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Mental Health Coming off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v3

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Ya I am hoping man I'm hoping they didn't permanently change our brain chemistry or fry the cells
 
After just one shot you should probably be 100% recovered in a much shorter period of time than 5 years. You may also want to make sure that you've burnt fat in which Invega might be stored as mentioned before, so you don't get a surprise of a relapse of side effects once you've recovered.
 
I'm 6 months off and scared to death it's for life I've heard it changed the DNA making your receptors not able to respond to serotonin I hope too one day have dopamine and serotonin until then I going to be live in GOD and JESUS CHRIST
 
Are any of you guys holding down jobs while you’re going through this? I just finished uni and due to start my dream job in a month while coming off this. I hope to god I don’t mess up my job.
 
Cantbe said:
Are any of you guys holding down jobs while you’re going through this? I just finished uni and due to start my dream job in a month while coming off this. I hope to god I don’t mess up my job.
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Hell nah nigga I haven’t been able to work for a little while
 
Sbar25 said:
I'm 6 months off and scared to death it's for life I've heard it changed the DNA making your receptors not able to respond to serotonin I hope too one day have dopamine and serotonin until then I going to be live in GOD and JESUS CHRIST
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Your receptors will be desentisized either to dopamine and serotonin for as long as the drug is in your system, but that shouldn't take much longer. Depends on the number of injections and their doses. As far as I know, at least speaking of dopamine receptors, after the drug is gone they are even more sensitive to dopamine than before, so there's not much to be worried about. It's just that it takes usually a lot of time for receptors to return to their normal function and to reach homeostasis. There is nothing permanent, unless you took like 20 or more Injections - then you'd have to wait muuuch longer, but you'd eventually recover one day.

I'm almost 5 months after the injection and I feel worse than any human being can, at least I think so. So I feel you, you're not alone in this situation. I used to have some small windows, but they were like "I kind of feel slightly better, but I'm still too anxious to leave home, so what's the point."

I think I'll have to wait a year or two more, that's just my guess, but I accepted it.
 
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Cantbe said:
Are any of you guys holding down jobs while you’re going through this? I just finished uni and due to start my dream job in a month while coming off this. I hope to god I don’t mess up my job.
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I don't go to work since March and it'll probably last much longer. At least for a year I'll be staying at home, reading books and watching TV Series (if I'll even be able to do this). I wish I could function in society like a normal person, make money, just simply live. But it's not happening in the nearest future.
 
wholetthedogsout56 said:
Would invega only be found in the fat next to the muscle it was injected into?
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That's what made me wonder too. But as far as I know, it spreads all over your body, so my guess is it can be in every part of fat. I also was thinking if the drug can be stored in muscles (maybe it's a dumb question, lol), but even if it is, once you start to lose weigh, you lose muscles at the same time, due to the process of catabolism.
 
You’re right last time I was coming off medication I took a year off school but I only have a month before this job. My family at first said they’ll support me as long as it takes to get better from this med now they want me to go to work to keep me distracted from the withdrawal process. I have no idea what to do. Maybe I should at least try the job? I’ll be wrecked if they fire me.
 
It depends, if you're feeling like you are able to do the job, then it could be a good idea, cause staying at home all the time may drive you crazy and make you feel useless. On the other hand if you're not feeling like doing it, then there's no point of even trying. I don't know your overall condition, but if it is really bad, like really, really bad, then I'd suggest not going into work and trying to convince your family that you really are unable to go to work at the moment. My parents wanted me to go to school in September really bad, just so I don't feel alienated and useless, and so I'm not "an unemployed guy dependent on parents", cause what would others think of our family etc, etc.. but one day I just simply said that I'm mentally and physically disabled at this time and that I won't go to school nor job at least for a year, end of story. I know what they might think of me, that I'm a lazy little bitch and so on, but I really am disabled and this is not my fault.
 
I hope it’s not TMI but I was wondering if it might be ok to ask about sexual dysfunction? It’s the hardest part of this whole experience for me. It’s been difficult to make the doctor understand how important it is for my usual existence :(

Sometimes I have dreams where I reach almost orgasm in my sleep. But when I wake, back to nothing.
 
It's ok to write about sexual dysfunction here I think.
Most of the time I have no sex drive, but sometimes even out of boredom I masturbate watching porn at the same time, which I know isn't the healthiest thing to do, but at least it gives me a tiny dopamine hit.

Why you have those dreams I don't know, but for example I have hipokinetic dysarthria caused by the drug which means I can't speak almost at all. But sometimes when I dream, I dream of speaking like a normal person, which is weird. I can't make most basic sentences while being awake cause I'm too dumb, can't speak cause my speech is disturbed, but I can dream of speaking like there's no problem at all.
 
mrwelladjusted said:
It depends, if you're feeling like you are able to do the job, then it could be a good idea, cause staying at home all the time may drive you crazy and make you feel useless. On the other hand if you're not feeling like doing it, then there's no point of even trying. I don't know your overall condition, but if it is really bad, like really, really bad, then I'd suggest not going into work and trying to convince your family that you really are unable to go to work at the moment. My parents wanted me to go to school in September really bad, just so I don't feel alienated and useless, and so I'm not "an unemployed guy dependent on parents", cause what would others think of our family etc, etc.. but one day I just simply said that I'm mentally and physically disabled at this time and that I won't go to school nor job at least for a year, end of story. I know what they might think of me, that I'm a lazy little bitch and so on, but I really am disabled and this is not my fault.
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Goddamn a year? Oh they’d throw me in a psych ward and load me up with more Invega if I said something like that
 
Cantbe said:
I hope it’s not TMI but I was wondering if it might be ok to ask about sexual dysfunction? It’s the hardest part of this whole experience for me. It’s been difficult to make the doctor understand how important it is for my usual existence :(

Sometimes I have dreams where I reach almost orgasm in my sleep. But when I wake, back to nothing.
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Yeah they don’t give a fuck about your cock. They want you to not have the ability to procreate or to have sex at all
 
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