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Mental Health Coming Off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v.2

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It has been 1 year today. I am coming around. I feel pretty decent lately. I laughed harder than I have pre-injection the last 3 days. Only the last few weeks has smoking/dabbing/drinking seemed to start having a worthwhile effect. I am not ready to write my recovery story, but yea, it gets better. I hope you all are well.
 
swisscurrie said:
Another potential treatmento option is rapastinel which is a mnda partial agonist. It works on the glutuamte receptors and enhances neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. It is very effective at alleviating depression with an effect size over three times greater than ssri antideprssants. SSRis are laden with all sorts of very unpleasant side effects which make most people who take them discountie their use after relatively short time periods.Rapastinel on the other hand has a side effect profile almost identical to placebo and an effect size much greater. It also works against anhedonia very effectively.
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How are you now?
 
copperdome said:
It has been 1 year today. I am coming around. I feel pretty decent lately. I laughed harder than I have pre-injection the last 3 days. Only the last few weeks has smoking/dabbing/drinking seemed to start having a worthwhile effect. I am not ready to write my recovery story, but yea, it gets better. I hope you all are well.
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I had a lot of success or positive results from dabs. Seemed to push things forward quite a bit. The problem I eventually ran into is: weed seems to pull a lot of negativity into certain people's lives who use it. I guess you could call this a spiritual effect/side effect moreso than a physical one. Or perhaps emotional. Who knows?... Well, anyway, I happened to be one of them. Not sure whether or not Invega made me more susceptible to this or not, but haven't smoked weed since July or August.

You'll find, perhaps, that other psychedelics can force a sort of 'awakening' while coming off Invega. Problem seems to be maintaining a safe distance - so to speak - from this poison (Invega) and getting there safe. While some have recovered, others find themselves in the process of trying to get there by extremes... myself not excluded. With no more than 13 injections total, it's looking like the recovery process has hit somewhat of a rebound period now that I am not using any psychedelics whatsoever.

Dabs may recover a bit of what you lost (naturally or artificially) but be careful with this. Invega has been known to cause cardiovascular problems. When combined with anything THC related, you push yourself closer to having a heart attack. This is actually why I had to discontinue dabs. Started getting closer and closer to such an event.
 
copperdome said:
It has been 1 year today. I am coming around. I feel pretty decent lately. I laughed harder than I have pre-injection the last 3 days. Only the last few weeks has smoking/dabbing/drinking seemed to start having a worthwhile effect. I am not ready to write my recovery story, but yea, it gets better. I hope you all are well.
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Did you have schizophrenia copperdome?
 
Rosi71 said:
Did you have schizophrenia copperdome?
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I was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. I was on many drugs and had a drug related psychosis. The Pdoc originally had overlooked my drug use and the diagnoses was changed to psychosis.
 
I created this account just so I could join in on this thread. I was misdiagnosed schizoaffective disorder comorbid with bipolar 1, when in all virtuality, I was just in a drug induced psychosis. In Hampton (evil Psychiatric ward) I was give 5 different antipsychotics and began to feel high off of them, so high that I agreed to invega and was administered 2 shots of this horrible stuff. Its been one month and I have energy now to type and somewhat be social again.

I study neuroscience and will be going into my senior year whenever I get the motivation back that I need in order to receive my 4 year bachelor degree and move on to research in graduate school. From the little research I did on the drug Invega Sustenna and reading all of your replies and comments it seems that I am on the right track. I too have 0 feelings towards any of my drugs that I used to get prescribed and still do outpatient wise through my psychiatrist.

Realizing Invega is an antipsychotic, it depletes three naturally occuring neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. I currently do not have any money and am solely relying upon my parents to buy me the following vitamins that I will list in order to restore and regenerate these naturally occurring neurotransmitters:

Dopamine:

1. L-dopa
2. L-Tyrosine
3. DL-phenylalanine

Norepinephrine

1.Choline
2.L-Bitartrate Capsules,
3. DMAE
4. Alpha GPC
5. Phenylalphapiracatam
6. Nicotine (boags + nicotine gum, used in moderation..)
7. Caffeine.
8. B-12

All of these vitamins are at higher than average dosages.

Serotonin

- Not enough money to support this cause as you also need a lot more vitamins such as same-e and 5-Htp.

For my anxiety, one of my friends gave me some valium and I also ordered some GABA for a more natural route when my valium runs out. Also got a doctor to prescribe me vistaril, which acts as a histamine because antipsychotics cause anxiety due to the fact that they deplete your naturally occurring histamine levels, which control your sleep/wake cycles alongside your circadian rhythm (I use melatonin for this, 5 mg).

RESULTS:

I have more feeling and less anhedonia, feel a lot less dull. Unsure if this is just a window phase I am having or if the vitamins are actually having some sort of affect in my brain. Unsure if this is all a waste of money. But the vitamins have given me something to live for as this shits making my life a living hell.

I see an endocrinologist on October 6th. Im thinking personally about just ordering synthetic testosterone just so then I can have control of my hormones, pituitary gland, and create my own balance again. If you can control your hormones, keep them steady, and moderately above average at a high enough level and are a guy id recommend trying it like I will be doing soon alongside filling out lawsuits @ Johnson's & Johnson's for creating this evil drug and giving me gyno!!
 
Thanks a million for sharing that Josh!
Glad to hear that you're aware you've been misdiagnosed - I couldn't imagine how one would ever recover from AP damage without first recognizing that the dx they've been given is a lie, etc...

I've only taken valium twice. Do you find it effective for anxiety and what sort of dosages/duration would one consider to treat psychiatric-drug-induced anxiety in your opinion?
 
This is my recovery story.

I thought I'd start by saying my life hasn't always been easy. But I hang tough.

No one wants to know me. That's fine. I get by.

Always looked at like I had the plague or something. Often blamed for things that weren't my fault. Made to feel ashamed for things that were so utterly small and simple... things that I did wrong, supposedly. Well it's outta my hands now. I stood up for the weak. I always sought those with true power - not because I wanted anything, but because I wanted to see how they shine... on the inside.

When I was very young they accused me of being unfocused and unreasonable. I was 12 - they but me on aterol, ridelin. When those screwed things up for me they put me on abiligy, zyprexa, celexa, you name it. By the time I was 17 I had my first psychosis... well I was already on antipsychotics before then. Spent a great deal in and out of hospitals, in and out of friendships; heartfelt my heart felt breaking... always. I shined on, did things I hated. Still doing things I hate to have to do. Wound up in Bangor. It crushed my dreams.

I was almost there too.

Now that I'm off this horrible drug I'm back to where I started. Back to where it all began...

peace
 
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