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Default Jun 17, 2022 at 10:40 PM
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I want to be on mono therapy of an injection. Abilify alone leaves me too agitated, unable to sleep, impulsive. Thorazine leaves me too low. So I have to call my pdoc Monday to see if I can switch to invega shot. Does anyone have any experience with it? As mono therapy?

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Default Jun 17, 2022 at 10:44 PM
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I'm on the invega shot shooting for monotherapy (probably not going to get there). I don't have any side effects from it but it does hurt a lot more than the risperdal consta shot.

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Default Jun 17, 2022 at 10:53 PM
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Is it an in the arm shot?

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Default Jun 17, 2022 at 11:47 PM
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I get it in the arm but I believe you can get it in your but after the first (two?) shots

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Default Jun 23, 2022 at 03:04 AM
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Not as monotherapy (I took it also with Depakote ER) and only in pill form. I give it huge credit (with Depakote) for squashing what was a years long struggle with severe mania and mixed mania, with psychosis. However, with Depakote I was left depressed, but that was likely more a mood crash than necessarily the medication's fault.

I had rapid weight gain and poor blood test results, but again I think Depakote was more to blame. What I did 100% attribute to Invega was hyperprolactinemia. It is a risk, but especially if you're vulnerable. I had also had hyperprolactinemia from Risperdal, which is a related antipsychotic. Not everyone has this issue and some that do can be treated for it or even live with it. The residual permanent effects for me were an increase in breast size, which for women (like me) isn't necessarily a negative. It is more so for affected men.

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Default Jun 29, 2022 at 06:36 PM
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Thank you soupe du jour. I can't switch my injection now because where we're moving they can only continue injectable antipsychotic not start them. So I'm stuck. They may not be able to give me my injection because of a new law about an epipen.

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Default Aug 27, 2022 at 08:37 PM
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Invega gave me akathisia. It gave me the feeling to pace. I would pace around my living room. It's a restlessness feeling.
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