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Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v. 9

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Ayden said:
Can someone explain to me how a 10mg haldol lactate shot could still be effecting me 5 months later? Like does it not matter how much of this shit is injected into you for it to destroy you for a good amount of time. Every day I struggle to wrap my head around it because with invega I understood why I was being effected so long because I had gotten 234mg shots but this just does not make sense to me at all. For the record I felt “normal” 7 months after last invega injection. That does not mean fully recovered but “normal”
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me when I received my first injection of haldol at 150 mg I recovered but my emotion and my libido in 2 to 3 months, but as I did not repeat the injection I was rehospitalized because I was under court order and as a result I had to do 3 more injections and I'm really having trouble recovering even though I feel like myself I still have a low libido and no emotions or maybe
 
Its exactly 4 months ago that i had my last Invega shot of 100 mg. Overall I'm still 5% better which isn't great progress in 4 months. I'm still anhedonic , still blank mind , still can't imagine , still fatigued , still the same weight and much more. I looked for the blood test to check Invega levels in the blood and no such test exists here in Canada so I can't measure exactly how much Invega is left in my blood. Using half life calculators I'm expected to recover between November and January but because i had 9 shots it may take even longer. I started taking Wellbutrin 2 weeks ago and this shit is literally a sugar pill , no difference what so ever so I'm probably going to quit that as well as it may effect my Invega recovery.
 
I'm seeing a common issue here. It seems that people who are struggling the most have had multiple shots back to back. In my case, I only received one shot each time, spaced out by 2 years or so, as I'd only wind up getting it when I was manic. I imagine if you had several in a row it would be a much bigger problem.
 
TonyTonyChopper said:
Its exactly 4 months ago that i had my last Invega shot of 100 mg. Overall I'm still 5% better which isn't great progress in 4 months. I'm still anhedonic , still blank mind , still can't imagine , still fatigued , still the same weight and much more. I looked for the blood test to check Invega levels in the blood and no such test exists here in Canada so I can't measure exactly how much Invega is left in my blood. Using half life calculators I'm expected to recover between November and January but because i had 9 shots it may take even longer. I started taking Wellbutrin 2 weeks ago and this shit is literally a sugar pill , no difference what so ever so I'm probably going to quit that as well as it may effect my Invega recovery.
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I’d stop the Wellbutrin
 
TonyTonyChopper said:
Its exactly 4 months ago that i had my last Invega shot of 100 mg. Overall I'm still 5% better which isn't great progress in 4 months. I'm still anhedonic , still blank mind , still can't imagine , still fatigued , still the same weight and much more. I looked for the blood test to check Invega levels in the blood and no such test exists here in Canada so I can't measure exactly how much Invega is left in my blood. Using half life calculators I'm expected to recover between November and January but because i had 9 shots it may take even longer. I started taking Wellbutrin 2 weeks ago and this shit is literally a sugar pill , no difference what so ever so I'm probably going to quit that as well as it may effect my Invega recovery.
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wellbutrin I imagine would not help with akathisia related to anti psychotics
 
washingtonbound said:
I'm seeing a common issue here. It seems that people who are struggling the most have had multiple shots back to back. In my case, I only received one shot each time, spaced out by 2 years or so, as I'd only wind up getting it when I was manic. I imagine if you had several in a row it would be a much bigger problem.
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I had 12 shots. That's a lot, but my optimism is high up. I believe even if you're years on it you can still recover
 
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Shadowheart said:
I had 12 shots. That's a lot, but my optimism is high up. I believe even if you're years on it you can still recover
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That's horrible. Certainly recovery is possible, just may take more than a year I guess. For me, longest I was messed up was about 8 months but that was from a single shot not multiple in succession.
 
fenec said:
how many injections did you receive? It’s true that it seems permanent but it’s not the case.
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there are many people who recover completely after several injections, kaatrina received 6 invega injections, and recovered completely in 1.5 to 2 years
 
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