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

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Gdvffh said:
Damn 15 months later and still recovering? Thats a long time. Are you on disability?
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Yeah I am…very blessed and fortunate for that. I’m able to do 1 hour of rowing machine but not much else. I want to work full time but brain and body not quite there yet. Anything requiring full focus and concentration and I can only handle 20-30 minutes before I start to not be able to understand/ comprehend the conversatIon etc and that’s also while being prescribed dexedrine for my add. Invega really fucks up the dopamine functioning in the brain. Sending you positive vibes of healing. Cheers!
 
Micah444 said:
Yeah I am…very blessed and fortunate for that. I’m able to do 1 hour of rowing machine but not much else. I want to work full time but brain and body not quite there yet. Anything requiring full focus and concentration and I can only handle 20-30 minutes before I start to not be able to understand/ comprehend the conversatIon etc and that’s also while being prescribed dexedrine for my add. Invega really fucks up the dopamine functioning in the brain. Sending you positive vibes of healing. Cheers!
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To get the disability did you talked about Xeplion or which argument did you give?
 
I found something that works for me. I bought a kg of dxm and take it few times a day. All symptoms gone, I am happy again. It works even next day, I wake up without any depression.
 
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I've put on another 1.2kg I even did an exercise dvd 2 days in a row I know I can't expect to lose weight straight away just from that but it's so frustrating & kind of makes me lose motivation to keep going. I'm so devestated that I keep putting on around a kilo plus a week. How is that possible when I'm 4 months off I eat mostly healthy & only have a banana smoothie for breakfast then lunch, yoghurt for afternoon tea, dinner & ice cream for desert
 
What are the signs you guys experienced the more you've recovered? I still don't know if I'm recovered. The Invega left me a huge hole in my memory. I mean I now vividly can remember the day I decided to go to the psychiatric ward. Its better to hier a sort of therapist though or to cope from these memories.

I also now have kinda thoughts from memories/moments before ap now suddenly comming in my brain, its nice to notice Them.

Sorry if I sound like I repeat my questions so many Times xD, buts so confusing. I notice now each step I have come close to recovery and everything makes sense know. I kinda need to apply the same habits I used to do pre-ap and maybe then I can evaluatie if ive recovered fully.

Its fkin weird the lack of thoughts I had was really frightening.
 
Laser528 said:
I found something that works for me. I bought a kg of dxm and take it few times a day. All symptoms gone, I am happy again. It works even next day, I wake up without any depression.
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Depression is least problem. Do NOT overdose on DXM, it is similar like using Meth and other stimulans if you OD on it, and it can be very dangerous. It will cause you severe withdrawals and tolerance if you continue like that. OPIOD withdrawal is NO joke. DXM is opiod.
 
lau_rahxo said:
I've put on another 1.2kg I even did an exercise dvd 2 days in a row I know I can't expect to lose weight straight away just from that but it's so frustrating & kind of makes me lose motivation to keep going. I'm so devestated that I keep putting on around a kilo plus a week. How is that possible when I'm 4 months off I eat mostly healthy & only have a banana smoothie for breakfast then lunch, yoghurt for afternoon tea, dinner & ice cream for desert
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Maybe cut out the ice cream everyday
 
Micah444 said:
Yes the effects while under the medication are very similar to when coming off the medication. The medication can also cause something called tardive psychosis which you may want to google. Are you still on the medication?
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No, I'm at no medication though my family thinks I'm at Risperdal. I was fine when they placed me the injections. I would have fully recovered with therapy but to make it a shorter stay at a horrible psychiatric I accepted the loading dosis. Then I began to fell dumb and my family said they were just going to help me if I continued with the injections It was a huge mistake In this time I have lost maybe forever my sleep and my family thinks I'm psychotic for blaming good xeplion and that I should be in a hospital I just have the help of my elderly mother who also thinks I am psychotic for blaming xeplion. I have no write to invalidity pension since I was no living here 5 years. I stay in bed all day and I just think about killing myself
 
Hello all,
I’m new to this forum. I had a drug induced psychosis a year and a half ago and the idiots diagnosed me bipolar. Long story short I ended up on antipsychotics. I’m currently 6 months off Invega and 2 months off abilify. I discontinued abilify because I’m afraid it has the same effects as Invega. Ever since I took Invega I’ve had a general feeling of anhedonia, no emotions, no sex drive, and an inability to feel the effects of nicotine, weed, alcohol, caffeine etc. So I’m wondering if there are any others with the same side effects and if there is hope for recovery. Thanks.
 
lau_rahxo said:
I've put on another 1.2kg I even did an exercise dvd 2 days in a row I know I can't expect to lose weight straight away just from that but it's so frustrating & kind of makes me lose motivation to keep going. I'm so devestated that I keep putting on around a kilo plus a week. How is that possible when I'm 4 months off I eat mostly healthy & only have a banana smoothie for breakfast then lunch, yoghurt for afternoon tea, dinner & ice cream for desert
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How about cutting what you eat. No more ice cream for deserts. I eat like 1 meal a day and maintain a weight in the 190ish
 
Gdvffh said:
How about cutting what you eat. No more ice cream for deserts. I eat like 1 meal a day and maintain a weight in the 190ish
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Is it normal that my recovery slowed down drasticaly at 6-10 months off. And I am feeling terrible. I still have severe anhedonia. Any hope that I will recover at 12 months.
 
I recovered only 5% in between 6-10 months. And in between 1-6 I recovered around 20%. So I will be getting 1.5% every month. That takes around 6 years to recover at that speed, if it doesnt speed up.
 
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t_xeplionhell said:
I recovered only 5% in between 6-10 months. And in between 1-6 I recovered around 20%. So I will be getting 1.5% every month. That takes around 6 years to recover.
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Well almost half a gram of invega is a shit ton of poison ☠. For example my friend had 100mg intial shot and I don't remember if 1 75mg shot more. Took him half a year to feel somewhat normal again.
 
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