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Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v. 10

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Personally I’m going to text here more, this is literally the only pillar of shared connection I have when it comes to being afflicted by Invega. I’m going to try and make positive contributions here as well
 
Hi everybody.

I’m 18 years old and had a cannabis induced psychosis in march. I’ve been on 6 shots of invega and have atleast another 6 to go. as well as a “year of tapering”. i know that’s a long time to be on this stuff, my psychiatrist is playing it very safe because he’s scared if i have bipolar/schizophrenia. I just want to let you all know that i can relate to the hell that is this drug. Even though I am thankful that it took me out of my psychosis, it has been one hell of a ride to be on. Luckily, the “hell” wore off and now the drug is kind of bareable. I’m studying in college now! I really love you all and i feel so sad when i read about your suffering . i suffer too, but i’m thankful that i’m no longer psychotic. i really could vent about all the negative shit that happened to me after taking the drug, but I like staying positive. We in this for the long run! and when shit gets better, life’s gonna feel real good!!
 
invegaDoc said:
Hi everybody.

I’m 18 years old and had a cannabis induced psychosis in march. I’ve been on 6 shots of invega and have atleast another 6 to go. as well as a “year of tapering”. i know that’s a long time to be on this stuff, my psychiatrist is playing it very safe because he’s scared if i have bipolar/schizophrenia. I just want to let you all know that i can relate to the hell that is this drug. Even though I am thankful that it took me out of my psychosis, it has been one hell of a ride to be on. Luckily, the “hell” wore off and now the drug is kind of bareable. I’m studying in college now! I really love you all and i feel so sad when i read about your suffering . i suffer too, but i’m thankful that i’m no longer psychotic. i really could vent about all the negative shit that happened to me after taking the drug, but I like staying positive. We in this for the long run! and when shit gets better, life’s gonna feel real good!!
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A year of tapering? Do you mean a year of the drug coming out of your system, or are you actually planning to lower the dosage for another year after you finish your next 6 shots?

The drug self-tapers so there’s no reason to actually taper the medication to a lower dosage unless you’re truly afraid you’ll be psychotic again without the medicine. If it was weed induced your psychiatrist is likely a moron and is just trying to keep you on the medicine for profit or whatever alternative motive there is. Generally people don’t get a years worth of invega for having drug induced psychosis, but ironically I too got put on invega for 6 months for drug/concussion induced psychosis.

Point is, you don’t need to take invega for another full year after you finish your first 12 shots. It’s amazing you’re studying for what I presume is your freshman year of college, but don’t test this medicine. Personally I’ve lost a huge amount of cognition to this hellish drug and the longer you stay on it the more hell you’ll put yourself in, and there’s only a 80% chance of recovery from this crap.
 
Invegatorture said:
The high feels just as strong as pre injections. But I still have anhedonia and feel lobotomised.
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The lobotomized feeling has disappeared with me and being cognitively slow without creativity has ushered in as my new normal which is scary as hell. The weed works for me too, even the thc vape cartridges. Keep smoking every once in a while and let’s keep each other updated as the shots progress.
 
Trueart2 said:
A year of tapering? Do you mean a year of the drug coming out of your system, or are you actually planning to lower the dosage for another year after you finish your next 6 shots?

The drug self-tapers so there’s no reason to actually taper the medication to a lower dosage unless you’re truly afraid you’ll be psychotic again without the medicine. If it was weed induced your psychiatrist is likely a moron and is just trying to keep you on the medicine for profit or whatever alternative motive there is. Generally people don’t get a years worth of invega for having drug induced psychosis, but ironically I too got put on invega for 6 months for drug/concussion induced psychosis.

Point is, you don’t need to take invega for another full year after you finish your first 12 shots. It’s amazing you’re studying for what I presume is your freshman year of college, but don’t test this medicine. Personally I’ve lost a huge amount of cognition to this hellish drug and the longer you stay on it the more hell you’ll put yourself in, and there’s only a 80% chance of recovery from this crap.
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Actually the cognition for me has improved over time. i was a pretty smart kid before my whole ordeal and that’s stayed. i am bummed out about his whole super strict tapering regiment. yes he does just want to slowly reduce my dose and then switch to pills. i’ll bring it up to him about how it tapers on its own. my parents were talking about getting a second opinion. thanks for your advice
 
invegaDoc said:
Actually the cognition for me has improved over time. i was a pretty smart kid before my whole ordeal and that’s stayed. i am bummed out about his whole super strict tapering regiment. yes he does just want to slowly reduce my dose and then switch to pills. i’ll bring it up to him about how it tapers on its own. my parents were talking about getting a second opinion. thanks for your advice
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Glad you kept your cognition, I personally suffered a concussion right before I got on Invega. It may have something to do with that, watchout for that psychiatrist. I’m not sure if you’re court ordered like me or not, but if you aren’t you’re free to stop treatment at any time. Keeping you on LAI(Invega Sustenna) for up to 2 years is something that is inexplicable and will cause you issues from recovering from. Even in medical literature 2 years is seen as the amount of time where recovering from antipsychotic damage/changes becomes less likely. I think the studies say it’s 7-11x more likely to recover if you quit by the 2 year mark.

