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

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Hopton09 said:
I don’t think there’s any healing this bro. I think it’s simple what happened. When the drug blocked the dopamine receptors it did it in such a strong way that just destroyed them. Once neurons are damaged they don’t heal. That’s the sad truth
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You're supposed to get all new cells in your body like every 7 years though too so at least something should still come back probably if the receptors aren't too damaged, but yeah it's not the same..
 
Some article said that if you kill yourself you'd have to stick around on Earth as like a ghost for the remainder of your life, and can't doing anything else until your life would have naturally ended anyways ha.
 
To keep going it's going to take some degree of emotional intelligence you can say but also the ability to push through and to be able to take large amounts of pain both physical and otherwise, you're going to have to make yourself to be 'born again hard', ha..
 
So probably just go out and get jobs or go to bars or whatever and make a complete idiot out of yourself for a while at first and be embarrassed, then go to new places where nobody knows you and you might have the ability at that point to be more of 'the man' so to speak.
 
I guess it could always be worse, you could be paralyzed AND be on Invega..
 
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Hopton09 said:
I don’t think there’s any healing this bro. I think it’s simple what happened. When the drug blocked the dopamine receptors it did it in such a strong way that just destroyed them. Once neurons are damaged they don’t heal. That’s the sad truth
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You know what drug destroys your ability to create dopamine naturally? I'll give you one guess & it's not invega (once it leaves your body & your receptors recover).
 
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My story of invega.

I was prescribed invega sustenna injection again last year. I was happy to be back on it. I was experiencing illusions and delusions before being put back on it. However, I decided to stop taking it.

I was due for my depot shot a week ago. It's been 7 weeks since my last dose. I am already noticing an improvement in my ability to have erections. The other deciding factor in coming off invega was the intense restlessness throughout my arms and legs that lasted hours. I have been taking 900mg of gabapentin daily to treat that so I do not know if it has gone away yet. I will know in the next 5 days if I do not become restless agaiin. I expect to lose the 20 pounds body weight that I gained while taking invega. So far, I have not lost any.

My psychiatrist is away from his office for a month. He cancelled our last appt. I chose against my pharmacy's advise not to stop taking invega without having it replaced with different atypical antipsychotics. I requested my depot clinic to not follow-up with phone calls after closing my file. I am certain I will be fine until I see my psychiatrist again.

I am curious, some of the posts I had read in this thread mentioned something related to negative effects of taking invega. What are your experiences?
 
Falk Gno said:
My story of invega.

I was prescribed invega sustenna injection again last year. I was happy to be back on it. I was experiencing illusions and delusions before being put back on it. However, I decided to stop taking it.

I was due for my depot shot a week ago. It's been 7 weeks since my last dose. I am already noticing an improvement in my ability to have erections. The other deciding factor in coming off invega was the intense restlessness throughout my arms and legs that lasted hours. I have been taking 900mg of gabapentin daily to treat that so I do not know if it has gone away yet. I will know in the next 5 days if I do not become restless agaiin. I expect to lose the 20 pounds body weight that I gained while taking invega. So far, I have not lost any.

My psychiatrist is away from his office for a month. He cancelled our last appt. I chose against my pharmacy's advise not to stop taking invega without having it replaced with different atypical antipsychotics. I requested my depot clinic to not follow-up with phone calls after closing my file. I am certain I will be fine until I see my psychiatrist again.

I am curious, some of the posts I had read in this thread mentioned something related to negative effects of taking invega. What are your experiences?
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Are you kidding? Most people here think it's the devil drug and rightly so. It fucks your brain up and everything else..
 
Yeah.so im not recovered yet.but i hope.i will. Basocally my mind isnt strong like it once was but i keep busy in the day. Like i used to talk alot and fast and had a quick mind, thats not back yet but im hoping it will come back. Ive recovered b4, but never been on meds this long either. So im hoping for the best. Ove heard ppl who were on meds many years say they were able to revert to normal.
 
I ultimately wasted alot of my 20's not really doing anything, kept trying to go to school but never doing anything with it, or working part time or something, or spent long periods of time not doing anything really at all. Then I'd get depressed and psychotic from isolating myself too much, would start to get really bad social anxiety where I could be pretty outgoing and social before etc..I discovered the spiritual stuff and then hated society and didn't want to participate in it anymore, but my parents were providing all of my basic needs for me. Or I was too concerned with trying to party or trying unsuccessfully for the most part to get girls instead of trying to make money being the main thing. If you're 18 or over you should look at the neighborhood or apartments you're in, and look at the houses around you, and you should at least be working as hard as all of those people in those houses to get anywhere, when you're younger you can waste some more time and fuck around a bit more, but you just might really regret it by the time you turn 35. In terms of the injections though there probably is a point where you've taken too many and are pretty much screwed, I've had 4 years worth of injections and am not writing myself off just yet but maybe that point is 5 or 10 years worth or something.
 
