Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v11

[anonymoususer777]

Watching Gintama, no work tomorrow. Going to bed.

Is your work cognitively demanding?

 

[Trueart2]

For anime I recommend ergo proxy and serial experiments lain.

I’ve seen Lain, about twice. Haven’t been able to mentally keep up with it or engage myself deeply into it. Checked out Proxy before but never committed will give it a shot in the future

 

[Trueart2]

Is your work cognitively demanding?

My occupation is a teacher, so yes. But currently I work at a retail store until I regain my full cognitive and intellectual capacities. I am beginning to feel better about both capacities as the days pass although

 

[jrturp]

I sent you a DM about this but also wanted to reply publicly so people who share similar concerns can see. Stimulants such as adderall and caffeine still work on on me. The effects were severely blunted for several months, but over time they were able to reach full effect again. The blocking of their effects were not permanent in my case.

Thank you, this is a relief. How many months until most of the blunting went away? I’m at 4 months and hoping by 6 months I’ll see some improvement.

 

[jrturp]

At 2 months, negative emotions came back. I can feel annoyance, anger, and sadness.

Positive emotions have not come back yet. I’m at 4 months and cannot feel happiness, joy, excitement, or pleasure.

 

[anonymoususer777]

My sleep at night is no longer restful or restoring at night. I think @RisperdalConsta50mg or someone else mentioned the same issue. I did not have this issue before. Does this mean withdrawals or does it mean things are getting worse?

 

[iridescentblack]

As I continue to do energy work on myself, today I made the conclusion that etheric pains I have felt--after my etheric body somehow became dislodged--since arguably the most influential point in healing from Invega began. At the first sign of my etheric body becoming dislodged from my physical, I suddenly found myself feeling the sensations of razorblades on the tips of my fingers. Not exactly intermittent. It seemed whenever I would make a major advancement in my energy healing, I was struck by a different degree of intensity by the pain of these razors.

Fast forward through years of dealing with this on a daily basis, through a portion of said healing that was so harrowing, the intensity of the excruciating "razorblades" had reached it's supposed climax (the pain scale having reached a 10/10 at multiple points) ... the pain is now bearable and at max reaches a maximum of 1/10 these days. But it was while in my meditations and energy work, that I worked, pushing my focus through blocked up points in my body that for some odd reason all involve my etheric hands pushing against the sensation of razorblades at the tips of my fingers. This is the only way that I can encourage energy healing in the face of this most sadistic injection-type toxin. Without pushing through miles of these sensations--my etheric limbs being contorted into the most extreme positions--I cannot heal. That being said, I reached a point today in healing through this I suddenly became aware of a blunt pain under my right shoulder. The sensations I had been pushing against with my focus somehow found their way to this point as well. Interesting timing.

If you followed any of that, you may have already drawn the conclusion that I had in finding this. My tactile, razorblade sensations are the result of the multiple depots I got in my right and left deltoids.

Please note that these are purely my experiences and probably none of you will at any point deal with these razor like symptoms.

Being 10 years off it now, I have to wonder how much longer, but I have also the most curious sensation that has occurred since approximately 3 years back pop up from time to time--beginning with me meditating in yet another mental hospital. The feeling of two magnets came together inside the middle of my brain and gave off a slight piezoelectric jolt before disappearing into nothing. And yes, I have also traced the same sensation to my right deltoid. I have yet to feel it in my deltoid. Is it too much to suggest that the sensation of those magnets coming together with the piezoelectric shock is the sensation of Invega bits hitting their effective half life and turning into virtually nothing? Well, yes. But I have concluded this as well.

 

[jrturp]

My sleep at night is no longer restful or restoring at night. I think @RisperdalConsta50mg or someone else mentioned the same issue. I did not have this issue before. Does this mean withdrawals or does it mean things are getting worse?

It can be a sign of dopamine returning, withdrawal.

 

[Matthew01]

I am constantly in pain. I can't believe they could give me this shit. My body is not good at healing

 

[Matthew01]

Everyday day, this fucking pain in my head

 

[anonymoususer777]

It can be a sign of dopamine returning, withdrawal.

No restful sleep can be a sign of dopamine returning, how? It would be interesting to know the signs of dopamine returning.

 

[jrturp]

No restful sleep can be a sign of dopamine returning, how? It would be interesting to know the signs of dopamine returning.

Dopamine is wakefulness promoting. On the flip side, people usually sleep a lot on antipsychotics.

 

[lukeflowz]

My sleep at night is no longer restful or restoring at night. I think @RisperdalConsta50mg or someone else mentioned the same issue. I did not have this issue before. Does this mean withdrawals or does it mean things are getting worse?

I think at around the fourth month mark the drug is at least half cleared and this potentially can cause withdrawal symptoms. Well that’s if you believe the half-life theory of the drug, as many don’t and for the right cause-because they still feel the effects of the drug. Hang in there, I believe by the sixth month you may start feeling a little better. Many on the blue light form notice that at six months they feel a little better. It’s a tortuous waiting game.

