• The Dark Side 💕 Welcome Guest 💕
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Notable Threads Urgent Hotlines
    Bereavement Mindfulness
    Suicide Support Anger Management
  • TDS Moderators: AlphaMethylPhenyl | paranoid android

Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v. 7.0

Status
Not open for further replies.
mura_yom_invegasucks said:
I’ve posted before but it was no emotions, barely any thoughts, loss of interests in things, no enthusiasm, dissociation, blank mind, loss of creativity and feeling of music and movies, intrusive thoughts of bad memories, every bad memory affected me a lot more. All of these side effects were returned to normal pre Invega and I actually felt better than pre Invega after 2 years. At 1.5 years I felt quite happy in general. It made me a better person
Click to expand...
Did you experience a fried brain/burning sensation after the injections?
 
mura_yom_invegasucks said:
I’ve posted before but it was no emotions, barely any thoughts, loss of interests in things, no enthusiasm, dissociation, blank mind, loss of creativity and feeling of music and movies, intrusive thoughts of bad memories, every bad memory affected me a lot more. All of these side effects were returned to normal pre Invega and I actually felt better than pre Invega after 2 years. At 1.5 years I felt quite happy in general. It made me a better person
Click to expand...
Did you suffer from bad anhedonia at all ? I can relate to all that stuff btw, glad you recovered also did you have sleep problems like hardly being able to sleep ?

Invegatorture said:
Did you experience a fried brain/burning sensation after the injections?
Click to expand...
What are your symptoms? I feel like my brain has been fried completely , but not the burning feeling…
 
bowandsparrow said:
Oh, bless my doctor. I called her up today to talk about the physical side effects of invega and getting a blood test and she said "isn't it only supposed to last for a month?"
Click to expand...
They’re so ignorant

Invegaishell said:
Same with me. One of the only reasons I took invega was because my doctor told me it lasted for only one month. They also said there were no side effects. I thought, “If I don’t like it it will just wear off in a month.” 10 months later, here I am.
Click to expand...
Sameeee. “What’s the worst that can happen?” 😭

Mucky said:
What are your symptoms? I feel like my brain has been fried completely , but not the burning feeling…
Click to expand...
Hard to think and speak. Anhedonia, Akathisia, nausea, no appetite, less energy, insomnia, bad posture, acne, cognitive impairment, brain feels fried, sexual dysfunction, loss of personality.
 
Invegatorture said:
Hard to think and speak. Anhedonia, Akathisia, nausea, no appetite, less energy, insomnia, bad posture, acne, cognitive impairment, brain feels fried, sexual dysfunction, loss of personality.
Click to expand...
That sounds very much like my symptoms so your not alone , the only things I don’t have is akathisia and nausea , I only speak when spoken to and with very limited one word responses I can’t make any conversation at all , my personality is completely gone. It sucks to say the least , one good thing for you is that Invega has a long half life so it’s still in your system and that could explain why you still feel that way. How do you get through the days ? Like what do you do every day ?
 
Mucky said:
That sounds very much like my symptoms so your not alone , the only things I don’t have is akathisia and nausea , I only speak when spoken to and with very limited one word responses I can’t make any conversation at all , my personality is completely gone. It sucks to say the least , one good thing for you is that Invega has a long half life so it’s still in your system and that could explain why you still feel that way. How do you get through the days ? Like what do you do every day ?
Click to expand...
I pretty much only go for walks or my parents will take me out for a drive to get me out of the house. The rest of the time I’m laying in bed. The anhedonia makes it impossible for me to enjoy anything I did pre invega

Mucky said:
That sounds very much like my symptoms so your not alone , the only things I don’t have is akathisia and nausea , I only speak when spoken to and with very limited one word responses I can’t make any conversation at all , my personality is completely gone. It sucks to say the least , one good thing for you is that Invega has a long half life so it’s still in your system and that could explain why you still feel that way. How do you get through the days ? Like what do you do every day ?
Click to expand...
What do you do?
 
Invegaishell said:
Same with me. One of the only reasons I took invega was because my doctor told me it lasted for only one month. They also said there were no side effects. I thought, “If I don’t like it it will just wear off in a month.” 10 months later, here I am.
Click to expand...
It was identical scenery for me, and here I am 102 weeks later.
 
