Hi everyone i had side effects of anhedonia and sexual dysfunction from taking invega sustenna… i took a total of 3 shots and my last one was october25th 2014… currently i feel a tad bit better but i feel nothing how i use to feel… im worried that these changes are permanent… i also cant feel intoxicated effects of alcohol. … praying u get better op thats alot to deal with
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Sounds like you are having side effects from some of these drugs, and also allergic reactions.
Do you have a diagnosis? Why do you have to take these medications? I know some people`s systems cannot handle some of these meds…**
I have blood in my feces too. Got the weight gain and migraines too. No burning in the face or joint pain, but I’m really questioning the goal of this “treatment”. I mean it’s been 5 years and literally nothing has improved, I’m doing everything I’m told and my situation is only getting worse health-wise.
I have a lot of frustrations with my experience of being a psychiatric patient. Wonderfully, somehow some of the treatment works for me.
Currently, I cannot get one of my medications because the clinic has messed the prior authorization forms that have to be done every January. And there’s not too much recourse for me. Talk about feeling powerless!
Jayster
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I also have terrible heart burn. I guess these are side effects of side effects.
I have taken Antipsychotics for 1.5 years. (Quietiapine).
I have told my experience earlier too in one of my earlier posts.
I was prescribed 400 mg of quietiapine for so called Major Depression which I never had …
My effects were:-
- I went from about 60 kg to nearing 80 kg when I decided to quit my medications.
- I lost my entire sex drive, I have noticed a slight decrease of size of my organ (you know what i mean).
- I developed Boobs and big ones at that.
- All the 1.5 years I do not remember ANYTHING TODAY. It was like a fairy tale where every day I used to live in Automation WITHOUT any
- Emotions
- Feelings
- Thoughts
- i was unable to think through most of the time.
- I lost my capability to experience both sadness and happiness entirely.
- I was involved in a failed relationship thanks to the medications.
This is entirely true of my experience.
One more thing…The so called Depression I had returned once I had stopped taking the medications. So effectively what it did was SHUT DOWN MY ENTIRE BRAIN. (Both the intellectual and the emotional part of it).
Even right now when I am trying to save my marriage I am intensely afraid if my parents have injected me with an antipsychotic because it definitely RUINS your life.
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OH and I forgot:
ONE of the major reasons why I quit was:
I was Pre-diabetic and at a huge risk of getting diabetes if I had continued the medication for another couple of weeks.
My neighborrhood doctor told me that I was THIS CLOSE to getting diabetes.
I have no family history of Diabetes.
@saurav it is good to see you taking an active part in the forum.
Have you ever looked up the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
http://schizophrenia.com/diag.php#common
“Negative” symptoms of Schizophrenia , these symptoms are the lack of important abilities. Some of these include:
Alogia, or poverty of speech, is the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, thought to reflect slowing or blocked thoughts, and often manifested as short, empty replies to questions.
Affective flattening is the reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression, including facial expression, voice tone, eye contact (person seems to stare, doesn’t maintain eye contact in a normal process), and is not able to interpret body language nor use appropriate body language.
Avolition is the reduction, difficulty, or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behavior; it is often mistaken for apparent disinterest. (examples of avolition include: no longer interested in going out and meeting with friends, no longer interested in activities that the person used to show enthusiasm for, no longer interested in much of anything, sitting in the house for many hours a day doing nothing.)
A short summary of a list of negative symptoms are:
lack of emotion - the inability to enjoy regular activities (visiting with friends, etc.) as much as before
Low energy - the person tends to sit around and sleep much more than normal
lack of interest in life, low motivation
Affective flattening - a blank, blunted facial expression or less lively facial movements, flat voice (lack of normal intonations and variance) or physical movements.
Alogia (difficulty or inability to speak)
Inappropriate social skills or lack of interest or ability to socialize with other people
Inability to make friends or keep friends, or not caring to have friends
Social isolation - person spends most of the day alone or only with close family
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Dear Barbie,
Thanks for elucidating the negative symptons of Schizophrenia.
I do have about 4-5 very close friends and plenty of friends and I am generally considered to be a nice and fun person to be around with. I don’t get along with my parents now thats definitely an issue but its just my choice considering how abusive they are to me.
My relationship with my wife is currently in status quo and dont know which way it may go. It might go either way
I looked at the negative symptions you mentioned:- I do have blocked thoughts sometimes .
Apart from it I dont have any other of those symptons you mentioned.
