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Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v11

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demileigh said:
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.
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Congrats. At how may months did the full effects of alcohol come back?
 
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.
 
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lukeflowz said:
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.
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Great on you taking matters into your own hands. Watchout for the Lion’s Mane, there’s many cases of people reporting long lasting negative side effects from taking it, I myself suffered from migraines/headaches from taking it.
 
Trueart2 said:
Great on you taking matters into your own hands. Watchout for the Lion’s Mane, there’s many cases of people reporting long lasting negative side effects from taking it, I myself suffered from migraines/headaches from taking it.
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I’ll be cautious but I do know I took it in the past with no side effects. I think I’m good there.
 
I have had a couple of days in the past few weeks where I thought I experienced a “window” or something, but the truth is I’m not really feeling much better overall.

Still feeling the weight of everything and the pain of this existence… I’m worried I won’t get my creativity and my spark back. There’s a certain zest in my life force that’s just gone.
 
rawbanana said:
I have had a couple of days in the past few weeks where I thought I experienced a “window” or something, but the truth is I’m not really feeling much better overall.

Still feeling the weight of everything and the pain of this existence… I’m worried I won’t get my creativity and my spark back. There’s a certain zest in my life force that’s just gone.
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Hold on man. I feel that window was true and signs of healing. Invega should be completely out of your system soon.
 
demileigh said:
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.
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have u recovered ur emotions
 
invegaloner said:
Time for me has been going by kind of fast thanks to my job being kind of hectic. I went out for drinks and had a good time, don’t like getting drunk really but I am able to get tipsy after a few drinks. I’ve been smoking weed less since I don’t feel the full effects (it’s boring) but I think I feel the smallest amount of something when I smoke? It’s more of a body sensation though but it’s not nearly as strong as it used to be. I’ve been thinking about my relationship to weed a lot since it might have been part of the reason I went into psychosis, I was smoking a lot last year when I think more on it. But I do hope that weed fully works for me sooner rather than later just for my own peace of mind.
As for my emotions I don’t think they’re gone but it’s also another thing I don’t feel in my body anymore which is hard to explain. Like I get sad but don’t cry, I get happy and excited but I don’t feel it in my body I am bursting with energy. But I am enjoying myself. I am also autistic so these types of things I’ve always struggled with.
Been thinking about how so many different disorders share symptoms so it’s kind of easy to be misdiagnosed or ignored altogether. I also talked to my therapist about receptors and I didn’t understand half of what they were saying 😭. They will send me some resources later that I can share here hopefully, but they did explain that there are different types of dopamine receptors which cause different things to happen if you block them because they have different purposes like recycling or creating or destroying. I’m explaining this in a very crude matter and am worried about saying something wrong so I won’t get too deep into it, but they did say that invega doesn’t bind to the receptors permanently. They also said that symptoms like akathisia don’t really occur outside of antipsychotics and Parkinson’s (!!!) which lead them to believe it is an issue with the dopamine levels causing it like how too much dopamine causes psychosis.
I know what I wrote is kind of vague and all over the place but I love to share information so I hope it helps and I hope I get those resources on the receptors soon!
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I know what you mean about feeling emotions. You get sad but you don’t feel it in your body.

This drug numbs the soaring highs of feeling. I believe dopamine is associated with a lot more than just reward system. The ability to feel sensations is part of it as well and that’s heavily blunted.

I think it goes away over time, but it takes very very long. I’m 10 months out and I’m still far away from feeling sensations fully.
 
InvegaInferno said:
@rawbanana
Since the shot is nearly out of your system, why don't you try fasting now and see how it goes?
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I had ChatGPT calculate the half life for my body based on the blood results I got and the length of time that has passed since getting injected and it said my half life is around 50 days and I’ll need 4-5 more half lives for the levels to become medically negligible… so it won’t be out of my body completely until April next year.

I guess I could start fasting then but I don’t even know. This whole thing is bullshit
 
rawbanana said:
I had ChatGPT calculate the half life for my body based on the blood results I got and the length of time that has passed since getting injected and it said my half life is around 50 days and I’ll need 4-5 more half lives for the levels to become medically negligible… so it won’t be out of my body completely until April next year.

