Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v11

[Deleted member 592205]

Idk, i feel the same, they get worse, then they stabilize for a while, they get worse again, but they never get better, idk.

I think when things get worse it’s because you have high brain activity and he is trying to heal himself and by forcing this process things get worse.

There is a user from surviving antidepressants forum who claim he is fully recovered after 14 months off one single 7.50mg injection of risperidone, I took 50mg twice, so it’s more than 10x times his exposure, I’m not surprised I’m not recovered after 15 months.

It may take up to 10 years to me, if i’am lucky, if I have to make some maths about. From what I understood, with risperidone, doses over the 37.5mg are not even terapeutic but they only cause worse side effects and damage. It’s not normal They used 50mg (max dose, far high than terapeutic dose) at first approach to someone (me) without psychosis.

This showed me the joke is psychiatry. Anyways it’s seem that the dose is relevant about how much one can recover and How much it take.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

There is a user from surviving antidepressants forum who claim he is fully recovered after 14 months off one single 7.50mg injection of risperidone, I took 50mg twice, so it’s more than 10x times his exposure, I’m not surprised I’m not recovered after 15 months.

It may take up to 10 years to me, if i’am lucky, if I have to make some maths about. From what I understood, with risperidone, doses over the 37.5mg are not even terapeutic but they only cause worse side effects and damage. It’s not normal They used 50mg (max dose, far high than terapeutic dose) at first approach to someone (me) without psychosis.

This showed me the joke is psychiatry. Anyways it’s seem that the dose is relevant about how much one can recover and How much it take.

And I came to realize that all this is happened to me because of disfunctional narcisistic traumatized toxic and mental ill relatives. This part of my life showed me the true face of psychiatry and the true face and mental issue of my mother and his boyfriend.

If I will ever recover, and I doubt about it, i will be different than before, the knowledge about a lot of things i reached in these 15 months Will change me forever, They Will change my prospective on a lots of things of my life and my past and future.

I hope i will recover because i deserve it, we all deserve it, and because i can start living my life, a life that was always intoxicated by those around me.

 

[Trueart2]

Hi, I’m new to the forum. Does anyone know whether recovery times from Risperidone Uzedy are comparable to Invega?

14 to 22 day half life.

Max time it’ll stay in your system, is about 4 months and a half.

 

[jrturp]

Anyways idk how everyone recover in 8-12 months but i’am still affected after 15 months. I start to belive my damage is permanent and I’m one of those who won’t recover at all.

Sorry to hear. Most people on this forum took Invega, has anyone else recovered from Risperidone? Maybe Invega is recoverable but Risperidone isn’t. Or at least that’s my fear.

 

[InvegaInferno]

Sorry to hear. Most people on this forum took Invega, has anyone else recovered from Risperidone? Maybe Invega is recoverable but Risperidone isn’t. Or at least that’s my fear.

If my memory is not mistaken I think I've read a post or comment about someone who's recovered from risperidone I have to look for it again I don't know if it was reddit or bluelight. Risperidone is considered to be the parent of Paliperidone (invega) so they have similar components, but invega has a longer half life so its worse in terms of having to wait more but a lot of people recover, though the time of recovery can be unexpected sometimes depending on you.

Sometimes I choose not to repost a recovery story because it isn't much of a story and doesn't give much insight about the recovery (hence why I didn't post the risperidone one) so I skip but a lot of people do recover.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

Sorry to hear. Most people on this forum took Invega, has anyone else recovered from Risperidone? Maybe Invega is recoverable but Risperidone isn’t. Or at least that’s my fear.

Quora scared me a lot because i read lots of things like “if its risperidone then its permanent” or “you won’t never recover with risperidone you only can cope with it”.

One user from reddit recovered from only 1 injection risperidone very low dosage 7.5mg after 14 months. I had 50mg twice, not recovered at 15 months..

 

[Deleted member 592205]

Sorry to hear. Most people on this forum took Invega, has anyone else recovered from Risperidone? Maybe Invega is recoverable but Risperidone isn’t. Or at least that’s my fear.

Invega have far more longest half life, but it’s seems that people usually recover in 8-12 months, Risperidone is a two week injection and i read people maybe partiallybrecovered after 18 months, idk.

 

[Chanel_monster]

Keep those recovery stories coming. Gives me hope.

 

[Invegatorture]

I know it’s not quite the same but I healed from over a months worth of high dose risperidone pills before.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

I know it’s not quite the same but I healed from over a months worth of high dose risperidone pills before.

I read people who took them 6-9 months to fully recover from risperidone pills. It’s seem tha Risperidone is one of the most if not the most trash drug you can ever take. The one with the most side effects who last longer, as i said there is this user “RisperdalHater” from surviving antidepressants, it took to him 14 months to full recover from 7.50mg single injection.

I took 2 injection, the double amount compared to him, and i my dose was 50mg twice, so it’s more than 10x times his dose, 12,5x his dose.

14 months for a single 7.5mg dose is crazy, so it may take even 28 months for me if i considering i got 20x his exposure (2x times his number injection and 12x times his dose)

 

[InvegaInferno]

This is what I found for now. @RisperdalConsta50mg @jrturp

Many years ago I was put on risperidone injections. (risperidone metabolize into paliperidone) I left the hospital a few months into the treatment and a month or so after the treatment ended I did in fact notice something strange. This all passed though, I was able to recover completely soon after.

