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

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lau_rahxo said:
Have you thought about getting a work from home job? In Australia there's lots of work from home jobs now with covid. I'm doing telefundraising from home & I'm honestly surprised how well I've done. I got my job at almost 4 months off invega. I hadn't expected to be able to work so soon. I knew there was no way I could work unless it was work from home but even doing that I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do as well as I have. I still suffer from anxiety some days because it's technically sales even though it's for charity. They listen to our calls & we're expected to make a certain amount of sales/sign ups. But I've been moved to upgrades now where I call people who are already signed up for more money it's still nerve wracking some days because we get moved to so many different charities so have to learn a new script & I have to make sure my tone is right & some people can be rude or throw you off. You also have to deal with sensitive topics & people's personal stories relating to the charities sometimes & I worry I'll say the wrong thing or not say it in the right tone.
I love my job though it gives me routine, it makes the days go quicker & I'm earning money. I definitely recommend trying for a work from home job if you can or even a hybrid job where you work partly from home. Anyway, good luck with the job hunting
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Thank you! Yeah work from home is a good idea, it would be more flexible and I would be able to take breaks whenever I want. I’m looking for coding jobs and they tend to support work from home. But I’m also looking for teaching jobs and for that I might have to go to work. We’ll see.

Wow telefundraising seems like a demanding job since you kind of have to emotionally connect with people to get them to donate, right? I’m having a lot of trouble with good engaging conversations since I can’t feel emotions as strongly as I used to. Great that you’re able to do this on a daily basis! Yes I totally understand the anxiety you must be feeling with the targets you have to meet and also speaking well especially if like me you’re not there yet with the emotions. But you’re doing so well so just keep going!! 👏
 
It has been 7months and 11 days and I feel no evolution at all. I feel like the unhappiest person in the planet. I got brain injured. From the psychiatrist and my family. I was just hoping that my two last friends would take me to assisted suicide but they don't even read me anymore. I really don't have much hope that 8 or 9 months are going to make the difference. I listen to my family talking about me being very bad. For the first time I talked to a cousin who doesn't like psychiatrists She just passed by. We cried together on how bad I am. I haven't gotten this from my evil cousins I trusted and don't blame Xeplion. She thinks that psychiatrists give too strong medicins. As everybody when I mentioned my life is over they say no but she agrees that ones the sleeping pills don't work anymore I am lost. It is incredible how psychiatry has destroyed me. She won't pass again. So that's the whole solidarity I am going to get. I wish she would have been here a year ago. She is the first person that said to believe me. The first one. For the others I have a mental health problem and say always nonsense.
 
lau_rahxo said:
So a few weeks ago I would've said I'm about 40% recovered but now I'd say I'm 50% recovered I've noticed a tiny bit of improvement listening to music & maybe a tiny bit of improvement watching tv. My biggest concern now in recovery is my physical appearance if I was looking like how I did before invega I'd be loving life I'd even say then I'd consider myself 60-70% recovered all I'd need then is more energy/motivation & to feel things more but I'd be happy with dealing with the anhedonia for however long I have to if I physically looked like myself again. I'd be doing so much more like going to the shops again, hanging out with friends, going for walks & doing things I'd usually do.
I actually stopped weighing myself for about a week because I was just fed up with putting on weight still. I weighed myself again & was surprised because I expected my weight to have gone up more but it was still at 75.4kg. I felt so much hope & it made me realise I'm maybe a bit more recovered mentally & if only my weight would stabilize & I could start losing weight I'd feel so much more positive/motivated & close to recovered. But then I weighed myself the next day & it was 76.7 I was devestated but the scales are electric & sometimes they show a higher weight but then I wait for them to clear & weigh myself again & it's usually a lower weight so I weighed myself again & it was 74.9kg which was lower than the 75.4kg the day before. Every day since I've been weighing myself & it's higher then lower 76.9 then 75.2, 77.7 then 75.5 then the last two days both days it's been 76.6 then 74.9.
I actually can't figure out how or why I could still be putting on so much weight it's about 1-1.5kg a week. I eat very healthily I drink lots of water, fresh orange juice for vitamin c, take vitamins & spirulina although I need to remember to take them more regularly. I was trying to exercise but gave up but I went on exercise bike yesterday I only burned 200 calories but it's better than nothing.
I'm 7 months off in 3 days. I feel like I'll never stop putting on weight I'm so scared to hit 80kg. I just need it to stop! I read so many comments where people have said they lost weight around the 6 month mark I had been so patient thinking I would be able to lose weight by now
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Glad to hear! Yeah I’m also starting to feel music a bit more, yesterday I had a couple of drinks and was grooving to some favorite tunes and it felt a bit like the old days. I still have some anhedonia and my emotions are quite weak too. My motivation is also bad. Invega changed my appearance too, it felt like it made face more round, I had sharper features before. But luckily I didn’t gain too much weight.
 
does anyone know when there erections and labido start to return. 5 months of and no erections or recovery of my labido to what it was pre-invega
 
was1011 said:
does anyone know when there erections and labido start to return. 5 months of and no erections or recovery of my labido to what it was pre-invega
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from what I've read, some recover their libido at 5 or 6 months and others much later. nothing is the same with this poison from invega, it looks really random, it depends on the person i feel
 