I guess I could start fasting then but I don’t even know. This whole thing is bullshit
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What did your blood results show and at how many months? I’m getting my blood checked later today.
 
invegaloner said:
Time for me has been going by kind of fast thanks to my job being kind of hectic. I went out for drinks and had a good time, don’t like getting drunk really but I am able to get tipsy after a few drinks. I’ve been smoking weed less since I don’t feel the full effects (it’s boring) but I think I feel the smallest amount of something when I smoke? It’s more of a body sensation though but it’s not nearly as strong as it used to be. I’ve been thinking about my relationship to weed a lot since it might have been part of the reason I went into psychosis, I was smoking a lot last year when I think more on it. But I do hope that weed fully works for me sooner rather than later just for my own peace of mind.
As for my emotions I don’t think they’re gone but it’s also another thing I don’t feel in my body anymore which is hard to explain. Like I get sad but don’t cry, I get happy and excited but I don’t feel it in my body I am bursting with energy. But I am enjoying myself. I am also autistic so these types of things I’ve always struggled with.
Been thinking about how so many different disorders share symptoms so it’s kind of easy to be misdiagnosed or ignored altogether. I also talked to my therapist about receptors and I didn’t understand half of what they were saying 😭. They will send me some resources later that I can share here hopefully, but they did explain that there are different types of dopamine receptors which cause different things to happen if you block them because they have different purposes like recycling or creating or destroying. I’m explaining this in a very crude matter and am worried about saying something wrong so I won’t get too deep into it, but they did say that invega doesn’t bind to the receptors permanently. They also said that symptoms like akathisia don’t really occur outside of antipsychotics and Parkinson’s (!!!) which lead them to believe it is an issue with the dopamine levels causing it like how too much dopamine causes psychosis.
I know what I wrote is kind of vague and all over the place but I love to share information so I hope it helps and I hope I get those resources on the receptors soon!
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Weed high might come back around 8-9 months.
 
rawbanana said:
I had ChatGPT calculate the half life for my body based on the blood results I got and the length of time that has passed since getting injected and it said my half life is around 50 days and I’ll need 4-5 more half lives for the levels to become medically negligible… so it won’t be out of my body completely until April next year.

I guess I could start fasting then but I don’t even know. This whole thing is bullshit
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Remind me please how much invega is left in your body? also were you injected in the glute?
 
@Decisive Healed.
Recovered after 10 months.
2 Loading Injections 150mg and 100mg a week later. 2 monthly injections 75mg.
Recovery Story
Hi everyone :)

I recovered my periods I think one or two months after my full recovery, just the time for my prolactine level to be stabilized. It's been 2 years that I feel better, I recovered everything even the natural libido. So don't worry, it's just a waiting game, matter of time until your body will be free from poison. During this time exercize a lot (step by step at your own rythmn), drink water, vitamins and when you'll feel some waves of emotions try intermittent fasting it will speed up the recovery
That's my personal advices because it worked for me, I hope it will for you.
I'm sometimes busy with my studies but feel free to send me PM if you have any question.
Don't ever lose HOPE: it's "normal" to have suicidal thoughts in the beginning of the withdrawal it's due to the total blockade of the dopamine and serotonine receptors, you feel a strong anhedonia. I felt it too in the past but remember it won't last just keep being busy: watch a film/tv, play videogames/read a book even though you don't have motivation, by the time I swear you'll feel improvements. Just don't be hard with yourself and be patient.
Take care and don't lose hope!

With love ❤

Decisive
Hi everyone :)
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Long time no see, I hope your health improves. I came back to share a tip that you can use only from the 7th elimination half-life (when about 98 percent of the poison will be gone). As I advised several people by private message, from the 7th half-life I started an intermittent fast in addition to the sport. This allowed me to accelerate my recovery and recover all my abilities, the fasting of the month of Ramadan also helped me a lot. But the best therapeutic fast is intermittent fasting because it allows you not to be dehydrated and to be able to fast in the long run. I got this idea from a doctor friend who told me about the benefits of fasting on the brain: it eliminates damaged cells (including those of the brain) and pre-cancer cells, it boosts the immune system and especially this product of dopamine and the renewal of its receptors. You can not imagine how that made me feel so good mentally and physically. Try this towards the end of your weaning and you will see the difference! :)

PS: The famous Russian psychiatrist Dr Yuri Nikolaev has healed in the past about 7000 people who suffered from schizophrenia/depression thanks to therapeutic fast (under medical control), he made his own research and it worked.

Courage my friends
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I’m so sad like I miss listening to music and feeling so much joy and wanting to explore life and everything that comes with being on earth. That’s sense of wonder and adventure has been stolen from me and it’s not okay…
 
demileigh said:
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.
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Please share your dosage, number ofinjections and date you got them.
 
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