INVEGA Reviews (PALIPERIDONE)Average Rating: 2.1 (284 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare INVEGA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR INVEGA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | M | 38 | 1X day | 10/25/2010 | 3 | Schizoaffective disorder | Anhedonia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain | It helped get rid of the noise, but I have lost interest and pleasure in activities. | M | 38 | 2 years 9 1X day | 2/18/2024 | 2 | Bipolar | Extreme intolerance to cold and heat, rapid cycling with mixed episodes became more severe, depression worsened, panic/anxiety attacks have worsened as well. | My doctor replaced Risperdal with Invega. After a week of taking 6mg a day I was experiencing alot of mania...manic rages as well. I have been experiencing rapid cycling...a lot mixed episodes between mania and depression. I have had a lot of suicidal thoughts as well. My doctor ironically raised the dosage from 6 to 12 mgs a day...??? So I took 12 mgs this morning and I have already had 2 major panic attacks within a 3 hr period. All of these symptoms were sudden and did not happen until I began taking Invega. I feel like I am back to square one with my treatment. | F | 38 | 15 days 6mg 1X day | 4/13/2010 | 1 | Court order | Destructive drug. Burning sensation throughout veins. Loss of sex drive. Dry mouth. Stiffness. Inability to walk correctly. Sore in joints. Makes you feel weak and tired. Makes it so you can't think properly. | Court ordered shot as I said. I'm fighting with my doctor to have it removed. This drug is disgusting and ruined my rationship with my girlfriend of 11 months. Makes me extremely irritable. | M | 38 | 10 months 50mg | 4/1/2016 | 1 | Schizophrenic psychosis | Lack of self, loss of self awareness, loss of personal thoughts, lower interest, lower iq, lack of fitness, leg & body pains frequently, breathing difficulties regularly, lack of motivation, sever depression, anxiety, social disabling word/ knowledge skills drop off, lack of sex drive, slow sex drive, severe impotency, mild tardive dyskinesia altered weight gain, altered gait, physical disabilities, muscle spasms,cramps, tics, both physical motor & facial tics, memory faults, problems in cognitive impairment areas, headaches, runny nose flu symptoms, cough, chest infections, upper respitory tract infections, fevers, overheating due to lack of body temp control,fatigue, tiredness, sleepiness, sleeplessness, inability to act for yourself, inability to communicate efficiently, loss of life, loss of emotions, loss of joy in life,no reactions emotional or otherwise to major interactions, loss of friends, inability to reflect inwardly to oneself on matters, inability to make decisions, inability to function on a daily level. | This drug is not recommended for long term use overall, just for acute attacks not permanently at all! Be warned a terrible drug of forced implementations. | F | 38 | 12 months ? 1X M | 3/21/2021 | 5 | Court order | Weight gain. I look pregnant. Shrunken genitals, erectile dysfunction, Exhausted, sterile, constipation, bad breath, bad skin, hair loss on face, hair thinned on head, back is bent below neck(buffalo hump), strange way of walking, eyes lost the light in them, hemroids, triglycerides high, frequent pissing, weak stream when pissing, starting and stopping when pissing, unable to get all the piss out, man boobs, hands go numb in certain position, night sweats, night terrors, seems like a loss of frontal lobe brain activity, ECT. | Used to date prom queen in school, worked out, enjoyed life. Now I am court ordered to take this poison. I dread the next injection. This is a hardship. I regard it as discipline. You must love discipline in order to learn. If you are court ordered to take meds, learn to love it and things will get better after a little while of suffering. THIS IS NOT PERMANENT! Keep the faith. 512-790-1696 I'm willing to listen. Also, guys, ginseng helps reverse the sexual dysfunction and valerian root calms the restlessness. In Christ Jesus. | M | 39 | 3 years 156mg | 6/8/2020 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | Insatiable appetite (gained 20 lbs in 4 months), eye spasms rarely, lactation & other possible hormonal side effects. | I LOVE INVEGA. It cleared my thinking, taken away the paranoia, brought me out of depression & anger, and helped me interact with people like a new person. I tried to go up to 6mg but I was gaining more weight. I am constantly hungry. But I will do anything to stay on this drug because it's helped me so much. | F | 39 | 4 months 3mg 1X day | 3/5/2010 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder/Social