I have bipolar disorder. I won't bore you with details but I'm basically treatment resistant because I am so sensitive to medications. If they work, the side effects are too much to bear, and if they have tolerable side effects they don't work. So I'm at the end of the med line and my pdoc has arrived with Invega sustenna, the injectable.

Has anyone ever taken it? It's super new so I don't know much about it. My main worry is that it will have some intolerable side effect for me and then I'm stuck on it for a whole month until it wears off. In fact I'm terrified about that. I've just scared the crap out of myself reading the possible side effects. I always get the bizarre side effects that are uncommon. For example abilify put me on a five second delay, risperdal made me gain 20lbs and made my movements super stiff, lamictal blurred my vision and gave me crazy anxiety, etc etc.

For the record I was supposed to try the pill first but my insurance refused to cover it. My pdoc has free samples of the injectable to give me.

Anyone tried Invega in either form? Any improvement in your symptoms? It's really only approved for schizophrenia and schizoaffective but according to my pdoc my bipolar symptoms are severe enough to warrant this experiment.