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

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I know I talk about this a lot but will I recover sexually? I've been off invega for almost a year but was switched onto haldol for a couple months then abilify. My penis feel numb and no pleasure when masturbating. I just want to feel pleasure when masturbating and having sex again.
 
Airwick said:
I know I talk about this a lot but will I recover sexually? I've been off invega for almost a year but was switched onto haldol for a couple months then abilify. My penis feel numb and no pleasure when masturbating. I just want to feel pleasure when masturbating and having sex again.
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It’s cool it really sucks to have a dick that feels like a piece of plastic but you will not recover sexually if you are still on abilify. You think you still need to be on anti psychotics?
 
Merek said:
It’s cool it really sucks to have a dick that feels like a piece of plastic but you will not recover sexually if you are still on abilify. You think you still need to be on anti psychotics?
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I had my last injection last month, I'm on the journey to recovery now. Thanks for responding
 
Airwick said:
I had my last injection last month, I'm on the journey to recovery now. Thanks for responding
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That’s good If you aren’t on any other meds sexual dysfunction should go away around 6 months or so I’m 4 months off invega and still have sexual dysfunction.
 
I agree everyone, I’m definitely going to be cutting down at the very least, and if that doesn’t work I’ll stop smoking. I guess it’s an addiction thing, I’ve almost always had some high throughout my life, so feeling normal feels weird & bad to me.
 
Does anyone else feel like they don’t have empathy? Like if something bad happens to the people I’m close with, it bothers me, I think about it a lot, and try to help, but I don’t FEEL anything. Is it just me? Idk if it even makes sense
 
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Does anyone else feel like they don’t have empathy? Like if something bad happens to the people I’m close with, it bothers me, I think about it a lot, and try to help, but I don’t FEEL anything. Is it just me? Idk if it even makes sense
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Yeah man I had a homie who was like a brother to me die a month back and I didn’t feel shit I knew him since I was like 6 years old and we hungout everyday crazy how invega can make you so numb it makes a lot of sense. I also had my grandma end up inna hospital with chronic pain and didn’t feel any empathy.
 
Merek said:
Yeah man I had a homie who was like a brother to me die a month back and I didn’t feel shit I knew him since I was like 6 years old and we hungout everyday crazy how invega can make you so numb it makes a lot of sense. I also had my grandma end up inna hospital with chronic pain and didn’t feel any empathy.
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Sorry to hear about your friend man, I’m sure thinking about that is depressing. This shit scares me, because I love my family very much, but if something goes wrong, like my grandma dies, I don’t want them to think I don’t care. But there’s just nothing I can do. I can’t feel shit. I’m hoping it comes back.
 
bignastyctg said:
Sorry to hear about your friend man, I’m sure thinking about that is depressing. This shit scares me, because I love my family very much, but if something goes wrong, like my grandma dies, I don’t want them to think I don’t care. But there’s just nothing I can do. I can’t feel shit. I’m hoping it comes back.
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I’m kinda starting to recover emotions a little bit and whenever I do some stuff I used to do with my friend it reminds me of him I felt a little bit sad cause of it it wasn’t much but maybe it’s a sign of recovery it will definitely come back with time.
 
bignastyctg said:
Does anyone else feel like they don’t have empathy? Like if something bad happens to the people I’m close with, it bothers me, I think about it a lot, and try to help, but I don’t FEEL anything. Is it just me? Idk if it even makes sense
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bignastyctg said:
Sorry to hear about your friend man, I’m sure thinking about that is depressing. This shit scares me, because I love my family very much, but if something goes wrong, like my grandma dies, I don’t want them to think I don’t care. But there’s just nothing I can do. I can’t feel shit. I’m hoping it comes back.
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Yeah it's a normal feeling, I felt the same way about my kids & how I felt like I wouldn't have felt any emotions if they died. All those feelings come back.
 
I find it hard to study after the injections.
Before, I could understand because my mind would use creativity and imagination in order to grasp new concepts of understanding.
Now my mind is mostly blank so it makes it hard to digest new material, for example learning how to code is now harder.

This is so frustrating, I wonder if @Kaatrina used to suffer from the same thing, and did she recover from this. 🤔
 
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Some people need to be on meds, but what Invega Sustenna does is like none other. I find it kinda funny how ppl are like “get off your meds” ppl could go manic, go into psychosis, have untreatable depression and need medication. Just because you’re totally against medication doesn’t mean everyone else is. Not all medication makes you feel like shit. I was cymbalta an antidepressant from age 23 to 32 and felt on top of world with zero side effects. Not alll medication is bad. I’m approaching a year off Invega Sustenna still feeling the side effects of it! My doctor said I’m not a good candidate for antipsychotics
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I agree ive been off my rocker for a while. Not schizophrenia or pyschosis though. Just bat shit crazy. But I refuse the medication like fuck no.
 
Day 99:

Still suffer from blank mind, anhedonia, and sexual dysfunction severely. All other symptoms have subsided. Worst decision of my life was to take invega sustenna. I’m hoping I recover around the 200 day mark. Should be on my third half life by now.
 
I wish my memory wasn’t so bad, I feel like a dementia patient. I can never remember the day before yesterday. Yesterday is pretty foggy but I can remember most of what happened, but it’s gone the next day. And my short term memory is just as bad. By the time I get to the end of a long paragraph, I’ve forgotten what the first half was about.
 
I can feel myself start to get a boner from having sexual thoughts so that's good lmao. I think it's true that abilify is better for sex. Some people say they have no side effects while unfortunately for me I have terrible side effects.
 
It usually takes the negative symptoms (apathy, melancholia, blank affect, socializing) a lot longer than the positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions) to remit with antipsychotics. Heard it can take several months. Just wanted to add.
 
Anti psychotics only help the positive symptoms they actually amplify negative symptoms and bring on secondary negative symptoms you didn’t have to begin with.
 
Merek said:
Anti psychotics only help the positive symptoms they actually amplify negative symptoms and bring on secondary negative symptoms you didn’t have to begin with.
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Does that mean that antipsychotics were doing nothing for my bipolar depression? Or making it worse (that’s what it felt like)? Or am I misunderstanding?
 
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