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

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^ I agree i was on abilify after coming off invega and it sucked almost as bad as invega. I was switched to latuda after the abilify though and ive finally gotten my life back. The anhedonia has gone away and my sex drive has fully come back. So id suggest latuda to anyone having trouble with invega or any of the shittier antipsychotics.
 
One day, I was walking on a park, thinking to be anhedonic like others days . I tried to run a bit and miracoulously, I was able to do it in a far long distance than before and took a bit of pleasure into it. I will always remember this day ; it was the proof that I was feeling better. I also started to take pleasure into conversation and also something important : I was not constipated anymore. All these things has arrived in the same week if I remember well. recovered libido also.

My advice : try to do different high dopamine activities from time to time to see how you react to them : Youtube on tablet , video games on console/pc. But for me, just running a bit in a park have been the revelation of my cure.

I have started to play video games a lot during a few months, so happy to have my dopamine back. I play a lot of video games and never really enjoyed alcohol or smoking. I have also rapidly been to the gym and take muscle rapidely also.

So yes improving has appearing like soomething "sudden" in my case
At how many months It suddenly started
 
At how many months It suddenly started
6-7 months. I guess I have been "lucky" and I have elminate the poison relatively rapidly in comparaison to some others.
My diet was quite bad also. I use to eat at mac donald , not a lot of fruits or vegetables and I didn"t drink a lot of water.
 
^ I agree i was on abilify after coming off invega and it sucked almost as bad as invega. I was switched to latuda after the abilify though and ive finally gotten my life back. The anhedonia has gone away and my sex drive has fully come back. So id suggest latuda to anyone having trouble with invega or any of the shittier antipsychotics
How does Lutada works ? I have never been aware about this medication. Does it block dopamine like others ?
 
Abilify is trash with a half life of 72 to 90 hours its toxic as fuck and accumulates in the body. All these clinical studies are rigged anyway almost nobody tolerates or want to take anti-psychotics
I would like to agree but it still need more investigation. Some people really produce too much dopamine and in these cases, it may be good for them to take some neuroleptics, at least temporarily, but only pills and never injections imo.

The fact is that we need at least a minimum of dopamine to be be correctly functionnal and if we take a too much dosage of abilify/invega, then we end been suffuring zombiies. And "doctors" don't care too much about finding the correct dosage : they want rapidely to inject with a high dose if neuroleptics.

Some people feel very well with 10mg of abilify but become zombies with 20mg. So it is a subtil point to find.

Many of psychiatrists are really donkeys and don't know anything at all about how dopamine works . Very ofen , there knowledge is really 0. Looks like they have literarly purchased their degree. Some others psychiatrists may have a bit of brain but don't care very much and most of them are quite waxed proud.

Imo among the people who ofen waxed proud easily, we have professors, doctors, policemans and lawyers.

But in the end , abilify and invega only "cure" the consequences of the illness and not the cause. Modern medecine ofen only cure the consequences because it is surely more profitable. I can't blame them too much coz we teach everybody to not drink, not smoke, not eat junk food etc... but not a lot of people can do it.

Also what is the cause of bipolarity and schizophrenia. nobody really knows. Overall, surely an unhealthy lifestyle.
 
I also think that abilify/invega works well against positif symptoms of schizophrenia/bipolarity (hallcinations , mania )but surely they have no effect against negative symptoms (stress, anxiety) and make these negative symptoms even worse. Psychiatrist don't care too much about all that and they will increase the dosage whatevery symptoms you have (positive or negative)

What a bunch of donkeys
 
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I had the dumbest shrink ever in the psych ward. When i mentioned big words like serotonin or dopamine she looked at me like i had 2 heads and actually held it against me that i knew this shit. She didnt like people who knew about psychiatry or whatever.
 
I had the dumbest shrink ever in the psych ward. When i mentioned big words like serotonin or dopamine she looked at me like i had 2 heads and actually held it against me that i knew this shit. She didnt like people who knew about psychiatry or whatever.
yes of course. My strategy with my psychiatrist is to act more or less like a happy fool. From time to time, I express an opinion but not too much. I never speak about dopamine, sertononine etc...
 
yes of course. My strategy with my psychiatrist is to act more or less like a happy fool. From time to time, I express an opinion but not too much. I never speak about dopamine, sertononine etc...

My current shrink is alright and actually treats me like a adult. But he's outpatient. Inpatient shrinks are the ones who couldnt get a job at a outpatient clinic cause no one would willingly see them.
 
6-7 months. I guess I have been "lucky" and I have elminate the poison relatively rapidly in comparaison to some others.
My diet was quite bad also. I use to eat at mac donald , not a lot of fruits or vegetables and I didn"t drink a lot of water.
Did you relapse into psychosis? If so at what month? Or what month did you have to take meds again
 
So I talked to my doctor today about coming off of invega and he recommended against it. He said my symptoms would come back. I don’t know what to do
 
So I talked to my doctor today about coming off of invega and he recommended against it. He said my symptoms would come back. I don’t know what to do
You'll have to fight him, it took me telling the doctor I was gonna shoot myself if he didn't take me off. I have terrible sexual side effects and that's about it. I feel like I can't feel my chakras anymore though. I used to meditate and feel my chakras
 
Dude you can feel chakra's right? Just 30 mins ago my 3th eye opened again for a short amount of time. Defo not the same as before where i felt constant love and connection to the universe, euphoria and bliss. I don't feel my heart chakra at all just some shitty pain and tension in front of my heart region..its like the energy goes up my spine but skips my heart chakra...this is bullshit i can't ascend like i used to..i have to meditate 7 hours a day and get like 5% benefit ... i used to have 100%.

yeh i live in constant regret what happened to me mostly anger i want to kill a shitload of people
I can feel few chakras but its not something special.
 
My current shrink is alright and actually treats me like a adult. But he's outpatient. Inpatient shrinks are the ones who couldnt get a job at a outpatient clinic cause no one would willingly see them.
When I told my doctor prolactin causes erectile dysfunction she told me it doesn't. I now know she's full of shit.
 
3 -4 months off invega now and I have finally found some interest in doing stuff e.g. I can sit down and do random sht on my PC for hours (nearly the whole day) instead of just laying in bed feeling sad and not wanting to do anything... I am hoping to add in more things like exercise and self study etc

Things I have noticed: I get really anxious at random times for some reason, maybe it's the intensity of life you wake up to after getting off meds that supress your mind... idk...

Overall things have gotten better and I hope it keeps going like this. I have also been praying a lot and talking to God through prayer and I think he is answering!
 
How’s everyone recovering? It’s been 7 months for me and I feel no difference from the first month, I’d gotten the 2 starting doses; I can’t imagine how someone who’s had more feels.
 
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