You’ve already gave this bozo 6 months of your time, and the medicine will stay in you for around 6-8 months after you quit. I’m relatively sure the time the medicine is in your still accounts into the 2 year timeframe. So if you stay on Invega for “2 years” it’s actually closer to 3 years with the medicine in Your system. This medicine affects your reproduction, and the quality of semen that you’ll produce as well. This shit isn’t a joke and the psychiatric your seeing if he knows what Invega does to people is potentially attempting to assassinate your life, historically all the people who stay on invega shots for 2 years or more on this shot generally have some lingering issues.

I’m very unaware of your circumstances and I’m generally ignorant about the person you are, and the situation you’re in. But your psychiatrist shouldn’t be trusted at all, he’s literally trying to put you on crazy people medicine for up to 2 years which will carry into year 2.5-3 because you went into drug induced psychosis.

They are a fucked up person, and will continue to keep you on that shit until it’s too late get away asap.
 
hey guys im 781 days off thought id update looking for advice from ppl off longer and more recovered than I:
I have had zero improvement since day 240 ish. Things suck ass. I am less in shape then i was a year ago bc ive litterally had negative improvement. I turned 21 half a year ago so i have been trying to drink or smoke but i never have any effect. Its even harder to exercize and im getting out of shape. My appetite is pretty low and the amount of joy i get from eating is pretty low. The only tolerable part of my day is honestly when im at work, but im not able to het enought hours. Im in college one class at a time and i find it way to hard after invega bc my mentall health is rock bottom bc I DONT HAVE MUSIC ANyMORE and no release. i dont have that “good feeling” that we all are suppossed to get from life. my dad says hes gonna kick me out in a year or two and that worries me bc post invega ive still been hosptialized 4 times due to sleep deprivation psychosis and im struggling w sleep and to move out again ill need to get a better paying job WHICH I CANT unless i go into construction and work a 9-5 which means ill have to go online for school and wake up to an alarm which i cant do anymore after invega bc i get so stressed out the fact i need to sleep that i end up NEVER FUCING FALLING ASLEEP and this is why ive been hospitalized so many times.
so yah. rn i am a closer in fast food so i get in bed ar 2 am and dont have to worry about waling up until 3. i want music back and i want joy back bc life without pleasure is draining my fucking soul. i feel like this is fucking permananet and i cant live like this.
 
invegafuckedmeupmeow said:
hey guys im 781 days off thought id update looking for advice from ppl off longer and more recovered than I:
I have had zero improvement since day 240 ish. Things suck ass. I am less in shape then i was a year ago bc ive litterally had negative improvement. I turned 21 half a year ago so i have been trying to drink or smoke but i never have any effect. Its even harder to exercize and im getting out of shape. My appetite is pretty low and the amount of joy i get from eating is pretty low. The only tolerable part of my day is honestly when im at work, but im not able to het enought hours. Im in college one class at a time and i find it way to hard after invega bc my mentall health is rock bottom bc I DONT HAVE MUSIC ANyMORE and no release. i dont have that “good feeling” that we all are suppossed to get from life. my dad says hes gonna kick me out in a year or two and that worries me bc post invega ive still been hosptialized 4 times due to sleep deprivation psychosis and im struggling w sleep and to move out again ill need to get a better paying job WHICH I CANT unless i go into construction and work a 9-5 which means ill have to go online for school and wake up to an alarm which i cant do anymore after invega bc i get so stressed out the fact i need to sleep that i end up NEVER FUCING FALLING ASLEEP and this is why ive been hospitalized so many times.
so yah. rn i am a closer in fast food so i get in bed ar 2 am and dont have to worry about waling up until 3. i want music back and i want joy back bc life without pleasure is draining my fucking soul. i feel like this is fucking permananet and i cant live like this
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Take this supplement list, see what it does for you. Something isn’t firing in your brain right now, some of your glands might be crystallized or whatever Invega does to you. You gotta take supplements to fuel your brain to start functioning properly again. Aside from stem cell treatment(expensive af), this is about the only thing left to do. I’m sorry. This is CMF77’s supplement list, and you may not have to use this one specifically but start taking supplements dude and see what happens for you

Vitamin B by Pure Encapsulation
VItamin D by Pure Encapsulation
NAC by Pure Encapsulation
Alpha Lipoic Acid by Thorne
ReversaCel by Thorne
PIneal XT Gold
Bacopa by Himalayan Labs
Nighttime HPA by Gaia Labs
Citicoline by Carlye Labs.
 