From the positive symptoms I do have this thought that my Parents have injected me with antipsychotics. This usually goes away after 2 weeks but since my last visit to my parents (about 16 days back) I still have this thought in me.
Apart from it I have absolutely no other delusions whatsoever.
Neither do i see or hear things or stuff.
I forgot to mention I do work in a highly technical job in one of the leading technical companies in the world and I do a pretty good job at that. I am a high performer. I have no conflicts with my team members and my nteraction with them is generally positive and friendly.
Like I said a couple of years back I had been to a Psych and he has prescribed me a bundle of medications for 1.5 years saying that I have major depresison(which I highly doubt).
And yes about a couple of months back I had been to another Psych who interviewed me for 20 minutes and asked me about 7 questions and thats about it. When I started to speak about my abusive family he cut me off and told me that I had schizophrenia and prescribed me Risperidone dosage 4 mg for a week and asked me to come back after a week. I did not take the medicine and did not go back to him. He told me I might need injections after a week.
There is another psych in my city who has almost 40 years of experience in Psychiatry. I had been to him about a month back. He listened to me for about an hour and after that he said that he cannot make any conclusions about my illness right now because I was in terrible stress and extreme anxiety. He prescribed me Oleanz Plus for a week (combination of Antidepressant + Antipsych) and told me to take this for a week and then later come back to me and then he would diagnose me.
I did not take his medications also.
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Do you have heartburn every day? If so, it may be Acid Reflux Disease.
Unfortunately - delusions are usually not something that is obvious to the person to has them (by definition - if you are questioning the belief, and the probability that it is wrong is shared by most people around you - then its not a delusion).
Delusions are something that you believe to be true, even without firm evidence (i.e. evidence that other regular people agree with).
The only people who can tell a delusion are the people you trust around you. If you don’t trust anyone to tell you whether your beliefs are true or not - then that suggests that someone may have some higher levels of paranoia.
Just wanted to say I’m sorry to hear about your experience. ALso - wanted to say that most people don’t have your experience.
Here is the more typical experience:
good to know Im not the only one who gets extreme reactions from meds. I could write a similar post. but then again, im sensitive to all meds, not just anti psycotics. The difference however is that I cant choose for myself if the benefits outweighs the side effects like I can with other medicines.
Hi Saurav,
Can you get a second and third opinion from different doctors?
It is possible for doctors to jump to conclusions in only 15 minutes, they can’t really know you much.
But often they are under pressure from others that bring you to a doctor.
Why did you see a doctor in the first place? @shane
Was your family worried about you?
Was a policeman worried about you and brought you into a hospital?
Here in USA there are people that are ill and live on the streets and if they refuse medication, there is not much that can be done unless they are a ‘danger to themselves or others’
I’ve read some countries that are not so free are more able to force things on people?
this is too small a post to make any conclusions on it. Subject has not talked about his/her experiences and how different were they before/after taking the medications.
Hi,
Sure i will do so if I dont feel alright.
Currently here is what I have planned to do:
- Stay away from my parents from whom I get this delusion (I am beginning to get an insight that it is not true) but still not completely developed that so it is still like 50% delusion and 50% anxiety…And Monitor my mental condition…If this particular thought dissapears in time and if I dont get this particular thought again …I think I will be ok.
2… I will also monitor and see if I begin to get any further delusions of persecution . If I do then i will visit a doctor…else i think i will not.
I saw a doctor because this was causing distress in my relationship with my wife…
No in my country noone can force you to a hospital unless you break the law (abuse others for no reason etc)…
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Sometimes I think this is NOT TRUE…Wherein I reason out that how is it possible that I was injected when I was awake and even when I was asleep since any injection would have caused pain…but some other times I think that I was definitely injected.
Its a kind of mixture of thoughts.
And yes I do have paranoia (i did have trust issues with my wife).
actually my relationship with my wife is as good as over since the past 15 days…and I have got a warning at work.
So this is beginning to seriously affect my life big time.
Dont know if I should seek help.
In the end it’s up to you if you wish to seek help or not. Since what is happening is having a big impact on all aspects of your life then perhaps it is time to take the next step and talk to a professional. It can be hard to see ourselves clearly and sometimes someone on the outside can have a clearer picture of what is happening.
Delusions can be hard as @SzAdmin stated the very definition is that the person experiencing them will have a hard time seeing them as delusions. Sometimes one may have to start putting some trust into the people around them who may see things a little differently.
Maybe at this point ask yourself one question: What do you have to lose by seeking help?
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Thanks .
I might and probably will take Therapy.
But medicine is absolutely no based on my previous experience.