In terms of treatments I used during my experience, I tried a lot of stuff and found not much difference in how I felt. I ended up on Zoloft 200mg, multivitamins and St. Johns Wort. Although I couldn't tell the difference, I just took them anyway. Also as soon as I could get up off the couch I would go for walks, the felt really good for some reason. It was like they would produce dopamine that would get past the paliperidone when nothing else would, and believe my I tried I was smoking weed through most of my experience hoping it would work and it never did. Otherwise this experience is like being tortured for 6-8 months straight so you just hang on to the next day and ride out the pain there isn't too much else you can do. But being here and having people to relate to was a great help, I remember reading recovery stories and hoping mine would come soon and was kind of jealous lol never thought my day would come when I would be comfortable enough to write this. To be honest I'd thought about writing something but only just now got around to it.
So now I'm almost at 12 months off from my last dose and I can now get about 50% high (weed) but other drugs are working again and I can get drunk. The anhedonia has like 90% gone and kind of just feels like I'm still mildly sedated now. My sleep is back to normal, however I still sweat a little bit in the night so I'd say the drug isn't completely gone yet. Just goes to show how long this drug can stay in your system, the psychiatrists don't know shit about the drug they're giving people. My appetite is pretty good I eat dinner and snacks but my lunch time appetite still isn't back. My concentration is fine, enjoying computer games again, music all that stuff. I also feel like my old self, like some people say it changes you or something but I disagree, I feel exactly how I did before I had paliperidone. My back is improved almost completely as well. Anyone have any questions feel free to reply and I'll answer them. I'll hang around for a few more days to do that.
So I hope that helps people get an indication of what it's like on this drug and approximate time frames they could expect to recover. Anyway, now I'm off to go bash the shit out my psychiatrist and then go home to smoke a joint and play BF 2042.
P.S I was not diagnosed with schizophrenia. I have a couple friends who have and say that they require AP's to stop their minds from wandering. So I'm not saying AP's are bad but paliperidone injectable (and really any slow release injectable) definitely is, avoid them at all costs. My friends take pills and said they had to switch around a bit to find one that they felt pretty good on. My advice is centred around paliperidone only.
