Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v 6.0

[HelpMeInvega]

Sorry to hear that, I've been in a severe case of depression as well, which lasts 24/7 as I constantly think about how much better my life would be at the moment had this never occurred, and where I'd be at the moment. I hate it because I never truly felt comfortable and confident with myself as a person until the second half of last year, for basically everything to get ruined by the end of last year. I'd probably be able to overcome it had I not suffered from well over a dozen side effects. I'm sure it’s possible to recover from it to an extent, but I honestly don't see how I'd return to my completely healthy prior self.

I’m the same as you, constantly thinking about how great my life was prior to psychosis, I was married, fit, great job, big house, everything. I lost everything to psychosis. I often replay what my life would be like had this never happened to me as well. I was also taking adderall so I felt on top of the world all the time and was working at full capacity in every aspect of life and now I’m just so bogged down by everything life is truly depressing as hell.

 

[apsucks]

it does irreversable antagonist for only one type of serotonine receptors responsible for mood and memory. And irreversable antagonism is when antagonist does molecular bound with receptor meaning it can not get off the receptor, body must replace the receptor and that takes long, invega is also toxic.

Receptor recycling is a pain in the ass takes up to four years to completely recycle receptors

 

[apsucks]

I’m the same as you, constantly thinking about how great my life was prior to psychosis, I was married, fit, great job, big house, everything. I lost everything to psychosis. I often replay what my life would be like had this never happened to me as well. I was also taking adderall so I felt on top of the world all the time and was working at full capacity in every aspect of life and now I’m just so bogged down by everything life is truly depressing as hell.

what is your age

 

[HelpMeInvega]

what is your age

35

 

[CrimsonThornX]

I’m the same as you, constantly thinking about how great my life was prior to psychosis, I was married, fit, great job, big house, everything. I lost everything to psychosis. I often replay what my life would be like had this never happened to me as well. I was also taking adderall so I felt on top of the world all the time and was working at full capacity in every aspect of life and now I’m just so bogged down by everything life is truly depressing as hell.

When you say you lost everything does that include your marriage, job, and house? If so then that must be extraordinarily difficult to deal with. I certainly hadn't achieved what you have obtained and accomplished, but I still felt pretty content with my life going at my own pace. In my case I don't suffer from psychosis but rather a horrible misdiagnosis lead to me getting injected.

 

[HelpMeInvega]

Yupe

When you say you lost everything does that include your marriage, job, and house? If so then that must be extraordinarily difficult to deal with. I certainly hadn't achieved what you have obtained and accomplished, but I still felt pretty content with my life going at my own pace. In my case I don't suffer from psychosis but rather a horrible misdiagnosis lead to me getting injected.

Well a divorced happened after psychosis after my ex found out I wasn’t perfect so the house was gone, and the job I could probably go back to but Invega Sustenna took me outta that for quite a while. So yeah lost everything.

 

[paranoid android]

Yeah I figured, after years I was finally starting to achieve the appearance I wanted, with a minimal fat percentage and lean muscle mass, just for all that effort to get completely thrown out the window. Now I'm back where I started years ago but even worse. I felt pretty confident about my appearance at the time but now that I gained over 50 pounds in such a short span of time and have somewhat prominent manboobs I feel uncomfortable about showing myself im public, especially to those that saw how different I was just months ago.

I became a fat fuck on invega and also abilify. I was on invega for 3 months or so and abilify for 18+ months. But when i got switched to latuda the weight came off no problem. However latuda stopped working and i got akathisia from it so i had to switch to zyprexa and as bad as a rep as it gets for weight gain i have only put on 5lbs in the over 3 months i have been on it. I am also back to lifting weights and i am getting in shape again so the weight is probably just muscle. I am working out with way heavier weights then when i started to. Now if i could only lose abit of belly fat i would be happy.

I would suggest talking to your doctor about switching to zyprexa.

 

[paranoid android]

Sorry to hear that, I've been in a severe case of depression as well, which lasts 24/7 as I constantly think about how much better my life would be at the moment had this never occurred, and where I'd be at the moment. I hate it because I never truly felt comfortable and confident with myself as a person until the second half of last year, for basically everything to get ruined by the end of last year. I'd probably be able to overcome it had I not suffered from well over a dozen side effects. I'm sure its possible to recover from it to an extent, but I honestly don't see how I'd return to my completely healthy prior self.

How long where you on invega? How long it takes to recover seems to depend ion how long you where on it

Im just curious, is it more difficult to loose weight and gain muscle mass after being on invega? From what I've heard it seems to be something that most people seem to struggle with. Last time I went I only had a small amount of my usual strength and nearly passed out after doing cardio which has never been a problem before. To this day I'll genuinely never understand how something so devastating, so debilitating was approved as a supposed effective treatment for schizophrenia.

