About 2 months ago I went off of my monthly Invega injection. I thought I would be fine because I started Vraylar. About a month later the voices came back slowly. Around the same time I started taking a supplement that originated in Russia called phenibut. It is for anxiety and sleep. A few MAJOR problems. It’s extremely addictive. And withdrawal causes psychosis. I knew this and thought I would be fine taking it once every 4 days. It was fine for a while until I took it two days in a row. On the third day I couldn’t sleep so I just kept taking it every day. I started off taking 2g then after a while 4g then 6g and ended off taking 10g a night. 2g is supposed to be the highest recommended amount. I knew I had a problem and planned to taper off slowly. But the phenibut was causing unusual thoughts and thoughts of suicide. And my mom was concerned so she made me stop suddenly. Didn’t sleep well for the first night. Second night, psychosis with slight visual hallucinations. Third night major visual hallucinations with loud voices and disturbing closed eye hallucinations of people’s faces morphing into something disgusting. By the third night I could not sleep. I was up for 48 hours. By then I needed to sleep so I took a small dose of phenibut, 1.25g. The next day I took 750mg. The next day 500mg. Then 250, and today I take none and I will be fine. This whole time for the first 4 days of withdrawal I was in heavy psychosis with my voices telling me to kill my puppy and my family. I stayed strong and nobody got hurt, but there were times that I was scared I would do what they were saying just for the fact that my head wasn’t right and I was psychotic. I feel so bad for taking this because it put my family in danger. I was in control the whole time and I’d never hurt my family, but psychosis is a whole ‘nother beast. Also I started geodon in this time frame and I have found it doesn’t work for me because I think it’s contributing to strange thoughts and the dose just isn’t right. I see my pdoc on Tuesday. I told him everything already. My next move is to go back on Invega or start Clozapine. What should I do? Learn from my experience. NEVER take phenibut.
My psychiatrist recommended me to stay away from supplements because they are not scientifically proven. Except for simple stuff like vitamins and omega 3.
@Aziz A lot of psychiatrists warn against them probably for good reason. I picked like the worse drug possible.
Sad thing is that there is a lot of false marketing online. They just want your money and don’t care about your health.
I’d like to expand it further and say you shouldn’t take random psychoactive supplements, regardless of how “safe” the idiots online tell you they are. Especially ones without studies to back them.
I developed schizophrenia from abusing the “safe” nootropic Piracetam. People online who aren’t doctors are totally ignorant when it comes to drug advice. I shouldn’t have listened to random posts.
At least you’re good now and learned from your mistake. Another member here took MDMA (Ecstasy) street drug with his Risperdone and he stopped getting erections. He’s been like that a year ago and still can’t get erections. I don’t know what happened to him.
@Aziz thanks. I did learn from my mistake.
For some people Geodon is a wonder drug. I take it, and it prevents psychosis and doesn’t dull my mind as badly as other ap’s. You have a lot of chemicals affecting your system right now. Your anger could be due to withdrawal from Phenibut. Maybe you should show a little more patience with Geodon. Give it a good chance to work.
with clozapine, you’ll have no problem sleeping at all…you’ll sleep like a log
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