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Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v. 10

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herbertadams said:
Anyone use while still recovering from the shots? Did everyone who did already died from it? Was homeboy right when he said they (ScOcIeTy) are just killing us off on purpose?

Restore power dynamics, wear a suicide jacket into psych meeting. Explain your demands clearly in easy to follow command. If it doesn't go your way detonate it. Easy
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It’s court ordered, the psychiatrist I see has no real power nor responsibility but to check up on me every 8 weeks. A judge mandated it and I’ll probably never speak to him again
 
Trueart2 said:
Went into the ward 2 times within a month.


It’s hard but not difficult, I’m just hoping for recovery for the most part. My mandate lasts 6 months(180 days). I’m currently about to be on month 3, or 5 out of 8 shots
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GL i was also forced on shots after 3 hospitlizations in 6 weeks. Glad I made it through.
 
Recovery story

Don't worry buddy.. you will recover all of your faculties in time, I know it sucks to wait if you're a young adult and are being held back from accomplishing your goals like school, work and developing and maintaining relationships with family and friends because of these horrible drugs. I was pretty much in the same position as you.. except I got real bad anedonia and severe cognitive impairments, (felt like a intellectual disability) sleep cycle changes aka insomnia, along with sexual disfunction off only 2 shots of invega 234mg and 156mg. Also, I was taking risperidone pills for two weeks and I received a week shot of haldol while I was in the hospital to help with my paranoid thoughts. I do believe my case in particular was misdiagnosed to be big polar type 1, I was using alot of weed and cocaine and not sleeping at the time which caused me to have a TEMPORARY psychotic breakdown. I don't know where you live, but here in the United States they prescribe you a pill for any problem and send you on your way.. This is really sad because it can and does destroy people's lives in my opinion to prescribe people these labotomizing drugs to people who do not have really mental disorders.

It just takes time and patience for the drug to leave your system, but YOU WILL recover in time. You can speed up this process by staying away from all alcohol, weed, cocaine, meth and any other antipsychotics that they tell you have to take. They are fucking quack doctors that just want to make money they are not thing about your health at all trust me. Then start eating really healthy fruits, vegetables and protien, talking vitamins, b12, fish oil, magnesium, vitamin D, and exercising ALOT, you will be able to do this when the initial shock of the drug leaves your system. However make sure you ease into your exercise regiment because these drugs also mess with the rhythmic system of your heart... It took me about 5 solid months before I gathered enough strength to get to the gym. Also, get alot of natural sun light, even if it is just 15 minutes of sun bathing in your backyard so you can swear the poison out of your pours.. if you can go to the gym and use the sauna to swear this would really help also.

I hope this information was helpful and I can really stand behind everything that I explained to help rid these horrible drugs from your body and mind. I was in a really dark place a year ago... and my old post can prove that. I thought I would never recover from the invega poisoning, but your body has a great ability to heal itself, you just have to live a sober lifestlye to realize this. It took about a full year to feel like myself again... but stay strong everyone who is suffering and really take my advice and you will recover. Don't ever lose hope and make the right decisions and you can beat this.

God Bless my fellow antipsychotic suffers

@Invegasucks
 
I'm starting to get some mobility back. I'm walking faster and the stiffness and pain are starting to subside. I have slightly more energy but the derealization is still there, especially when I'm tired. Another change is that I can feel the physical effects of the drug very acutely now, especially after waking up from a nap, it feels like a heavy ooze, like there's clearly something foreign in my body, maybe I'm getting some sensitivity back. Music sounds slightly better? That could be in my head, nothing like before, no urge to dance or anything. Semen volume may be back to normal but sex drive is still low but I'd say better than a few months ago. There's a numb feeling in my teeth that I didn't have before. I still feel dizzy when I stand up after sitting for a long time, like I'm gonna faint. Hopefully it's not a permanent heart problem. My voice has not come back either.
 
Does anyone ever feel the full body pleasure of an orgasm? I miss that feeling I want to cry so bad
 
demileigh said:
Just got back from the doctors cause I had heart palpitations yesterday with dull pains in my chest so now I got to get a 24 hour ECG, reading about people having heart attacks from antipsychotics gave me the worst panic attack yesterday so thought I’d better check in on these palpitations I’ve been experiencing. The doctor also prescribed me Zoloft for pmdd, has anyone here had Zoloft? If so what was your experience with it? Does anyone know if it will impact recovery from invega?
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I think it's dangerous to take an SSRI after or with invega. I know someone else who experienced the same symptoms after tapering off his medication. He got better. There's one other person as well but I don't know how she's doing. I'm mostly recovered now, just not as sensitive as I used to be in every sense of the word. Persistent memory issues too, but I've been smoking weed every day so I don't know if it's just weed at this point.
 
InvegaAnon said:
I think it's dangerous to take an SSRI after or with invega. I know someone else who experienced the same symptoms after tapering off his medication. He got better. There's one other person as well but I don't know how she's doing. I'm mostly recovered now, just not as sensitive as I used to be in every sense of the word. Persistent memory issues too, but I've been smoking weed every day so I don't know if it's just weed at this point.
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How soon did weed work for you during your recovery journey/ was there ever a point where weed wasn’t working(as in having any effect) on you?
 
Trueart2 said:
How soon did weed work for you during your recovery journey/ was there ever a point where weed wasn’t working(as in having any effect) on you?
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It worked for me pretty quickly, even though PSSD ruined it shortly after. About a month. The effects still aren't as strong as they should be, but it's almost back to normal.
 
Not knowing whether or not I’ll recover/ not having any indications is frustrating.

I’m still able to work, enjoy food, get high; just bad cognitive impairments relative to what I had before + 40 pounds of weight are the serious serious issues. Blurry vision and light sensitivity ride along with it but man. My psychiatrist says I’m tolerating it well, and my Genesight test(medication compatibility) says I’m compatible with all antipsychotics. I’ve had 4-5 concussions, and the best I can come up with is

“I can still live and I can get high… Are these indications ill recover”

Literally my side effects are the terrible cognition and weight gain. Most everything else stayed in tact to a high degree, just wondering man
 
Trueart2 said:
Not knowing whether or not I’ll recover/ not having any indications is frustrating.

I’m still able to work, enjoy food, get high; just bad cognitive impairments relative to what I had before + 40 pounds of weight are the serious serious issues. Blurry vision and light sensitivity ride along with it but man. My psychiatrist says I’m tolerating it well, and my Genesight test(medication compatibility) says I’m compatible with all antipsychotics. I’ve had 4-5 concussions, and the best I can come up with is

“I can still live and I can get high… Are these indications ill recover”

Literally my side effects are the terrible cognition and weight gain. Most everything else stayed in tact to a high degree, just wondering man
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I mean you’re going to be accumulating a lot of Invega since you’re going to be on it for a while longer. As long as you feel fine it shouldn’t matter though. But it’s likely you’ll have the drug in your system for a very long time.
 
rawbanana said:
I mean you’re going to be accumulating a lot of Invega since you’re going to be on it for a while longer. As long as you feel fine it shouldn’t matter though. But it’s likely you’ll have the drug in your system for a very long time.
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It’s mostly the cognition, I need my intellectual prowess back ASAP. It’s slowly picking up to some degree as I create this message right now I can feel some level of adequacy flowing into me when it comes to selection of verbiage/language.

I need stories that will showcase people coming back from Blank mind/ lowered cognition. I do not wish to have a blank mind for the rest of my life along with lowered intellectual prowess/ cognition.


It’s a tough day for me.
 
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