Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v 12

any improvement so far for you
I had improvements until month 10, things have stagnated now. Low Energy levels, brain fog, depression, anhedonia, sexual dysfunction, no libido are present on most days but improve on certain days. I dont know if i am in withdrawals or a wave still. I dont know what is going on.

How are you improving?
 
Please be careful, if you have very bad side effects than stop taking it. I would recommend be patient, eat healthy, stay busy and active for a few months and gradually you will feel more normal.
Thank you for your concern. I'll be very careful with this medication and stay in close contact with my doctor. I hope it ends up bringing more benefits than drawbacks
 
For those of you who are passionate about music etc., how long did it take to feel music again, like the rhythm and melody?
I don’t know the exact month it came back, but I’m 13 months out and I’m playing rhythm games again. I enjoy music but it some of it does make me sad because it reminds me of psychosis.
 
For those of you who are passionate about music etc., how long did it take to feel music again, like the rhythm and melody?
By end of month 11, i started to feel music. Although i didnt feel all music, and some music i used to enjoy become less enjoyable. As of now, my brain is starting to remember music from decades ago, which i stopped listening to frequently.

I think invega disrupts or blunts a lot of our memories and some of them come back in unusual ways.*
 
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I had improvements until month 10, things have stagnated now. Low Energy levels, brain fog, depression, anhedonia, sexual dysfunction, no libido are present on most days but improve on certain days. I dont know if i am in withdrawals or a wave still. I dont know what is going on.

How are you improving?
improvements and stagnating, i am going to try a nootropic called NSI 189 which helps boosts neurogensis
 
Hey everyone I just thought I’d make a post here now since I’ve been lurking the past week. I got invega injections twice after I got hospitalized for mental health issues, this happened on June 1st. I regret deeply taking this shot. I have zero libido, my emotions are completely numb and I have extreme depression/anhedonia. I can’t stop reading people’s posts and hopefully seeing some recoveries. I know it happens but it seems rare on here that someone comes back to how they were before the shots. What scares me more than anything are the people who keep coming back and saying they never recovered. I know at three weeks I have a long way to go before I feel normal, but I hope that since I only had two shots it won’t take too long. Does anyone know if it gets even a little better in the first months or is it only after 8-10 months that you start to feel a difference? One guy I was in the ward with said he took shots for four years and got better in 8 months.
yes it gets better in the first months . I noticed a new level of enjoyment in life from week 5 onwards . Now I am on week 9. I went from not enjoying life and only looking forward to sleep to enjoying life and existing again. I still have ways to go to enjoy music again to the fullest and other hobbies but I notice a difference each week . I think I should be healed in 6-7 months . I also had 8 injections including the loading doses all at the maximum dosage except for the last injection which was the second highest dose.
 
I don't know how I'm gonna get through 10 more months of this but I promised myself that I will give it more time for more, preferably big improvements to come through.
 
Those psychiatrist are demonic aswell as families that send there, they made hell of my life just like that
My demonic mother still dares to say something about me being commited again for minor reasons like saying the truth to psychiatrist on Gmail, like its not the biggest trauma of my life, normal loving family would never send us in hands of those monsters
 
Does anyone else have bipolar on here? Im 3.5 months out from three injections and still feel completely lost.. whats the chances this is permanent. Ive declined all other meds and can barely hold a conversation, I can’t dress like I used to as I have no feedback in what close I out on and I just don’t know how to carry on i struggle with basic things and everything seems like a mammoth task.. is there anyone whos further along whos had some of these troubles ease up as I just stare at 4 walls 24 hours a day mirror less
 
Can I tell you a truth? AS someone who gets hit in the head for a living, the thing is you cannot realize what damage was done because you will always be experiencing the current you, that current you will not remember what the old you felt. It is well known in my circles, you will never be yourself again and that shouldn't be scary but it should be understood. Your brain can only imagine the state it is currently in, it cannot imagine the state prior, damage happens and now your thinking moves a bit more lower than you previously know, but you do not know that now because this is your new normal.

Hope that makes sense.
This isn't true at all, I know the old me and I'm almost there.
 
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