Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v 8.0

[RecoveryInProgress]

I don't think i'll heal. The way i just can't cry feels weird to me, like it's some kind of brain damage. I find it hard to believe i'll just wake up one day and regain my ability to cry out of nowhere. I can feel it in my skin that the damage is permanent.

What do you mean by you can feel it in your skin that the damage is permanent? Like your skin feels different?

 

[EsseWasGreat]

Did you manage to lose all the weight? How did you do it?

Yes, I'm back at exactly my pre-invega weight. Gained like 25kg in the first 2 months off and then slowly lost it over the succeeding 12-15 months

I started *very* slowly by only doing some walks everyday (which can also help with anhedonia over a long term) and kept a very strict diet until I regained that little bit of strength that was just enough to also start doing simple exercises

The injections halt your metabolism to a point where even one cheat meal will mess you up tenfold and it takes a long time to recover from that just like most of the other side-effects

Nowadays (almost 18 months off) I feel exactly like I was in my 20s, with visible abs and decent looks overall despite not even keeping up as much with my exercises, and I am happier than ever

thank you for staying to give us hope , I hope you can help me, I would like to know how many months did you stay on invega ? and also, in your remission process, were your feelings, sensations and emotions rather slow, fluctuating and random with ups and downs or did you get over it rather quickly ?


well in the case where you gradually reduced the dose, this shouldn't happen, I don't think it's a common effect

I took exactly two injections over two months and my psych allowed me to just stop taking them without even tapering (long-acting injections tend to kinda taper on their own according to research+some doctors I talked to)


And yes, my ability to feel and express emotions was severely impaired during the early stages of recovery, it came back very gradually, very slowly but when you do notice the little differences over time it *does* feel pretty good and that will give you the hope and motivation to keep going forward

 

[paliperidonevictim2005]

how many fucking months will it take to recover, 6? 8? a year? i dont want it to fucking take longer than a year of ruining my fucking life

 

[lurker689]

What do you mean by you can feel it in your skin that the damage is permanent? Like your skin feels different?

It's a metaphor. I feel like some nerve pertaining to my ability to cry has been severed, like i lost control of it.

 

[Swiftie77456]

So I was put on invega because I was on commitment and I wasn’t taking my meds and I did something horrible when drinking.

Im diagnosed with bipolar 1 most recently, but they’ve had other mood disorder diagnosis over the years before it’s kind of settled on bipolar.

They just don’t have bipolar meds in injection so the gave me a schizophrenia drug since it was injectable and I had to take it.

I used to come here a while back and I really appreciate all your experiences. The studies and medical information in these drugs does not come close to personal experience of actually taking it as far as describing what it does.

My girlfriend insists you all are full of shit and just because some people on a recovery site say so doesn’t mean that’s how it is…..


Well, my experiences lined up almost exactly with all yours. It was horrible and it took a really long time to feel good again. It’s been 17 months now. I’ve slowly come back and now I’m damn near right where I was before I was put on them.

I know ya’lls mind is going to be blown here, but I’m actually considering taking the shit again. I Can’t believe this day would ever come either. I HATED INVEGA!!!!!

long story short, the first six months off were horrible. The next six months were ok. And the last 5 months have been wonderful!!!!!

That is, until now. Now that im back to normal, all of the bipolar stuff is kicking back in. My mind is racing. I’m super paranoid. I’m blurting out rude comments and being disrespectful to everyone around me. I think out loud and sound like a damn know it all because I can’t resist inserting my opinion on EVERYTHING! It doesn’t help that I had a rough up bringing and my guard is up against the whole damn world. I want to fight everyone and everything because everything is a damn threat to me and I constantly ruminate over what everyone’s bad intentions are for me.

In short, I’m RIGHT BACK TO NORMAL!!

The beautiful thing of being in INVEGA sedation for 2.5 years is that I got to experience self control. I got to experience being able to relax. I got to experience treating people well, not cutting them off in conversation, not having people constantly pissed at me for being a jerk, not being known as a know it all, not being irritable and confrontational. All of the shit that brought me so much misery is back. And im
not even 100% back to my worst episodes. It ends in psychosis.

Yeah, the last 5 months, maybe I’m not getting quite the rush of adrenaline I got during sports events. Maybe I don’t get that rush from winning a game. Well, the last month or so i have, but it wasn’t all the way quite back until just now.

So the last 5 months have been the best of my life until the last month or two.


Does anyone know if I took one invega pill, if I could get some of the positive effects back without getting the horrible, long lasting shit that I got from the injections. I’ve been on a lot of drugs and all of them have been horrible in one way or another. But 12 months off of invega until 15 months off is the best effects ive ever had from a psych med. I wonder if there’s a way to get those results without having to die inside for a year from taking the shot. Any ideas?

 

[InvegaAnon]

My prolactin level is 15, I'm normally at 7.

The texture of my genitals is mostly normal again, I hope it will stay that way because it felt really gross. Sensation is not back yet, but I'm not completely numb, I might have PSSD. But I'm hoping the rapid improvement I'm seeing means I don't. I don't have anorgasmia and my orgasms aren't pleasureless, they're just weak. I'm practically climbing up the fucking walls about this issue still. I keep beating myself up over being stupid enough to smoke weed on an SSRI and just not quitting when I started to see psychosis again. I miss my libido a lot.

