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

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Masterp423 said:
Yeah that happens to me too. When I cough I almost pass out sometimes. And these coughs aren’t THAT severe. And sometimes when I get up out of bed I get lightheaded but I don’t think mines related to antipsychotics
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Mines defo related to AP's, causes I never had any problem like this before taking em. But yeah. When did these coughs start?
 
Serhat96 said:
Mines defo related to AP's, causes I never had any problem like this before taking em. But yeah. When did these coughs start?
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Well I’ve been coughing for years because of vaping. Sometimes are worse than others but I started almost passing out from it right after I received the deadly head wound in early September of 2019
 
Masterp423 said:
Well I’ve been coughing for years because of vaping. Sometimes are worse than others but I started almost passing out from it right after I received the deadly head wound in early September of 2019
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Oh I'm sorry about that. Is there any treatment for it
 
Does anyone else feel like they're being suffocated? While being on the injection or off it idk. Is it called Asphyxia?
 
Senior Moderator said:
This happened to me when I experienced complete loss of libido for 3 years even AFTER stopping Prozac. This was about 20 years ago, I saw many different doctors, and a couple of specialists about it. They all palmed me off, basically insinuating that I shouldn't be so worried about it because it was just a loss of libido and nothing serious. I too was asked the question several times "How important is your sexual function to you?". Given that I was in my young 20s at the time and in a long-term relationship with someone who had a high sex drive, it was very fucking important!!!! I really don't understand how medical professionals can understate or even completely overlook the importance of sexual function in young people.....
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It's crazy how psychiatrists can insult us and belittle and downplay our psychiatric-medication-induced sexual dysfunction problems, when they themselves negligently caused them in the first place!!

One of my psychiatrists did the same thing with my paliperidone-induced sexual dysfunction and depression.

Now, I later saw my current psychiatrist, who has a sexual dysfunction credential and has been willing to prescribe me off label sexual dysfunction medications (nothing has worked though).

But this previous psychiatrist had no expertise on sexual dysfunction whatsoever, he didn't tell me to see my doctor, get my hormones tested, see my urologist, see a sexual medicine specialist, find a psychiatrist who can prescribe sexual dysfunction meds, etc. He didn't ever offer any medication, not even viagra, etc. He refused to blame the paliperidone for it, when there was no other candidate.

He at one point decided that is was "anxiety" (although I have never had anxiety), implying that it was due to my behavior/mindset, etc. which of course, we know has nothing to do with anything in the case of medication-induced sexual dysfunction.

He downplayed my terrible, severe sexual dysfunction problem (erectile dysfunction, orgasm problems, sexual anhedonia--zero ability to feel pleasure, low libido) and told me to find another source of pleasure, even though I was seeing him about my depression with total anhedonia, as well, which means I was already seeing him about the precise problem that I had no source of pleasure and no ability to feel any pleasure or have good feelings or enjoyment in anything. It was highly offensive and tone deaf; as if anyone should be deprived of their sexual dysfunctioning! Callous psychiatrists and doctors like these really need to be disciplined and, better yet, removed from medicine--such behavior of theirs is highly inappropriate.

I am super sorry to hear that you had long term severe sexual dysfunction (no libido, etc.) from prozac. It seems you made a full or somewhat full recovery after three years? Which is good that you recovered, but terrible that you had to suffer that problem at all, much less for so long.

You may now know by now, that SSRI/SNRI induced sexual dysfunction is a huge problem that psychiatrists still downplay or omit mention of altogether. I bet your psychiatrist who prescribed you and/or oversaw you taking prozac never warned you of the risks at all. In the small event he or she did, I'm betting they downplayed it, as being a mild, easily reversible and treatable problem. No psychiatrists, to my knowledge, come clean about these risks and disclose to their patients that the side effect is incurable, life destroyingly severe and could be permanent (because, who on earth would want to ever take such medication if informed that this could be one of the serious possible side effects?!!?)

The problem you experienced, as I'm sure you know, continues to the present day with no known cure and not enough research and attention paid to the problem.

