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

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t_xeplionhell said:
I recovered only 5% in between 6-10 months. And in between 1-6 I recovered around 20%. So I will be getting 1.5% every month. That takes around 6 years to recover.
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It shouldnt take you 6 years to recover. You should be recovered within a year. Thats how it always was with me.
 
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lau_rahxo said:
Thankyou for giving me abit of hope. Did it affect your hair also? How much weight did you gain? How long did it take for your looks to recover? How many shots did you have after loading doses? Would you be able to post photos again or send them to me?
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Yes. My hair was super greasy & awful. My skin got really bad as well. I struggled with showering too - I couldn't get any pleasant feelings from it & so avoided doing it. I was very skinny from not eating in psychosis when I got on Invega - I probably gained around 55 lb total. I got to a size 12 for the first time in my life - now, not on invega, I could eat my worst and not get above a 10 - it really does change how your body holds weight. Photos -
https://ibb.co/f4HytRV - this is me in July 2018. I was hospitalized and had my first shot at the end of September 2018. I had a loading dose and 4 shots total
https://ibb.co/ZGXr60V - This may have been about a month off Invega. I was going to the gym - I literally couldnt make a different expression
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https://ibb.co/jTbQ2dj This was on Invega (can' flip it)
https://ibb.co/NTrGPSQ November 2019 (11 months off - I was able to live on my own but struggling with anhedonia clouded decision making and not feeling fully "recovered" - I would relapse 4 months later)
https://ibb.co/chkfPqw July 2020 18 months off - could feel the sun, the booze, and go places without feeling affected by invega anymore
https://ibb.co/VqnFKj0 Spring 2021 over two years off Invega, feeling spiritual, fully happy, no worries, and pregnant with my third child
https://ibb.co/xj29YgS Nov '21 at the start of fall quarter for my junior year of college - feeling no intellectual setbacks whatsoever
https://ibb.co/NrnTHfV Dec '21 (Almost three years off - feels like a lifetime)
https://ibb.co/R2rNsns March 2022 times are so happy and invega is a distant memory - but I still remember those days of struggle and months that feel like years of a life worse than hell, so I hope that these pictures can help some people.
Gdvffh said:
Are you going to be forced to take antipsychotics if you become psychotic? What are your psychotic symptoms, auditory hallucinations? My advice would be to try and live with the psychotic symptoms since being on meds just turns you into a vegetable. Its not easy living with psychotic symptoms but i think itd preferred over being on antipsychotics. I personally would do thst but my parents keep cslling the cops on me when i become psychotic. I hate being on meds i cant do anything.
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If you are worried about what would happen if you relapsed into psychosis, work with your psych to make something called an "ADVANCED DIRECTIVE" . This will tell people exactly how you feel and how you want your care to go when you are unable to articulate yourself. It's SO IMPORTANT to do this and not get shot again - they'll give you the same med you have had before unless they're told otherwise.
 
Kaatrina said:
Yes. My hair was super greasy & awful. My skin got really bad as well. I struggled with showering too - I couldn't get any pleasant feelings from it & so avoided doing it. I was very skinny from not eating in psychosis when I got on Invega - I probably gained around 55 lb total. I got to a size 12 for the first time in my life - now, not on invega, I could eat my worst and not get above a 10 - it really does change how your body holds weight. Photos -
https://ibb.co/f4HytRV - this is me in July 2018. I was hospitalized and had my first shot at the end of September 2018. I had a loading dose and 4 shots total
https://ibb.co/ZGXr60V - This may have been about a month off Invega. I was going to the gym - I literally couldnt make a different expression
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20190423-141849 hosted at ImgBB

Image 20190423-141849 hosted in ImgBB
ibb.co ibb.co
https://ibb.co/jTbQ2dj This was on Invega (can' flip it)
https://ibb.co/NTrGPSQ November 2019 (11 months off - I was able to live on my own but struggling with anhedonia clouded decision making and not feeling fully "recovered" - I would relapse 4 months later)
https://ibb.co/chkfPqw July 2020 18 months off - could feel the sun, the booze, and go places without feeling affected by invega anymore
https://ibb.co/VqnFKj0 Spring 2021 over two years off Invega, feeling spiritual, fully happy, no worries, and pregnant with my third child
https://ibb.co/xj29YgS Nov '21 at the start of fall quarter for my junior year of college - feeling no intellectual setbacks whatsoever
https://ibb.co/NrnTHfV Dec '21 (Almost three years off - feels like a lifetime)
https://ibb.co/R2rNsns March 2022 times are so happy and invega is a distant memory - but I still remember those days of struggle and months that feel like years of a life worse than hell, so I hope that these pictures can help some people.

