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

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That’s crazy are you working out? Were you an athlete before Invega Sustenna? That makes a huge difference! Some people think they’re going to go back to normal and they originally aren’t athletes or gym goers and that’s wishful thinking. You have to at least try to lose the weight and work hard and eat in a massive deficit!
I have been working out for 3 months now. I was an avid CrossFit athlete before invega. I also ran marathons. I was 150 lbs and 9% body fat. Now I’m 177 lbs and full of fat. I eat very healthy also.
 
I have been working out for 3 months now. I was an avid CrossFit athlete before invega. I also ran marathons. I was 150 lbs and 9% body fat. Now I’m 177 lbs and full of fat. I eat very healthy also.

I put on tons of weight on incega and abilify it was awful my back was killing me. However once i got off abilify i lost the weight. Even though i am on zyprexa now i still havent gained any weight back and i now lift weights 7 times a wek. Im in better shape now then i have been since my early 20's
 
I put on tons of weight on incega and abilify it was awful my back was killing me. However once i got off abilify i lost the weight. Even though i am on zyprexa now i still havent gained any weight back and i now lift weights 7 times a wek. Im in better shape now then i have been since my early 20's
How old are you? How long did it take you to lose all the weight after coming off invega and abilify?
 
Actually right now I am playing Fire/Red version of Game Boy Advance in an emulator in my cellphone (I play when I'm bored inside a Uber or this kind of stuff haha). Thanks for your offer! But I never played Pokemon GO. XD
(Fun fact: I had chosen Charmeleon in this playthrough, instead of Squirtle. But I really like the glasses Squirtle! He looks so confident and badass! Also, nice that you liked my photo profile, just came into my mind to change and I remembered the Squirtle that I used to use in my Telegram's profile pic XD).
But it's nice that you recovered the energy to be engajed again in this game! Seems like it's very important to you, keep it up! Those things are the ones that could relieve our reality and distract ourselves making the recovery a little bit lighter.
The only game that I consider myself really playing is CS:GO. I always attend when my friends invites me. It keeps me interested in a couple hours and I almost forget my condition for a while! It's really good. The sensation of making a nice play is really nice, this week we won a game by 16x14 (almost draw) and I even spontaneously celebrated! Like, the feeling came from the inside, that was nice. :)

When you took Risperidone/Abilify you didn't felt anhedonia? Do you remember the dosages? I got lots of side effects.
As I can see it is kinda common. But I'm not sure if my anhedonia developed due APs or it is more like a post psychosis depression (I read this on reddit).

Also, thanks for your words! I also expect to recover soon. Those last months had been tough, but I could say my mood is improving a little bit week by week. For example, today I am able to look at the day and think "it's a pretty day, at least there's a bit of sun!".
Just to mention, last two weeks I was crashing and crying everyday, very hopeless and pessimistic. Struggling with depression and derealization.
Don't know if lithium carbonate (started 2 weeks ago) is helping me or just the fact that the withdrawal from Abilify is getting easier... or my brain chemistry returning... there's lots of theories but it's kinda impossible to be sure.
The only TRUE fact is that I have no control over it, my only way to deal is to keep doing my stuff, being active and letting my body/brain heals itself. Again, we should be grateful for the possibility to our body heals itself with time. It's really awesome to be honest. Brain's homeostasis is incredible (have any of you guys read "Dopamine Nation"? It's a nice book and talks about addictions and brain's recovery - I know we are not dealing with addiction but the mechanisms are kinda the same - getting receptors in balance again!).

Sorry for the late response, I've been suprisingly busy the entirety of yesterday and part of today as well. But anyways nice, I used to play Gameboy/DS Pokemon games on my previous phone using the My Boy!/DraStic emulators. When I went back to play LeafGreen at one point I had picked squirtle, since charmander is overrated, and poor bulbasaur deserves more love but I didn't pick it regardless lol. My first Pokemon game was Platinum back in 2009, afterwards I bought and played every mainseries Pokemon game since, with Scarlet being the most recent one. And yes, playing such games serves as a distraction to take my mind off of what I'm currently experiencing, even if it's just temporary. I do play other games here and there but I'm primarily playing Pokemon Go at the moment, I can definitely enjoy it again so that's good.

Believe it or not no, back when I was taking Risperidone and Abilify I wasn't experiencing any particularly noticeable side effects at all, suprisingly. I believe I took Risperidone for around 4 years or so before eventually discontinuing it once I entered high school, as for Abilify I had taken 5mg pills of it last year, before eventually being switched to Invega by December, which was without a doubt the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life. Even while on the Abilify injection I was still studying/working just fine, no anhedonia, akathisia, could still sleep normally, and I had no cognitive or sexual issues either. And no I don't remember the dosages either, just the Abilify pills and the Invega shot.