It pisses me off that whatever they do to you in the psych ward is called therapy when it is clearly punishment. How is shooting someone up with something as awful as invega treatment and not punishment? I think i would rather undergo physical fucking torture then that shit

 

[HelpMeInvega]

I know a guy on Invega Sustenna and his doctor told him “Invega Sustenna is for the well behaved schizos” that’s what he told me today

 

[paranoid android]

I know a guy on Invega Sustenna and his doctor told him “Invega Sustenna is for the well behaved schizos” that’s what he told me today

That is unprofessional to say the least. What is for the schizos that don't behave then?

Fuck i hate western society

 

[HelpMeInvega]

That is unprofessional to say the least. What is for the schizos that don't behave then?

Fuck i hate western society

Yeah for real! lol he said his doctor told him it’s not a strong antipsychotic and that it’s one of the weaker ones and all this stuff.

 

[CrimsonThornX]

How long where you on invega? How long it takes to recover seems to depend ion how long you where on it



It pisses me off that whatever they do to you in the psych ward is called therapy when it is clearly punishment. How is shooting someone up with something as awful as invega treatment and not punishment? I think i would rather undergo physical fucking torture then that shit

I only took the loading dose of 234 mg, I was going to recieve another a week after but thankfully I got out of that situation afterwards. So far I've felt practically no change or improvement whatsoever, the more I pay attention to side effects the more I realize there's certain things I had missed. I have many concerns but my primary one is the fact that I literally only sleep for 30 mins to an hour at a time, which has been the case for 3 and a half months or so. I already suffered something similar to a stroke, and have heart palpitations which was never an issue before so I'm extremely concerned. And no kidding, I would've rather suffered from various forms of physical torture then to deal with this, it's already a form of mental and physical torture of its own.

 

[paranoid android]

Yeah for real! lol he said his doctor told him it’s not a strong antipsychotic and that it’s one of the weaker ones and all this stuff.

WTF? Are you serious? Invega is almost as potent as haldol ffs

I only took the loading dose of 234 mg, I was going to recieve another a week after but thankfully I got out of that situation afterwards. So far I've felt practically no change or improvement whatsoever, the more I pay attention to side effects the more I realize there's certain things I had missed. I have many concerns but my primary one is the fact that I literally only sleep for 30 mins to an hour at a time, which has been the case for 3 and a half months or so. I already suffered something similar to a stroke, and have heart palpitations which was never an issue before so I'm extremely concerned. And no kidding, I would've rather suffered from various forms of physical torture then to deal with this, it's already a form of mental and physical torture of its own.

Well thank fuck you are safe now. I can't tell you the dose of invega i was on as they didnt tell me it was basically shut the fuck up and get your shot. I fucking hate psychiatric nurses goddamn. You will be ok it just takes time. I would recommend getting some sleeping pills from your doc as not sleeping will definetely prolong your recovery time.

 

[CrimsonThornX]

If side effects from invega sustenna are this severe and last that ridiculously long just imagine the people that recieved something more concentrated like invega hayfera or invega trinza, though they'd only get it after having been treated for a while. If my damn psychiatrist AT LEAST gave me the pill version I don't think I'd be as mentally and physically damaged, even though it's released gradually. I literally always did intensive research prior to taking a new medication, and the only time I didn't was the only time a medication completely fucked me up. I wouldn't even refer to it as a medication at this rate, it's nothing more than just pure poison. I'm also suprised by how negatively affected people were from abilify, I was indifferent to it and didn't suffer from any side effects as far as I could tell.

 

[CrimsonThornX]

Ok yeah it's not just me my vision is severely altered as hell. No matter how desperately I try to focus straight ahead my vision is constantly crossed and blurred more then it already was.

 

[Merek]

Sorry to hear that, I've been in a severe case of depression as well, which lasts 24/7 as I constantly think about how much better my life would be at the moment had this never occurred, and where I'd be at the moment. I hate it because I never truly felt comfortable and confident with myself as a person until the second half of last year, for basically everything to get ruined by the end of last year. I'd probably be able to overcome it had I not suffered from well over a dozen side effects. I'm sure its possible to recover from it to an extent, but I honestly don't see how I'd return to my completely healthy prior self.

