This med feels great for me. ive been on it about 8 days and its already helping. and no obvious side effects except i got my blood drawn and my prolactin is almost 200 and normal is under 30. and my white blood cells are below normal level 
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i was on it 8 years
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how was it for u?
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weight gain, sexual dysfunction, couldnt exercise, palpitations, high prolactin, reacted bad with cannabis
i went off it and a year later had psychosis
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what dose were u on? so far im only on 3mg a day. and i really dont wanna go any higher. especially after the blood test. so far my appetite is normal. i feel really good. its just the prolactin and low white blood cells
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oh i thought you meant injection
i was on injection
na pills. she did mention the injection but since i just started it im on the pills. but from what ive heard about the injecton idk if id even agree to it and prob just wanna stay on the pills.
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pills are better, injection is last resort imo
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yeah the scary thing about the injection too is it takes so long to leave the body. its one reason im not sure i will agree to it
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i never worried about halflife or anything. when i finally went on it i was basically f’d up by it after multiple injections and withdrawls
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Invega was the first med I was on steadily. I had haldol before that but got out of taking the pills every chance I got. I was on the injection of Invega. It was very good at positives, but I felt it amplified my negatives. Gained a lot of weight on it and felt zombified.
Abilify was better for me, and I believe vraylar in conjuction with Wellbutrin is even better.
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I was on the Invega pills for a month then got switched to the highest dose of the injectable. That was the worst 10 months of my life. Had no motivation, gained 60 pounds, started lactating due to the high prolactin levels.
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were u on the highest dose pill? 9 mg right? if the pill vs injection dose were the same would u say the injection feels worse?
im shocked how good invega works. way better than haldol did for me but i did have to be careful with haldol dose cause it made me restless. but invega is so much better. i just hope my white blood cells come back up. i really dont wanna quit taking it. i asked about vraylar but she thought invega would be better.
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It has really helped my positives but it took 3 months to finally eliminate the voices. I started off at 3mg now I’m on 9mg. The increase was because of some paranoia.
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They gave me injection first and I got bad akathisia (restlessness that causes pacing) from it that lasted about 9 months thanks to how long it stays in your body.
Trying it isn’t bad, but I wish we had done pills instead.
I’m glad it works for you, I knew someone else who it worked for, just didn’t work out for me.
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