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

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exercise is a non factor....my anhedonia started improving at month 4 off invega and major improvement month 6...all i did was stay in bed all day everyday. Meanwhile most people who were very active improved month 8 or later.

It all boils down to half life you cannot speed half life up, it just takes time
Straining the body too much and overtraining is the worst thing you can do in a toxic body state
Second worst thing is no sleep

Anyway saint johnswort speeds up metabolism way more than exercise and all those other things combined
No I think that hard exercise and lifting weights for people who can do it would probably be one of the best things that you can do. It also releases endorphins and even growth hormones in your body and sort of taps into some sort of primordial shit in humans and also might give some sense of confidence or purpose.
 
These past 4 months have been some of the hardest and the craziest of my life. Both my body and mind and everything else had been pushed to the absolute limit. I'm staying with my parents right now and had a serious talk with my dad and told him that those years of injections really helped to ruin my life, and that there wasn't a whole lot left, and I sort of gave an ultimatum that as a man that I won't be taking all of the rest of those injections, and that I would be willing to rather die out there in the streets. Then I told him the plan that I came up with where I would go to the next state over New Mexico and go to a rehab there for probably 30 days, and then after that I'd probably be able to live in a sober house and to work some small job, maybe to try to get some sort of government assistance or even trying to do something on my laptop with software testing there which I got a certificate in. Or that I would just go to a different city in the same state that I'm in that's still fairly big and for him to help out with the money for all of that. He seemed to be sort of on board with it. The next injection's less than two weeks away so something would probably have to happen in that time.
 
2-2.5 years is a really long time too fully recover from 4 shots, the average person will recover quicker then that usually around 12-18 months. I think alcohol abuse and your second psychosis relaspe where you had too take the paliparadone pills probably prolonged your recovery from the injections.
4 years after invega shots they still found metabolites in peoples urine... if one is sensitive to invega
 
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4 years after invega shots they still found metabolites in peoples urin
There’s probably always gonna be a trace of it in your system, there’s been people who have quit smoking weed and still had traces of THC in their body years later but those tiny amounts are so tiny they can’t effect your brain at all.
 
These past 4 months have been some of the hardest and the craziest of my life. Both my body and mind and everything else had been pushed to the absolute limit. I'm staying with my parents right now and had a serious talk with my dad and told him that those years of injections really helped to ruin my life, and that there wasn't a whole lot left, and I sort of gave an ultimatum that as a man that I won't be taking all of the rest of those injections, and that I would be willing to rather die out there in the streets. Then I told him the plan that I came up with where I would go to the next state over New Mexico and go to a rehab there for probably 30 days, and then after that I'd probably be able to live in a sober house and to work some small job, maybe to try to get some sort of government assistance or even trying to do something on my laptop with software testing there which I got a certificate in. Or that I would just go to a different city in the same state that I'm in that's still fairly big and for him to help out with the money for all of that. He seemed to be sort of on board with it. The next injection's less than two weeks away so something would probably have to happen in that time.
Good luck man, I hope all goes well for you do you think that they might track you down for your CTO if you leave the state though? I’m not entirely sure how CTOS work.
 
If the half life is maximum 150 days recovery can easily take 2.5 years for some people
 
If the half life is maximum 150 days recovery can easily take 2.5 years for some people
For most people the half life is about 50 days, that’s what it was for me and now I’m exactly 250 days off invega so it should all be out of my system, lately I’ve had intense anxiety which I think may be anti psychotic withdrawal. I think it’s pretty rare for someone’s half life to be that long but I’m sure it’s possible especially if they take other meds that slow metabolism.
 
Doesnt work on invega
Not really sure what people mean that these drugs don't work after antipsychotics, probably not to the same degree or with the same effects but surely drinking a fifth of whiskey or smoking a gram joint would probably alter their consciousness in some way.
 
Maybe try micro/mini dosing shrooms every 3-4 days, it can help increase brain plasticity and regenerate damaged cells, it will also speed up the process of your brain rewiring it’s self back to normal from the damage invega caused so do your research and know your body well gotta be careful about rebound psychosis if you choose too speed up your recovery that way.
Haven’t tried kratom or any other opiates for that matter and never will, not only are they highly addictive and can deplete dopamine while being super hard too quit but kratom specifically is what caused my psychosis, I took 35 grams daily for a month straight during a time when I was severely depressed then cold turkeyed it and didn’t sleep and barely ate for 5 days straight which led to my psychosis, I’m sure I’d be able too feel opiates now though judging by the way I feel I crave them all the time cause I feel like they’d hit me strong but I don’t give in cause it would do more harm then good for me personally.
Doesnt work on invega
I’ve been off 13 months
 
Not really sure what people mean that these drugs don't work after antipsychotics, probably not to the same degree or with the same effects but surely drinking a fifth of whiskey or smoking a gram joint would probably alter their consciousness in some way.
Ya the drugs do still have an effect you just can’t feel any euphoria from it cause of dopamine being blocked.
 
