Ever since starting Invega I have had poverty of speech and thought. I just don’t talk that much and it kills me. I would really like to be social and talk a lot but not too much. Is there another med or supplement that helps with poverty of speech and thought? I also just don’t have a lot of thoughts. The meds I’m on are extremely mind numbing and makes me feel like there are no thoughts in my head. Good that I don’t have racing thoughts but it would be nice to be able to think faster about what I’m going to say and have the urge to actually speak my thoughts aloud. Anyone else have this and what can be done to help? My pdoc doesn’t believe it’s caused by the meds and thinks it’s just negative symptoms.
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i have this i struggle with this every day i think the medicine made it worse. it is the ■■■■■■ medicine i knew itttttt!!! the pdocs dont know anything they have never taken the medicine they only read books they dont have real life experiance on it.
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Have you tried Sarcosine?
It makes me so frustrated when I tell my pdoc about the side effects I’m experiencing from the medicine and they just say it’s negative symptoms of sz. I am so positive it’s the meds.
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Yes but I stopped taking it. Not sure if I took it long enough to notice a benefit in anything let alone poverty of speech. I will give it another go.
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I’m sorry you are going through that. I’ve heard this a lot about Invega. I’m on Invega too, and I did have poverty of speech and thought when I first started taking it. But I’ve been on it two and a half years now and it’s starting to not work again. My thoughts are racing again, I talk non-stop and I’m having hallucinations again. My psychiatrist is changing my medicine. But I also have bipolar 1 disorder so I may just be manic again.
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I have poverty of speech because of my meds. Otherwise I’d be a rambling idiot talking about everything. I don’t know which is worse to be honest
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Well I’m sorry it’s not working anymore. I’ve been taking Invega for about a year started on the pills then a few months later got Invega Sustenna injection and before you know it I’m on the highest dose 234 mg. After 8 months of no voices the voices are back but pretty faint. I suspect that I have developed a tolerance to the medicine but I still have poverty of speech.
I have a brother who talks too much and it can get annoying. But I’d rather talk too much than too little. I love to talk and right now I just can’t.
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I can cover up poverty of speech for about 20 minutes. Then I just fade into silence 
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I have it bad. I also have a very flat emotional affect and that doesn’t help either
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Yeah. Tolerance isn’t good. I read something that said tolerance for neuroleptic medicine (antipsychotics) is really fast compaired to other medicine. My psychiatrist raised my Invega dose, but it didn’t really help. I am supposed to start on risperidone soon, which is like invega. I take haloperidol too, but only PRN. But I’m taking it regularly now until I start risperidone. I love haloperidol. It works great for acute symptoms. I was on it by itself for a while, but it gave my bad EPS, so I just take it PRN now.
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I want to try haldol but I’ve seen youtube videos of people saying it has a lot of side effects and it’s torture to be injected with and it shrinks the brain.
If it gets to be too much would go er,? You to get better.
I don’t think i need to go to the ER for poverty of speech. Thanks for your concern though. 
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I have this symptom when I’m getting psychotic. I can’t think of anything to say.
At my last appointment in Oct 2018 my stepdaughter said I was emotionally flat . The pdoc said the meds can do that . I was on Consta at the time(now on Paliperidone).
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When I don’t feel like talking I don’t talk. But is poverty of speech you can’t say anything good or having nothing to say. I’ve been that way all my life. Listen to the people and that will give you something new to say.
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I’m on 700mg of seroquel. I don’t like being like that but I can’t help it
I guess I’d say no, since Phil says I can talk his ear off.
my thoughts are sometimes songs going on in my head,
other times memories, but yeah, it’s real quiet.
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