lau_rahxo said:
Also I forgot to mention I felt a bit more connected to my body the other day. It was the last day of my second period I've gotten off invega & usually when I used to get my period before invega on the last day of my period I would get this tension all through my body like I needed to release it I would stretch my body out or exercise to release the tension I believe it was my hormones adjusting. Well the other day when I was sitting at my computer desk while working I could feel those sensations again & it felt quite alright. I was stretching & even holding my body in better posture & feeling the release of the tension as I stretched & massaged my shoulders. Even stretching my arms out & twisting my body to stretch it out felt good. For the few weeks before that too before I got my period I had been feeling this kind of tension like I needed a massage for release & lymphatic drainage so I booked in & treated myself to a massage. I originally booked a lymphatic drainage massage but all she literally did was gently run her fingers over my body so I asked if she could do a remedial massage aswell so I could really get rid of the tension. I got my period again 5 days later after almost 3 months of waiting to get it again. I definitely think the massage brought it on. I want to get massages every month now.
I also want to start making sure to get as much sunshine as possible. I didn't realise but it's actually been a long time since I got sunshine. It's hard because it's winter here & because I work til 5pm or 6pm 5 days a week. But I want to start making sure I sit in the sun for around an hour both days every weekend & even on my half hours break atleast a couple of times a week.
I also think I might try reading & see how I go I think my concentration might be better now
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Its good your able to workfull time. I work like 6 or 12 hours a week at a warehouse and i have a tough time with it.
Yeah i also just feel liieni have no energy all the time. I hate waking up ans just want to stay in bed longer and sleep some more. I might try getting some home job that ilvolves the phone. I dont really like having a job that involves standing on my feet all day.
 
I've ordered liquid vitamin D. Alot of vitamin D tablets contain soy so I looked into alternatives & there's Vitamin D with olive oil which is apparently alot better for you or coconut oil but the capsules contained gelatin which I don't like even though I'm no longer vegetarian but I don't eat red meat & can't handle the thought of having something with gelatin. So I found vegan liquid vitamin D which will probably absorb better than tablets anyway. I've read apparently vitamin D can help with weight loss & improved mood.
I also learnt something new I had a feeling to google if low vitamin D can cause psychosis & according to my search low levels of folate & vitamin D are linked to psychosis.
Also I meant to mention in my last update I'm feeling a bit more connected to my breathing. I want to start trying a few times a day to just focus on my breathing & feel like it might even help me a little but still not as much as it would've before invega.
I also tried foot detox patches the other night there wasn't as much black stuff on the patches as I thought there would be but they were still black which is apparently the toxins eliminating. I didn't feel any difference but am going to keep trying them because I've read good reviews
 
Just found this interesting bit of information "Since several antipsychotic drugs are at least partially metabolized via CYP3A4,11 vitamin D supplementation might lead to reduced antipsychotic drug concentrations in blood, thereby counteracting its potential beneficial effects on psychopathology."
 
When I got my vitamin D levels tested at the mental health unit they were low. Which I was kind of surprised about because I would sit in the sun on the balcony of my unit alot of days with my cats. But maybe because it was October & we had not long come out of winter in Australia so I didn't get as much sunshine as I would in spring or summer
 
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Some more interesting things I found "Two open label trials found high dose vitamin D improves the core symptoms of autism in about 75% of autistic children. A few of the improvements were remarkable. The vitamin D doses used in these children were 300 IU/KG/day up to a maximum of 5000 IU/day (highest final 25(OH)D level reached was 45 ng/ml)."
"There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting Vitamin D plays an important role in regulating serotonin. This means it could cause (deficiency) or treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) symptoms (supplement). For instance, one study prescribed Vitamin D3 to autistic children in an open trial and had a 80% success rate – that is, the children became less hyperactive, irritable, and engaged far less in stereotypical behavior. The children were also more responsive and compliant to their families."
 
Elsewhere, doctors in China are reporting that treatment with vitamin D appeared to produce dramatic improvements in a toddler with autism. Blood tests showed that the boy had borderline low blood levels of vitamin D (12.5 ng/mL). The doctors administered a monthly injection of vitamin D3 (150,000 IU) and prescribed a daily oral supplement (400 IU). After two months, the boy’s vitamin D blood levels had risen to 81.2 ng/mL, and his parents were reporting clear improvements. The boy had stopped running in circles and banging his head. He was responding to his name, playing with toys and asking his parents to hold him in their arms.
“My experience, having treated about 100 children with autism, is that 25% respond dramatically to high dose vitamin D, 50% respond significantly and 25% do not respond at all I don’t know why,” Cannell said for ZME Science. “80% of the children responded to 5,000 IU/day so it is about what I have found. My hopes for the future is that a randomized controlled trial is done using high dose vitamin D,” he added.
 
Introduction. Vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric populations, and vitamin D has been used as an add-on medication in major depressive disorder. Case Report. Here, we present the case of a 49-year-old man diagnosed with major depressive disorder, severe, with psychotic features, who was treated with antidepressants and underwent multiple antipsychotic trials. The patient was found to have low serum levels of vitamin D. During treatment with vitamin D, serum levels normalized and the patient’s psychotic symptoms abated. Conclusion. Ensuring adequate vitamin D levels could be a method of focus for the augmentation or treatment of psychotic features in major depressive disorder.
 
In addition to oral supplementation, vitamin D can also be administered by intramuscular injection.
Vitamin D injections can offer a boost for your health, and could be suitable if you are feeling run down, have a chronic health condition, gut problems, or simply aren't getting enough vitamin D from your lifestyle and/or diet.
 
I'm considering getting a vitamin D injection. Considering the information I posted above ""Since several antipsychotic drugs are at least partially metabolized via CYP3A4,11 vitamin D supplementation might lead to reduced antipsychotic drug concentrations in blood, thereby counteracting its potential beneficial effects on psychopathology." I wonder if an injection would help break down any remaining invega in my system/blood?
 
StrawHatLuffy said:
What do you mean by gland issue or mental pain? Is it gone now? Can you feel emotion rising from your heart
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Gland issues like tinus, thyroid, adrenal gland issues, invega messes up with glands. Mental pain is like similar to acid burning you from inside of chest (chest pain), it is now weak and mostly gone, but it's sometimes moderate. I feel like 40% of emotion rising.
 
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