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Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v11

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I need some comfort, I remember the first week I took the injection I would feel super tired if I ate and resembled diabetic symptoms, I am not sure if it was my anxiety or what, i don’t have it anymore

I had tingling and dry mouth, they all went now, I don’t really feel fatigue anymore

is this normal? did anyone else have this?
 
How long does it take for sensitivity to caffeine take to come back? Or does it not come back at all.
 
twinpeaks123 said:
it would really help if more people that recovered were here to ask these questions
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Yeah, if I ever recover I’ll be definitely staying here for a long time helping as many as I can. But for most people I can’t blame them- they just want to move on in their lives. I Just finished a coffee then and felt it 10% power, which is an improvement, or could be placebo who knows.
 
lukeflowz said:
Yeah, if I ever recover I’ll be definitely staying here for a long time helping as many as I can. But for most people I can’t blame them- they just want to move on in their lives. I Just finished a coffee then and felt it 10% power, which is an improvement, or could be placebo who knows.
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same, I have had some improvement in my symptoms like the fatigue is either gone or has lessened, my sleep is better and my appetite improved and restlessness has lessened

changed sense of taste, lack of hunger signals are still here, constipation/urinating more and and ofc anhedonia still there, which is my biggest worry, I am hoping I recover as I had two shots and don’t want to die but my mind is telling me this is permanent

I wonder if the anhedonia lessens and then goes away, I wrote down a buncha list of movies and tv shows to watch, it would be a shame for it to all go to waste
 
invegaloner said:
Sometimes I wonder myself if just have brain damage from psychosis
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I don't think it's true that psychosis causes brain damage. They claim neuroleptics are "neuroprotective" against brain damage from psychosis, which is a lie, as we all know they cause brain damage. If you had a drug-induced psychosis then it's possible the drug use caused brain damage, but not psychosis itself

twinpeaks123 said:
how many doses did you have?
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I had the first 2 doses, 234 mg and 156 mg, 6 days apart.

I can feel caffeine and alcohol. I enjoy both, but the latter is now impairment on top of impairment, which feels weird.

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ixi said:
I don't think it's true that psychosis causes brain damage. They claim neuroleptics are "neuroprotective" against brain damage from psychosis, which is a lie, as we all know they cause brain damage. If you had a drug-induced psychosis then it's possible the drug use caused brain damage, but not psychosis itself


I had the first 2 doses, 234 mg and 156 mg, 6 days apart.

I can feel caffeine and alcohol. I enjoy both, but the latter is now impairment on top of impairment, which feels weird.

I found this questionnaire about 'reparations for psychiatric institutionalization' if anyone wants to fill it out: https://www.reimaginingcrisissupport.org/reparations

Campaign to Support CRPD Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment

www.absoluteprohibition.org www.absoluteprohibition.org

www.abolishforcedpsychiatry.org

Abolish Forced Psychiatry | Join the Movement Today

Advocating for the abolition of involuntary psychiatric practices and promoting community-based, non-coercive mental health supports.
www.abolishforcedpsychiatry.org www.abolishforcedpsychiatry.org
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do you still have anhedonia?
 
twinpeaks123 said:
same, I have had some improvement in my symptoms like the fatigue is either gone or has lessened, my sleep is better and my appetite improved and restlessness has lessened

changed sense of taste, lack of hunger signals are still here, constipation/urinating more and and ofc anhedonia still there, which is my biggest worry, I am hoping I recover as I had two shots and don’t want to die but my mind is telling me this is permanent

I wonder if the anhedonia lessens and then goes away, I wrote down a buncha list of movies and tv shows to watch, it would be a shame for it to all go to waste
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Are you currently taking olanzapine in the evenings to help you sleep better? I read earlier that you were potentially considering it. I take it at the moment in the evenings, though I'm not sure if it will get in the way of my recovery.
 
lukeflowz said:
Are you currently taking olanzapine in the evenings to help you sleep better? I read earlier that you were potentially considering it. I take it at the moment in the evenings, though I'm not sure if it will get in the way of my recovery.
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they prescribed 5mg, I decided to not take it as my sleep improved, however if it somehow worsens, I think I will take 5mg and 10mg earlier this year I already took it earlier this year and it just made me sedated, no anhedonia
 
I was just looking at old photos of myself and painful nostalgic memories came into surface. I'll never be that person in the photos again- a sad reality but I need to accept this. I don't know how I'm going to move forward as everything about my future of obscure. I ruined a perfect life with drug use, fell into psychosis as a result and I'm now here. These injections have ruined my life and it's looking pretty slim at any chance of recovery.
 
lukeflowz said:
Yeah, if I ever recover I’ll be definitely staying here for a long time helping as many as I can. But for most people I can’t blame them- they just want to move on in their lives. I Just finished a coffee then and felt it 10% power, which is an improvement, or could be placebo who knows.
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I cant tell if i can feel coffee or tea. Coffee does give me acid reflux but dont know how i can tell if i am feeling the effects of caffeine or not.
 
anonymoususer777 said:
is your motivation back? Do you feel endorphins after exercise?

Btw 5 miles in 29 minutes is seriously fast....did you mean 5km in 29 minutes?
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my motivation is fully back, i feel good after exercise too. also, no i meant 5 miles. i've been running for over 10 years. my trick is to think of the bad things that happened to me, like invega, and i get this surge of energy to not stop. i also have played sports all my life which helps.
 
twinpeaks123 said:
do you still have anhedonia?
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My main symptoms are cognitive, but I also have emotional blunting which seems to go hand in hand with cognitive impairment. I don't know if I ever experienced anhedonia the way that people on here describe it. I was not a super emotional person before the injections, maybe due to SSRI use in childhood. I am very upset about living this way, don't get me wrong. I have a lobotomy feeling in my head, I am disabled. It is hell, but I don't know if I can relate to the people that seem to experience intense emotional agony (?? if that's what you mean by "anhedonia")
At first I could not cry at all, now I can cry sometimes but it takes much more than it used to, it's hard to access deeper emotions. It also feels weird to cry
I guess what I am trying to say is, I feel numb and dead inside, I do not feel strong emotions but it concerns me more to not have thoughts/cognition, to have a blank mind, first and foremost... I think you can have anhedonia without having cognitive impairment, but if you have severe cognitive impairment then you necessarily also have anhedonia

deathbypsychiatry said:
"Even after controlling for illness duration, severity, and substance abuse – antipsychotics appeared to decrease brain tissue volume. Specifically, the antipsychotics reduced both gray matter and white matter. Oddly enough, illicit drug abuse had no significant correlation with brain volume loss."

source - https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/07/03/antipsychotics-and-brain-damage-shrinkage-volume-loss/
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Not at all surprising that antipsychotics are more harmful than recreational drugs. What I would like to know is, is there any actual evidence that psychosis causes brain damage? It sounds like pseudoscience, and I wonder when/where they came up with that theory
 
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