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

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Ayden said:
For future reference. I pray every night to make a full recovery swiftly. I’m 19 yo this all started at 18 I need my life back. Small improvements I’ve noticed now that I’ve took time to think about it. Started off not being able to get an erection at all literally no matter how hard I tried I could not get an erection. I can now get an erection from about 5 minutes or less of physical touch. (Sorry if this is tmi) I believe if I recover this would be helpful for other males facing the same horrible issues. I feel that I have went from a brain dead state to a retarded state. Communication has improved. Horrible face acne has went away (I still at almost all times have 2-3 zits on my face) I’m hoping weight gain has stopped as I have been same weight for around 2 months. Other than that life is still hell and I am still very much struggling. Please lord heal others and I this is torture. 6 months off of 5 invega injections. Hard to put a % on this but I’d say 5-10% recovered.
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❤So happy you made some progress🙏
 
I live to sleep. I do nothing with my life. Fuck! I wish i could heal. It's so shitty to just lay in bed all day waiting for death to come, i wish i could just feel good and go back to living my life how it was in 2022. Taking these drugs was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life, everyday i wake up in shock and disbelief that this is happening to me.

On another note, after sleeping i see how these drugs damage the very fabric of our being, our souls. They change our personalities and emotions and it's so scary.it's hard to imagine a damage so profound could heal one day.
 
Maymay169 said:
Ho

How much better did you feel on prozac? And how long after your last injection did you start taking it?
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I didn't really get to the point where anxiety actually lowered, but I felt more "on" a week into it.

I got the shots in April, I went on Prozac mid-June.
 
lurker689 said:
I live to sleep. I do nothing with my life. Fuck! I wish i could heal. It's so shitty to just lay in bed all day waiting for death to come, i wish i could just feel good and go back to living my life how it was in 2022. Taking these drugs was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life, everyday i wake up in shock and disbelief that this is happening to me.

On another note, after sleeping i see how these drugs damage the very fabric of our being, our souls. They change our personalities and emotions and it's so scary.it's hard to imagine a damage so profound could heal one day.
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which injection or injections did you have?
 
Hey guys I just did a blood test of paliperidone and I have the concentration of 7 ng/ml. The "therapeutic range" is 20-60. I am 100 days off my loading doses.

How is it possible I still feel drugged? I still have sedation, anhedonia, all of that. I cant feel any substances or music that right there would suggest a higher amount in blood right?

Did it destroy my dopamine receptors? Why does it seem to take everyone 8 months to a year to recover?
 
invegafuckedmeupmeow said:
Hey guys I just did a blood test of paliperidone and I have the concentration of 7 ng/ml. The "therapeutic range" is 20-60. I am 100 days off my loading doses.

How is it possible I still feel drugged? I still have sedation, anhedonia, all of that. I cant feel any substances or music that right there would suggest a higher amount in blood right?

Did it destroy my dopamine receptors? Why does it seem to take everyone 8 months to a year to recover?
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7 ng/ml is huge tbh and will definitely still affect you alot, when it is 0-1 ng/ml THEN it is out of your system and PROBABLY will still affect you even then for a while because after its out of your system your brain will need time hopefully only a few weeks to a few months after its out of your system to start readjusting and healing.
 
is it an improvement of decreased in the moment suicidal thoughts until month 3 i was constantly wanting to do suicide in the first few weeks i had to stop myself from jumping out of my moms car on the freeway, now the suicidal thoughts are different like future suicidal thoughts as in me not having any significant sexual or emotional improvement at the 18 month mark then if that is the case how will i do suicide those thoughts have replaced the in the moment wanting to do suicide now thoughts
 
Did anyone else have hyposthesia from invega? When did it go away? I got more form Prozac, but now I'm almost back to where I was before I took Prozac as far as sensation in my skin goes.
 
I think Keto , St. John’s wort, and water fasting could be powerful intervention tools.

I’ll let you know how it goes

I’m also interested in L dopa

Also starting to believe anti depressants to make things worse in the short run at least as the drug is still in your system.
 
invegafuckedmeupmeow said:
Hey guys I just did a blood test of paliperidone and I have the concentration of 7 ng/ml. The "therapeutic range" is 20-60. I am 100 days off my loading doses.

How is it possible I still feel drugged? I still have sedation, anhedonia, all of that. I cant feel any substances or music that right there would suggest a higher amount in blood right?

Did it destroy my dopamine receptors? Why does it seem to take everyone 8 months to a year to recover?
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It binds to dopamine receptors, the jury is out on whether they recover or whether the brain just works around it. 3 months is pretty early to see many recovery results, so hang in there a few more.
 
t_xeplionhell said:
Tardive Dyskinesia is so small side effect compared to others that it's so ignorable, and I would prefer living with TD to the rest of my life over being through other more severe side effects like extreme level of anhedonia, complete absence of good/bad feeling from all senses, experiences, memories, emotion and basically everything along with complete absence of emotion and mood, accompanied by extreme suffering, anguish and debilitating agony translating into physical pain. It's much worse than suffocating, constantly being burned, constantly being hit into nuts, having your bones constantly broken and crushed again and again, all of that at the same time.

Luckily i'm now around 60% recovered, so I don't have to deal with that unimaginable level of hell.
To recover 60%, took me years... still recovering...

Did you take invega sustenna or any strong AP depot injection?
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I wasn't ever on a depot, no, but I've been on psychiatric mediation or AP since 15 - prozac from 15-21, mirtazepine from 21-22, quetiapine IR, and XR (i got put on 900mg seroquel per day when i weighed 60kg soaking wet), abilify, and sodium valproate, respiridone between 22-24 i think, then lithium for a few years, then off everything, then on lurasidone, back on sodium vaproate at 26, I'm 28 almost 29 now.

Im far, far more concerned about possibly TD than i am the general side effects that go away pretty fast, plus considering my issue is dissociation I always feel most of the side effects you mentioned as my general state of being off meds, so I just never really considered that I guess
 
Eligiu said:
general side effects that go away pretty fast
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You saying that applies for invega sustenna and that "most general side-effects" go away "pretty fast", that's the silliest thing I've heard from an outsider who never took depot.
 
Eligiu said:
Im far, far more concerned about possibly TD than i am the general side effects
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You must have it easy to say that, lucky you, you only took oral APs. What were doses of risperidone you were taking since that's the strongest AP of ones that you took. Paliperidone is much stronger than risperidone with more wide mechanism of action (targets more types of receptors), not to mention invega sustenna(paliperidone) is depot with overkill dose.
 
Ya it took the better part of a year for me to feel normal after getting off invega and abilify. The erectile dysfunction was the first thing that went away that took like 3 long months. But my adhd type symptoms didnt go away until i was switched to zyprexa. Now i cant even tell i take a anti-psychotic. I have been working out like a motherfucker since i went on zyprexa so i dont gain weight and it's working
 
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