I have stopped Invega depot for being 6 years on it and its been 3 years recovering from withdrawals. How longer its gonna last?
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If you haven’t recovered in 3 years it may not be withdrawals anymore, but damage done to you by the drug. Has there been any improvement over those three years? If things continue to improve then you’re just gonna have to wait until you’re better, no one can say how long withdrawals will last. If you haven’t improved at all then perhaps the drug did permanent damage in which case you may not get better
I quit Olanzapine about 10 months ago and I still have withdrawal insomnia, it’s getting better but it’s still pretty bad. If I don’t take a sleeping pill I only sleep 2-4 hours usually. When I first quit I couldn’t sleep at all. The fact that it is improving, even though it is taking so long, I think means I’m still withdrawing, I just hope my sleep continues to improve and permanent damage hasn’t been done to me.
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Were you on a depot or tablet form?
Tablet. I refused injections.
It Can as a matter og fact take that time span to get rid of a depot because when I was lowered from 400 mg Clopixol every other week to 500 mg every 3 weeks it took me one and a half year to get stable.
The half life of the Invega injection is about 50 days. and it takes about 4-5 half lives to eliminate it from your system equals 250 days, so it would’ve been out of his system in less than 1/2 a year, that means the medication has been completely out of his system for 2.5 years, that’s a long time for withdrawals, not impossible but still a very long time. That is why I asked if he has improved at all or is the same. If he has continually improved that means the withdrawals are getting better. If he is the same as he always was it might not be withdrawals, but damage done by the meds. But he hasn’t answered that yet.
Im interested to hear what the withdrawal symptoms you are having are. I am on invega and might try going off it one day, for instance if I lose insurance coverage
The main withdrawal symptom I had was rebound psychosis up to one and a half year after the reduction.
How do you know that’s withdrawal and not your organic disorder? I do blame injections of invega and taking risperidone for worsening my symptoms in the last episode I had. When they wore off I was much worse than before.