 

[Maymay169]

Did anyone else lose their period while on invega? And is it a big sign of recovery to get it back? I finally got mine back but I still have 100% no personality

 

[All2027]

Did anyone else lose their period while on invega? And is it a big sign of recovery to get it back? I finally got mine back but I still have 100% no personality

well generally The recovery of periods after having lost them while taking Invega poison can indicate positive physiological changes in your body, this does not necessarily mean that there will be a big recovery sign but it is still considered a positive

 

[All2027]

how many fucking months will it take to recover, 6? 8? a year? i dont want it to fucking take longer than a year of ruining my fucking life

hello if I understand correctly it has been 4 months since you stopped this Nazi drug, generally after 2 shots the average recovery time varies from 7 to 13 months to recover, at least tell yourself that with only 2 shots you have a chance of enormous recovery compared to others and that you can also recover very well sooner, I know that it is hard and that you are fed up but you will surely see over time improvements in your consciousness and you will gradually feel things, just try to eat well, sleep well and do 15 - 20 minutes of sport ! You will be better in a few months, I’m sure of it!

 

[All2027]

Anyone unable to cry but managed to recover? I physically can't cry. Whenever i try, only a single tear falls down now, it's not a continuous cry anymore. It's like when i try to cry i feel like laughing instead, my body can't concentrate on crying too much anymore.

Sorry for bringing this weird stuff up, but i use this a gauge to see how healed i am or not. But this inability to cry does seem like some kind of brain damage.

you know aphaty and anhedonia automatically puts you in despair, that doesn't mean that it's reality, it's a chemical lobotomy and not classic lobotomy, therefore reversible. I think you don't have a lesion but rather a neurochemical disturbance, tell yourself that our brain has a homeostasis of neurotransmitters, including dopamine and will always try to regulate it to its original level even if it takes a long time, how long did you take this poison? and how long ago did you stop it completely?

 

[Swiftie77456]

I’m off 17 months and I’m damn near 100% back
to normal. I had like 18 one months shots. You will get better!

 

[All2027]

dont take it it probably wont do shit abilify is the best dopamine boosting antipsychotic maybe instead of antipsychotics try wellbutrin or parnate parnate is very good for anhedonia probably one of the best meds for it maybe dont try wellbutrin it may not work and it can cause anxiety

wellbutrin and adderall are apparently temporary in their improvement on the other hand parnate you are right it has given good results on certain people, I think that I will still stay on amisulpride very low dose for the moment because indeed it seems to give me back some emotions and sensations of pleasure with rhodiola and then I take a very low dose (50 mg) for a stimulating effect and not an antipsychotic effect (400 mg), in addition it is rather safe and leaves the body very quickly after stopping unlike to invega ^^

 

[RiccardoLL!]

Hi everyone, my name is All, I was forced to take Invega for (bruuh ) 16 months..., While in the end I had no reason to take it, I have the same symptoms as you , total chemical lobotomy, apathy , anhedonia , it's been 9 months since I stopped them and for 5 weeks I have had some positive periods of a few minutes to sometimes a few hours of feeling pleasure, libido, love or sensation but it's still too little for my taste,I don't know if it's a sign of remission because I wonder if its bursts of positive feeling reach those who have not yet recovered, here I am starting to take amisulpride very low dose because it seems that it increases the levels and the quality of dopamine, I don't know if it's a good idea for me to take it, thank you for reading my experience and I hope we all get our lives back !

How about cognitive abilities are they coming back? And how bad was it before? Libido coming back is a good sign anyway!

 

[Whathappened123]

This is warfare…… the fucking court man… I keep getting the same judge.. they are C O R R U P T

IF I even get a judge.. they showed up with an ambulance approximately two weeks ago.. they didn’t have a court order. I should have called the POLICE! I wasn’t prepared to be admitted again

 

[paliperidonevictim2005]

I’m off 17 months and I’m damn near 100% back
to normal. I had like 18 one months shots. You will get better!

thank you so much people need to hear this

 

[paliperidonevictim2005]

hello if I understand correctly it has been 4 months since you stopped this Nazi drug, generally after 2 shots the average recovery time varies from 7 to 13 months to recover, at least tell yourself that with only 2 shots you have a chance of enormous recovery compared to others and that you can also recover very well sooner, I know that it is hard and that you are fed up but you will surely see over time improvements in your consciousness and you will gradually feel things, just try to eat well, sleep well and do 15 - 20 minutes of sport ! You will be better in a few months, I’m sure of it!

thanks

 

[All2027]

How about cognitive abilities are they coming back? And how bad was it before? Libido coming back is a good sign anyway!

I had invega 16 months, for 20 months I just stayed in my bed looking at the ceiling after 5 months off, I could play on the computer and do sports but still completely anhedonic and at the moment there are periods in certain days when I can feel love for my girlfriend , pleasure in being with my friends, listening to music and feel it, doing sports and more recently watching a film with some emotion but the libido is still too light for intimate relationships but rarely does it has returned in an intense way but basically I have periods where the colors of life return and others where I feel empty and anhedonic

 

[EsseWasGreat]

I would also like to report that alcohol effects do also come back 100% since it was one of the few things that have been asked over the last couple years/threads


I just came home after a party, I only had two glasses of wine and goddamn they did quite a number on me



PS: Cognitive abilities do come back too, and when it happens you'll never take them for granted again

 

[paliperidonevictim2005]

when will i be able to cry? i can laugh but i can't cry, 3 and a half months off is this permanent

 

[BattlingInvega]

This shit really is hard. I had everything taken away from me. How am I supposed to continue like this.