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

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Troubil said:
What did your blood test check for, was it all vitamin and minerals?
I'm thinking of getting one also, I play loads of soccer and was always very fit. Invega has pretty much got me stuck in 3rd gear, I am a fraction of my former self but I keep doing it just to keep sane.
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I think it was a full panel I don't know what else it was called sorry but the results were a page & half long. Definitely recommend getting them checked plus prolactin
 
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lau_rahxo said:
I'm considering it but don't really want to have to do that. Considering I used to eat more before invega I now have a coffee & healthy smoothie for breakfast then around mid day have a chicken avocado salad for lunch. I used to be able to eat whatever I wanted & not put on weight. I don't want to have to cut back on what I eat really because I've never been able to go long periods without food I get dizzy. I might cut down the portion sizes slightly. I also drink lots of water & take supplements plus I'm a fairly healthy eater. I'm considering going a day or two a week Where I drink my morning coffee & smoothie then drinking two juices plus a soup throughout the day & lots of water
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Lucky you! I completely lost my appetite on Invega?
 
lau_rahxo said:
I couldn't feel hunger or satisfaction from food for a little while I also felt like I had no tastebuds like I couldn't taste my food properly for months. It was crazy though because it made me eat more than I ever have for a period of time. Because I had severe restlessness & couldn't feel hunger or satisfaction from food I just kept eating ridiculous amounts non stop just in hopes I would eventually feel something. I even ate food I shouldn't because I'm gluten & lactose intolerant. I ate gluten things & dairy but no reaction like I would normally get which was weird didn't even really get nausea which I would usually atleast get. I was suicidal during that period of time it was agony. I was restless pacing around couldn't concentrate on anything couldn't watch tv it was painful even the thought of trying to watch tv. One of the only things there was to do was eat which I felt nothing from but kept wanting to try & actually stuffed my face more than I ever have in my life because I just felt so numb & couldn't recept when I was full I felt no fullness or taste. I was constantly walking to the kitchen just to do something while internally thinking non stop about how I just wanted to be dead because what I was going through was so agonizingly painful & I'd even pace around the kitchen. One time I almost ate a whole block of chocolate just to feel something & because otherwise all I would be doing is pacing around or googling how to kill myself. I also wanted to be around people so would be upstairs eating alot just to have something to do & be around my family (even though I actually hate my parents).
It was like that started just after my first proper shot of 75mg which was also my last shot. It lasted maybe about a month & a half then I was able to finally start having food in time slots again but I was eating breakfast, morning tea, lunch, dinner & desert. Then a little while after I started just having a coffee & healthy smoothie in the morning & not eating until lunch time having a chicken avocado salad. I eventually started getting my taste buds back & do feel enjoyment from food again although I don't think it's fully recovered because my dopamine isn't fully recovered I don't think my full feelings of hunger have recovered but they're pretty much normal enough again. I also still can't feel the affects of coffee. I've always been big on food I can't go without it although I don't over eat except for that period of time & I'm a healthy eater. I get dizzy if I don't eat for hours & I used to like to fuel myself with food I used to like the satisfaction
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I feel you & I am experiencing EXACTLY the same thing on Invega ~ only instead of pacing around I just lay there instead to avoid the pain of not being motivated to do anything…only ppl who have been thru this can possibly understand the weird things it makes you feel/do. It blocks not only dopamine & seretonin, but all your pleasure reward pathways. Don’t even look fwd to coffee anymore. I also can’t watch TV or movies & google certain things you talk about also. How are you feeling now & how long did it take for you to recover! Do you have your emotions & appetite back? #lookingforhope
 
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lau_rahxo said:
I think it was a full panel I don't know what else it was called sorry but the results were a page & half long. Definitely recommend getting them checked plus prolactin
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I agree, it is a really good idea to get this done regularly.
 
A couple of weeks ago I was at the library surfing on youtube and whatever. I listened to this song and felt emotional for a change. On the bike ride home 30 minutes later i felt xeplion/invega taste in my mouth, that sweet, horrible taste/smell, and I also felt less dead then I usually does. It was as some xeplion had leaked down from my brain (if i have one). I feel xeplion all the time as it is blocking feelings. I can get a thought and a nice feeling then one second later its gone, because of xeplion. Not giving up hope though. Im 16 months off my first and only injection 250 mg and I was never phsycotic or schizophrenic. Schizophrenia has nothing to to with malfunction of the brain btw. It is the intestents of some ppl thats leaking stuff into the bloodstream that causes voices and stuff.
 
I was kind of wondering if the season you get the shots also influenced recovery times somehow


Sounds weird but considering all the even weirder shit the injections put people through I wouldn't even be surprised
 
InvegaIsdeath said:
Basically 100%. But i only had two shots. it took a year to recover, a full year. Lots of , exercise, supplements, cold weather, to do it.
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At what month did you start exercising anyway? I'm 3.5 months off 2 shots and I'm starting to include some short jogging to my walks but I'm nowhere close to being able to lift or do serious running yet
 
InvegaIsdeath said:
Basically 100%. But i only had two shots. it took a year to recover, a full year. Lots of , exercise, supplements, cold weather, to do it.
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did you feel the injection coming out of your brain 1 month after the last one? that's what happened and to Phuckinvega too
 
When im on other sites like reddit or forum schizophrenia and i complain about the meds. Dumbing me down and making me emotionless. They usually try saying to me its the schizophrenia that has done that and not the meds. Lots of them say they felt dumbed down and unmotivated b4 they got on meds. Its quite odd how that is. Why you think that is?

Also, what did a lot of you ppl get diagnosed with when you got put on the injection? For me first it was drug induced psychosis. Then it changed to schizophrenia.
 
Gdvffh said:
When im on other sites like reddit or forum schizophrenia and i complain about the meds. Dumbing me down and making me emotionless. They usually try saying to me its the schizophrenia that has done that and not the meds. Lots of them say they felt dumbed down and unmotivated b4 they got on meds. Its quite odd how that is. Why you think that is?

Also, what did a lot of you ppl get diagnosed with when you got put on the injection? For me first it was drug induced psychosis. Then it changed to schizophrenia.
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For me it's definitely because of the meds, never was so dumbed down before this, I got diagnosed as bipolar
 
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