I barely feel the injection. Pain never last me more than a couple of minutes at worst. I’m off the injections now though.
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I see. I’ve been on seroquel and risperdal so far. I got akathisia from risperdal so I dont know what is next. I’m guessing it will take a few months to figure out what works for me so I can have some time to think about whether or not to be compliant with pills or just get a shot and be done with it.
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You need the get the noncompliance stuff out of your system. It will really mess you up.
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I was compliant until I got akathisia. I do not even want to take aspirin now.
I think what will wind up happening is I’ll wind up going in for another psych visit and come out limping. I have another appointment thursday morning so if you hear someone holler really loud, you can guess what happened.
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I get the invega injection for non compliance. When I took any kind of pill, I would skip days, weeks, months. It never ended up good, and they have tried a lot of pills on me. Sometimes I would just simply forget because it had to be multiple ones 3 times a day. Sometimes at night at higher doses than the day. Than I would find reasons to quit cold turkey thinking it would do me good…
I don’t drive, and I do know my concentration gets effected when I’m in the car after the injection, and it doesn’t wear off until I have a goal in my mind like an hour after but usually I need to lay in silence. The nurse injects it in my arm at a mental health place, she takes her time and it goes deep into the muscle, and I feel disoriented. I think she realizes that, maybe they are giving me too much? The pain last 3-4 days after, feels like a bruise. I put ice on it.
Overall I still prefer it over the pills because at a time I couldn’t read a news article online, nevermind a book. I was forgetting what I was saying outloud 5 seconds after it was being said, and didn’t understand some people when they talked. It definitely helps me have a clear mind.
How long have you been on the invega? Do you get lumps in your arm from it? I have been on it 2 years and I am getting lumps in my arm where they inject it. I heard its normal. Do you get them too?
Hi next month it will be 5 months. I don’t get lumps but the nurse asked if I did, I told her no. I have to see my pdoc this week and I might have to suggest to get it every 3 weeks instead of 4 even though I feel fine now but in like 2 weeks I won’t be. It will wear off.
hello trelos your name is greek and nothing s wrong with that welcome to the forum.
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@laros, the name means ‘crazy/disturbed’ in greek. I was concerned it might offend someone but I guess it doesn’t.
You can drive after injections. I dont prefer the injection. My pdoc said that injections seem to grow areas of the brain that make negative symptoms worse. The injection itself doesnt hurt but its fairly normal for your arm to be sore for a couple days after.
yes iam greek and it doesnt offend me 
I have to type a lot so having a sore arm is not going to work for me. I watched a youtube video where a nurse actually filmed someone getting injected against their will and it was enough to make me turn white and become nauseated.
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Thats terrible. Forcing meds, yick! Yeah i probably wouldnt want an injection either if i actually had to use that arm a lot. Sometimes it doesnt hurt at all. I think it depends heavily on how good the nurse is at giving it.
Note too that ive had arm pain for weeks with invega injection. I dont get it anymore like that…but i couldnt sleep on my side for up to 3 weeks because it hurt so bad. I even took antibiotics because i thought it was infected.
@laros what does iaros mean?
EDIT: I just noticed your name is LAROS not IAROS. My life is a lie! 
Whether or not an injection is painful is largely determined by the relaxation level of the muscle to be injected, the medication to be injected, and the length of the needle as much as the skill level of the nurse doing the injecting. I am a former R.N.
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Should I be relaxed or not assuming I get injected in my rear? I wonder if I should just move to alaska and be an eskimo or something. Not looking forward to this. I read horror stories of people getting injections every 14 days and they are in serious pain for 2 days, some pain for another 7 or 8 days. That means 3 or 4 days that don’t hurt.
Laros means sea eagle in ancient greek
also i like anagrams so its solar.
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@laros Oh cool 