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

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I might check out this retreat in Wales next year. Mad in America did a write up on it, and it sounds nice.

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Are you fully recovered sexually
 
Youwillrecover said:
Read only recovery stories. Seeing these people complaining here only makes you suicidal. If there is so many fully 100% recoveries stories i only believe the side effects ppl have are from underlying issues and blame it on invega once they pass 8 month mark
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I agree that we need to focus on recovery stories and it is factually true that some people here have claimed to have “never recovered” yet are still on other antipsychotics.

However I do believe that it can and does take many people years to recover, especially if they had more than a few shots. After scouring for almost every recovery story I could online, I found the average is roughly 2.5 years to feel 100%. I think if you only took the drug a couple times you’re looking at a much shorter recovery window.

This is a long time to be taken from us and it sucks to be waiting on a “maybe.” However I think it’s better if we spend our time encouraging each other by sharing stories and things we can do to boost the regrowth of those dopamine receptors. Right now, we only have each other. Very few people in the world sympathize with what we’re going through. However if we work hard to get better, we can recover enough to make our stories known and maybe change some things in the world.

Let’s keep believing, folks. I have lots of screenshots of recovery stories if people want to see them.
 
deficiT said:
All I'm saying is that if someone's having a psychotic break, a cigarette likely isn't going to stop it like actual antipsychotics will.
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This is true but in my opinion and experience I don’t believe anyone would ever need more than a few days—at most a week—of antipsychotics to bring them down.

I’ve never need more than a few doses to bring me back but for some reason was kept on them for dangerously long periods of time. Apparently anything longer than two weeks is considered “dangerous.”
 
I really hope I see some improvement soon. It’s getting more and more disheartening as time goes by to see nothing… to have such a blank mind and lack of emotion is pure torture. Just unfathomable suffering.
 
Maymay169 said:
I really hope I see some improvement soon. It’s getting more and more disheartening as time goes by to see nothing… to have such a blank mind and lack of emotion is pure torture. Just unfathomable suffering.
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It is really awful and I guess the feeling we have is similar to people who have done hard drugs for many years and then suddenly quit. It’s not fair that this is classified as “medicine.” It really is a poison. I honestly feel like I would’ve been better off mentally if I’d just snorted coke for 9 months straight.

Hang in there. It will be alright for us. It will just take time. I’d give it two years of recovery and abstinence from meds. But yeah. Two years is a long-ass time. It’s torture.
 
Go to question. Can your prostate disappear from this drug. Or does it get shrung down
 
LookingforHope1 said:
This is true but in my opinion and experience I don’t believe anyone would ever need more than a few days—at most a week—of antipsychotics to bring them down.

I’ve never need more than a few doses to bring me back but for some reason was kept on them for dangerously long periods of time. Apparently anything longer than two weeks is considered “dangerous.”
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I tend to agree, antipsychotics tend to start having some bad side effects the longer you're on them. In most cases they should just be used short term. Some extreme cases do need them long term though. Ones like paliperidone seem to be all bad though, there are safer ones with less side effects. Even haloperidol sounds better. But I'm not a doctor.

I spent a couple years on largish doses of Quetiapine, olanzapine, and aripiprazole, at the same time. Was also on haloperidol for a while throughout this. They weren't injections. But yeah, I gained a lot of weight and had some serious cognitive deficits, depression, and anhedonia. Luckily I didn't have as extreme of a reaction as some in this thread, although I was on APs for a while. All of the negative side effects went away after a while.

Things are mostly better now, although I still struggle with Bipolar 1. Mostly depression. Today I am only on Trileptal, Prozac, and Remeron.
 
deficiT said:
I tend to agree, antipsychotics tend to start having some bad side effects the longer you're on them. In most cases they should just be used short term. Some extreme cases do need them long term though. Ones like paliperidone seem to be all bad though, there are safer ones with less side effects. Even haloperidol sounds better. But I'm not a doctor.

I spent a couple years on largish doses of Quetiapine, olanzapine, and aripiprazole, at the same time. Was also on haloperidol for a while throughout this. They weren't injections. But yeah, I gained a lot of weight and had some serious cognitive deficits, depression, and anhedonia. Luckily I didn't have as extreme of a reaction as some in this thread, although I was on APs for a while. All of the negative side effects went away after a while.

Things are mostly better now, although I still struggle with Bipolar 1. Mostly depression. Today I am only on Trileptal, Prozac, and Remeron.
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How long did you have to wait for the side effects to go away on the other APs? How long were you on them?

Anyway, I guess I agree. I think these drugs are handed out like candy though. A friend of mine who went to school studying these drugs said “everyone knows they cause damage after two weeks.” So that’s concerning, I think.
 
LookingforHope1 said:
How long did you have to wait for the side effects to go away on the other APs? How long were you on them?

Anyway, I guess I agree. I think these drugs are handed out like candy though. A friend of mine who went to school studying these drugs said “everyone knows they cause damage after two weeks.” So that’s concerning, I think.
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I'm not sure exactly how long I was on APs. I first started taking Seroquel in 2014, and also took abilify at one point, and was on them off and on until about 2020, which was when I started the larger cocktail which I was on steady until early 2023. For me personally, most of the side effects went away when I stopped them. But it was kind of hard for me to really tell, because I was using alcohol, benzos, and cocaine very heavily. After being sober for a couple months, everything started to get better aside from the depression, which I still struggle with. But have been on current meds for a couple months now, Prozac about a month.

APs are handed out far too easily I agree. It is pretty crazy how easily they hand out Seroquel just for sleeping issues. This is very common in the substance abuse and mental health industry. But Seroquel in low dose is a different animal than the other APs, it is mostly an antihistamine, I believe it is one of the better indicated ones with the least problematic side effects, especially in low dose.

I was on 300mg Seroquel, 10mg Zyprexa, and 10mg Abilify.
 
deficiT said:
I'm not sure exactly how long I was on APs. I first started taking Seroquel in 2014, and also took abilify at one point, and was on them off and on until about 2020, which was when I started the larger cocktail which I was on steady until early 2023. For me personally, most of the side effects went away when I stopped them. But it was kind of hard for me to really tell, because I was using alcohol, benzos, and cocaine very heavily. After being sober for a couple months, everything started to get better aside from the depression, which I still struggle with. But have been on current meds for a couple months now, Prozac about a month.

APs are handed out far too easily I agree. It is pretty crazy how easily they hand out Seroquel just for sleeping issues. This is very common in the substance abuse and mental health industry. But Seroquel in low dose is a different animal than the other APs, it is mostly an antihistamine, I believe it is one of the better indicated ones with the least problematic side effects, especially in low dose.

I was on 300mg Seroquel, 10mg Zyprexa, and 10mg Abilify.
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I see, thanks for explaining. I think some people’s biochemistry must be very different. For me, I had bad side effects even when I took a few days of 25mg Seroquel back in the day. This time they stuffed me full of various types of APs for several months despite my constant protests and wouldn’t change them.

Anyway I was never on the shot so I was hoping it would go away fairly quick. After 4.5 months off though I don’t think that’s the case.
 
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