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

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ExStonerExDrinker said:
I’m sorry if this is too much info but when I masterbate i have a super, super weak orgasm and nothing comes out. And I read it’s the same for a lot of people. You didn’t experience any of that?
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It's fine. This is a forum based on health, after all!

That can happen. It happens to me at times. I'm on clozapine. But I honestly don't mind that much, strange as it may sound.
 
ABetterFuture said:
I'm sorry to repeat myself, but can people please give me advice on this?

My court order for mandatory invega sustenna injections ended last month. I'm receiving a call in 2 weeks and they want me to still come and get 78 mg injections once a month. How do I explain to this person I am not willing to receive the injections anymore? Do I just not pick up the phone and ignore them until they go away or do I talk to them? What is the best route to doing this?

Really appreciate input.
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If the court deems that you are willing to continue your mental health program without being FORCED by them to make you comply, then they either trust you now or the court order has expired.

You aren't qualified to determine whether or not you still need to receive the medication. Only the Psychiatrist is. I'm not saying that you don't have a say in it because you do. You can tell the Dr. that you don't feel you need the meds anymore. He/she may agree with you. Maybe they won't. Either way you have to speak up for yourself and put your needs and desires on the record. So don't ghost them. Take the call and tell them how you feel. If they determine that you still NEED the meds you should probably willingly comply and take them as you may be forced again by a court order if you don't.

Good luck.
 
Hey i got off my community treatment order too. Congrats. Why not say you wanna go on pills and then dont take them?
 
Nurse Ratched said:
If the court deems that you are willing to continue your mental health program without being FORCED by them to make you comply, then they either trust you now or the court order has expired.

You aren't qualified to determine whether or not you still need to receive the medication. Only the Psychiatrist is. I'm not saying that you don't have a say in it because you do. You can tell the Dr. that you don't feel you need the meds anymore. He/she may agree with you. Maybe they won't. Either way you have to speak up for yourself and put your needs and desires on the record. So don't ghost them. Take the call and tell them how you feel. If they determine that you still NEED the meds you should probably willingly comply and take them as you may be forced again by a court order if you don't.

Good luck.
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I wouldn't recommend he tell them he doesn't need the medication anymore, they will cause trouble then and could put him on a CTO again, the best thing to do is say you want to transfer your treatment to your gp and then never go, stop the medication and never return to Psychiatry. You could ask to go on pills instead and don't take them.
 
Gdvffh said:
Hi. I wasnt on invega but i was on risperiodone abilify and flupenexiol and i recovered from all 3 of these. It took me around a year to recover from all of the. So yeah you should recover from invega after a year. Other have too. Risperidone is the active metabolite of invega so there the same thing so i kind of have been o invega. It sucks lol
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Yea it does, thanks for your response, that helps, It’s almost been a year for me. I just have to be patient.
 
n3ophy7e said:
Hi Monty sorry if you've already mentioned this but how many injections of invega have you had? Long story short you WILL recover but it's just a matter of time, according to how much you've had.
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Thanks trying to keep hope but I’ve had the first mandatory injections and it’s been 7 months since then
 
Runawayfar said:
I wouldn't recommend he tell them he doesn't need the medication anymore, they will cause trouble then and could put him on a CTO again, the best thing to do is say you want to transfer your treatment to your gp and then never go, stop the medication and never return to Psychiatry. You could ask to go on pills instead and don't take them.
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Well....then the GP tells the Psychiatrist that you aren't keeping your appts. nor refilling the meds and now you are right back on the forced CTO.

I understand that many people want to get off the meds and try to live their life without them but ghosting Dr.s, not keeping appointments and lying doesn't really get people very far in life. It just shows that we are non compliant and can't be trusted.

Standing up for ourselves and putting ourselves on the record with valid points and a good polite argument in our favor tend to get us farther than digging our heels in and saying I'm not going to do it. Most people that go off their meds ( on their own without Dr. approval ) just end up having another episode and being hospitalized again. Then they are right back where they started and it's even worse now because they have another episode on their record.

Best thing for anyone to do that feels they don't need their meds anymore is go in, be honest, be polite and be ready to make valid points in your favor.
 
Mick04 said:
Can you dream at night? Me I can’t dream in a normal way
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Yesh i dream. Sleeping is my favorite part of the day cause at least i dont feel like shit while dreaming. I can forget about being on meds and all that while dreaming.
 
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