Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v 8.0

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Talking with your doctor would be the best way to know how to taper if you need to. If they’re on board with you stopping. From my experience on Abilify, cold turkey was very rough on my whole system. I always think tapering is the best way to go, but if you already did a taper with the pills from the injections then you might be fine to just stop. it depends on the dose also
Thanks that’s great advice. Yeah I can feel the roughness on the my system and the overwhelming tension and bodily anxiety

Why did you do that after recovering from invega?
Because I had a treatment order again. Once you’ve had a treatment order it’s really easy to get out on one again
 
I should have my sexuality back by now but no, I had to be a dumbass and smoke on an SSRI I didn't know my body wasn't going to metabolize right.

I had a big cry and I hope that means I'll get better. I haven't cried like that in a while. I kinda want to die if it never gets better. I can't stop checking for changes, positive or negative. I'm taking going from total genital numbness and a totally soft clitoris to feeling something and regaining some sexual function within three weeks as a good sign at least.

I have quit smoking weed, but I had some CBD because my ulcerative colitis was acting up and I can't stop worrying if it will crash me.
 
Anyone unable to cry but managed to recover? I physically can't cry. Whenever i try, only a single tear falls down now, it's not a continuous cry anymore. It's like when i try to cry i feel like laughing instead, my body can't concentrate on crying too much anymore.

Sorry for bringing this weird stuff up, but i use this a gauge to see how healed i am or not. But this inability to cry does seem like some kind of brain damage.
Can someone please answer this I really need to know as well… I can’t cry and can’t laugh, no feeling whatsoever and I just need to know it people out there hace recovered from having it THAT bad
 
Can someone please answer this I really need to know as well… I can’t cry and can’t laugh, no feeling whatsoever and I just need to know it people out there hace recovered from having it THAT bad
Yes it does recover , takes awhile though. Surrounding yourself in a supportive and positive environment with a good support system helps. Crying is still something I believe takes a little longer to recover but both those things do return in time
 
Just want my fucking life back😔
I'm really sorry you're struggling so much right now mate, I really am. Please give it time though, and please continue to post in here, read other people's progress reports, read people's recovery stories, and have faith that you too will recover. You're so young, which means you've got time on your side. You've got a LOT of good stuff in your future.

Hey I'm one of those who have recovered from Invega multiple times. While I don't have the same stance on psych meds as before, I still think they come with a few effects. So guys if you're suffering and feeling bad, just ask those who've been through post acute withdrawal from hard drugs. Psych med recovery was bad but it definitely isn't the worst thing I've experienced. If you're worried you'll never recover, it's not true. Living a good lifestyle will help with recovery, also keep in mind your stability will be in danger from quitting meds.

Good luck to all you sufferers, if you feel bad or have any questions feel free to reach out to me!
Thank you SO MUCH for coming and sharing your successful recovery experience with us. It means so much to the people in here who are really struggling with their side effects and who are losing hope of recovering. Stories like yours help immensely ❤

I'm doing bad. I don't know if I have PSSD or if it's all part of the bad reaction to lion's mane, it's so hard to tell.

I ruined my heart with Prozac. I was coming back just fine after invega really. I was doing ok. But I decided I needed to treat my OCD and Prozac seemed like a good option at first because it causes less weight gain and I was under the impression it caused less sexual side effects and it was safe to smoke weed on a low dose. But I have a shitty liver and ADHD so I wasn't able to metabolize it and it was like I overdosed on it.

My mom is being a huge bitch about it. Everyone is telling me "oh you'll be ok!" BUT I FEEL LIKE I WON'T BE. My parents are like "You seem to be acting normal" BUT ALL I FEEL IS ANXIETY, I CAN'T FEEL DEEPLY, DOWN IN MY HEART. It has gotten a little better, I'm able to cry about all this now at least.

I was a sexually vibrant person, I loved to masturbate and I was really really good at it. I would sent my FWB really hot videos and pictures, it was fun. Now I don't feel like doing that. I miss that part of me, I haven't really seen it since April. I used to be horny all the time, I felt every drop of dopamine that went through my brain with arousal (my arousal had nothing to do with sexual attraction, they're different things and I personally experienced them as distinct feelings). That's how I know I'm broken now, I don't feel much in that way anymore. I'm so fucking scared. I have ADHD, if my dopamine response is permanently screwed I have no hope of leading a normal life as an artistic professional. I had no hope unmedicated, trying to medicate it got me here.

