Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v11

[lukeflowz]

It 100 percent got better after 3.5 to 4 months. But it was torture for 24 hours a day.

Thank you, I needed to read this. It’s what I’m dealing with at the moment and medication isn’t working.

 

[lukeflowz]

This is an opportunity for you to see how strong and resilient you truly are. This will also teach you so much about yourself and how good life is not on these meds. It will give you a perspective in life most don’t have. That’s what happened to me. Hope my words are encouraging.

Thanks for this.

 

[anonymoususer777]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to come on and say. Im feeling the best I've felt in a year. The past fortnight we went out to dinner for my dads 70th and then I travelled out of the city to a beautiful country town called Dunsborough in western Australia.

I've spent the the weekend with my dad sister and 2 nephews plus her husband.

It's madee realise I'm no where near as broken as I was when this whole thing started.

For anyone that was truly in psychosis and did some crazy dumb things that feels total embarrassment and shame trust me it will lessen with time. After a while it will stop hurting as much. I've been stuck in a cycle of shame for over a year.

Truly don't listen to people who say recovery isn't possible. I think it actually is possible. I was a doubter for a really long time.

Before I went away I went to Kmart and bought some cheap yet trendy new clothes for 87 dollars. I also recently got a nice haircut. I'm even starting to exercise again would he a good idea. I've got plans to catch up with my cousin this weekend i haven't seen him in a year. I am no longer suicidal 24 hours a day.

I had the worst of the worst side effects anhedonia and akathisia. Those have completely gone now. I'm starting to have moments of positivity about life and my future that have been absent for a long time.

Pyschosis and invega are by far the worst things that have happened to me in my 38 years of life. My heart goes out to everyone on this forum who is currently struggling


TLDR: RECOVERY IS 100 PERCENT POSSIBLE BUT IT TAKES A LONG FUCKING TIME AND SUPPORT FROM FAMILY IDEALLY!

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to come on and say. Im feeling the best I've felt in a year. The past fortnight we went out to dinner for my dads 70th and then I travelled out of the city to a beautiful country town called Dunsborough in western Australia.

I've spent the the weekend with my dad sister and 2 nephews plus her husband.

It's madee realise I'm no where near as broken as I was when this whole thing started.

For anyone that was truly in psychosis and did some crazy dumb things that feels total embarrassment and shame trust me it will lessen with time. After a while it will stop hurting as much. I've been stuck in a cycle of shame for over a year.

Truly don't listen to people who say recovery isn't possible. I think it actually is possible. I was a doubter for a really long time.

Before I went away I went to Kmart and bought some cheap yet trendy new clothes for 87 dollars. I also recently got a nice haircut. I'm even starting to exercise again would he a good idea. I've got plans to catch up with my cousin this weekend i haven't seen him in a year. I am no longer suicidal 24 hours a day.

I had the worst of the worst side effects anhedonia and akathisia. Those have completely gone now. I'm starting to have moments of positivity about life and my future that have been absent for a long time.

Pyschosis and invega are by far the worst things that have happened to me in my 38 years of life. My heart goes out to everyone on this forum who is currently struggling


TLDR: RECOVERY IS 100 PERCENT POSSIBLE BUT IT TAKES A LONG FUCKING TIME AND SUPPORT FROM FAMILY IDEALLY!

Congratulations on making it. How long was your recovery?

 

[lukeflowz]

When my akathisia heals I’ll be 50% recovered, leaving 25% being anhedonia and the other 25% being my cognition. I’ll report in again in a few months for an update, as right now I have nothing positive to say and don’t want to be a broken record. I’ll be back in November with an update.

 

[Deleted member 578268]

hod i hate how cold and ugly life is without music. FUCK what i would do for music again. FUCK!!!

 

[Deleted member 578268]

like i have some joy back like i can find some joy in hobbies work cooking i guess. but i cant feel that euphoria that makes humans human. im so fucking numb. i cant drink . like the fuck. what did i do to deserve this? its been over two years. i miss who i was. i miss my brain. i wish there was an aswer so i could know what happened. i honest to god think i wasnt given invega, maybe i was, but they put something else in there. i swear. bc no way is this fucking possible

 

[Deleted member 578268]

life is so lonely and immensly difficult without music. that was my reason to live in the first place

 

[Deleted member 578268]

i swear im being deugged in my sleep or something

 

[Deleted member 592205]

i swear im being deugged in my sleep or something

I spent my whole morning reading recovery time from injections and it can be anywhere from 6 months to 3 years. Most people recover in 1 - 1.5 - 2 years, some only after 3.

The first year or year and half is cleareance of the drug from your system, then the recovery process start, you are two years from your last injection but maybe you are only 6 months in your recovery.