Invegatorture said:
I pretty much only go for walks or my parents will take me out for a drive to get me out of the house. The rest of the time I’m laying in bed. The anhedonia makes it impossible for me to enjoy anything I did pre invega
Click to expand...
Yea I’m the same bro , instead of the bed I lay on my couch with the tv on even though I don’t enjoy it at all , just trying to avoid staring at the wall it’s a painful existence every hour of every day and I go for one 30 minute walk every day and sometimes go out to eat with my mum just to please her.
 
t_xeplionhell said:
It was identical scenery for me, and here I am 102 weeks later.
Click to expand...
Hi t I’ve been reading through the threads and noticed you seem quite knowledgeable about all this stuff , I was wondering if you know how long it takes for damages dopamine receptors to Be absorbed and regrown ? Is this the only brain process that we need to happen to see recovery ? Is it possible that my receptors will never recycle ?
 
Mucky said:
Did you suffer from bad anhedonia at all ? I can relate to all that stuff btw, glad you recovered also did you have sleep problems like hardly being able to sleep ?
Click to expand...
Yeah really bad adhedonia, couldn’t get pleasure from anything at all. That changed a lot at 10 months onwards. Not really that much sleep problems just took longer to sleep than usual
 
Good news: last night a friend made up a song about my cat and I laughed so hard I teared up a little.

Bad news: I keep waking up in the night like I did after I first had the injection, so I might have to re-add seroquel or go off wellbutrin.
 
Risingson8 said:
hi there fellas , some might knew me , i took the shot at 3 july in 2021 , 2 years after , i can easly say , im better than ever , i mean dont lose your hope ... invega may cripple your spirit essence , but if you stay strong , youll come back fresher than ever ... i know its a disaster ... but recovery is possible , even you can be better than pre invega , its a waiting game , but dont just wait ... do something , pray , eat healthy , be kind ...do some holistic researchs ... well , ill inform you later , take care ... stay strong .
Click to expand...
Thank you so much for coming back in to this thread and posting your update, it's so encouraging for people who really need to hear this kinda stuff when they are really struggling <3

t_xeplionhell said:
Mods would not like it.
Click to expand...
It's not that us mods don't like it, we don't care one way or the other. It's that we had ovewhelming complaints from the women of this group who were extremely put off by the constant talk of penises and erections and semen volume etc, that we had to ask the men of the group to rein it in a little. Some women have even left this group completely due to the excessive discussion of male sexual side effects. So it's our job as mods to edit and delete posts that go in to it too much.
t_xeplionhell said:
In this context, it was meant for speaking about sexual side effects. Limits of what can be said isn't clear.
Click to expand...
A brief description of erectile dysfunction or libido side effects is fine. But lengthy discussion of penises, semen, boners, sex drive, sexual fantasies etc is not okay. It can be very triggering for some women.
That is why we created this thread:
https://bluelight.org/xf/threads/the-general-catch-all-side-effect-thread-v-psych-meds-nsfw.929488/
If anyone wants to discuss their sexual side effects in great detail please feel free to use that thread! :)

Kiaf85 said:
I had a really good day on Thursday. I was back Flat feeling by Friday. How are you lately?
Click to expand...
That is really promising to hear that you had such a good day on Thursday! I'm really glad to hear that! Not so happy to hear that you didn't have such a good day on Friday, but I hope you have more good days coming up <3
 
Merek said:
Sexual function and libido is truly recovered 110% at about 8.5 months off the two loading doses (234mg & 156mg) nofap helped with this a lot, I also smoked some top quality weed today and the high hit like when I first started smoking, I had an insane rush of euphoria today I’m still high but i realize I fucked up with my battle with addiction but if I can feel euphoria like this I’d say im pretty much recovered from 100% recovered from invegas side effects but I still struggle with PTSD from being shot with it that might be a permanent issue I have cause of invega but other then that I’ve recovered everything else.
Click to expand...
Did you ever not feel euphoria
 
So is the consensus that most sexual dysfunction on the male side will leave you at about 4 months which is 5 times the half life cycle meaning it’s completely out of your system. I’m just trying to get a consensus from the male side of things when improvements start to happen as I am only 40 days outside of the 2 loading shots. So I’m looking to do everything to speed up recovery. It looks like through this forum that everyone who stopped taking antipsychotics and cut out other drug use were able to cure their ED rather quickly.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top