I thought I avoided PSSD after most of the sexual dysfunction went away 10 days after Prozac. Then genital numbness hit me a month later while I was taking lion's mane. I recovered a lot of sensation and I can get wet and have weak orgasms, which means it's not severe and there is hope and I can probably still have sex, but it wouldn't feel good. I don't feel sexual attraction very strongly, so what would even be the point?

I'm having a hard time feeling my emotions too, I feel so hollow. When I had shrooms one time, I felt like an ocean. I feel like I'm made of plastic now. I used to be passionate about causes, now I'm totally disengaged.

I wish I just went back on escitalopram and quit smoking weed, and worked to avoid weight gain. I have so much regret. I don't know how to cope. I lost so much of myself and I don't know if Ill ever get it back. I don't want to be different, I want to be myself again. I was beautiful, smart, and creative.

I recovered from total genital numbness in three weeks and recovered from emotional bluntness a little. I was able to have erotic sensation after half a cup of coffee last week, and I tried the coffee again today and nothing much happened. I had a mediocre orgasm. That's got to be a good sign, right?

I barely know who I am anymore and I feel so disconnected. I was ok yesterday and now I'm worried about "crashing" and shit from the coffee and CBD I had to try to get my libido moving again. I might stop posting here if I do indeed have PSSD as a complication in my recovery.

I ruined myself with my bad decisions. I cut my own wings off. I can't even treat my OCD now because if I do it will probably make the PSSD permanent. God, I just hope it isn't PSSD. If it is, I hope the early signs of recovery are a good sign I'll feel better in a year or less.
This absolutely sucks to hear 😔 I thought you were regaining your sexual function? Maybe this is just a "bad hormonal day"? Hormones, as you well know, affect us significantly, even the slightest alterations in their balances can change things temporarily. And it sounds like you've had a lot going on, hormonally. So please don't panic. Just ride this out and wait for your sexual function to come back. I am sure it will start to level out with time.

Anyone unable to cry but managed to recover? I physically can't cry. Whenever i try, only a single tear falls down now, it's not a continuous cry anymore. It's like when i try to cry i feel like laughing instead, my body can't concentrate on crying too much anymore.

Sorry for bringing this weird stuff up, but i use this a gauge to see how healed i am or not. But this inability to cry does seem like some kind of brain damage.
Can someone please answer this I really need to know as well… I can’t cry and can’t laugh, no feeling whatsoever and I just need to know it people out there hace recovered from having it THAT bad
These are really common side effects that I have read from people in this thread over the years. BUT they are temporary. With time and healing, you WILL be able to laugh and cry properly again. I cannot recall many people who have not regained their ability to cry and laugh. It will come back ❤
 
Threadly reminder that recovery is 100% possible by anyone, check my older posts for the recovery story or just feel free to ask in this thread, I have a day off and it feels amazing


Take walks, eat and drink properly (though you might need to go on a serious calorie deficit for a while to avoid crippling weight gain... it was my case at least), try to avoid drugs and just stick to a regime consisting of a few exercises (both physical and mental) every day to maximize your chances/speeding up your recovery
 
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This absolutely sucks to hear 😔 I thought you were regaining your sexual function? Maybe this is just a "bad hormonal day"? Hormones, as you well know, affect us significantly, even the slightest alterations in their balances can change things temporarily. And it sounds like you've had a lot going on, hormonally. So please don't panic. Just ride this out and wait for your sexual function to come back. I am sure it will start to level out with time.
I thought I was too, then maybe Prozac withdrawal started, maybe it was a bad reaction to lion's mane. It's very hard to tell those things apart, the symptoms overlap. I'm also on guanfacine which can effect anyone's sex drive, not just men. I need to stay on it until my CTO expires, but I am going back to 1mg.

I had smoked CBD yesterday and it made me worse today, I think. I can't have anything at all right now. I'm scared of crashing again from the covid vaccine, but I never really had a reaction to it at all. But I need the vaccine or I could die or get long covid.

I'm getting my prolactin tested again. If it's still a little high, I'm going to take a dopamine agonist for a few weeks.

The way I went from complete numbness to 50-70% platonic sensation in a short period of time gives me hope. Little hope spot right here.
 
