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

[Micah444]

Well, it’s been 10 months off the injection now. I have noticed small improvements like thoughts coming back but still really struggling with muscles, energy, brain fog, depression, hopelessness and weird anxiety and paranoia sometimes that I never had before this experience. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m currently prescribed dexedrine and it at least lets me concentrate on tv and games. Without it I’m mostly staring at the wall can’t focus on anything because of the anhedonia feelings.

 

[Runawayfar]

Well, it’s been 10 months off the injection now. I have noticed small improvements like thoughts coming back but still really struggling with muscles, energy, brain fog, depression, hopelessness and weird anxiety and paranoia sometimes that I never had before this experience. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m currently prescribed dexedrine and it at least lets me concentrate on tv and games. Without it I’m mostly staring at the wall can’t focus on anything because of the anhedonia feelings.

Im sorry you haven't recovered after 10 months. I don't understand if according to the half life of invega it takes 10 months to leave your system why it takes most people more than a year to recover? Is it because there is still invega in your system for more than a year or is it because the brain still needs to return to normal function? I hope you
recover soon.

 

[Risingson8]

Well, it’s been 10 months off the injection now. I have noticed small improvements like thoughts coming back but still really struggling with muscles, energy, brain fog, depression, hopelessness and weird anxiety and paranoia sometimes that I never had before this experience. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m currently prescribed dexedrine and it at least lets me concentrate on tv and games. Without it I’m mostly staring at the wall can’t focus on anything because of the anhedonia feelings.

10 months and still small improvements...its like a joke man..u should be fine after ten months im off just 5 and half months still struggle everyday but recently using lyrica and it helps with depression but im not recommending it becouse its really addictive .

 

[n3ophy7e]

Why do you say “we” it sounds so robotic and weird lol No offense

Come on man, do you really need to bring attention to that?? A lot of people in this thread have disorders with positive symptoms including hearing voices, hallucinations, delusions etc. You should know that and be respectful of it. This person might be referring to "we" as themselves plus their voices, or it could even be "we" as in themselves plus their carer and/or psychiatrist. Who cares if they say "we"? Let's save comments for things that really matter, i.e. discussion about coming off invega

I feel disabled something is wrong with my brain after this injections

I'm really sorry to hear you're still struggling man. In a way I guess your brain is temporarily "disabled" in that parts of your brain have been tampered with. But it is only temporary. Hang in there

10 months and still small improvements...its like a joke man..u should be fine after ten months im off just 5 and half months still struggle everyday but recently using lyrica and it helps with depression but im not recommending it becouse its really addictive .

Yeah, it's a weird one, that's for sure. After overseeing these invega threads for a while now, it seems there is not really any "average" amount of time that it takes to recover....everyone is different. Very frustrating.

 

[apsucks]

Well, it’s been 10 months off the injection now. I have noticed small improvements like thoughts coming back but still really struggling with muscles, energy, brain fog, depression, hopelessness and weird anxiety and paranoia sometimes that I never had before this experience. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m currently prescribed dexedrine and it at least lets me concentrate on tv and games. Without it I’m mostly staring at the wall can’t focus on anything because of the anhedonia feelings.

10 fucking months for minor to almost no improvements ...shits ridicilious on medchat another dude who didn't got better after 17 months and a dude who still couldn't get high1.5 years after. Stormyroom was still in the same situation after 12 months. Those 6,7,8 months recovery stories are rare events it seems. Why the fuck do alot of people recover 1.5 years or up to two years later from one shot...one...fucking....SHOT! The half life theory is a load of shit...those initial shots disable your brain and it takes a long time to heal, there are lots of horrorstories from oral risperdal as well where people took it for a few months and took years to recover.

I'm tired of this shit 3.5 months in fucking terrific to know month 6 will be shit as well and possibly month 10..looking forward to it. Had appointment with a nurse only thing i thought of was killing myself.."how are you doing"...ok bro.....what a waste of time...fucking 2 years of your life ruined..no pleasure, no interests, no relationships. I can't stand this anymore.

