@Ab33 So you've been off AP's for 17 months and you haven't had any improvements?
No no I surely did have improvements. I'm now at the level of recovery where I don't really complain about the effects Invega anymore.
I can enjoy things again more (which in fact means a part of my dopamine receptors have come back). My cognition and memory have improved A LOT. Reading isn't a problem really anymore.
My thoughts are comming back more. I feel that my intelligence is comming back. Making conversations isn't a problem much anymore. I can feel emotions back. I now enjoy video games more and more. Tbf I begin to feel more and more like a normal person (maybe still not 100%, as I still feel that my life before ap's was MUCH MUCH better)
My interests,etc also comes back. My will to socialize also comes back.
Making plans,etc have improved/come back.
What I can say is that I'm more positive.
I wouldn't still that ive recovered, but I start to feel closer to my normal self. Although there are really times where I in fact ask if I fact have recovered, but I don't think so. I still feel a little bit anhedonic,thoughts are meh, I used to have clear coherent thoughts,inner monologue,conversations,intelligent topics. I mean there are imrpovemts in that part, but it really used to be A LOT better, same with intelligence,cognition,enjoying things (dopamine part),etc
I still feel I lack a part of my former self before Invega. But by staying patiently, recovery is starting to come.
I started to have improvements after the 3-4 months mark after having stopped taking Invega pills. It's from then where I felt improvements days by day, but gradually,not fast.
I guess it was at the 6-7 months mark where I didn't really complained anymore as improvements came back more and back and the results where good.
School,driving a car,work,etc aren't a problem. I'd say that the little anhedonia left is what sucks.
Good sleep, healthy balanced food,drinking water,exercising,etc is what helps up the recovery too (what I mean is that in even a normal person who didn't endure Invega would feel like shit if those things where in bad state), difference with us is ofcourse the baseline. It's that baseline where most wants back.
But yeah I certainly have improvements. I guess I'm still not 100% back to who I was, but I at least feel a little bit closer to my former self. I start to feel dopamine again. Memories starts to come to arise too.