Mental Health Coming Off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v4

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Sorry if that was too long basically
weed kinda works that’s it!
Nah it's fine. It was a good read. That's how I feel too though. It's just subtle. but when I go more than one or two days of smoking then I get a tolerance and can't get the subtle effects. However because of the invega it usually quickly turns into a bad experience but before the meds if I smoked even 1 hit too much I would have a really bad time. But other times it's just, for now, good enough. I would really like for it to be normal and I can't wait for that day. Coffee gives me a subtle buzz too, and I can still get a good, maybe strong buzz off 2-3 tallboys of steel reserve since the 4th-5th month of being off but it doesn't feel as good as before haldol and invega, and if I drink a 3rd one then i really don't feel too good and have to pass out. I could down 3 of them bitches and I'd feel amazing and ontop of the world. But listening to music still feels really good when I drink like 1 or 2. With cigarettes I can get a somewhat odd but good buzz now first thing in the morning but it's not complete or a full buzz. Getting there though. I do want to quit smoking them. I would get a subtle buzz' off of liqour and weed while on haldol which still felt good, and then it was non existent with invega. I did get really high though once off of a dab pen like a week after the switch to invega and I thought i could get high again but the next day it was nothing and I quickly learned that you can't get high while taking invega also. Luckily my side effects were enough to get my doctor to switch me back to a med that I think I could get high and drunk on after 3 months of taking the invega. But It sucks that you're a year off and can't completely feel weed yet. feeling atleast a little bit shows that you're that much closer so that's good. How long were you on invega or haldol? You took invega too right? Or just haldol? And how long were you on it? I don't remember it all
 
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Nah it's fine. It was a good read. That's how I feel too though. It's just subtle. but when I go more than one or two days of smoking then I get a tolerance and can't get the subtle effects. However because of the invega it usually quickly turns into a bad experience but before the meds if I smoked even 1 hit too much I would have a really bad time. But other times it's just, for now, good enough. I would really like for it to be normal and I can't wait for that day. Coffee gives me a subtle buzz too, and I can still get a good, maybe strong buzz off 2-3 tallboys of steel reserve since the 4th-5th month of being off but it doesn't feel as good as before haldol and invega, and if I drink a 3rd one then i really don't feel too good and have to pass out. I could down 3 of them bitches and I'd feel amazing and ontop of the world. But listening to music still feels really good when I drink like 1 or 2. With cigarettes I can get a somewhat odd but good buzz now first thing in the morning but it's not complete or a full buzz. Getting there though. I do want to quit smoking them. I would get a subtle buzz' off of liqour and weed while on haldol which still felt good, and then it was non existent with invega. I did get really high though once off of a dab pen like a week after the switch to invega and I thought i could get high again but the next day it was nothing and I quickly learned that you can't get high while taking invega also. Luckily my side effects were enough to get my doctor to switch me back to a med that I think I could get high and drunk on after 3 months of taking the invega. But It sucks that you're a year off and can't completely feel weed yet. feeling atleast a little bit shows that you're that much closer so that's good. How long were you on invega or haldol? You took invega too right? Or just haldol? And how long were you on it? I don't remember it all
Are your motor skills coming back?
 
I was able to smoke weed after about 7 months off. The effects were like before I was on it. Strong and psychoactive. I’m diagnosed bipolar and I’ll accept that but don’t call me schizophrenic and give me some fucked up ass medication that’ll kill my brain and body for 4-6 months straight. I don’t take any medication for my bipolar, I used to take fish oil and that helped with mania plus it’s good. Now I just do my own thing. I don’t get high very often cuz I’m not a stoner. But I can still fully flirt on girls, get bedded, drink, do psychedelics, etc without issue. So hopefully you all make it to that point too. It was truly horrible to be on but I’m 22 and it was only 5.7 months of my life. I’ll move on and never look back; life is as great as I need it to be in this moment and forward. Hail!
Are your motor skills back to normal?
 
Not drunk. I never really got drunk a lot in my life and this happened before I even turned 21 and I’m already 22 now so missing out but it’s fine. I always loved weed more anyways.

Ima sound like a druggy I prob am but I’m usually just 9.6/10 times it’s just weed.

Here’s the run down bro. I haven’t tried alch in a while but fireball worked for me cause I was able to drink a lot of it but I was feeling like maybe 5/100 of it the first time maybe 8/100. I took a few months break I just tried a beer smaller bottle and it’s been a big break it didn’t work. I tried drinking more out of boredom on the shot then I have drank my entire life but To be fair I’m more of a pothead

Xanax works now before 8mg didn’t touch me. Now that shit has me blacked out listening to music feeling good. But I don’t recommend u know better I don’t have to explain but for anyone else fuck Xanax. I quit years again and I’m not doing them again I don’t like time traveling. And in fear of doing something I’m embarrassed about. Atleast alchohol you have some control Xanax is just like a monster. But I did control myself good for the parts I remember it wasn’t crazy euphoric but I’m glad fuck Xanax.