Sorry to hear about what you've been experiencing and how you've been feeling since, I was extremely depressed and suicidal at first, especially since I couldn't sleep at all the first 3 months after the injection that it eventually caused me to have a stroke as a result. For some concerning reason I realized that like 2 days ago I suddenly started feeling worse, mainly sexually, but I hope it's for unrelated reasons since I've been completely off of those meds for over 7 months now. Despite how much I desperately wish this had never occurred to me, in the end of the day I can't undo what was already done to me, all I can do is accept this unfortunate reality and move on from it as much as possible, trying my best to recover day by day, even if it takes months, years, or even a whole decade worst case scenario, as long as it's not permanent I hope.
 
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You think microchips are?
Yes. My experiences is that the drugs keep changing inside my system. I get this weird chemical reaction in my body like every month or 2 weeks. I think they’re getting these drugs inside of us some other way, maybe through a fake blood test or simply through ingestion . My experience is that i am 100% sure it’s not invega causing all this
 
I get sick of thinking or talking about Invega, it’s a part of my daily thoughts
Me too, I seriously miss the times that I didn't think nearly 24/7 about Invega, even in my sleep. I just want to go about my day enjoying different activities or going to different places without having to constantly worry about whether I'll ever fully recover or not, I'm so sick and tired of this. I can only think about the days pre-Invega where I could experience and enjoy a much more cheerful, simple life, free of almost any worries, I can only hope that I'll eventually be able to experience such days once again some time in the future.
 
I haven’t felt normal in a very very long time and now I have to deal with testicular discomfort. It’s not fair. I didn’t have this issue 2 weeks ago. I’m over a year off the loading doses and have not healed. I feel like there’s something inside my body causing all this and changing the drugs on schedule. I’m not even sure if any of you will believe me.

Highly doubt invega causes all this, the most it should do is a month of mild sedation

Guys sorry to break it to you but it’s not the shot causing all this. You’re all targeted and don’t realize it. It’s been over a year for me and I do not feel normal. I experience chemical reactions every month which change the drugs stored in my body. I am currently exhausted and don’t feel right. 1 year off the shot. Read some of the articles I posted, it seems more realistic than blaming invega which just causes mild sedation for a month

Me too, I seriously miss the times that I didn't think nearly 24/7 about Invega, even in my sleep. I just want to go about my day enjoying different activities or going to different places without having to constantly worry about whether I'll ever fully recover or not, I'm so sick and tired of this. I can only think about the days pre-Invega where I could experience and enjoy a much more cheerful, simple life, free of almost any worries, I can only hope that I'll eventually be able to experience such days once again some time in the future.
It’s not invega dude. I hope this forum wakes up and realizes the damage that’s being done to them through other means. I hate to use the word “gangstalking” since it gets discredited by almost everyone, but you’re all basically targeted and getting drugged in a far more sophisticated way than some injection. It isn’t really possible for everyone to experience different effects from this drug.

Also a key point to note is that the injection is treated for “schizophrenia “. It’s not surprising to me that a lot of TIs get injected with this when they talk about stalking to their psychiatrists. Then they falsely assume it’s the injection causing all this damage. It’s not. Believe me.

I have the same exact thing and I’m 6 months off , hoping it changes soon , sucks not to be able to feel substances …
It’s not invega. I am 100% sure.

I’m over a year and still dealing with a lot of discomfort all over my body and a lot of fatigue.
 
How long after stopping the injection will psilocybin have its effect? Or even without noticing any psychedelic outcome during assumption does it help with recovery? I'm at month 4 and trying a big dose of truffles in a few days.
 
Yes. My experiences is that the drugs keep changing inside my system. I get this weird chemical reaction in my body like every month or 2 weeks. I think they’re getting these drugs inside of us some other way, maybe through a fake blood test or simply through ingestion . My experience is that i am 100% sure it’s not invega causing all this
You’re delusional and need to go to the doctor! this is so far out there thinking no one should be entertaining this type of thinking! No one is planting anything in your body!
 
How long after stopping the injection will psilocybin have its effect? Or even without noticing any psychedelic outcome during assumption does it help with recovery? I'm at month 4 and trying a big dose of truffles in a few days.
What are your symptoms ?
 
You’re delusional and need to go to the doctor! this is so far out there thinking no one should be entertaining this type of thinking! No one is planting anything in your body!
It’s not the injection causing these problems. I am able to confirm this. I don’t know how they’re doing it - but there are drugs stored in my body that get released on schedule. This is no joke and I am suffering.
 
You’re delusional and need to go to the doctor! this is so far out there thinking no one should be entertaining this type of thinking! No one is planting anything in your body!
An important thing to note - if you go by forum experiences and tell a doctor that the healing time for invega sustenna is a year or more, you may also be labeled as delusional since they will say it’s 30 days.

What I am saying isn’t so far fetched. It may not be some sort of implant, but something much deeper is going on which is outside of the scope of my understanding.

Please be more polite with your nasty comments about me being delusional.
 
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