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Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v. 9

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InvegaAnon said:
Yeah, this. Also don't jump to TRT, try hard exercise and some supplements first.
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When i was on invega and abilify i thought i would never get in shape again. I ballooned up to 225lbs and was in terrible shape. But when i got off the abilify injections i started loosing weight 3 months in or so. Within a year i lost all the weight.

When i got switched to zyprexa from latuda i started working out again. Now a year and a half later and im in the best shape of my life and i can lift more now then when i was 20 and doing brick laying
 
I think my hormones were effected by an SSRI before, and I didn't have a period for almost a year after I went off of escitalopram. I got back to normal and became very regular after I treated my autoimmune disease. I have a lot of gender dysphoria around menstruation so I didn't want to solve my lack of it...

I was on that one for six months, I was on Prozac for six weeks but I also had high prolactin from invega this time. But it's comforting to know I got thrown out of whack and then went back to normal before. But I was seven years younger then.

I expect my next one on the 9th-12th of September. If it remains regular I'll get my hormones checked again and if everything looks good, I'll go on metformin to treat my PCOS. I don't want to start metformin with low estrogen since it lowers estrogen a little, but makes it more effective in the body.
 
I guess I don't know quite how I recovered, but I know that I recovered. Life is getting better, slowly but surely, still. It's never too late. Looking back, staying busy helped me. Alone with my mind, well that can destroy me if it's in excess. Socializing then has been radically medicinal for me.
 
Youwillrecover said:
I think imma end it soon lol. I dont believe i can recover
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Have you improved at all? I know that Abilify can cause PSSD, or at least has identical symptoms. I know it's bleak, but it's possible to improve to a point where it's tolerable, it not recover completely. I'm in pelvic floor therapy and vocational rehabilitation (unless I get rejected from it, I might), I think my life is going to get better.
 
AlphaMethylPhenyl said:
I guess I don't know quite how I recovered, but I know that I recovered. Life is getting better, slowly but surely, still. It's never too late. Looking back, staying busy helped me. Alone with my mind, well that can destroy me if it's in excess. Socializing then has been radically medicinal for me.
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How long did it take you? I remember you venting in here like everyone else.
 
Suicide seems so sweet rn. I hope God will understand the circumstances i found myself in and my soul will not end up in some hellish purgatorial realms. If they took everything i dont wanna live anymore. To kill young person sexuality and ability to make love with woman? These people are sadists
 
TonyTonyChopper said:
@InvegaAnon did love and passion for music return to you and if yes, how long did it take? Music was a big part of my life and I'm listening to it as im typing this and i get 0 emotions from it, it just sounds like noise.
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It's not back 100% but it started coming back HARD in July. But I'm a weird case. Before Prozac, it was starting to come back.
 
If any recovered people see this, especially women/AFAB people, did anyone get genital atrophy? Did it correct itself? I think shit happened to my clitoris immediately after I was injected and my hormones tanked. I don't know if I should apply hormone creams now or wait. I know it's reversible and I'm not freaking out over it.
 
Youwillrecover said:
Suicide seems so sweet rn. I hope God will understand the circumstances i found myself in and my soul will not end up in some hellish purgatorial realms. If they took everything i dont wanna live anymore. To kill young person sexuality and ability to make love with woman? These people are sadists
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I thought you were getting better sexually? I told you not to take shrooms, it can make medication induced sexual dysfunction worse. I wasn't sure if it would effect you the same way since you got your PSSD from Abilify. I think one cause of PSSD is the downregulation of serotonin receptors.
 
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InvegaAnon said:
How long did it take you? I remember you venting in here like everyone else.
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Lol okay. Was a while ago so I don't remember too well. Maybe a few months. I absolutely hated it mostly because of the insane restlessness that it gave me--pure physical torture. I definitely was depressed and dull and not motivated like other people here say. I'd say within two months off of it I was better, and more so at six months.
 
AlphaMethylPhenyl said:
Lol okay. Was a while ago so I don't remember too well. Maybe a few months. I absolutely hated it mostly because of the insane restlessness that it gave me--pure physical torture. I definitely was depressed and dull and not motivated like other people here say. I'd say within two months off of it I was better, and more so at six months.
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Oohh, I think I'm thinking about someone else then.
 
AlphaMethylPhenyl said:
Lol okay. Was a while ago so I don't remember too well. Maybe a few months. I absolutely hated it mostly because of the insane restlessness that it gave me--pure physical torture. I definitely was depressed and dull and not motivated like other people here say. I'd say within two months off of it I was better, and more so at six months.
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I didnt have access to the internet in the psych ward as my laptop died before i went in there. So i couldnt bitch about invega injections and i dont think i came on BL much when i was receiving the abilify injections. I know i thankfully have no pictures of me during that period besides one my mom took. I was in bad shape mentally and physically when i came out of the psych ward and was getting the abilify injections.

I had the invega injections for about 3 months in the psych ward. I had the abilify injections for about a year and a half but was released from the psych ward after about 3 months on abilify. I was then was given the horrible latuda for about a year until it gave me akathisia that was downright horrible. I was then put on zyprexa about a year and a half ago and it works great. II havent put on any far weight at all from it but i have put on about about 30lbs of muscle weight from lifting weights like a motherfucker. After i lost the weight from invega and abilify i was determined not to put it back on. I was also sick of being out of shape. Now im in the best shape of my life
 
1 year off work for me things have really improved for me I even want to consider doing sport which was unthinkable the first few months because I was such a zombie
 
fenec said:
1 year off work for me things have really improved for me I even want to consider doing sport which was unthinkable the first few months because I was such a zombie
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Even the thought of me lifting weights again when i was in the psych ward was unthinkable. I was a total fat fucking zombie. I ballooned up to 225lbs on invega and abilify. Now i am in the best shape of my life though.
 
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