If you are worried about what would happen if you relapsed into psychosis, work with your psych to make something called an "ADVANCED DIRECTIVE" . This will tell people exactly how you feel and how you want your care to go when you are unable to articulate yourself. It's SO IMPORTANT to do this and not get shot again - they'll give you the same med you have had before unless they're told otherwise.
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Hi Kaatrina, I’m 9 months off now but I still haven’t recovered. I still have big anhedonia, I can’t have feelings for anybody, can’t have emotions, can joy things, can’t have sensations about things, I have cognitive problems and I can’t dream at night. Do you think that this is normal ? Thanks as always 🙏🏻☺️
 
10 months off ,fuck this drug...it probably gave a permanent damage to receptors ...you will get better for sure but i dont expect to be like my old self...and i accept that.
 
lau_rahxo said:
Wow so you lost 90lbs? What did you do to lose it did you change your eating? What kind of exercising did you do? How many months off invega were you when you first started losing the weight?
When you say you want the sleep back do you mean you have insomnia now?
Were you on any other medication after coming off invega?
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I am so sorry I didn't reply for a while I am so depressed, but to answer you once I stopped taking the invega it feels like it just automatically makes you lose weight for me I started losing it in by about a year , their was nothing different I did from when I was on the invega to when I was off the invega for exercising or eating. I am not on any other medications anymore since 2019 I gradually came off zoloft, Seroquel, and clonezapam and no problems but this damned invega couldn't come off it naturally it has intensified every single level of my mental illness
 
nznity said:
Don't scare him, he should feel better in the next 3 months or so.
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Woops i ment to write it shouldnt take 6 years to recover, not should. Yeah 6 years would be a real long time. Recovery takes like a year from my personal experience.
 
So ive been on a CTO for a year so i was getting injections for a year. Now im finally off it. So now im in same boat as rest of you trying to recover from a year long worth of injections. Hopefully i dont end up on more injections after i recover. That would be the worse. Im guessing ill recover in a year like everyone else. Ots so weird it takes a year to recover. Why does the recovery have to be so slow.
 
I'm being switched to abilify injections. Did it improve anyone else's sex life if they switched?
 
Mick04 said:
Hi Kaatrina, I’m 9 months off now but I still haven’t recovered. I still have big anhedonia, I can’t have feelings for anybody, can’t have emotions, can joy things, can’t have sensations about things, I have cognitive problems and I can’t dream at night. Do you think that this is normal ? Thanks as always 🙏🏻☺️
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Yes, it's normal to feel these things stilll around month nine. I would say that anhedonia is still felt at this time and really starts to say goodbye around month 12. Emotions start to emerge around this time too. Between month 9 and 12 be looking for these things to improve. You have to keep hope and give your brain pathways to recovery - staying in the same old slumps won't help your brain to find its old pathways again. As for dreams, I would say that they take at least 2 years to get back
 
Airwick said:
I'm being switched to abilify injections. Did it improve anyone else's sex life if they switched?
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ExStonerExDrinker said:
I want to know this as well
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Like I've previously stated in this thread, I've never had Invega injections. However I did receive Risperdal injections 17 years ago and also came down with severe anhedonia, which obviously suppressed my sex drive. If I could muster up the energy and motivation to jerk off, I could reach orgasm but did not ejaculate.

After switching to Abilify pills, I was eventually able to rid myself of the anhedonia as well as revive my sex drive and the ability to cum. In the past decade or so, I've had several girlfriends and a decent sex life with a couple of them. Since covid hit, I have simply stopped being social and haven't sought out companionship in a while.
 
Gdvffh said:
Why are you switching? Why not just get off?
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For some people, simply "getting off" anti-psychotics is unreasonable and not an option.

I have resigned to the fact that I will likely be on APs for the rest of my life and I'm okay with that. When the alternative is active psychosis, hearing voices, delusions, etc., sometimes popping a pill or getting an injection is the better choice.
 
guys hi everyone. I joined this forum despite following it for 9 months. i had 2 loading injections in july 2021. i did not have psychosis. I swear, the medical record confirms it. I just had a shot of anger. I gained 15 kg in 2 weeks which I have not lost anymore. at night and sometimes during the day (so as not to think about suicide) I use sedatives such as tavor or zolpidem and occasionally seroquel. only that I use 3-4 zolpidem .. I am a zombie but I know that it is not the fault of hypnotics but of invega sustenna. I see myself getting worse. I don't sleep and sleep is not refreshing. a hell. I don't work and I'm in bed. 9 and a half months have passed. I feel healings in 1 year. but 1 year refers to those who have psychosis and high dopamine? for someone like me who had attention deficit and depression and didn't have psychosis how long it will take will be irreversible. ??? I am getting worse and addicted to zolpidem
 
scusa se ho sbagliato a scrivere ma sono italiano e uso google translate. Vedo che ci sono molti italiani su questo forum. mi fa pensare che sia una nazione di merda. Ripeto xeplion me l'hanno dato per un sentimento di rabbia ma non ho diagnosi di schizofrenia. anzi ero depresso. e sicuramente avevo dopamina e serotonina bassi
 
Jerry Atrick said:
For some people, simply "getting off" anti-psychotics is unreasonable and not an option.

I have resigned to the fact that I will likely be on APs for the rest of my life and I'm okay with that. When the alternative is active psychosis, hearing voices, delusions, etc., sometimes popping a pill or getting an injection is the better choice.
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Can I ask you how do you feel with APs?
 
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