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Going on my third month of invega intramuscular injections. Anyone been on invega sustenna long term and happy with the medication? So far the only side effect I have had with the shot is weight gain. I am also on a mood stableizer.

Hi guys, ive been on inVega sustenna for three months and my side effects are terrible on this drug. Blanking out, bad memory, lack of creativity, bad focus, slow mind and worse of all, anhedonia. Both sexual and emotional alike. It’s been three months and these things still have not lifted. I know it’s not my illness because my schizophrenia gives me heightened emotions and gets me high, and these side effects all started for the first time since I took the drug. Maintena is coming out in my country this December and I was thinking of asking my pdoc to switch to it. I heard that abilify can cause blurred vision and if you’re unlucky td, I’m scared of this. I’ve taken abilify tablet form before for around a week to a month or so at five milligrams, and didn’t get blurred vision or td, would anything change with the injection form? And also what is your experience on this drugs injection form? Regards.

My experience with this drug from hell has been just that: in hell. I have memory problems now, creativity is zero, no motivation, I can’t do anything else other than hold simple conversation and eat. Anything else is too strenuous for me. For instance when I concentrate hard my brain burns and I’m getting a tremendous amount of headaches and I can’t sleep at night. When I do manage to sleep at around 5am I need close to twelve hours of sleep. The only reason im still on it is because the panel doctor won’t allow me to resume my studies if I don’t take depot injections and where I live resources are limited so they don’t have anything besides fluanxol and sustenna. I want to go back to fluanxol but it’s giving me akathisia and I’m afraid of getting TD. Other than that fluanxol is a godsent because it makes me feel so happy and active. The doctors wont believe I am having these symptoms because in their ‘experience’ there are many success stories with sustenna. They think these side effects will go away after three to six months and with exercise but I can’t even exercise without being hit with the most torturous headache ever. Im really in a tizzy my friends, please tell me what to do and do share your experience with sustenna and getting off it. Success stories are most welcomed too.

I started on risperdol for one month but that caused drooling and a zombie like effect so my genius doctor told me that I should take this once a month shot called Invega Sustenna because there weren't any side effects and that it only stays in your system for 1 month. I listened to him because I was in the hospital and didn't have access to the internet. However, once I got out of the hospital I found out that both of those things were a lie because I now have tons of side effects from the medication and that it takes 4-8 months for it to fully clear from your system. I have been off of the medication for 2 1/2 months now and I still have side effects that I'm dealing with...primarily akathesia which is like a restlessless that makes it difficult not to pace and constantly be moving which makes it difficult to work. I'm also having trouble sleeping, occasional constipation. breakouts on my chest and back, feel like life is dull and pointless, difficulty concentrating, etc. Has anyone else come off of this drug? If so how long before symptoms went away? Do they ever go away?

My doctor put me on the invega 3 mg tablet and I had horrible side effects including TK and severe insomnia to the point where I had 5 hours of sleep in a 40 hour time frame. My hallucinations got worse because of sleep deprivation. To top it off I was having sleep disorder issues before this happened. They're testing me for narcolepsy because I had a tendency to fall asleep and can't sleep through the night. I went in because my hallucinations were worse, and she gave me the shot because I wasn't allergic to it. I'm having a killer headache right now, but it might be because of a new caffeine sensitivity.