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Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v. 7.0

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Carl Jr said:
Yeah Mental Blankness Is Horrible Because It’s Like I’m Trapped Inside Myself When Around People And I Can’t Express And Be Assertive The Way I Would Normally Be. It Makes Me Appreciate The Way I Once Was Able To Function And Just Express Myself. I Am Around Family And I’m Not The Same I Know People On This Forum Understand But It Seems Like NoOne Really Understands What I Mean…smh Its Been Horrible
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Trust me I can relate
 
Invegatorture said:
Has anyone experienced that horrible feeling of their brain being fried when they first got the injections?
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Yes, someone I had been talking to in the hospital started yelling at the staff after trying to talk to me after I got the injections because I couldn't connect anymore...it was like being Randle McMurphy in real life. Lol. I was being gaslit so much by my psychs and family that it took me a couple of months the to fully realize what the drug had done/was doing to me
 
if you cant go back , built a better one ... create a new mindset , better than before ... recovery is possible , even being better than before is too ... i know this drug is nasty , but the essence of the soul and its power of self healing is very powerful ... trust yourself . trust the allmighty
 
Kaatrina said:
Yes, someone I had been talking to in the hospital started yelling at the staff after trying to talk to me after I got the injections because I couldn't connect anymore...it was like being Randle McMurphy in real life. Lol. I was being gaslit so much by my psychs and family that it took me a couple of months the to fully realize what the drug had done/was doing to me
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hi katrina , im happy that you havent relapse for almost 5 years , very good ... keep it that way .
 
BattlingInvega said:
Anyone else feels like their whole being has been permanently changed?
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yes. i felt this for a long time, it really does steal your life away for a while. but a little over 11 months off and i am feeling like myself again. it does get better.

what i would say is, don't expect to feel like your normal self. remember you are temporarily disabled, and remember to have sympathy for yourself, even when other ppl don't understand how invega affects you.

stay strong, it gets better.
 
NoMoreInvegaPls said:
yes. i felt this for a long time, it really does steal your life away for a while. but a little over 11 months off and i am feeling like myself again. it does get better.

what i would say is, don't expect to feel like your normal self. remember you are temporarily disabled, and remember to have sympathy for yourself, even when other ppl don't understand how invega affects you.

stay strong, it gets better.
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When did you notice improvements?
 
NoMoreInvegaPls said:
honestly like 6 months to see REAL improvements. then 7-9 months were really rough. 10-11 months off now and i am really feeling so much more like myself. like close to 100%.
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Thank you. At 10 months now and it’s pretty bad. Felt better at month 7. Hopefully you’ll get to 100%.
 
Invegaishell said:
Thank you. At 10 months now and it’s pretty bad. Felt better at month 7. Hopefully you’ll get to 100%.
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Thanks bruh. I really hope you do too.
I feel like 10 months was where it started to get better after that 3 months where I felt awful. I know it's different for everyone but it did get a lot fucking worse for me before it got better. So keep holding on. happy you've made it this far ❤️
mouha said:
Have you recovered your emotions
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I think so. Not 100% but close. I have a lot of wild (for me at least) shit going on in my life and I honestly feel like my emotional reactions to these things are pretty adequate. Take this with a grain of salt though because hard to judge, since a lot of what I'm experiencing is very new to me so idk how past me would have reacted.
That's a really fucking long winded way of saying my emotions seem to be mostly back and I feel happy overall.

I know it's not 100% tho. I would call it 80. Good enough for me. A month or two ago I might have said 40. Just awful. So happy that things got better.

Love you guys hang in there ❤️❤️❤️
 
I’m feeling alot better from invega. But once I recover fully I’ll be back to square one mentally. I need a change in my life. I work weekdays and exercise in the evenings. Go for walks, run, lift. Weekends I usually party with alcohol. But I’m sick of the bachelor lifestyle. My friends are all married with kids at this point. I need a change in my life some stability. I’m probably moving to a new city in a few weeks. I hope it will be a positive change.
 
Baddream said:
I’m feeling alot better from invega. But once I recover fully I’ll be back to square one mentally. I need a change in my life. I work weekdays and exercise in the evenings. Go for walks, run, lift. Weekends I usually party with alcohol. But I’m sick of the bachelor lifestyle. My friends are all married with kids at this point. I need a change in my life some stability. I’m probably moving to a new city in a few weeks. I hope it will be a positive change.
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Personally a move to a new city helped me reset a lot of my old thought patterns and get away from relationships that caused a lot of mental and emotional strain. Hope all goes well for you
 
NoMoreInvegaPls said:
I think so. Not 100% but close. I have a lot of wild (for me at least) shit going on in my life and I honestly feel like my emotional reactions to these things are pretty adequate. Take this with a grain of salt though because hard to judge, since a lot of what I'm experiencing is very new to me so idk how past me would have reacted.
That's a really fucking long winded way of saying my emotions seem to be mostly back and I feel happy overall.

I know it's not 100% tho. I would call it 80. Good enough for me. A month or two ago I might have said 40. Just awful. So happy that things got better.

Love you guys hang in there ❤️❤️❤️
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Is creativity and imagination something that comes back to you over time? I gradually lost it. When I received an injection of Xeplion, these characteristics would drop to zero, after a week they would return to an extent of 80 percent, and with the next one the same experience, only instead of 80 it would be 50 percent, and with the fourth injection I completely lost creativity and imagination, so I refused to receive another injection. I am now 3 months injection-free, although I take some APs (quetiapine 200 mg and aripiprazole 10 mg) to the extent that psychiatrists say that these drugs do not work as APs. Can you tell me what you think I can expect?

Xeplione 150 mg + 100 + 100 + 100, last in March. I am currently taking Xanax for 3 months, Zoloft for 5 years, Quetiapine 200 mg for 7 months, Aripiprazol 10 mg for 3 months.
 
Patrik133 said:
Is creativity and imagination something that comes back to you over time? I gradually lost it. When I received an injection of Xeplion, these characteristics would drop to zero, after a week they would return to an extent of 80 percent, and with the next one the same experience, only instead of 80 it would be 50 percent, and with the fourth injection I completely lost creativity and imagination, so I refused to receive another injection. I am now 3 months injection-free, although I take some APs (quetiapine 200 mg and aripiprazole 10 mg) to the extent that psychiatrists say that these drugs do not work as APs. Can you tell me what you think I can expect?

Xeplione 150 mg + 100 + 100 + 100, last in March. I am currently taking Xanax for 3 months, Zoloft for 5 years, Quetiapine 200 mg for 7 months, Aripiprazol 10 mg for 3 months.
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It does come back from invega. I can't speak to any of those other medications, but as someone who was obsessed with art and doing it pretty much daily - 11 months off and I'm still struggling a little bit, but honest to God it's really enough to hold me over. It used to be 6+ hours of good work some sessions, now my best is a couple hours of work but it is close to the level I was at. I find I'm able to keep tabs on multiple things at once - maybe 80%, and that's pretty consistently.

It will surely be a number of months before you see improvement in creativity. Just being tbh. So don't stress about feeling like it's gone. It sucks but it does come back. The soonest I was able to sorta work on my art was probably 6 months off and it's only in the past month or two that I've felt like I've truly enjoyed it.

Godspeed homie. Feel free to message me or quote me in these threads if you wanna talk more.
 
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