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

[sweetheart123]

Exercise definitely helps you recover faster, exercise can help increase your blood flow which invega decreases, if you increase your blood flow to your shoulder where you were injected it releases more invega into the body faster this can be bad at first cause you’ll feel the side effects and zombie like feeling more but it will get it out of your system as fast as possible so your brain can rewire it’s self faster, the first month on invega I barely exercised at all I was in and out of the hospital with medication side effects (I took 5 other meds that were strong and had blockbox warnings for side effects along with invega making the hell worse). I got med free by the time I was 1.5 months off the injections then once I was 2 months off I could walk 3-4 miles, then shortly after month 2.5 I could start lifting weights again and increase my strength, month 3 I could run 2-3 miles and feel a slight endorphin rush from it, month 4 I experienced severe withdrawal and depression but continued to atleast go for long walks everyday (4-6 miles), month 5 the wds subsided and I felt much better I stopped being suicidal and I got back into life slowly I could lift at the gym everyday and get a lot of work done and build muscle tone, month 6 I improved a little but more but only slightly, once month 7 came around I am now really ripped again my body is almost as good as it was pre invega now I can max squat 300, max bench 250, and max deadlift 380, physically I’m doing amazing nowadays but mentally I’m still recovering from mild depression/anhedonia I can definitely enjoy stuff a good amount but it’s not like pre injections the way i feel now though is a luxury compared to how I felt my first month on the shots I’m very grateful for how far I’ve come.

Hey merek can i reduce in 25 percent steps

 

[Whathappened123]

Lmao my mental health care workers don’t even bother looking up my file and what I’ve gone through. I basically have to tell them and they don’t ask questions or follow up questions. For example I mentioned I was sectioned and all they know I have is “psychosis” and I have to tell them myself what my psychosis was about.

Also I filed a complaint against the court for showing up unannounced in mental hospital and not providing me a chance to tell my side of the story.

The administration of the court decided that my complaint was not admissible because it was a matter of a judges decision.

I can’t get justice.

 

[Merek]

I had a dream today that i was taking cocaine pills in my dream weird

I had a dream where I got bitten by a venomous animal and was rushed to the hospital last night & I have weird dreams of taking drugs all the time some that I’ve never even taken.

 

[Merek]

Hey merek can i reduce in 25 percent steps

What do you mean by that? You mean your seroquel taper? That would be a little bit on the faster side and you’ve taken it for 7 years, I’d recommend doing 10% and taper by 30mg each month, 25% would be 75mg each month, you should go see a doctor and ask them for a recommendation on how to taper though, if one doctor says you need to stay on it they’re uneducated don’t see them again and find a new doctor.

 

[Senior Moderator]

@Merek I just wanted to say thank you for all of your helpful input in this thread lately. It has been noted by the senior staff and admins, and we all appreciate the encouraging words you've offered to others lately. Keep it up man

 

[HelpMeInvega]

I think once your body gets used to only needing 5mgs of latuda it’s gonna be much easier, 5mg of latuda is equivalent to less then 1mg of paliparadone I think, 10mg is a very low dose to begin with so you’re definitely experiencing withdrawal and your brain is re adjusting, anti psychotic withdrawal WHILE TAPERING felt worse then cold turkey opiate withdrawal for me it was hell for me and I bet it’s worse for you since you’ve taken way more APS then me but you got the strength to push through this I know it you survived 17 shots of invega you got this just try your hardest to stick to your good habits like working out if you can’t do as much at the gym rn try to atleast take walks still.

I dunno, my brain feels like it’s shaking at times. And I legit have such a bad headache and I just can’t even think or get out of bed it’s so bad. I can’t do a thing and I keep getting like anxiety attacks and it’s just brutal.

 

[apsucks]

Hey merek can i reduce in 25 percent steps

Tapering officialy goes in 25% steps every 3 weeks
300mg

3 weeks 225 mg
4 weeks 150 mg
6 weeks 75 mg
And then you get slow tapering where you reduce half of the last dose for 6 weeks
Thats 25mg

 

[apsucks]

I know this is for invega but I really don't know where else to put this

I actually want to stay on oral haloperidol, just not the current dose because it's just too much

Hoping to go from 10mg daily to 6-7mg daily

5-6 days ago I reduced the dose to 8mg and planned to stay there for a couple months but today the withdrawal became unbearable.