Latest improvements are:
Recovery time is lessened (work-out);
Dry mouth seems to be going away i.e. "less waking up with dry mouth";
And sleep has improved

At this point I'm starting to wonder when the spiritual/physical healing begins and where the 'Recovering from Invega' stops. Are the two mutually inclusive?
That seems to be the case.
 
iridescentblack said:
Latest improvements are:
Recovery time is lessened (work-out);
Dry mouth seems to be going away i.e. "less waking up with dry mouth";
And sleep has improved

At this point I'm starting to wonder when the spiritual/physical healing begins and where the 'Recovering from Invega' stops. Are the two mutually inclusive?
That seems to be the case.
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How long ago did you get the injection?
 
It's amazing my life is just trying to sleep all day, until I can't and then I'm just stuck getting shit sleep, scrolling through Netflix. At this point I've already watched everything I could have any interest in for TV shows, go on my laptop look at Sanctioned Suicide, go on here where people think a supplement is going to be a game changer, when that's not how the brain works at all. Eating shitty McDonalds cause I can't stand eating anything else again, food still doesn't taste the same, then trying to sleep more only to do it again, getting this injection is a slow death sentence and living like this is just insanity.
 
brokenself said:
It's amazing my life is just trying to sleep all day, until I can't and then I'm just stuck getting shit sleep, scrolling through Netflix. At this point I've already watched everything I could have any interest in for TV shows, go on my laptop look at Sanctioned Suicide, go on here where people think a supplement is going to be a game changer, when that's not how the brain works at all. Eating shitty McDonalds cause I can't stand eating anything else again, food still doesn't taste the same, then trying to sleep more only to do it again, getting this injection is a slow death sentence and living like this is just insanity.
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Historically supplements seem to be game changing for those who recover. There’s testimonies about terrible situations that were eventually reversed by taking supplementation. For one reason or another your chemical makeup in the brain is messed up and is stopping you from recovery. Feeding yourself supplements is a opportunity to jumpstart that biochemistry and return to a potential homeostasis
 
@brokenself bro plz do not send me gore links in dms , had to leave cuz that shit makes me so depressed and fucks up my mood. I watched gore from age 17-20 and it was the worst time of my life. Gore clean 6 years never again
 
invegafuckedmeupmeow said:
hey guys im 781 days off thought id update looking for advice from ppl off longer and more recovered than I:
I have had zero improvement since day 240 ish. Things suck ass. I am less in shape then i was a year ago bc ive litterally had negative improvement. I turned 21 half a year ago so i have been trying to drink or smoke but i never have any effect. Its even harder to exercize and im getting out of shape. My appetite is pretty low and the amount of joy i get from eating is pretty low. The only tolerable part of my day is honestly when im at work, but im not able to het enought hours. Im in college one class at a time and i find it way to hard after invega bc my mentall health is rock bottom bc I DONT HAVE MUSIC ANyMORE and no release. i dont have that “good feeling” that we all are suppossed to get from life. my dad says hes gonna kick me out in a year or two and that worries me bc post invega ive still been hosptialized 4 times due to sleep deprivation psychosis and im struggling w sleep and to move out again ill need to get a better paying job WHICH I CANT unless i go into construction and work a 9-5 which means ill have to go online for school and wake up to an alarm which i cant do anymore after invega bc i get so stressed out the fact i need to sleep that i end up NEVER FUCING FALLING ASLEEP and this is why ive been hospitalized so many times.
so yah. rn i am a closer in fast food so i get in bed ar 2 am and dont have to worry about waling up until 3. i want music back and i want joy back bc life without pleasure is draining my fucking soul. i feel like this is fucking permananet and i cant live like this.
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have u tried any medication since ur injection 2.14 years ago?
 
Just bought some fish oil, slowly building up my supplements. I have fish oil(Omega-3), St John Wort, and Lions mane. I took fish oil since I have such an abundance but I’m waiting until all my shots finish before I begin serious supplementation.
 
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