 

[apsucks]

10 months and still small improvements...its like a joke man..u should be fine after ten months im off just 5 and half months still struggle everyday but recently using lyrica and it helps with depression but im not recommending it becouse its really addictive .

Its crazy how is this legal it doesn't make sense....how the fuck is anyone helped by some shot that make them depressed for 10 months. these doctors and pharmacists have zero fucking sense in their heads .

Jezus i could remember when i took a run outside in the hot afternoon sun, i would feel the hot air and imagine beduin instruments on the background...in the forest i would feel my feet on the pine needles i would smell the pineforest and would watch the sun go down and the temperature going down i would feel the fresh air in my face..hear crickets on the background and hear birds sing their evening song..everything was vibrant and alive...at night everything is silent but i see a truck in the distance with headlights on the atmosphere is pressing hearing a slight rumble in the background. The the air turned hot and lightning flashes appear in the sky..i want to feel the rain again

There is fucking poetry in everything i cannot live without a sense of it...its close to love its being one with your enviroment, nature and the planet. I want to sense things again...this insidious cancerous date rape drug numbs all your senses it completely destroys your instincs and senses.

Shit i wish i would lose an arm or leg instead of getting this shot i rather would be homeless...anything but this shot.

 

[Mick04]

Its crazy how is this legal it doesn't make sense....how the fuck is anyone helped by some shot that make them depressed for 10 months. these doctors and pharmacists have zero fucking sense in their heads .

Jezus i could remember when i took a run outside in the hot afternoon sun, i would feel the hot air and imagine beduin instruments on the background...in the forest i would feel my feet on the pine needles i would smell the pineforest and would watch the sun go down and the temperature going down i would feel the fresh air in my face..hear crickets on the background and hear birds sing their evening song..everything was vibrant and alive...at night everything is silent but i see a truck in the distance with headlights on the atmosphere is pressing hearing a slight rumble in the background. The the air turned hot and lightning flashes appear in the sky..i want to feel the rain again

There is fucking poetry in everything i cannot live without a sense of it...its close to love its being one with your enviroment, nature and the planet. I want to sense things again...this insidious cancerous date rape drug numbs all your senses it completely destroys your instincs and senses.

Shit i wish i would lose an arm or leg instead of getting this shot i rather would be homeless...anything but this shot.

I totally agree. This drug kills you inside you can’t feel anything anymore. I hope we both recover but to me it’s seems impossible.

 

[Mick04]

Well, it’s been 10 months off the injection now. I have noticed small improvements like thoughts coming back but still really struggling with muscles, energy, brain fog, depression, hopelessness and weird anxiety and paranoia sometimes that I never had before this experience. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m currently prescribed dexedrine and it at least lets me concentrate on tv and games. Without it I’m mostly staring at the wall can’t focus on anything because of the anhedonia feelings.

omg 10 months and still anhedonia I’m so afraid for myself I don’t want to live like I’m dead

 

[iridescentblack]

Its crazy how is this legal it doesn't make sense....how the fuck is anyone helped by some shot that make them depressed for 10 months. these doctors and pharmacists have zero fucking sense in their heads .

I have to disagree. A professional came in and told me, before I left a hospital, that Risperdal Consta was intended to heal my brain (this was before my crisis that landed me on Invega Sustenna).

Granted, it wasn't comfortable or enjoyable, but a lot of good came out of being on drugs like that. I can at least recognize my delusions now before they get the better of me.

10 fucking months for minor to almost no improvements ...shits ridicilious on medchat another dude who didn't got better after 17 months and a dude who still couldn't get high1.5 years after. Stormyroom was still in the same situation after 12 months. Those 6,7,8 months recovery stories are rare events it seems. Why the fuck do alot of people recover 1.5 years or up to two years later from one shot...one...fucking....SHOT! The half life theory is a load of shit...those initial shots disable your brain and it takes a long time to heal, there are lots of horrorstories from oral risperdal as well where people took it for a few months and took years to recover.

I'm tired of this shit 3.5 months in fucking terrific to know month 6 will be shit as well and possibly month 10..looking forward to it. Had appointment with a nurse only thing i thought of was killing myself.."how are you doing"...ok bro.....what a waste of time...fucking 2 years of your life ruined..no pleasure, no interests, no relationships. I can't stand this anymore.

