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Mental Health Coming off Invega (paliperidone) injections, v 5.0

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HelpMeInvega said:
Invega Sustenna deforms your looks like heroine deforms your looks…I’m just starting to see my looks recover and I’m 9.5 months off. My eyes wouldn’t open at all while on the shot and I wore sunglasses everywhere I went. I was on abilify before Invega Sustenna and it never effected my eyes/looks so bad. Invega Sustenna deforms you! My appetite on the abilify injection injection was insane I shot up from 108lbs to 123lbs over six months and then got put on the Invega Sustenna injections and my weight went up to 142 within two months…luckily I’m down to 121lbs still have a way to go until I’m down to my normal weight. But still it totally messes with your metabolism and it messes with your athletic ability. It screws with everything.
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How tall are you?
I feel like the taller and more you weigh the easier it is to lose. I’m only 5’4” so I have a hard time losing weight too
 
I hope none of you are tired of hearing from me yet, ;p..but I might just get that second job as a dishwasher for like 12 hours a week and maybe I can move out on my own in like 3 months even, Id have to live in the ghetto Mexican 'Square', preferably Tempe the college town, but that's a place that's cheap and will probably definitely rent to me. I got a stable job that I can handle for once in a long time, if I power through those two jobs for 3 months and probably quit the second one after then maybe something will finally happen.
 
I realize that I'm going to have to quit the drugs besides alcohol and maybe weed at some point or risk fucking everything up maybe really bad. I was using them as sort of a 'jump start' to get things going again..
 
Here's some information I found browsing the internet. I'm trying to find ideas that support my theory that we don't just have blocked dopamine receptors. Fewer dopamine receptors or blocked receptors is just part of it. Invega does more.

Low dopamine sensitivity. If you have low dopamine sensitivity, you'll have little joy for life. You'll be low on energy and motivation, and will often rely on caffeine, sugar, or other stimulants to get through the day. Low dopamine levels or sensitivity can also manifest as certain psychiatric disorders including depression, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, and addictions of all kinds. Here's a list of the most common dopamine desensitization symptoms:[4]
  • Lack of motivation
  • Fatigue
  • Apathy
  • Procrastination
  • Inability to feel pleasure
  • Low libido
  • Inability to connect with others
  • Sleep problems
  • Mood swings
  • Hopelessness
  • Memory loss
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Inability to complete tasks
  • Engaging in self-destructive behaviors, especially addictions
Desensitization is caused by a number of factors, including:[3]
  • 1: Decline in dopamine (D2) receptors. Fewer D2 receptors mean less sensitivity to available dopamine, which leaves a person less sensitive to the pleasure normally found in experiences.
  • 2: Decline in baseline (tonic) dopamine levels. Lower dopamine levels leave a person "hungry" for dopamine-raising activities/substances of all kinds.
  • 3: Blunted dopamine in response to normal rewards. Dopamine normally rises in response to rewarding activities. Once your addiction is the most reliable source of dopamine, cravings arise urging you to use porn.
  • 4: Decline in CRF-1 receptors, which function to raise dopamine levels in the striatum (part of the brain).
  • 5: Loss of reward circuit grey matter, which means a loss of dendrites. This translates into fewer nerve connections or synapses. A 2014 study on porn users correlated less grey matter with more porn use.
  • 6: Decline in opioids or opioid receptors.
  • Both #2 and #3 may involve increased dynorphin which inhibits dopamine, and weakening of certain pathways (glutamate) conveying messages to the reward circuitry. In other words, desensitization is rather complex, and an awful lot is left to learn.
 
masamune1 said:
Learn the symptoms of low dopamine sensitivity. If you have low dopamine sensitivity, you'll have little joy for life. You'll be low on energy and motivation, and will often rely on caffeine, sugar, or other stimulants to get through the day. Low dopamine levels or sensitivity can also manifest as certain psychiatric disorders including depression, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, and addictions of all kinds. Here's a list of the most common dopamine desensitization symptoms:[4]
  • Lack of motivation
  • Fatigue
  • Apathy
  • Procrastination
  • Inability to feel pleasure
  • Low libido
  • Inability to connect with others
  • Sleep problems
  • Mood swings
  • Hopelessness
  • Memory loss
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Inability to complete tasks
  • Engaging in self-destructive behaviors, especially addictions
Desensitization is caused by a number of factors, including:[3]
  • 1: Decline in dopamine (D2) receptors. Fewer D2 receptors mean less sensitivity to available dopamine, which leaves a person less sensitive to the pleasure normally found in experiences.
  • 2: Decline in baseline (tonic) dopamine levels. Lower dopamine levels leave a person "hungry" for dopamine-raising activities/substances of all kinds.
  • 3: Blunted dopamine in response to normal rewards. Dopamine normally rises in response to rewarding activities. Once your addiction is the most reliable source of dopamine, cravings arise urging you to use porn.
  • 4: Decline in CRF-1 receptors, which function to raise dopamine levels in the striatum (part of the brain).
  • 5: Loss of reward circuit grey matter, which means a loss of dendrites. This translates into fewer nerve connections or synapses. A 2014 study on porn users correlated less grey matter with more porn use.
  • 6: Decline in opioids or opioid receptors.
  • Both #2 and #3 may involve increased dynorphin which inhibits dopamine, and weakening of certain pathways (glutamate) conveying messages to the reward circuitry. In other words, desensitization is rather complex, and an awful lot is left to learn.
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I'm so mad I got health problems that I didn't have before because of this drug.
The lack of motivation really gets me. I used to be extremely goal oriented before all this shit.
I used to see meaning in things, now its all gone, thanks to them Nazi psychiatrists.
 
