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Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v 6.0

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prinzfrost said:
The answer would be yes for all normally functioning people.

For people with antipsychotic and paliperidone induced severe total sexual injury and sexual dysfunction, the answer is absolutely no. There is no known treatment or cure whatsoever for our condition at all. Nothing is known nor proven to affect our recovery any which way, other than 1. discontinuing the offending drug (paliperidone) (and possibly other antispychotics that could also cause our condition of depression and sexual dysfunction), 2. staying alive and waiting on Father Time.

If you are abstaining while still affected by antipsychotic and paliperidone induced depression and sexual dysfunction, and "emotions, passion, personality, improved imagination and creativity" is "regained," then you have actually improved.

That means you have either recovered due to:
1. abstaining
2. father time and being alive (the only known reason for recovery, besides discontinuing paliperidone and perhaps other antipsychotics)
3. some other reason

I highly doubt that abstinence nor some other reason made a difference. It is more likely a coincidence--you have just happened to recover (being alive and father time) at the same time you abstained.

To my knowledge, abstaining (as well as any other reason) has never been proven to affect antipsychotic and paliperidone induced sexual dysfunction (it certainly doesn't work for me, and I'm 14+ months with this condition).

But, of course, since most everyone at some point is waiting on methods and miracles, I'm all ears regardless.
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I'm worried that having used alcohol in my first months of recovery stopped me from ever recovering :((
 
invegafried said:
I'm taking none. I've been off of all meds other than Wellbutrin for 2.5 years. The Wellbutrin helped at first but not any more
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If you’re still taking wellbutrin there’s a good chance it’s blunting your recovery nobody reports anything positive about being on wellbutrin long term, it has some stimulant like effects to it, wellbutrin floods the brain with dopamine which taken long term decreases dopamine overall, if I were you I’d stop taking the wellbutrin you might feel like shit for a while but there’s nothing dangerous about wellbutrin withdrawal you could also taper if you want the wds would probably feel like caffeine/amphetamine withdrawal, after you’re brain returns to homeostasis and the withdrawals subside you’ll probably be feeling much better maybe even fully recovered I doubt invega is effecting you anymore since you took your last shot 2.5 years ago you probably just have anhedonia from being dependent on wellbutrin.
 
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Merek said:
If you’re still taking wellbutrin there’s a good chance it’s blunting your recovery nobody reports anything positive about being on wellbutrin long term, it has some stimulant like effects to it, wellbutrin floods the brain with dopamine which taken long term decreases dopamine overall, if I were you I’d stop taking the wellbutrin you might feel like shit for a while but there’s nothing dangerous about wellbutrin withdrawal you could also taper if you want the wds would probably feel like caffeine/amphetamine withdrawal, after you’re brain returns to homeostasis and the withdrawals subside you’ll probably be feeling much better maybe even fully recovered I doubt invega is effecting you anymore since you took your last shot 2.5 years ago you probably just have anhedonia from being dependent on wellbutrin.
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Wellbutrin is a reuptake inhibitor not a releaser. Some people claim sertraline sped up recovery
 
apsucks said:
Wellbutrin is a reuptake inhibitor not a releaser. Some people claim sertraline sped up recovery
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It still can deplete dopamine over time, I considered taking wellbutrin for a while but decided not too I’ve read a lot of stories people say it only helps them short term then they just have too raise the dose sounds like stimulants, I’m just gonna stick to weed, psychedelics, and coffee twice a month and intense exercise 6 days a week that’s what works for me.
 
Merek said:
Ya 100% the people who don’t recover say substances have no effect on them at all years later you’ll recover 100% fasho, by the time you’re 1.5-2 years off the injection I think you’ll be good.
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for lot of people substances dont work.
 
I’ve lost the gut from invega sustenna entirely and I have a six pack again when I first got injected I was 137lbs then gained 27 pounds up too 164lbs, i am now 151lbs I didn’t really do much to lose the weight I only did cardio once in a while but did a ton of weight lifting and I just ate how I normally do, the invega weight is useless and I think your body will eventually realize that and get rid of it once the APS are mostly out of your system even if you don’t put in the effort but it’s still good to put in the effort you’ll feel better quicker, I also went through a period during month 4 where I barely ate at all cause of severe depression, the lowest my weight dropped was 152 but it was usually around 157 now I’m consistently 151-152.
 
Merek said:
I’ve lost the gut from invega sustenna entirely and I have a six pack again when I first got injected I was 137lbs then gained 27 pounds up too 164lbs, i am now 151lbs I didn’t really do much to lose the weight I only did cardio once in a while but did a ton of weight lifting and I just ate how I normally do, the invega weight is useless and I think your body will eventually realize that and get rid of it once the APS are mostly out of your system even if you don’t put in the effort but it’s still good to put in the effort you’ll feel better quicker, I also went through a period during month 4 where I barely ate at all cause of severe depression, the lowest my weight dropped was 152 but it was usually around 157 now I’m consistently 151-152.
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During period of month 4-8 I ate less, but it was metabolical, my body did not accept more food.
 
t_xeplionhell said:
During period of month 4-8 I ate less, but it was metabolical, my body did not accept more food.
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ya igy that’s kind of how I felt anti psychotic wd just makes your body reject food, so you’re 20 or so months off and still haven’t recovered why so you think that is?
 
Merek said:
It still can deplete dopamine over time, I considered taking wellbutrin for a while but decided not too I’ve read a lot of stories people say it only helps them short term then they just have too raise the dose sounds like stimulants, I’m just gonna stick to weed, psychedelics, and coffee twice a month and intense exercise 6 days a week that’s what works for me.
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Reuptake inhibitors can't deplete dopamine
 
So earlier this week I planned that today I would take a trip on LSD but I wokeup today not feeling like I was in the right headspace for it, I felt like total garbage when I woke up today I didn’t sleep well I think I’m going through anti psychotic withdrawal again but it’s nowhere near as severe as month 4, so instead of taking the LSD in a bad mental state which is a terrible idea anyway I decided to just take a micro dose, I felt like I had just had a coffee but without the jitters/anxiety you get from it, I got that nice warm body feeling you get from psychedelics, increased energy, happiness, and slight euphoria but i wasn’t tripping at all nowhere near that, I went and worked out and I was doing great during my workout despite having poorly slept the night before I was also bumping music and that shit was hitting i felt the dopamine hit you get from listening to music like pre invega not only that but also pre anhedonia, (I had anhedonia pre invega), I kind of feel like my old self before any of the drug abuse, psychosis, and invega injections happened I can think deeply and see things from a different perspective without that auto pilot brain fog type feeling from invega.
 
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