If you're in such a rush, I will gladly explain this (once again); the kinds of people who recovered in the shortest time were into things like MMA. They were so used to being in a workout regimen that their bodies were not affected as much.

Time variants and such are a bit of a predisposition here it seems. For others, recovery is an allusion if not a delusion that others seem to have. Each individual's recovery time is dependent solely on them to succeed or not to. In the case that certain genetic factors take precedence in how long that recovery takes or what that looks like, this is never an impersonal thing. Even as a group of recovered Invega users, never could we ever reach an agreed upon consensus of what that recovery looks like without bringing upon ourselves past issues and such.

As valid as your questions are, they look a bit ridiculous. Focus on your recovery is a personalized experience and can only be rated with whatever evidence you can offer.

Getting high is not a measure of recovery. Getting drunk is not a measure of recovery. As you begin to taper off more and more and realize those structures that are responsible for rising out of this horrible Invega stupor, you will begin to experience, yet again, those pleasures that make your personal experience unique.

Don't let it fool you what others are capable of here. It is hardly even a parable. Recovery looks different for everyone because we're bound to try different things depending on what our soul DNA as unique individuals chooses for us. Not to mention my very post here borders on breaking forum guidelines.

 

[t_xeplionhell]

omg 10 months and still anhedonia I’m so afraid for myself I don’t want to live like I’m dead

Its not like ur dead since u dont know how its like to be dead. I would compare that rather with eternal like hell.

 

[Gdvffh]

hey so the drug i want to get on when it comes out, ulotaront, wont be available in injection form when the pill form come out, it takes an additional 3 years or so for it to come out in injection form. im currently on a community treatment order and i dont think they will switch me to pill form only injections so im not too sure what to do. I can wait 6 years for the injection form to come out, or get switched to the pill form somehow but not exactly how, man i really wanna get off this community treatment order, i hate the idea of being forced to take a medication.

 

[t_xeplionhell]

Invega doesnt only block receptors, it also blocks neural pathways.

 

[t_xeplionhell]

@apsucks I realised why chakras got blocked by invega. Its cuz we got stuck in lower mind - the brain, we are over identified with our misery (thinking you are so miserable, you are this you are that, when this what is happening to me will end - it is not happening to you actualy its happening to brain which is not you). Chi/prana/lifeforce is moved/created/enhanced only by higher mind - awareness, when we are not stuck in lower mind its possible to enhance it and move it, the more we are not identified by toughts more control u have. Have u noticed when u have zero tought processes and you throw a ball into basket u will always not miss, many people noticed that including me. Less toughts you have more better u will feel since your awareness is enhanced and awareness feels brain impulses more, also your chi flows better and makes brain more efficient. I remember when I was kid I was often not thinking and it made me blissful, when I started thinking more I stopped being blissful. When u move finger you think it is brain who sends signal to muscles in finger to move it but I will ask you what triggers those neurons, it is awareness, thats higher mind, it can feel some range of vibrations and create some range of it thats how we use our brain. Awareness is not physical it has no label. I noticed less toughts I have I start feeling better and I forget on misery.

 

[t_xeplionhell]

@apsucks I realised why chakras got blocked by invega. Its cuz we got stuck in lower mind - the brain, we are over identified with our misery (thinking you are so miserable, you are this you are that, when this what is happening to me will end - it is not happening to you actualy its happening to brain which is not you). Chi/prana/lifeforce is moved/created/enhanced only by higher mind - awareness, when we are not stuck in lower mind its possible to enhance it and move it, the more we are not identified by toughts more control u have. Have u noticed when u have zero tought processes and you throw a ball into basket u will always not miss, many people noticed that including me. Less toughts you have more better u will feel since your awareness is enhanced and awareness feels brain impulses more, also your chi flows better and makes brain more efficient. I remember when I was kid I was often not thinking and it made me blissful, when I started thinking more I stopped being blissful. When u move finger you think it is brain who sends signal to muscles in finger to move it but I will ask you what triggers those neurons, it is awareness, thats higher mind, it can feel some range of vibrations and create some range of it thats how we use our brain. Awareness is not physical it has no label. I noticed less toughts I have I start feeling better and I forget on misery.