I tried coke a few times didn’t work then the last time gave me extreme anxiety. I possibly got kinda uplifted /energetic for a second but nothing euphoric. Fuck coke too whatever.

stopped doing wacky tobaccy but that works somewhat when I did

and finally weed

I have to switch up the strain or switch from pen to dab to flower

BUT I FINALLY GET SOME EFFECT at first it was subtle then nothing then stronger and stronger. It feels like I have a strong tolerance when I smoke now it still works but even if I took a super long break I don’t think it’ll be a trip like it used to be but fuck thank god it’s kinda back it’s been about a year dude. I stopped doing all the coke xans alch experiments because this tiny buzz works and it’s enough for me. I just took a small hit and I feel a slither of euphoria for a minute and then after effects from just 1 minute more to up to 20 mins after effects being like anxiety free out of a bad thought loop feeling uplifted etc.

Spending so many days failing to get high was hard and sad. ESP when friends and even family at special occasions are doing it and u can’t with them but I really learned about how addicted I was it was a real step back may have needed This. I thought my problem was with weed but when that ahedonia hit I was desperate for anything it was quite scary really made me suicidal and shit
Are your motor skills back to normal?
 
Here from Belgium, been shot four times w Invega Sustenna in 2018 after a third psychosis, a year after i recovered my natural state.
Then i went through a fourth psychosis episode and basically took one year and a half of Invega pills.
Side effects w Pills were lower but now i've decided to stop it too.
This thing from pills to shots is that it sucks the life out of you, i've read a post w someone stating that the whole environement doesn't feel the same, as well as your emotions and your sexual instincts.

I mostly went to pschosys episodes due to stopping treatment and smoking pot. imo Be careful about marijuana and psychosis. From my experience it's basically a bomb waiting to explode, i could smoke for months after stopping medication and then a switch happens and i went back into psychosis mode.

I give a go again to stop medication but this time i won't be smoking. Enough is enough, i'm lucky this time i was on pills as the product gets out of your body a lot quicker.
I was lurking here 2 years ago while i was stopping Invega Sustenna shots, found out a lot of ppl were through this HELL. OK you are not in psychosis, but what's left ?
you are dead inside and outside look dead to you. At the time, it took me about a year of doubts to never be able to be myself again and patience so that shit gets out but i did, mistake i made is that i came back to smoking pot.
Then after i unwillingly accepted to take the pills so that i don't get back into another psychosis episode. It's been a year and a half and i'm destroyed. I'll take the risk again to stop it. I better be shot dead than continuing to kill my life experience due to fear. Invega sucks life out of you. Big time

This time luckily should go way faster bc i was taking invega pills.
I just wanted to share my experience may it help someone who's into this rude experience.
Wish you the best, this whole path is hard (psychosis, psychiatric asylums, medication) but i'm sure when we look back we learn a LOT from it.
eg about meaning of life and what's really important about it.
When life is took out of you, get it back and you'll get the value of it. Gaining it back is like a resurrection. I go forward to it and i hope you all acheive to regain yourself back.
Trying to be a better human and take care of my relatives.
Good luck you are not alone in this hell and imo everything that happens is an opportunity to learn something. Take care

Did your motor skills go back to normal?
 
Are your motor skills coming back?
i don't think i lost any of that. just dealt with no emotion, no energy, sexual stuff, and feeling nothing when i drink and smoke. like i would never laugh at stuff and things, music, or videos gave me no joy, i couldn't really get up to shower and stay standing while in the shower, and no sexual pleasure. sorry that i can't answer your question
 
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Does it help you mentally?
Ease up the depression at all?
And also 3 300mg pills?
Yeah they’re 300mg each. I think as far as depression that all depends on how far along you are on the recovery, lifestyle like nutrition and exercising, and spiritual health too. I’m 345 days out from my last injection. Feeling a little bit better every day. Getting out and about around people (even if you don’t talk much) will help create a sense of normalcy. Surround yourself with positive influences.. be mindful of what you read/watch on the internet and in everyday life. Make sure it’s positive and uplifting to you. Remember you become what you consume... in food, media, people you’re around, etc

These are all things that helped lessen my depression and strenghten my overall well-being.
Hope this helps.
 
This fucking everything is pointless feeling is driving me crazy. I feel like I'm lost. I don't remember what it's like to feel normal.
 
Pointlessness comes from the feeling that nothing is real. So nothing you do has any effect. In my opinion it comes from a disconnect with the world. then you feel trapped in this sense of isolation.

Its likely most people here suffer with dissociation. I do, but was labelled psychotic. Since getting these medications I've become a schizoid, unable to connect just about anything.
 
Pointlessness comes from the feeling that nothing is real. So nothing you do has any effect. In my opinion it comes from a disconnect with the world. then you feel trapped in this sense of isolation.

Its likely most people here suffer with dissociation. I do, but was labelled psychotic. Since getting these medications I've become a schizoid, unable to connect just about anything.
I agree with you. I feel like nothing is real. Like my world and thoughts and people around me don't exist. I'm like the opposite of grounded. I'm laying in bed right now in shock of how terrible I feel.
 
Pointlessness comes from the feeling that nothing is real. So nothing you do has any effect. In my opinion it comes from a disconnect with the world. then you feel trapped in this sense of isolation.

Its likely most people here suffer with dissociation. I do, but was labelled psychotic. Since getting these medications I've become a schizoid, unable to connect just about anything.
Usually there's a way of fixing something or getting out of a predicament this empty, hopeless, no way out feeling is just about bearable.
 
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