I'd even be willing to say that I've had it pretty easy in life at least in terms of living in this country and growing up with both parents who made decent money and things like that if it wasn't for those injections. I'd have nothing to complain about if it wasn't for those. I took it all for granted, having emotions everything. Way to end my 20's with a bang. And I came here as an immigrant too when I was four years old, from Uzbekistan, do ya'll even know where that is?..This is all the most retarded shit that's ever happened. If I could go back in time to see my younger self I would beat his ass really bad. Coulda woulda shoulda I guess..kind of how I was this weird ass kid growing up and there was this one girl who I knew from like third grade all the way through the end of highschool that was hot and actually liked me at the time, and I couldn't ask her out or nothing, she might've even seen me get fucked with by other kids too, ended up dating some douchebags or whatever, saw her later on her Myspace page back in the day and it looked like she had some kids and put on some weight. Anyways that's about all I have for now. It looks like I start the new job on monday actually too unless they say something different.
 
Falk Gno said:
My story of invega.

I was prescribed invega sustenna injection again last year. I was happy to be back on it. I was experiencing illusions and delusions before being put back on it. However, I decided to stop taking it.

I was due for my depot shot a week ago. It's been 7 weeks since my last dose. I am already noticing an improvement in my ability to have erections. The other deciding factor in coming off invega was the intense restlessness throughout my arms and legs that lasted hours. I have been taking 900mg of gabapentin daily to treat that so I do not know if it has gone away yet. I will know in the next 5 days if I do not become restless agaiin. I expect to lose the 20 pounds body weight that I gained while taking invega. So far, I have not lost any.

My psychiatrist is away from his office for a month. He cancelled our last appt. I chose against my pharmacy's advise not to stop taking invega without having it replaced with different atypical antipsychotics. I requested my depot clinic to not follow-up with phone calls after closing my file. I am certain I will be fine until I see my psychiatrist again.

I am curious, some of the posts I had read in this thread mentioned something related to negative effects of taking invega. What are your experiences?
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Akathisia, chest discomfort, severe fatigue, anhedonia, erectile dysfunction, loss of appetite, weight gain, eye movement disorders, and broken sleep are the symptoms I have faced and still deal with.

The drug is very toxic and shouldn’t be administered under any circumstance. Each shot lasts for about a year when it’s intended to last only for a month.

The drug is broken and should be banned. It’s ruining lives. The Wikipedia article even talks about how people have been killed from taking it, which scares me. I do feel very heavy at times and almost like I’m gonna collapse on the ground.

I would suggest you not take it. Take something else if you need an antipsychotic, and stay away from injectables, especially this one. It’s way too potent and even deadly.

Hopefully in the coming years some sort of committee can look into this and audit the drug and get it discontinued. Though I’m not sure about that considering nothing was done after a group of people got killed by this drug.

I’ve lost 3.5 months of my life and will be losing more months because of a misdiagnosis and a psychiatrist who doesn’t care about the well being of a human. Psychiatrists will never take the shot so they will never know the damaging effects. They just know how to dish out damage and shorten lifespans. This is one of those situations that calls for experts to take this drug first hand to get an idea of our suffering.

Very evil and cruel.
 
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FutureIsBrighter said:
@Kaatrina when did you lose the weight after stopping invega ? how muck time did it take to lose ALL the weight gained
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I was emaciated when I got shot but I was back to my regular size 6 jean by ~15 months. I had an internship where I had to walk a lot and that helped me lose the weight but I also went to the gym
 
masamune1 said:
Akathisia, chest discomfort, severe fatigue, anhedonia, erectile dysfunction, loss of appetite, weight gain, eye movement disorders, and broken sleep are the symptoms I have faced and still deal with.

The drug is very toxic and shouldn’t be administered under any circumstance. Each shot lasts for about a year when it’s intended to last only for a month.

The drug is broken and should be banned. It’s ruining lives. The Wikipedia article even talks about how people have been killed from taking it, which scares me. I do feel very heavy at times and almost like I’m gonna collapse on the ground.

I would suggest you not take it. Take something else if you need an antipsychotic, and stay away from injectables, especially this one. It’s way too potent and even deadly.

Hopefully in the coming years some sort of committee can look into this and audit the drug and get it discontinued. Though I’m not sure about that considering nothing was done after a group of people got killed by this drug.

I’ve lost 3.5 months of my life and will be losing more months because of a misdiagnosis and a psychiatrist who doesn’t care about the well being of a human. Psychiatrists will never take the shot so they will never know the damaging effects. They just know how to dish out damage and shorten lifespans. This is one of those situations that calls for experts to take this drug first hand to get an idea of our suffering.

Very evil and cruel.
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Not only that they should pay out money to the people who've been injected with it, class action lawsuit. I want a million for four years of it.
 
Dre87 said:
Not only that they should pay out money to the people who've been injected with it, class action lawsuit. I want a million for four years of it.
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They should but they won’t. The drug has killed people and the studies most likely blamed other things for the murders.

We should be getting compensated but obviously we won’t. The murders were in 2014, and a year later the 3 month version got approved which should tell you something.

Mentally ill people are disposable trash so it’s best to be on good behavior to avoid the toxic drugs.
 
Syntax said:
no man im pretty sure its exactly the same thing just a different name cos its in different countries. a lot of pharmaceutical drugs are called different things in different countries but are the exact same thing
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Some users here that have received Invega report that weed is working on them. But me six months off Xeplion still does not feel anything on weed
 
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