It's the hardest thing anyone can go through. I can't think of anything worse.
We've had at least two people in the last month who never post stop in and make a recovery post. You have to count them. Many who recover make a post to inform and then peace out, you can't expect them to stick around this place. This forum has lots of lurkers besides the regulars often heard from
It is a sign of progress, your anhedonia along with numbness/absence of emotion should be easing 1-3% every month from now on.
I’ve been suicidal the past couple months as well. It is common. It is to the point now where I am starting to question recovery. It seems like only the few heal.Does anyones heart feel different since invega? Mine feels weak and damaged
I wish I was still normal. I loved life before now it feels like a horror movie. Truly tragic
How can we know we recovered when you forget what normal life is like
I can only think about suicide now. I don’t know how you guys have endured this struggle so long and still not recovered your former selves.
Hey I've been wanting to ask you this for quite a while now but never did so anyways, as one of the few people here that have apparently made a full recovery and is still regularly active here, how did you come to determine that you've actually made a full, 100% recovery? I'm certainly not trying to sound like I'm doubting you, it's just that all things considered I find it very difficult to believe that's the case, and strongly believe there would be some type of lasting long-term damage, even if it's mostly insignificant. So would that mean that I suppose aside from being stuck with the memory of the whole incident, have you fully recovered mentally and physically, which includes your mind, so cognitive abilities, physically, sexually, and more? Like has everything returned back to normal, exactly the way they were prior, with no difference whatsoever?
Brotha you had 225mg right now you have 100mg or less left in your body I still have 500+ we will both recover we have to believe it.
I felt like that too and know the feeling but it got better. you will have happier moments ahead of you it just might take time
It is not certain if your brain will be what it once was. You could have a 100% recovery. We won’t know until the time comes. Don’t “exit,” time will tell if you recover. With suicide you have a 0% chance of recovery, that is certain.
I looked at most of the messages sent by those on that recovery list and many of them only made a partial recovery. Not full recovery.
Forgot to mention bad acne all over my back and chest. I feel disgusting now
I’m so sorry to hear that. I know your pain
Sure. I've answered this question before.
You'll have to explain how the research is suppressed when the research that has been conducted only shows gray matter loss over long periods of use (5+ years). If the research is so easy to control why did these companies not stop the studies that showed this as well?
I never said its not possible. I said it isnt shown to be true. Take a stat class.
Why should we believe in something that has no evidence,? If we have no evidence, as we do in this case, we should NOT believe in it. This is how you avoid delusion.
Thanks for the advice fellow. We are all here because the medication obviously has adverse effects. Many people have recovered themselves. This forum is to track that recovery - everyone is already aware of the possibility you point out - exactly the reason the thread was created in the first place - to track and share.
so strange that I can still do math and that I've highly improved as a cook since I've been on invega (and I was no slouch). Don't know how I ever managed it because invega deleted that gray matter from my brain
my reward system from working is perfectly intact after recovery. I got my AA with honors and have made huge progress in creativity through my painting and drawing since recovering. Perhaps you are suffering a personal issue.
That fact is just not true. Everything that you miss about yourself will return - none of it is permanently lost. Unfortunately some people on this forum are mentally imbalanced, that's just the nature of it- don't let it bring you down.
Good stuff Katrina keep giving us hopeSure. I've answered this question before.
I had a list of everything that was missing/nonfunctional for me after invega. It's the same as most of yours - social problems, inability to conversate, inability to think/study, akathisia, inability to enjoy my previous interests or basic activities, lack of desire for hygiene, sexual inability both solo and with my partner, inability to pray, lack of spontaneous though, ugliness/disconnect in the mirror...the list was longer but you get the idea.
once all of these things ceased and / or returned to me at the full capacity o had before invega, i knew i was recovered.
" has everything returned to normal, exactly as they were prior, with no difference whatsoever" is a trick question. Time passes. Being on invega is an emotionally traumatic experience. So is psychosis. My family dynamics changed. I lost some relationships with friends. My kids got two years older. My brother was still dead. If your question is "will i be able to pretend i was never on invega" the answer is no...like being in a car wreck, althiugh your wounds heal the EXPERIENCE of being in that wreck will never change. That doesn't mean that my abilities or capacity as a fully functional human has changed. It hasn't. There's nothing I was capable of before invega that I'm not capable of now.
Im not sure what "insignificant long-lasting damage" you strongly believe youll suffer from, but setting your recovery up in such ambiguous instead of objective terms is a setup for failure
You'll have to explain how the research is suppressed when the research that has been conducted only shows gray matter loss over long periods of use (5+ years). If the research is so easy to control why did these companies not stop the studies that showed this as well?
I never said its not possible. I said it isnt shown to be true. Take a stat class.
lack of usage can lead to neural degradation over time.
Why should we believe in something that has no evidence,? If we have no evidence, as we do in this case, we should NOT believe in it. This is how you avoid delusion.
Thanks for the advice fellow. We are all here because the medication obviously has adverse effects. Many people have recovered themselves. This forum is to track that recovery - everyone is already aware of the possibility you point out - exactly the reason the thread was created in the first place - to track and share.
so strange that I can still do math and that I've highly improved as a cook since I've been on invega (and I was no slouch). Don't know how I ever managed it because invega deleted that gray matter from my brain
my reward system from working is perfectly intact after recovery. I got my AA with honors and have made huge progress in creativity through my painting and drawing since recovering. Perhaps you are suffering a personal issue.
That fact is just not true. Everything that you miss about yourself will return - none of it is permanently lost. Unfortunately some people on this forum are mentally imbalanced, that's just the nature of it- don't let it bring you down.
Oh I see, thanks for responding then. To start, what I was specifically trying to refer to when I said "And strongly believe there would be some type of lasting long-term damage, even if it's mostly insignificant.", is that it's very likely, in my opinion, that even many years later to the point where someone can basically function the way they did prior to Invega, that there would still remain some type of harm that's present all those years later, even if it's so minor to the point where that person doesn't notice said damage/side-effects anymore but is still present nonetheless.
You said you were 15 months off now right? I appreciate the advice and reassurance about my face. I'll work hard to get everything back. I just feel so different without my body. Do you have your abs back? and how much do you weigh now compared to preinvega?
Hey I have face acne on top of everything you listed. Erectile dysfunction aswell. 2 months and 5 days off
19 yo, 6 foot, 208 pounds was 180 pre invega, everything about my body has changed
That is a really good suggestion, thank you. I will put it to the admins. I'm not sure if the software allows it, but we will see what we can do
You should go to your doctor and talk to them about it, ask if you can get referred to a cardiologist to get it checked properly.