Consider these two links if you haven't seen them,
rxisk.org

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) - RxISK

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a condition in which sexual function does not return to normal after the use of SSRIs and related antidepressants.
rxisk.org rxisk.org
rxisk.org

A PSSD Story - RxISK

Editorial Note: This is the fourth of five posts running over two weeks, about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). The first was Wikipedia Editor inserts Foot in Mouth, followed by 120 cases of PSSD, and Recovering from PSSD. I first took citalopram in November 2007, at the age of 22. I had...
rxisk.org rxisk.org
If you haven't contacted the website founder, consider doing so, since he is particularly concerned with and focused on post SSRI sexual dysfunction.
 
prinzfrost said:
It's crazy how psychiatrists can insult us and belittle and downplay our psychiatric-medication-induced sexual dysfunction problems, when they themselves negligently caused them in the first place!!

One of my psychiatrists did the same thing with my paliperidone-induced sexual dysfunction and depression.

Now, I later saw my current psychiatrist, who has a sexual dysfunction credential and has been willing to prescribe me off label sexual dysfunction medications (nothing has worked though).

But this previous psychiatrist had no expertise on sexual dysfunction whatsoever, he didn't tell me to see my doctor, get my hormones tested, see my urologist, see a sexual medicine specialist, find a psychiatrist who can prescribe sexual dysfunction meds, etc. He didn't ever offer any medication, not even viagra, etc. He refused to blame the paliperidone for it, when there was no other candidate.

He at one point decided that is was "anxiety" (although I have never had anxiety), implying that it was due to my behavior/mindset, etc. which of course, we know has nothing to do with anything in the case of medication-induced sexual dysfunction.

He downplayed my terrible, severe sexual dysfunction problem (erectile dysfunction, orgasm problems, sexual anhedonia--zero ability to feel pleasure, low libido) and told me to find another source of pleasure, even though I was seeing him about my depression with total anhedonia, as well, which means I was already seeing him about the precise problem that I had no source of pleasure and no ability to feel any pleasure or have good feelings or enjoyment in anything. It was highly offensive and tone deaf; as if anyone should be deprived of their sexual dysfunctioning! Callous psychiatrists and doctors like these really need to be disciplined and, better yet, removed from medicine--such behavior of theirs is highly inappropriate.

I am super sorry to hear that you had long term severe sexual dysfunction (no libido, etc.) from prozac. It seems you made a full or somewhat full recovery after three years? Which is good that you recovered, but terrible that you had to suffer that problem at all, much less for so long.

You may now know by now, that SSRI/SNRI induced sexual dysfunction is a huge problem that psychiatrists still downplay or omit mention of altogether. I bet your psychiatrist who prescribed you and/or oversaw you taking prozac never warned you of the risks at all. In the small event he or she did, I'm betting they downplayed it, as being a mild, easily reversible and treatable problem. No psychiatrists, to my knowledge, come clean about these risks and disclose to their patients that the side effect is incurable, life destroyingly severe and could be permanent (because, who on earth would want to ever take such medication if informed that this could be one of the serious possible side effects?!!?)

The problem you experienced, as I'm sure you know, continues to the present day with no known cure and not enough research and attention paid to the problem.

Consider these two links if you haven't seen them,
rxisk.org

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) - RxISK

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a condition in which sexual function does not return to normal after the use of SSRIs and related antidepressants.
rxisk.org rxisk.org
rxisk.org

A PSSD Story - RxISK

Editorial Note: This is the fourth of five posts running over two weeks, about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). The first was Wikipedia Editor inserts Foot in Mouth, followed by 120 cases of PSSD, and Recovering from PSSD. I first took citalopram in November 2007, at the age of 22. I had...
rxisk.org rxisk.org
If you haven't contacted the website founder, consider doing so, since he is particularly concerned with and focused on post SSRI sexual dysfunction.
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Do y’all ever get a feeling of impending doom? Or that feeling in your stomach like something bad is gonna happen?
 
Does anyone have any eye problem, eye twitching, rolling on its own any sort of effect done by paliperidone
 
Serhat96 said:
Does anyone else feel like they're being suffocated? While being on the injection or off it idk. Is it called Asphyxia?
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I never had breathing problems from paliperidone, but as I've mentioned various times before, I developed breathing problems, somewhat like you are talking about, when I took abilify. I know it was abilify that caused my problem, because I never had the problem at any time in my life, except when I took abilify, and I took abilify twice, 10 years apart, and this problem developed both times!!

