You are right about earlier, that is a lot and I haven’t really thought about the whole psychosis in a long time since our conversation, I really should watch my usage, plus as I’ve gotten older I don’t really like smoking all day like when I was younger
For me yes took me almost a year and half
Yeah i recovered as well. It took me about a year. Motivation and drive to work came back. I was basically my old self again.
First i was diagnosed with drug induced psychosis. Then in the hospital was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I was smoking from 20 to 23. The psychosis happened at 23. When i was 20 to 22 id say i was smoking at least once a week. Then in 23 i was smoking a blunt everyday and this led me to get psychosis.
Yeah I was around the same age also.
Did you experience sexual problems from Invega? And it resolved itself completely?
Yeah it resolved on its own. That recovered faster then blunted emotiona and an empty mind.
Because the medication is slowly released into ur bloodstream, it builds up in your system and the fact that the medication has a super long half life(the time it takes your body to get rid of it) doesn't help either. Yeah invega is fking POISON.
It does, takes a while though. I haven't had that shit injected on me but a close friend of me has and I witnessed how he slowly progressed and finally overcame that dirty chemical.
your friend got cured?
He's in rehab now, although for his ketamine addiction(this doesn't have anything to do with the invega) but yeah he's over it.
how long did it take to heal? how many injections?
I think he had 3 injections 100mg and 2-3 50mgs I'm not sure. Like 150-200mg in total. In my country the doses or invega there's available are low compared to the US, NEVERTHELESS it's still a fucking nightmare to be om that shit. But yeah it took like only 4-5 months for him to feel better. One of the signs that you're getting better is when u can cum again, my friend told me for the first 2 months he couldn't expel semen, that along with all the normal annoying side effects like lethargy, mental fog, tremors, etc. But yeah, his metabolism helped him get rid of it fast. He still had a massive desire to get high, fucked up really bad, stole a shit ton of money from his mom, went on a 3 day IM ket bender and is in rehab now. I told him he was gonna end up there but didn't wanna listen to me. I hope he's doing good though.
They give invega too drug addicts to stop addiction and drug seeking behavior one of the major receptor that are blocked are responsible for drug seeking behavior and addiction
Yeah, his shrink prescribed that shit to my friend but it just made him crave more drugs and to be unable to continue with his studies. It completely ruined his life, well his life was already fucked but the invega just made matters worse.
Hey @Mick04 I would say the first step would be to find a psychotherapist that has experience treating people with psychosis/schizophrenia. As you probably already know, a therapist is NOT a psychiatrist and therefore does not prescribe meds. They are someone you talk to. A psychotherapist may be able to help you learn coping skills and how to deal with triggers as well even working through things from the past.
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
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.
Thank you so much
