Invegaishell
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I was able to start working out at month 7 off. My strength and stamina are coming back. Slowly starting to lose weight. Very slowly. Muscle tone is also coming back very slowly.
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Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v. 7.0
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Invegaishell
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For me, the lack of social ability is one of the worst. Not being able to connect with people is terrible.I think the Anhedonia is the worst part. I long for that old feeling of, feels like my heart has been disconnected.
bowandsparrow
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2 good things today!
First is I'm down 13 pounds of the 20 I gained.
Second is I've sent my book introduction to several of my friends and beta readers and the feedback is that it's funny and engaging. That makes me feel really good about how much of my personality I've gotten back.
First is I'm down 13 pounds of the 20 I gained.
Second is I've sent my book introduction to several of my friends and beta readers and the feedback is that it's funny and engaging. That makes me feel really good about how much of my personality I've gotten back.
That’s awesome man. How are u losing the weight
bowandsparrow
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Counting my calories with Myfitnesspal and aerobic exercise, at the gym or just walking around the neighborhood.
naoaguento
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I have one question guys: does the fact that I feel pleasure from listening to music could mean that I have no anhedonia? Or I have and it's more soft? The condition anhedonic means to feel NO PLEASURE WHATSOEVER? Or it's more like a spectrum, going like from 0 to 10, changing from time to time?
bowandsparrow
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I'd consider it a spectrum, but I'm not an effort. But if you feel pleasure from listening to music, listen to a lot of it!
Ivwga, abilify and latuda made me so restless i couldnt nap at all. Now that im on zyprexa though i can nap just fine
naoaguento
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Congratulations! So nice that you are being able to write and get focused in such a hard (and creativity needy) activity.
How is your work process? Things flows in a natural way or you need to force yourself to produce?
I am asking because I know antipsychotics makes everything seems so hard to be done, even more an activity that relies integrally in your mind's work and creativity.
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If your still on invega i would recomend getting your testosterone and prolactin levels checked. On invega and also abilify i became fat for the first time in my ,life. However once i got switched to latuda and eventually zyprexa i lost the weight and kept it off. Even though zyprexa gets a bad rap for weight gain i have only gained mostly muscle weight as i started lifting weights again at the same time i took zyprexa.
Invega is just horrible though i would recomend getting switched to zyprexa if you can at all.
Eatforgains
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It’s been such a nightmare working full time during this process. The only saving grace is I’m self employed so I can take a day off here and there when I feel terrible. I feel bad for my wife the most though. It’s like in April she got stuck with a whole new person who isn’t nearly as fun. I’m blah now when it comes to talking, I used to be so vibrant. Plus she has to take care of me alot more because I tend to feel like garbage.
naoaguento
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I know exactly this feeling. I used to be happy and make jokes about everything, seems like my personality vanished. My mind used to have lots of positive thoughts and informations, hanging out and having conversations with people was one of my favorite things in this life.
Then my episode and medication happened. Now I struggle to have conversations even with my closest friends. It's so hard to be a talkative person when your mind can't connect with anything and everything seems so dull, nothing holds your interest except your condition.
I feel like I am able to talk only about this disease, has been my obsession since I started this zombie state after starting antipsychotics. But I think things starts to get better as long the anhedonia subside. Then will be easy to get interested and excited about others things in life - becoming a better company. It's temporary!
I know exactly this feeling. I used to be happy and make jokes about everything, seems like my personality vanished. My mind used to have lots of positive thoughts and informations, hanging out and having conversations with people was one of my favorite things in this life.
Then my episode and medication happened. Now I struggle to have conversations even with my closest friends. It's so hard to be a talkative person when your mind can't connect with anything and everything seems so dull, nothing holds your interest except your condition.
I feel like I am able to talk only about this disease, has been my obsession since I started this zombie state after starting antipsychotics. But I think things starts to get better as long the anhedonia subside. Then will be easy to get interested and excited about others things in life - becoming a better company. It's temporary!
I had horrible anhedonia on invega and abiilify. It was brutal. However it went away pretty quickly when i got off the abilify. So you can get better just get switched to a decent antipsychotic.
naoaguento
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Do you remember how long it took to your anhedonia lift?
I am off any antipsychotic right now (only in a low dose - 300mg, of lithium carbonate).
I quit Abilify (took it 3 weeks) on 6/june, it's been 6 weeks since last dose. Before Abilify I took Risperidone for 3 months.
I thought I was going to notice changes very quickly after quitting but as far I can see they are pretty soft. And I am not even close to the person I was. Used to be very interested in lots of topics, read alot, talk to lots of person in a variety of topics, etcetera.
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I think it took anywhere from 3 to 6 months for my anhedonia to start to lift but it took awile for it to lift fully.
naoaguento
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So I got a long road ahead...
It was very gradual? Were you able to notice changes day by day or only after a couple months? I am curious because I don't remember how my life used to be before anhedonia. Feels like isn't something like you wake up someday and feel totally recovered, that's scare me because I really want to know that I am 100% normal, but there's no way to measure... it's kinda hard.
At first I thought my anhedonia was going to lift in like one month, because I only took ~4 months of medication. I was pretty optimistic tbh.
How long you took Abilify btw?
I didnt really notice any changes until i got about 3 months in. My sex drive came back thank fuck and the anhedonia started to lift. It rtook awile but dont give up hope and also you wherent on it as long as me so you could recover quicker. I was on abilify for about a year and a half or more i think. It was a nightmare
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