Also when u realise u are that awareness which observes all and you continue looking everything from that perspective of observer, watching toughts, watching body reactions. That will enhance your awareness. Also realising u are not your toughts since u are watching them. Then you have total control over voices if you have them.

 

[t_xeplionhell]

@apsucks I realised why chakras got blocked by invega. Its cuz we got stuck in lower mind - the brain, we are over identified with our misery (thinking you are so miserable, you are this you are that, when this what is happening to me will end - it is not happening to you actualy its happening to brain which is not you). Chi/prana/lifeforce is moved/created/enhanced only by higher mind - awareness, when we are not stuck in lower mind its possible to enhance it and move it, the more we are not identified by toughts more control u have. Have u noticed when u have zero tought processes and you throw a ball into basket u will always not miss, many people noticed that including me. Less toughts you have more better u will feel since your awareness is enhanced and awareness feels brain impulses more, also your chi flows better and makes brain more efficient. I remember when I was kid I was often not thinking and it made me blissful, when I started thinking more I stopped being blissful. When u move finger you think it is brain who sends signal to muscles in finger to move it but I will ask you what triggers those neurons, it is awareness, thats higher mind, it can feel some range of vibrations and create some range of it thats how we use our brain. Awareness is not physical it has no label. I noticed less toughts I have I start feeling better and I forget on misery.

We have never experienced world outside of our brain(lower mind) actualy.

 

[iridescentblack]

I thought I'd post this here, because it relates to some of my experiences on Invega Sustenna;

Over the last 10 years, my liver had been working overtime to repair itself. Medical websites openly explain that certain medications should be avoided in the event of liver problems arising. It was little surprise to me to learn that drugs like invega can have a negative impact on digestion, specifically liver and UTI function. Invega caused me so many UTI issues that I developed an auto-immune disease, which I later found out was gone. (this was many years off Invega, however).

Recently I noticed that my energy body has been showing me something explicit about my recovery. Energy from my liver seems to be being dragged away from my liver, cluing me into something I have long been anticipating. This seems to be an excellent opportunity to begin detoxing.

 

[n3ophy7e]

hey so the drug i want to get on when it comes out, ulotaront, wont be available in injection form when the pill form come out, it takes an additional 3 years or so for it to come out in injection form. im currently on a community treatment order and i dont think they will switch me to pill form only injections so im not too sure what to do. I can wait 6 years for the injection form to come out, or get switched to the pill form somehow but not exactly how, man i really wanna get off this community treatment order, i hate the idea of being forced to take a medication.

If you can convince them that you will remain compliant with taking the pill form of ulotaront, is there a chance they will take you off the injections?? Or has your compliance with taking daily meds been an issue in the past?

 

[t_xeplionhell]

I thought I'd post this here, because it relates to some of my experiences on Invega Sustenna;

Over the last 10 years, my liver had been working overtime to repair itself. Medical websites openly explain that certain medications should be avoided in the event of liver problems arising. It was little surprise to me to learn that drugs like invega can have a negative impact on digestion, specifically liver and UTI function. Invega caused me so many UTI issues that I developed an auto-immune disease, which I later found out was gone. (this was many years off Invega, however).

Recently I noticed that my energy body has been showing me something explicit about my recovery. Energy from my liver seems to be being dragged away from my liver, cluing me into something I have long been anticipating. This seems to be an excellent opportunity to begin detoxing.

My chi doesnt flow thru whole brain so I must work on that, it will help recovery.

 

[iridescentblack]

My chi doesnt flow thru whole brain so I must work on that, it will help recovery.

This guy has a ton of good content. He's also on tiktok, under the same name with no spaces

 

[Risingson8]

Recently ive found that korean panax ginseng is really helping with depression a lil bit...im not so well but depression is bearable..u can give it a try ive read that its a d2 receptor agonist which may increase the dopamine flow i dunno...