I threw the rest of my 'stimulant' drugs away thinking that I would be leaving the house permanently and going to be homeless after I tried to get some money in a way that didn't work in the end. I'll probably quit doing that stuff anyways because it seems to only bring me trouble in the end. Right now snorting Vicodin and Oxycodone made me feel better, but I'll probably have to be sober soon for a while.
I’d go easy on the opioids tbh, you don’t wana be going through opioid withdrawal when your on your own on the streets that’s hell on earth, I’d say it would be a good idea to quit that stuff cause then you’re less likely to end up back in psychosis on another CTO.
 
I’d go easy on the opioids tbh, you don’t wana be going through opioid withdrawal when your on your own on the streets that’s hell on earth, I’d say it would be a good idea to quit that stuff cause then you’re less likely to end up back in psychosis on another CTO.
Yeah, but it's hard to function after four years of injections, I'd probably end up at least drinking alcohol or smoking some weed maybe or snorting pills to some degree for the rest of my life. The weed can make me feel mentally weaker sometimes though too so don't want to do that too much either, and I definitely don't really like socializing with people after I do it.
 
Kind of random but I remember when I heard that Kanye West got taken off of the stage at one of his concerts after he started saying a bunch of crazy stuff and was taken to a psych ward.
 
First of all I apologize in advance for sounding upset but holy fuck this is absolutely ridiculous. I finally went to see my new psychiatrist early today, and one of the first things I brought up was how incredibly damaged both mentally and physically I became directly because of invega, and that I'm now extremely cautious and paranoid about which medications I'll take from here on out. He implied that what I'm experiencing supposedly wasn't a result of the injection but rather because I had a psychotic episode despite explaining numerous times that I'm neither schizophrenic nor have I ever suffered from psychosis. He even had the audacity to say that I would benefit from continuing to take abilify again, and although I was one of the lucky few that weren't negatively affected by it, probably because of the low dosage, it didn't neccesarily benefit me either. Just like my previous psychiatrist he claimed that patients have been perfectly fine taking it and found it odd that it affected me in this manner. Honestly I made the decision from the moment I recieved the injection onwards that I'll just go the natural hippie route and use more natural substances, shit I'd rather smoke weed at this point, I'm certain its still MUCH less harmful than any antipsychotics or antidepressant I could possibly ever take.
 
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Not really sure what people mean that these drugs don't work after antipsychotics, probably not to the same degree or with the same effects but surely drinking a fifth of whiskey or smoking a gram joint would probably alter their consciousness in some way.
i agree completely
 
I wonder what it be like to be 90 and be put on invega
Studies show that when elders take invega they almost always end up with dementia/Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s that kills them a lot quicker then if they hadn’t taken invega it got so bad that they banned elders from being able to take invega. I feel like even if you take it when you’re younger though it can increase your chances for those conditions later in life.
 
Was anybody else able to work or go to school on Invega? I've been on 4 years worth of those injections since I was 29 over a 6 year period, sometimes there were gaps of up to year for having been off of it. I was living with my parents and when I was on it I first started working at Staples part-time doing retail, then got a second part time job as a dishwasher in a restaurant, and one or two days of the week I'd end up working 12 hours or a bit more because I had to clean up the dishwashing area at the end of the night.

Then I got a job in a call center doing basic tech support, and worked there for a year and three months but quit right as the place was about to shut down. Then I worked for two weeks at Ace Hardware before they fired me, but I met this guy there who had a moving company and did some part-time work for them riding around in a truck and moving people's furniture. Then I worked at Staples again for 5 months, then for almost a year doing the full-time nightshift helping to be manufacturing Tasers till 3:30AM till they fired me for working too slow. Then later I worked at Subway for 5 months after almost a year of not working.

Then spent more time not working and back in October worked for this staffing agency that got me this job where I worked for 3 weeks assembling these laser engraving machines before they fired me, then for a week at this weird mostly Mexican immigrant shop folding boxes all day pretty much before they fired me, then for one day assembling elevator parts before they fired me. Most recently here I worked here for half a day as a dishwasher at this other restaurant before a really stupid situation happened and they fired me. At times work was very hard and excruciating. I saved up like 12 grand though at one point along with the stimmie checks and ended up blowing most of it all on stupid stuff and beer and cigarettes.
 
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