I just ask the doctor to stick to clopixol depot? Because I really want to switch to oral medication so I can just get away with not taking any medication at all. I used to look like my profile picture but now I look so ugly and old because of the injections. Has anyone else noticed that antipsychotics make you ugly?
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Maybe it's not that antipsychotics make you ugly (except for gaining weigh and man boobs on Invega), but your confidence and self-esteem gets much lower. I used to find myself handsome, easily talking with girls I didn't even know, was confident and so on. Now, on Abilify Maintena, I'm so anxious I can't even go out and buy food for myself, pimples keep popping up on my face and I used to have it clear and smooth.
 
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