My problem lasted for about a month on both occasions that were ten years apart. What happened, in my opinion and based on all evidence, was basically a central breathing problem, or a failure of the subcortex to do its job to keep involuntary, automatic, effortless breathing going. The first time this problem happened to me, in 2012, it was a central inability to breathe when I tried to nap. It felt like drowning and being waterboarded, I just couldn't nap because I would stop breathing as I was slipping into sleep. This problem reappeared again this Thanksgiving 2022 (which was around the time I had just stopped abilify, having taking it for the second time in my life), and was basically the same problem except when I was trying to sleep at night. My doctors eventually just gave me a vague sleep apnea diagnosis and told me to see a sleep clinic. I did not see anybody or a sleep clinic the first time the problem happened in 2012, though I was trying to, but eventually the problem disappeared on its own after a painful month.

Now, this second time, the problem disappeared again, after about a month, but I still have a sleep clinic appointment scheduled later this spring (unbelievable they couldn't try to help me sooner). I'm still planning on meeting with them, if only to advocate for this problem and bring to their attention that there exists central breathing problems caused by abilify that they probably don't recognize and aren't familiar with. Anyway, during my recent bout of these abilify caused breathing problems, after Thanksgiving 2022, I also, in addition to the sleep breathing problem, developed breathing problems while I was awake! My doctors prescribed to me two different inhalers but they did not noticeably help with the problem.

Thank goodness this problem went away because, to my understanding, there is no known cure for central breathing problems and I don't even think there are effective treatments that can even provide relief! I didn't try a CPAP machine, for instance, but I'm guessing it probably wouldn't have even provided me with any relief at all. So anyway, I hope to get the sleep clinic to retroactively diagnose me with abilify (medication) induced central ventilation syndrome/central sleep apnea/waking shortness of breathing/waking central breathing problems, so I can get this in my medical record and hopefully, also, make local doctors aware of this problem. I am hoping to advocate more for this problem to bring attention to it within the wider medical community and the public. I am also hoping to pursue litigation and licensing and discipline complaints in regards to the negligence involved, since the drug manufacturer for abilify and the prescribing psychiatrists did not warn me about these side effects.
 
Serhat96 said:
Does anyone have any eye problem, eye twitching, rolling on its own any sort of effect done by paliperidone
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No, not from paliperidone (most likely), but I did develop eye itchiness, dryness and irritation, this October through November. I had never experienced anything like it in my life. It was daily itchiness and irritation. I saw my eye doctor and he believed it was caused my psychiatric medicine I had been taking. At the time, I had been recently been taking abilify and escitalopram. I still am not sure nor think anyone could determine which medication caused my eye problems. This is yet another matter of severe side effects from psychiatric medication that I would need to investigate because its something which psychiatry knows little about and doesn't acknowledge, and there may be unknown numbers of sufferers in the woodwork. It's crazy that psychiatric medicine can cause eye problems, too!

Anyway, the eye doctor prescribed me steroidal eye drops and they solved the problem, although when I started the steroidal eye drops, I developed severe sneezing and irritated nose/runny nose. I no longer take the steroidal eye drops very often since I don't need them, and the problem of sneezing seems to have gone away.
 
Merek said:
There’s a stigma behind people with psychosis/schizophrenia in the eyes of the doctors, government, and most psychiatrists (I have a good psychiatrist not all are bad), they think we’re just crazy people who are a threat to ourselves or others who would never contribute anything to society it’s fucked up that they give people these drugs you never hear about this happening in Russia if maybe one day america lost a war, civil war it would be revealed in history classes in later years that giving drugs like paliparadone to people was a cruel form of torture kind of like the Holocaust I hope one day justice will be served, I’m sorry to hear you haven’t recovered but some people recover in 4-7 years so maybe you will one day I have a lot of respect for what you’re doing trying to inspire change keep it up.
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I agree with everything you are saying.