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I'm sorry but it's just been one of the only times when I finally had the means and the money in a few months maybe even to potentially change my whole life with the jobs. I might just crash and burn out there but that's something that I'd say that I'm pretty used to by now. Maybe I'll finally be able to leave a horrible past behind and start my whole life for real..we'll see how crazy the world gets too..
 
Afernandes1 said:
How tall are you?
I feel like the taller and more you weigh the easier it is to lose. I’m only 5’4” so I have a hard time losing weight too
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I’m only 5’2.5 lol it has nothing to do with height…it’s the fact that I’m on latuda now. 20mgs…I can barley lose weight I’ve gotten down to 120lbs though
 
Just a heads up. God is not happy with psychiatry and has a plan for every one of us. We will get compensated in the next realm about to come. We wont be around here for many years to come. A new realm is coming.
 
OLDTIDEN said:
Just a heads up. God is not happy with psychiatry and has a plan for every one of us. We will get compensated in the next realm about to come. We wont be around here for many years to come. A new realm is coming.
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Sounds like Minecraft lol
 
HelpMeInvega said:
I’m only 5’2.5 lol it has nothing to do with height…it’s the fact that I’m on latuda now. 20mgs…I can barley lose weight I’ve gotten down to 120lbs though
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Weighing 120 pounds is pretty low, your probably not overweight or anything.

Btw im starting to tey and quit cigarettes. Basically the last week i was keeping track of how much i smoke a day, and my plan was for me to lower by one, of the highest amount i smoked in the week. For example the most i smoked the last 7 days was 14. So im going to put my cap at 13 a day. Ill do that for 2 weeks then move down to 12 etc. Cold turkey quitting is too hard for me. So im a work on lowering it slowly gradually. Lets see if it works.

Basically im just trying to set goals for myself while working on recovering. My body is weak from the year of lazying around while taking forced injections for a year. So im teying to strength my body since im off now.

Like i go for a walk, lift weights, hit the sauna, doing a thing where i stand for x amount of time, atm thats 45 mins. I do it partly to strengthen my body and partly cause if i dont do stuff id probably just be on my laptop all day and im getting sick of that.

So yeah i do like an hour to 90 mins walk is good and all. But like its getting colder. So im not sure what im going to do in the winter.

Yeah so if youve been off meds for a little while, maybe telry and do things to keep busy, just staying home all time doing nothing wont result in recover i think. You.need to kind of try and normalize yourself to do more.
 
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Xeplion(invega) is a very good medicine...janssen phramacist are good people..there is no agenda or so called big pharma...science is for the benefit of mankind...
 
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Risingson8 said:
Xeplion(invega) is a very good medicine...janssen phramacist are good people..there is no agenda or so called big pharma...science is for the benefit of mankind...
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I agree! Invega Sustenna is a good medicine to some people it definitely knocks you out of psychosis! It just has a lot of side effects but so do all antipsychotics. Invega Sustenna’s just are a lot worse!
 
HelpMeInvega said:
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I agree! Invega Sustenna is a good medicine to some people it definitely knocks you out of psychosis! It just has a lot of side effects but so do all antipsychotics. Invega Sustenna’s just are a lot worse!
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He was being sarcastic.
Invega/Xeplion is pure shit, good for nobody.
 
For every needle they have put in us they owe us a million bucks! Remember they are wrong and we are right!
 
Since the injections, I find it challenging to form sentences properly.
It's like I'm going blank before I speak. I know what I wanna say, but I fail to form it into words.
Before the injections, I used to talk normal, formed proper sentences fast like a rapper almost, now its gone. The injections made me stupid it's unbelievable.
 
UnluckyXeplion said:
UnluckyXeplion said:
Since the injections, I find it challenging to form sentences properly.
It's like I'm going blank before I speak. I know what I wanna say, but I fail to form it into words.
Before the injections, I used to talk normal, formed proper sentences fast like a rapper almost, now its gone. The injections made me stupid it's unbelievable.
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İkr ...i was in same situation but dont worry ..it will come back,around the month 9 i was able to speak normal...not like used to ,but around 14 months i can think and speak faster..like i used to ..but still feel anhedonic tho..
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