 

[rawbanana]

What a sad fate

 

[anonymoususer777]

i remember seeing you around shortly after i got invega, the days where people would be up til four am messaging because of the restlessness. i don't remember my old username though unfortunately. anyways, it's nice to see you also made it.

there was a time where i was constantly bedridden, walking back and forth in my living room for hours. even needing help bathing myself because my bones were brittle and i had severe pain all over my body with constant spasms. i spent my twentieth birthday in my room all day with severe anhedonia. i watched the people closest to me say i'm basically insane while they agreed with the doctors. i was hospitalized three times after invega.

now that i'm on the other side, i feel like my eyes are truly open to how this world works and how to avoid this ever happening again. i got accepted into a great university. i went from 215 lbs to 160 lbs, being quite tall. (i recommend keto.) i sleep full uninterrupted nights. i look forward to things again. just to note some of my recovery.

i guess i just wanted to see how everyone else was doing since there have been tough, depressing times on this forum. with that, never lose hope and believe in recovery.

You recovered in 9 months from 1 shot if im not mistaken?

 

[Deleted member 592205]

What a sad fate

Yeah, totally unnecessary.

 

[Trueart2]

Good to see you man @RisperdalConsta50mg

 

[Deleted member 592205]

Good to see you man @RisperdalConsta50mg

I have appointment with the university hospital in 3 days, i hope They can give me answers and advices..

 

[Trueart2]

I have appointment with the university hospital in 3 days, i hope They can give me answers and advices..

I got a appointment with my Therapist in 3 days, I called today attempting to get in touch with the neurologist, ended up getting re-directed into a dead end. Nothing was accomplished and I was generally misdirected to different areas of expertise until I was re-directed to behavioral health; which has nothing to do with neurology as I understand it. I'm gonna call back at a later date and not tell them about my antipsychotics so I can get a regular neurological checkup so I can avoid all this bs

 

[Deleted member 592205]

I got a appointment with my Therapist in 3 days, I called today attempting to get in touch with the neurologist, ended up getting re-directed into a dead end. Nothing was accomplished and I was generally misdirected to different areas of expertise until I was re-directed to behavioral health; which has nothing to do with neurology as I understand it. I'm gonna call back at a later date and not tell them about my antipsychotics so I can get a regular neurological checkup so I can avoid all this bs

Brain RM or Scan won’t show anything linked to receptors, i already did EEG, RM but nothing was wrong, so i asked them if i can do a PET (the only thing that can look into receptors) but they refused to give me this exam.. Like if they knew something that i dont..

I also did a lot of cognitive exams with neurology (i had 95% deficits and 5% limit) but that duck just laughted and says that there is nothing wrong it’s just i can’t concentrate but whatever (yeah I’m shocked that she acted like this is just a little concentration problem)

 

[Deleted member 592205]

Like if they play a sick game where They act like “there is nothing wrong even if there is clearely something wrong” just in order to keep the narrative of “antipsychotics are safe, injections effect last for some week, you are crazy and take your medication”.

The wrongest thing could happen to us is happened: lasting effects and very destabilizing sympthoms because of antipsychotic (psychiatric) drug, this is a free tiket to get “this dude was treated with anti-crazyness drug because he is crazy, now is not more taking his anti-crazyness drug and he is complaining about nonsense sympthoms even a lots of months or over a year from his last injection, this dude is definetely crazy.”

 

[Deleted member 592205]

Like if they play a sick game where They act like “there is nothing wrong even if there is clearely something wrong” just in order to keep the narrative of “antipsychotics are safe, injections effect last for some week, you are crazy and take your medication”.

The wrongest thing could happen to us is happened: lasting effects and very destabilizing sympthoms because of antipsychotic (psychiatric) drug, this is a free tiket to get “this dude was treated with anti-crazyness drug because he is crazy, now is not more taking his anti-crazyness drug and he is complaining about nonsense sympthoms even a lots of months or over a year from his last injection, this dude is definetely crazy.”

They would belive us and try to help us for every else other drug, but we fall into that one where they cannot take us seriously without falling in that “he is delusional” trap.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

They would belive us and try to help us for every else other drug, but we fall into that one where they cannot take us seriously without falling in that “he is delusional” trap.

This is like being spot covered in blood with an axe while someone around just got murdered, there is nothing we can do in order to make them belive we are not guilty, They already decided that we are guilty.

Patient treated with antipsychotic injections = crazy one - crazy patient not taking anymore his antipsychotic = complaining about nonsense sympthoms = this dude is delusional, we have to force him into his medication.

 

[rawbanana]

This is an opportunity for you to see how strong and resilient you truly are. This will also teach you so much about yourself and how good life is not on these meds. It will give you a perspective in life most don’t have. That’s what happened to me. Hope my words are encouraging.

Life wasn’t good before this injection happened either. That’s part of the reason I even ended up in the hospital.

Just feels like a no win situation. It’s so heartbreaking because I never ever considered suicide. I do NOT want to die. It just feels like that’s my only choice at this point and it really hurts