Has anyone here ever experianced withdrawal from haldol or any other oral antipsychotics taken chronically

Haldol got the worst withdrawal

 

[apsucks]

No. My psych prescribed me weebutrin before I ceased invega but the dry mouth and constipation were unbearable. That's when I decided that my psych had no idea what she was doing and swore off all psychiatric drugs

I think this forum wouldn't exist if there weren't a long an confusing recovery period, most people expect to feel better soon after ceasing, but I see most recovery reports following the 9 & 13 month pattern.

How long did it take you to recover spiritually ?...did it go in stages...i have difficulty with spiritual activities my spiritual life is non existent.

 

[Merek]

@Merek I just wanted to say thank you for all of your helpful input in this thread lately. It has been noted by the senior staff and admins, and we all appreciate the encouraging words you've offered to others lately. Keep it up man

No problem these threads need some more hope a lot of people once they recover a good amount leave the thread cause it’s a trauma for them and they don’t want to think about it, helping people makes me feel good and I’ve been thinking about making my career based on that not sure exactly what I’ll be doing though.

 

[Merek]

I dunno, my brain feels like it’s shaking at times. And I legit have such a bad headache and I just can’t even think or get out of bed it’s so bad. I can’t do a thing and I keep getting like anxiety attacks and it’s just brutal.

Wouldnt hurt to slow the taper down a little bit you don’t wana end up with rebound psychosis, I can relate I know that feeling all too well with drug withdrawal it can feel like forever while it’s happening but it does pass and once it does you’re gonna feel better then you ever have in a long time the reason you feel so bad is because your brain is deprived of drugs it’s used too so it’s in a state of panic and going crazy basically during this time though it’s rewiring it’s self to homeostasis.

 

[Serhat]

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[OLDTIDEN]

You think the world is ending soon? If so why do you think that? Or do you think your life is ending soon?

lol no. the world is not ending. the world is continuing from the other side soon! we will be able to jump/teleport between dreams/realms once this is over!

take a look at the sun during a clear sky

you will see the sun empty sometimes

and you will see the sun shine too

when it is empty it does not shine

those that can see this have done their mission here

 

[OLDTIDEN]

@OLDTIDEN we're here to support you bro dont worry

thanks

 

[loosewheelnut]

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Are you ok man?

 

[Merek]

lol no. the world is not ending. the world is continuing from the other side soon! we will be able to jump/teleport between dreams/realms once this is over!

take a look at the sun during a clear sky

you will see the sun empty sometimes

and you will see the sun shine too

when it is empty it does not shine

those that can see this have done their mission here

Interesting take, I believe anything is possible but I personally don’t believe in that theory you never know though.

 

[foodcrisis]

lol no. the world is not ending. the world is continuing from the other side soon! we will be able to jump/teleport between dreams/realms once this is over!

take a look at the sun during a clear sky

you will see the sun empty sometimes

and you will see the sun shine too

when it is empty it does not shine

those that can see this have done their mission here

you can see so much stuff in space other than the sun though if you look into a telescope. like every star is a sun somewhere too... i wouldn't be surprised if all the suns ran on the same energy though and there were some sort of dream truth because the brain runs on the same electricity as the stars. it'd be really easy to say that, but then you look at all the nebulas and galaxies, whatever all of that colors and stars is. it's way beyond me. i'd like to think that dreams are some sort of real space trip where other realities are encountered though. i don't think that's really what this thread is going for though.

maybe all the colors in space create energies of different people though. it's a nice thought. i'm sure i can post some where else about it.

 

[roofmaan1]

on day 6 of nofap

 

[Kaatrina]

How long did it take you to recover spiritually ?...did it go in stages...i have difficulty with spiritual activities my spiritual life is non existent.

2-2.5 years, it didn't really go in stages it was more like something that came back in the last stage of recovery

 

[Serhat]

Are you ok man?

Yeah I'm fine now just had enough of this injection still being in me