Anyone experience a very subtle head movement at month 3-4 ? Is this the withdrawal as i come up on day 126
 
I can't even drink coffe or coke or else i go haywire! Anyone feeling like this? I'm so sensitive to everything.
 
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Threadly reminder that recovery is 100% possible by anyone, check my older posts for the recovery story or just feel free to ask in this thread, I have a day off and it feels amazing


Take walks, eat and drink properly (though you might need to go on a serious calorie deficit for a while to avoid crippling weight gain... it was my case at least), try to avoid drugs and just stick to a regime consisting of a few exercises (both physical and mental) every day to maximize your chances/speeding up your recover
Have sent you a dm pls reply ♥️
 
Threadly reminder that recovery is 100% possible by anyone, check my older posts for the recovery story or just feel free to ask in this thread, I have a day off and it feels amazing


Take walks, eat and drink properly (though you might need to go on a serious calorie deficit for a while to avoid crippling weight gain... it was my case at least), try to avoid drugs and just stick to a regime consisting of a few exercises (both physical and mental) every day to maximize your chances/speeding up your recovery
Did you manage to lose all the weight? How did you do it?
 
Tell that to the people that still have tardive dyskinesia 5 years after disconinuation

Oh well, as long as they keep positive mindset, they'll recover after 10 years or so!
Most people here show signs of reversible damage. I don't care what psychiatrist say they are not real doctors and are teached nonsense and practice lazy medicine. There are many thousands of people worldwide complaining about the same things, side effects from meds. These meds are neurotoxic.

Signs of severe braindamage would be ; anhedonia, complete loss of smell, long term akathesia, severe brainfog, severe memory impairment, complete loss of emotions, long term movement disorders including dyskinesia, blurry vision/ loss of vision, loss of hearing, reduced coordination and reduced nerve sensitivity in limbs or hand(measurable). If you have zero improvement or abysmal improvement in a few years time you probably have long term damage, chances are you get a slight recovery anywhere in 10 years and regaining some function through neuroplasticity where other brain areas take over/compensate the loss of function. Another sign of severe damage is burning brain syndrom where you get encephalitis and brain swelling

Another dramatic symptom of severe braindamage is not able to distinguish between the mental/physical state before the accident and after (wether be kinetic trauma or chemical). People will go around claiming they are cured while having severe symptoms. These people usually have severe behavioural problems you can also notice their grammar is really off, they also can make erratic statements and out of the ordinary religious statements.

However people who don't fully recover but claim to have recovered can also suffer from certain personality disorders such as narcistic personality disorder or avoidant personality disorder. I've seen many people on here that aren't mentally ill but do have personality disorders of any kind. You simply don't know their situation they can have full recovery but are attention seeking and claim they never recovered.

Anyway if you lost emotions and they don't come back after years you definitely got damage. I've seen user invegasucks and AP sucks about burning brain. That's definitely encephalitis. APsucks also said he lost emotions and dirtyinvega said something similar not having improvements after 5 years. I'm truly sorry for those guys

Lately i don't have the energy or motivation to check all kinds of forums because there's so much negativity on them it's not fun reading about problems. Maybe i'm insensitive or simply unable to know because i never experienced what you guys experienced. Most of you are in total panic about not ever getting better. Most of you are just a few months off medication and you're already in total panic you haven't even crossed the 2 or 3 year threshold yet. I've even seen some people improving 7 years off meds.

Another case where someone suffered two years from akathesia because of anti-depressants. Suddenly got better after two years, weird things can happen but things also can suddenly improve the last day.

I know it sucks having these symptoms for such a long time but its nothing compared to trauma induced by severe kinetic accidents where people have such brain damage they are anhedonic for decades. They have such bad anhedonia they cannot even get the newspaper out of the mailbox. If breathing wasn't regulated by the parasympethic system they would've stopped breathing a long time ago.
 
I thought I was too, then maybe Prozac withdrawal started, maybe it was a bad reaction to lion's mane. It's very hard to tell those things apart, the symptoms overlap. I'm also on guanfacine which can effect anyone's sex drive, not just men. I need to stay on it until my CTO expires, but I am going back to 1mg.

I had smoked CBD yesterday and it made me worse today, I think. I can't have anything at all right now. I'm scared of crashing again from the covid vaccine, but I never really had a reaction to it at all. But I need the vaccine or I could die or get long covid.