@Gdvffh

When i was on risperidone it was hell, laying in bed all day not showering and just be on my laptop all the time, not going anywhere and just feeling like shit always. But ya i made a full recovery. When i say full recovery i mean FULL recovery, it felt like the risperidone thing was just a bad dream and it was hard for me to believe such a thing really existed. So if i recovered once, why not a second time. I remember the recovery was gradual, i think i kind of just started doing more things on my own even though i still felt like shit, since i got used to feeling like shit all the time and just accepted my faith and figured i mind as well just try even its kind of shit. Then one day i just realizied i recovered a 100%.Wow you're still suffering 5 years later thats crazy and scary. Ive personally recovered 3 times so far. I recovered from risperidone. Then i recovered from abilify. Then i recovered from flupenexiol. Each recovery took me around a year. But i only got 1 abilify injection and i took risperidone for like 3 months. Then flupenexiol i took 2 injections of it.

Im currently back on flupenexiol and ive been tsking it for a year now. Now im a switch to seroquel on april 19th. Ive got off antipsychotics and everytime i get off i get into psychosis. I got put on a community treatment order which has expired now. Now im taking as i xont want to get in psychosis again. End up in mental hospital again and end upvon community treatment order again. My plan for when i get put on seroquel is to cut the pill in 4 and take a quarter a day. Im hope i can return to my old self by doing that and not get psycho

@iridescentblack

With Risperidones counterpart, Risperdal Consta, the half-life is six days vs Invega Sustenna's 49. Still, recovery from Risperdal Consta can take a while. Took me over 10 weeks to recover. And following that ten week period was terrible withdrawal that led to panic attacks and so on. I really don't like pharmaceuticals and I consider the people making these drugs to be domestic terrorists. Not sure how there are positive reviews out there considering it takes away even the most basic of motor skills. I'm pretty sure I could hold a job better if I had down's syndrome than on any of these drugs.

 

[InvegaInferno]

Keep those recovery stories coming. Gives me hope.

Will try to, as much as I can find.

 

[InvegaInferno]

Gdvffh did not get the injection but pills. @jrturp @RisperidalConsta50mg
@Jerry Atrick

This is certainly your opinion but that is all it is, an opinion. Believe it or not, not all psychiatrists push injections on their patients.

I completely understand that Invega, and other long acting injectables, are poison and should be avoided if possible. But this boils down to individual psychiatrists, not all of them. And I argue that overall, psychiatry has helped far more people than it has hurt. We just don't hear about the success stories because those folks are out living their lives instead of posting their experiences online.

And just to share my own experience, I took several Risperidone injections while locked up in a state hospital. The second I was discharged, my psychiatrist immediately took me off the injections and put me back on pills. Yes the injections were a horrible experience and yes it took me around a year to recover. But I did recover and here I am, nearly 20 years later with those days as a distant memory in my mind. Well not quite so distant because I always draw on those memories in my attempt to try to give hope to people on here.

So no, I do not believe psychiatry should be avoided by everyone at all times. They can and do save people's lives every day. We do however need to remain vigilant and advocate for ourselves by not only questioning our psychiatrists but being active in researching the medications they are recommending and not doing something we do not feel comfortable with doing.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

This is what I found for now. @RisperdalConsta50mg @jrturp

@Gdvffh


@iridescentblack

10 week to recover from risperdal consta? I don’t think this is even biologically possible, btw he says it take to him around a year to recover, and that is a pretty quick recover, because from what i find in those 15 months of research the average time is 18 monta (1.5 year) and some people take even 2 years to recover (24 months). Very little people keep having effects after 2 years, but usually those messed up their brain with continuous exposure to street drugs and other psychiatric drugs, and maybe they already had some health condition or issue.

The fact is that for my specific case they bombed me with the maximal aviable dose twice, this is what scare me. 15 months after i don’t had any improvements, i just got tinnitus at 13 months. Everybody at my place would be scared and hopeless.

For me it’s a matter to reach 18 months, then 24 months to see what happen. I don’t have other options.

 

[Trueart2]

At work, days going by fast

 

[InvegaInferno]

10 week to recover from risperdal consta? I don’t think this is even biologically possible, btw he says it take to him around a year to recover, and that is a pretty quick recover, because from what i find in those 15 months of research the average time is 18 monta (1.5 year) and some people take even 2 years to recover (24 months). Very little people keep having effects after 2 years, but usually those messed up their brain with continuous exposure to street drugs and other psychiatric drugs, and maybe they already had some health condition or issue.

The fact is that for my specific case they bombed me with the maximal aviable dose twice, this is what scare me. 15 months after i don’t had any improvements, i just got tinnitus at 13 months. Everybody at my place would be scared and hopeless.

For me it’s a matter to reach 18 months, then 24 months to see what happen. I don’t have other options.

I was surprised too, but maybe they had lower dosage or it might also be pills, I don't know it's what I could find. The people you found that has recovered later, did you know how much mg they got injected with?

 

[cinos]

Keep those recovery stories coming. Gives me hope.

I lost 55 pounds . i been off invega for a more than a few years now.
it takes time to recover.
i'm not fully there (because of weight gain) but i am almost there.
oh yeah, i just found out that i am diabetic now and it seems like it probably caused by invega.

 

[Deleted member 592205]

I was surprised too, but maybe they had lower dosage or it might also be pills, I don't know it's what I could find. The people you found that has recovered later, did you know how much mg they got injected with?

I don’t know, they dont talk about how much injections and wich dosage they got, what they usually says it’s “it took me around 1.5 year to feel better and 2 years to feel normal again” as a reply about this same question “people who recovered after antipsychotic injections?”

 

[anonymoususer777]

I lost 55 pounds . i been off invega for a more than a few years now.
it takes time to recover.
i'm not fully there (because of weight gain) but i am almost there.
oh yeah, i just found out that i am diabetic now and it seems like it probably caused by invega.

What was your dose and number of injections?

 

[Trueart2]

What was your dose and number of injections?

They had nearly 20 injections.