Not having anything to do

[green5]

In my case it is not about lack of motivation or enjoyment, but a lack of energy. I am interested in many things but often I felt horribly tired.

[Rebelhassan]

I used to be a very emotional and sensitive person. I’m a professional musician, worked at numerous hotels playing piano and was a sponsored skateboarder owning my own skateshop at some point. Also filmed and produced short films at an advanced level. And finally was one of the prominent religious leaders where I resided. Had a very vivid personality along with high emotional intelligence.

Now comes invega sustenna and my interests are pretty much gone, along with losing knowledge I’ve always known by heart. I’m boring most of the time, dumb, have nothing to say and more emotionless than a chair.

Even after being off Invega for 4 months, I feel that it will have permanent effects on my personality and normal body physiology.

[AccreditedPsych]

Yeah @Rebelhassan, invega sustenna is really tricky… it works really well for some people, but for a lot of people it ruins their lives and leaves them a shell of their former selves.
One thing I would like to say though, is that because invega sustenna has a half life of 25 to 50 days, meaning it takes that amount of days to reduce its concentration in your system by half, it could technically take 6-8 months to be completely out of your body. Some of our members even say it took them up to a year for side effects to wear off. So you’re about at the halfway point of that timeframe.

I don’t know if you’ve seen it already, but we had a thread dedicated to people coming off of invega sustenna. It’s actually closed now, because of too many replies. But all the info is still there. Perhaps it will help you. Here is the link:

Has anyone came off of invega sustenna?

Good afternoon. has anyone successfully came off of this medication? i was misdiagnosed and unfortunately had tooken 3 monthly injections of this medication. my last shot was october25th and currently im dealing with anhedonia, depersolization and derealization from taking this medicine. i have no sexual arousal and 0 sex drive (able to get erect but no discharge) is their anything that can be done to reverse the effects that where caused by this medication? i read that invega sustenna blocks certain dopamine and serotonin receptors. also reading online it takes between 4-8 months to get out of your system!!! Please advice i regret to this day the day i started this drug…

[Rebelhassan]

Thanks so much for the share, actually this thread was the reason I joined

I’m well aware of that timeframe but it’s just too hard to swallow that months pass by only being a dumbed down version of yourself and feeling very little pleasure in things if any.

I started a version 2 of the thread to read others’ experiences with the drug and give hope to those still dealing with the effects.

I hope you recover the ability to feel pleasure and enjoy life again!