 

[demileigh]

Hey everybody, in about 2 weeks I’ll be 6 months off the injections and I just realised that I’m not thinking about the injections all that much anymore, it was all I thought about and all I could talk about in the first couple of months. I had a really good self care week last week and ended up going on a date on the weekend which went well and I was able to make conversation and enjoy myself but did feel a bit self conscious about the weight I gained on invega. Today I’m 9 days clean from my vape addiction, been using nicotine patches and took Valium for the first few days of quitting to take the edge off it and am doing well. I had a couple of drinks on the weekend and felt the full effects of alcohol maybe even more than I felt it pre invega and it didn’t have a bad affect on my emotional wellbeing like it did earlier on in recovery. I live in a tropical region and it’s starting to heat up so I think as I enter 6 months off injections, I’m going to spend a lot of time outside exercising, sweating / detoxing and hopefully I’ll lose some of this invega weight recovery is real still not fully back to baseline but am pretty happy with where I’m at.

 

[lukeflowz]

Hey everybody, in about 2 weeks I’ll be 6 months off the injections and I just realised that I’m not thinking about the injections all that much anymore, it was all I thought about and all I could talk about in the first couple of months. I had a really good self care week last week and ended up going on a date on the weekend which went well and I was able to make conversation and enjoy myself but did feel a bit self conscious about the weight I gained on invega. Today I’m 9 days clean from my vape addiction, been using nicotine patches and took Valium for the first few days of quitting to take the edge off it and am doing well. I had a couple of drinks on the weekend and felt the full effects of alcohol maybe even more than I felt it pre invega and it didn’t have a bad affect on my emotional wellbeing like it did earlier on in recovery. I live in a tropical region and it’s starting to heat up so I think as I enter 6 months off injections, I’m going to spend a lot of time outside exercising, sweating / detoxing and hopefully I’ll lose some of this invega weight recovery is real still not fully back to baseline but am pretty happy with where I’m at.

This is what this community needs- more recovery stories. Thanks for continuing to come back to the forums and share.

May I ask- how were you feeling two months off the injections? I assume it’s normal for me to not notice any improvements yet, but in retrospect if you reflect back at your first three months of recovery—how would you define them.

 

[demileigh]

This is what this community needs- more recovery stories. Thanks for continuing to come back to the forums and share.

May I ask- how were you feeling two months off the injections? I assume it’s normal for me to not notice any improvements yet, but in retrospect if you reflect back at your first three months of recovery—how would you define them.

Most welcome I’ll continue to check in every 2-4 weeks to let yall know how I’m going and what I’m up too.

The first 2-3 months are the most brutal in my experience, it felt like like was living the same day on repeat, I was dissociating on the regular and the only thing my blank mind could think of was being injected and what it had done to me. There were small improvements but everything still felt terrible and the only thing I felt good about was not being forced to have the injections anymore. Highly recommend taking supplements because I do believe these injections deplete you and daily walks no matter how awful you feel. I used a self care app called finch to motivate me to take proper care of myself because the most I was doing was laying down staring into the void and I would have just rotted without my little tamagotchi. I think as the months went on and the injections wore off a bit more, the more anxious I got too which was the worst part for me and I’m sure it was my body withdrawing. The last 2, maybe 3 of my injections were 75mg though so my last doses were a bit lower than yours but just hang in there, it will better.

 

[demileigh]

it will get* better

 

[jrturp]

Hey everybody, in about 2 weeks I’ll be 6 months off the injections and I just realised that I’m not thinking about the injections all that much anymore, it was all I thought about and all I could talk about in the first couple of months. I had a really good self care week last week and ended up going on a date on the weekend which went well and I was able to make conversation and enjoy myself but did feel a bit self conscious about the weight I gained on invega. Today I’m 9 days clean from my vape addiction, been using nicotine patches and took Valium for the first few days of quitting to take the edge off it and am doing well. I had a couple of drinks on the weekend and felt the full effects of alcohol maybe even more than I felt it pre invega and it didn’t have a bad affect on my emotional wellbeing like it did earlier on in recovery. I live in a tropical region and it’s starting to heat up so I think as I enter 6 months off injections, I’m going to spend a lot of time outside exercising, sweating / detoxing and hopefully I’ll lose some of this invega weight recovery is real still not fully back to baseline but am pretty happy with where I’m at.

Congrats. At how may months did the full effects of alcohol come back?

 

[demileigh]

Congrats. At how may months did the full effects of alcohol come back?

Ty. 5 1/2 for me

 

[lukeflowz]

I think it’s now time to make some needed adjustments, to avoid myself getting caught in a loop concerning overthinking about invega.

I will focus on the things I can control- diet, movement and supplementation. I’ve been slack and skipped the gym and I’m kind of eating too much. I feel like shit, but I can’t let invega have it over me. Serious changes have to happen- or I may never recover.

Gym now 3xweek
Break my fast at 4.00pm with a protein shake/green smoothie. This smoothie will contain my daily micronutrient requirements.

My supplement regieme:
Saint John’s wart
lions mane
Complex b vitamin
Ginko bilopa
Cordyceps


I have to be patient while on this protocol as it will take months for it to take effect, slowly as invega leaves my body.
Hopefully in 10 months I’ll be a changed man and functional again. I’m no longer going to “wait” for invega to clear before I make change, but implement necessary adjustments.