You sound like a lot worse of a case then me which is crazy since you only got one shot of 234mg I took the 2 shots so 390mg total we all process and react to these drugs differently people who don’t have schizophrenia or psychosis are usually a lot worse off, I always used to think the same way “what would have life been like if I hadn’t taken invega it would be so much better” I no longer think that way anymore now if I could go back in time and prevent myself from being injected I wouldn’t do it, hitting the deepest depths of rock bottom was a very hard challenge to overcome but now that I have I’m a much stronger person cause of it when my dopamine and serotonin came back a good amount (it still isn’t entirely back yet I got even more room for improvement) it felt like eating a fancy luxury meal after starving for 7 months I sighed the biggest sigh of relief ever, you’re still early in your recovery so keep your hopes up maybe one day this will all just be a bad memory for you and you’ll be able to live a good quality life again, with as severe as a case as yours it will probably take you longer then 7 months to recover ive sped up the process of my recovery by micro dosing LSD which kinda gives you that same on top of the world feeling HelpMeInvega mentioned that aderall gives you although it’s not as intense as adderall and there’s no addiction, severe comedown, or neurotoxicity to it, however if you only took 1 234mg shot I can’t imagine it taking longer then 12 months to recover 100%.

 

[Merek]

This happened to my vision as well! I’m surprised this happened to only being on it for such a short period of time. I talk to a lot of people who’ve been on invega Sustenna and for some people it’s just pure toxic me being one of them and by the sounds of it for you as well. Some people can tolerate the drug and get over it quite quickly and for others it ruins things like their body, eyes and basically everything every single thing. Everything you mentioned happened to me I was on it for 17 months! I went from 100lbs to 140lbs fast from antipsychotics and now I’m back down to 110llbs but 110lbs before antipsychotics looked way different then 110lbs after antipsychotics and I think I’m fighting off a really bad case of depression at the moment to be totally honest.

Feeling depressed can be a good sign, Invega tends to completely numb you out and give you crippling anhedonia which is way worse then depression could ever be, depression is often the first emotion to come back during recovery it’s completely normal after everything you’ve gone through you have every right to feel that way, depression can be a big part of anti psychotic withdrawal so maybe your latuda taper is why you feel depressed don’t stop tapering though it’s the right move and the feeling of depression is the process of your brain healing it’s self.

 

[Serhat]

Im just curious, is it more difficult to loose weight and gain muscle mass after being on invega? From what I've heard it seems to be something that most people seem to struggle with. Last time I went I only had a small amount of my usual strength and nearly passed out after doing cardio which has never been a problem before. To this day I'll genuinely never understand how something so devastating, so debilitating was approved as a supposed effective treatment for schizophrenia.

Idk about that but I lost 15kg while being on invega, it never effected my losing weight. I was eating healthy and going gym lost 15kg in 3 months

 

[Merek]

Idk about that but I lost 15kg while being on invega, it never effected my losing weight. I was eating healthy and going gym lost 15kg in 3 months

it seems like invega didn’t hit you as hard as most people even me which probably means you should heal faster, I couldn’t lose any weight at all on invega in fact I gained 27 pounds in 2 months or so I couldn’t lose any weight at all until I was 4 months off the injections.

 

[CrimsonThornX]

You sound like a lot worse of a case then me which is crazy since you only got one shot of 234mg I took the 2 shots so 390mg total we all process and react to these drugs differently people who don’t have schizophrenia or psychosis are usually a lot worse off, I always used to think the same way “what would have life been like if I hadn’t taken invega it would be so much better” I no longer think that way anymore now if I could go back in time and prevent myself from being injected I wouldn’t do it, hitting the deepest depths of rock bottom was a very hard challenge to overcome but now that I have I’m a much stronger person cause of it when my dopamine and serotonin came back a good amount (it still isn’t entirely back yet I got even more room for improvement) it felt like eating a fancy luxury meal after starving for 7 months I sighed the biggest sigh of relief ever, you’re still early in your recovery so keep your hopes up maybe one day this will all just be a bad memory for you and you’ll be able to live a good quality life again, with as severe as a case as yours it will probably take you longer then 7 months to recover ive sped up the process of my recovery by micro dosing LSD which kinda gives you that same on top of the world feeling HelpMeInvega mentioned that aderall gives you although it’s not as intense as adderall and there’s no addiction, severe comedown, or neurotoxicity to it, however if you only took 1 234mg shot I can’t imagine it taking longer then 12 months to recover 100%.

Considering the fact that pretty much everyone that I know of can still recieve at least a few hours of sleep goes to show that it screwed me over more than most people, others apparently even oversleep on it. I never spoke much of it but my main other concern is, assuming I can talk about it here, erectile dysfunction. Without going into much detail let's just say that I was err, quite active to say the least. Nowadays I feel like a child that hasn't undergone puberty yet. Aside from that there's also the lack of pleasure or satisfaction from doing anything, in other words anhedonia. Now that I think about it I think the main reason why I rapidly gained that much weight in a brief period of time is because it increased my appetite and prevented me from feeling as full afterwards, though I noticed that feeling has improved over time. Since I have felt very minimal improvement I feel as it even a year won't be a sufficient amount of time to recover but who knows.