I, too, believe one of the reasons, perhaps the main one, why no one cares about our suffering and the reason psychiatrists are so abusive and callous in this regard and get away with it, is because society/medicine/psychiatry looks down on / regards as subhuman, anyone associated with a psychotic disorder or any abnormal psychiatric/psychological issue, and even those with other disorders and psychological issues. I also agree with you bringing up the Holocaust. Genocide and atrocities and the Holocaust have always disturbed me greatly and I've spent much of my life researching them, thinking and reflecting on them, etc. but I have the same sentiment as you do, feeling that our suffering and this catastrophic, endemic mistreatment, deception and poisoning, this terrible injustice that is the epidemic of antipsychotic and paliperidone side effects (including life-destroying, incurable, severe depression and sexual dysfunction) must be called atrocities, atrocities that should be remembered in the history books.

Thanks for your words of support.
 
I’ve been looking at some older posts on these forums and I get the feeling that a lot of people who’ve been injected ended up committing suicide you guys remember @Hopton09 I think he took his life and some other people, I’ve also read a lot of stories on the internet about people committing suicide and many of them were on anti psychotic medications @prinzfrost this is definitely worth mentioning to the psychiatrists you are trying to reach out too, Ik if I had an easy way to commit suicide I definitely would have when I was in my hell phase.
 
Hi guys,

I'm someone who successfully came off invega a couple years ago. It took me 6 months to not feel suicidal and about another 6 to be 100%. I have recently had another pysch episode and been given 2 doses (150 mg each) of Clopixol Depot and asked my pdoc to come off for similar reasons to invega (akathesia, being suicidal, restlessness, slight anhedonia). Does anybody know how long till I feel better (I'm not suicidal now but I have pretty bad restlessness and I can't nap)? I'm 38 days in and almost 4 weeks of withdrawal. Everywhere online says I should've been better from day 7-14 off the drug but that didn't happen. All my pdocs say 2 - 4 weeks but I'm hitting the 4th week this coming Tuesday. Is this drug going to be like invega where I have to wait 4 - 5 half lives? If so the half life is 19 days at least instead of 49. Any advice would be appreciated, and let me know if you have any questions about invega I could answer.
 
My goal right now is to burn as much time as possible or basically make time go fast until my patience and joy for my hobbies will be back.
I find myself bored and doing nothing every single day, but there's no other choice, I just can't do the things I used to love doing, it's too boring for my post-Xeplion brain.
It is indeed a waiting game.
 
loosewheelnut said:
Hi guys,

I'm someone who successfully came off invega a couple years ago. It took me 6 months to not feel suicidal and about another 6 to be 100%. I have recently had another pysch episode and been given 2 doses (150 mg each) of Clopixol Depot and asked my pdoc to come off for similar reasons to invega (akathesia, being suicidal, restlessness, slight anhedonia). Does anybody know how long till I feel better (I'm not suicidal now but I have pretty bad restlessness and I can't nap)? I'm 38 days in and almost 4 weeks of withdrawal. Everywhere online says I should've been better from day 7-14 off the drug but that didn't happen. All my pdocs say 2 - 4 weeks but I'm hitting the 4th week this coming Tuesday. Is this drug going to be like invega where I have to wait 4 - 5 half lives? If so the half life is 19 days at least instead of 49. Any advice would be appreciated, and let me know if you have any questions about invega I could answer.
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the other dude who was on this forum last year took six months to recover from that injection.
Depots are trash and half life is a lie they stay much longer in the body then studies indicate
Its better to have psychosis than to get an injection
 
Anyone know if the injection does anything to you on a metaphysical level?

I’ve been thinking and I can’t see any other logical explanation than that the injection interferes with your quantum consciousness/soul. My brain wasn’t fully an adult when I received the shots, but when my brain became an adult, suddenly I noticed Mandela effects and I thought I was in the Matrix or underworld where most people were overtaken by the system.
 
apsucks said:
the other dude who was on this forum last year took six months to recover from that injection.
Depots are trash and half life is a lie they stay much longer in the body then studies indicate
Its better to have psychosis than to get an injection
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Im not believing you, you've been here since I have you're on of them chronic ones that never get better what would you know
 
The court is the cause of all atrocities. They allow psychiatry to harm us. If the court had respected the constitution none of us would have become commodities of big pharma!
 
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