• The Dark Side 💕 Welcome Guest 💕
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Notable Threads Urgent Hotlines
    Bereavement Mindfulness
    Suicide Support Anger Management
  • TDS Moderators: AlphaMethylPhenyl | paranoid android

Mental Health Coming off Invega (paliperidone) injections, v 5.0

Status
Not open for further replies.
level_select said:
Hi everyone, I thought I'd post with an update too:
I'm over six months off now and I have improved quite a lot. I've lost all the weight I gained (I gained over 20 pounds when I was on Invega) through intermittent fasting (which was difficult, but I was very motivated) and exercise. I've stopped fasting now that I've reached my goal weight, but I'm still eating less than I was when I was on Invega, because I'm not as hungry as I was. I eat healthily and my energy levels are good.
I started running again and ran my first 5k (in a few years) a couple of weeks ago. And I ran it in an above average time. I'm aiming to get to 10k by Christmas. I think it will be quite difficult, but I'm determined. I listen to audiobooks when I'm running.
My sleep is fine - similar to how it was before Invega, which means that occasionally I wake up in the night with lots of thoughts and do some reading, and then I go back to sleep after a little while. I often have a nap around lunchtime too - I don't always sleep during this time but the rest energises me anyway.
I got a pet a couple of months ago, which has probably helped too. She gets me out walking three or four times every day. I also walk across town a few times a week to visit family. I've read that having a pet can help with neurogenesis - because of oxytocin, which boosts neurogenesis, memory and learning.
I've started adding turmeric powder (and black pepper - which helps its absorption, as does fat) to my porridge every morning - I've read that turmeric helps with neurogenesis too. I take it primarily for cancer prevention though.
My period came back after 5 months.
I'm not working yet, but I'm hoping to begin voluntary work after Christmas. I spend my days reading and researching things (along with walking and visiting family). My interest in things has come back completely. Time doesn't drag anymore, in fact, there aren't enough hours in the day to read all of the things that I want to read.
I'm not sure if my emotions are back completely, I get emotional and cry easily, but I don't cry a great deal. Even on invega, I could cry, so I'm not sure how much this effected me. Before invega however, I would regularly cry buckets, so I think that my emotional intensity was probably reduced by invega. But I definitely don't feel so flat anymore. I think my intensity has already recovered or will do.
I'm not taking any other antipsychotics or psychiatric medications now and my mental health is stable. I had psychotic delusions, which lasted a few years, before starting invega. They haven't come back. I hope that I will be able to recognise it if they ever return. I think I've learned to think more critically and to definitely not just believe a thought because I *feel* it to be true. I am less spiritual, but this is actually a good thing, because my spirituality and imagination were deeply emneshed when I had delusions and I could not differentiate between real and imagined.
I have really good family support, which I'm very grateful for. We've talked a lot about what we'll do if I become unwell again (hint: no injections! and antipsychotics only for a short time...).
I wish you well, everyone 🙂 <3

edit: I do actually take a supplement - vitamin C and I've been taking it for a long time. I take about 4 - 5 grams each day.
I've just read that it has important roles in neurological functioning and it can protect brain cells from neurotoxins and facilitate dopamine neuron differentiation (the final stage in the development of neurons).
Click to expand...
Have you gotten regular periods every month since your period came back
 
Has anyone gotten their normal period back since coming off invega? And when?
Has anyone also gotten pregnant since coming off invega?
 
Afernandes1 said:
I know the struggle. I’ve been in your place twice, working out day and night but seeing no results.
If you haven’t crossed the 4 month mark yet and don’t see your weight constantly going up every week, then you’re doing something right. Your exercise is definitely paying off in maintaining the weight. Just be patient for another couple months, and you’ll shed the pounds soon enough.
Also, My period returned at the 6 month mark both times I was off invega.
Click to expand...
Did your periods come back every month after the 6 month mark?
 
I'm thinking about killing myself if my dick doesn't recover. I want to be able to function normally like before
 
ABetterFuture said:
Just a question,

All of you that quit taking Invega sustenna, did you just stop taking it from the dose you were at and never took it again, or did you taper off gradually?
What dose of mg were you on when you quit?
Click to expand...
I just quit immediately after the first shots and will not be going back to get anymore
 
ABetterFuture said:
How many people here have jobs?
Does everyone not work?
I'm thinking of trying to find a job again now but I feel like I need to get the invega out of my system first.
Maybe I should throw myself into a job in the process of having it eliminate.
Click to expand...
I have 2 jobs, in school, and do side jobs but I only had 2 shots at 7 months ago, so it’s hard but I push myself and try to make the best of it until the medicine exits my system fully
 
Adameve said:
Have you had a regular period (like every month?), if you have how many months of invega did you get any periods or regular periods
Click to expand...
No regular period. I hardly got my period on Invega Sustenna. I got my period for three days last month.
 
Airwick said:
I'm thinking about killing myself if my dick doesn't recover. I want to be able to function normally like before
Click to expand...
you’ll recover man. It just takes time. It’ll probably take me a year or longer to recover. I used to be hyper sexual and this shit makes me suicidal as well
 
I think I won’t recover ever, the left side of my brain it’s completely off I can’t percive anything. I’m all day in bed I can’t go out I feel I have a brain damage for sure. I had a mri but they said I don’t have problems, but I don’t believe that I’m too bad I want to kill myself and end this hell
 
Mick04 said:
I think I won’t recover ever, the left side of my brain it’s completely off I can’t percive anything. I’m all day in bed I can’t go out I feel I have a brain damage for sure. I had a mri but they said I don’t have problems, but I don’t believe that I’m too bad I want to kill myself and end this hell
Click to expand...
Yeah I understand that. I’m in the same boat. I’ve been bedridden for almost 3 years now. But whatever you do. Don’t kill yourself
 
Masterp423 said:
Yeah I understand that. I’m in the same boat. I’ve been bedridden for almost 3 years now. But whatever you do. Don’t kill yourself
Click to expand...
And what kind of life is living like that? I live as a disabled person every day and I’m only 24. I can’t stand all this sufference anymore
 
Mick04 said:
And what kind of life is living like that? I live as a disabled person every day and I’m only 24. I can’t stand all this sufference anymore
Click to expand...
Yeah same here. I’m only 23. Are you on court order to take the Invega?
 
Mick04 said:
No I’m 7 months off now I don’t take it anymore but I’m still very bad. What do you do during the day ?
Click to expand...
Oh shit well that’s great man. The drug is leaving your system. You’re already 7 months in. You should be recovered in no time I would think. How many shots did you get? And not shit. I just lay in bed all day and do nothing really unless I have to run errands or go out or something
 
Masterp423 said:
Oh shit well that’s great man. The drug is leaving your system. You’re already 7 months in. You should be recovered in no time I would think. How many shots did you get? And not shit. I just lay in bed all day and do nothing really unless I have to run errands or go out or something
Click to expand...
I had 4 but they game haldol too while I was taking Invega, that’s why I think my brain it’s seriously demaged and I can’t recover, because months are passing and I still feel as a shit. I can’t even go out a bit (I’m a girl)
 
Mick04 said:
I had 4 but they game haldol too while I was taking Invega, that’s why I think my brain it’s seriously demaged and I can’t recover, because months are passing and I still feel as a shit. I can’t even go out a bit (I’m a girl)
Click to expand...
Ohh okay. Sorry I shouldn’t have assumed you were a guy. They also gave me one shot of haldol when I was in the hospital in October of 2020. I’ve been on antipsychotics for almost two years now
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top