I'm getting my prolactin tested again. If it's still a little high, I'm going to take a dopamine agonist for a few weeks.

The way I went from complete numbness to 50-70% platonic sensation in a short period of time gives me hope. Little hope spot right here.
If anything those SSRI, anti-psychotics and COVID vaccines are far more dangerous than weed or CBD ever will be. People who have health problems should not get COVID vaccines that includes people who have impaired immune system caused by anti-psychotics. 1 out of 20 who take vaccines have severe side effects. People who take COVID mRNA vaccines have dramatic increase in contracting other COVID strains, 1 in 35 suffer from myocarditis. Neurologist already establish that vaccines can cause neurological damage. Effects of the COVID-19 vaccine include weakness, numbness, headache, dizziness, imbalance, fatigue, muscle spasms, joint pain, and restless leg syndrome are more common. Severe neurological complications included Bell's palsy, Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS), stroke, seizures, anaphylaxis, and demyelinating syndromes such as transverse myelitis and acute encephalomyelitis. As cherry on top most people who took the vaccine have a higher degree of contracting long COVID

I remember some time ago you were anxious about people who wrote about not recovering, you said you needed to stop visiting the forum and how this forum makes you feel yet you believe big pharma lies and walk blindly without any negative emotions into getting a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine thinking it will help you. You don't have to get side effects immediately these neurological side effects can developed many years later
 
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Hi everyone, my name is All, I was forced to take Invega for (bruuh 😞) 16 months..., While in the end I had no reason to take it, I have the same symptoms as you , total chemical lobotomy, apathy , anhedonia , it's been 9 months since I stopped them and for 5 weeks I have had some positive periods of a few minutes to sometimes a few hours of feeling pleasure, libido, love or sensation but it's still too little for my taste,I don't know if it's a sign of remission because I wonder if its bursts of positive feeling reach those who have not yet recovered, here I am starting to take amisulpride very low dose because it seems that it increases the levels and the quality of dopamine, I don't know if it's a good idea for me to take it, thank you for reading my experience and I hope we all get our lives back !
 
Can someone answer me on if the tremor is part of the taper process the fact that I’m on day 115, and it stops being activated one day 126 ?
 
Can someone answer me on if the tremor is part of the taper process the fact that I’m on day 115, and it stops being activated one day 126 ?
if I understood your question correctly, if the tremor you are experiencing is part of the process of decreasing the Invega we cannot know when it will stop
 
if I understood your question correctly, if the tremor you are experiencing is part of the process of decreasing the Invega we cannot know when it will stop

But is this a typical process of the taper ? A common side effect ?
 
Threadly reminder that recovery is 100% possible by anyone, check my older posts for the recovery story or just feel free to ask in this thread, I have a day off and it feels amazing


Take walks, eat and drink properly (though you might need to go on a serious calorie deficit for a while to avoid crippling weight gain... it was my case at least), try to avoid drugs and just stick to a regime consisting of a few exercises (both physical and mental) every day to maximize your chances/speeding up your recovery
thank you for staying to give us hope 🙂 , I hope you can help me, I would like to know how many months did you stay on invega ? and also, in your remission process, were your feelings, sensations and emotions rather slow, fluctuating and random with ups and downs or did you get over it rather quickly ?

But is this a typical process of the taper ? A common side effect ?
well in the case where you gradually reduced the dose, this shouldn't happen, I don't think it's a common effect 😕
 
Hi everyone, my name is All, I was forced to take Invega for (bruuh 😞) 16 months..., While in the end I had no reason to take it, I have the same symptoms as you , total chemical lobotomy, apathy , anhedonia , it's been 9 months since I stopped them and for 5 weeks I have had some positive periods of a few minutes to sometimes a few hours of feeling pleasure, libido, love or sensation but it's still too little for my taste,I don't know if it's a sign of remission because I wonder if its bursts of positive feeling reach those who have not yet recovered, here I am starting to take amisulpride very low dose because it seems that it increases the levels and the quality of dopamine, I don't know if it's a good idea for me to take it, thank you for reading my experience and I hope we all get our lives back !

Hi! Welcome to the thread and sharing your story! I hope we all get our lives back as well!

I like your icon! (my boyfriend loves anime!!).
 
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