Phobia | weight loss (40lbs), urinating more frequent | This medicine works the best in keeping my mood stable. I no longer experience any symptoms of bipolar disorder and social phobia. The only thing that I don't like about this Invega is that I have to urinate more frequently. Also, it has help me lose almost 40lbs. All of the medications that I have taken in the past such as lithium, seroquel, and depakote made me gain weight (50lbs). Invega has changed my life! | M | 39 | 2 years 117MG 1X M | 8/7/2012 | 5 | Bipolar I w/psychotic features | Hypomanic episodes & extrapyrimidal eye movements the first 2 weeks. They were easily managed with Klonopin & Benedryl. Only lost 1 1/2 night's sleep. Now, at the end of 4th week, the only side effect is weight gain. But it is an easy choice to continue taking this med, even with some weight gain, because of how it has changed my life. | This drug is simply FABULOUS! It completely cleared my thinking & allowed my personality & feelings to come through without all the anger, irritability & intensity I have always experienced. I have no drugged feeling at all. I struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder & this drug has allowed me to manage my emotions and interpersonal relationships like never before. The only other time I've felt this kind of peace was when I took Risperdal. Thank you to the makers of this drug. It has revolutionized my life and positively affected my friends, family & co-workers. Absolute miracle for me!!! | F | 39 | 1 months | 10/22/2009 | 4 | Bipolar Schizoaffective disorder | Weight gain especially around the middle, joint and muscle stiffness, missing or late periods | I just came off Geodon so I welcomed Invega. Risperdol caused me to lactate, (no fun in that) on top of the side effects I had with Invega. I have to say it has kept my moods stable at only 3mg, so I have room to move up if needed. No more paranoia or tactile hal. I would recommend this drug to anyone with bipolar. Again the side effects are there but I have yet to find one that has no miserable side effects at all. These are mild I think considering the benefit of the drug. | F | 39 | 8 months 3mg 1X day | 5/11/2010 | 2 | Bipolar | No emotion, loss of interest, no motivation, loss of creativity, no social life slower thinking, high anxiety, trouble falling asleep on my own, just don't wana do anything, depressed neurotransmitters. Just flat no personality. | It took away the voices | 39 | 3 days 234 | 1/16/2019 | 1 | Paranoid Delusions and Hallucination | Extreme tiredness and inability to care about doing anything. Just want to lay in bed for 20 hours a day in a semi coma with my eyes closed . Massive weight gain of 60 lbs. Depression. Too zonked out to socialize. | I've been taking this for about 10 months and side effects seem to get worse and worse as time goes on. I am on the 30 day injectable...not sure what dose. I tried a higher dose, and for one month I was in bed for 20 hours a day. This month they lowered my dose and I still want to lay in bed all day. Weight gain of 60 lbs. Depression, adhedonia, total loss of energy and who I used to be. This drug makes me care about nothing in life and I can't see how anyone can function vocationally or socially on this medication. I go off of it next month and hope to god withdraw isn't too terrible and I get back to my old self quickly. Id rather have delusions and hallucinations than be an inanimate object who doesn't care if they are alive or dead. Email me for support. I need it after this nightmare and so do half of you. | M | 39 | 10 months unsure | 11/18/2019 | 1 | Misdiagnosed with schizoaffective | Lack of emotion, blank mind, memory loss, severe cognitive issues, depression, anxiety, no feelings of joy, anger, humor. No critical or analytical thinking skills. No creativity. It has zapped me of my life. It is truly a chemical lobotomy. I pray to God these side effects are not permanent. Has anyone ever come back from this. I'm hoping since I wasn't on it too long the side effects may wear off but my brain feels damaged severely. God help us. This drug is evil | Please do not take this drug. | M | 39 | 4 months 6-9mg 1X day | 11/5/2022 | 1 | made to by government and police | Severe insomnia. Lost motivation. Lost energy. Lost pleasure in everything lost creativity . Lost quality of life. Flat personality. Unable to find the words when making conversation. Feeling like shit. Unenthusiastic about life no energy or motivation to exercise. Nervous jitters anxiety stress | Injection hurts at site for a week. Lowest therapeutic dose. I am misdiagnosed with delusional skitzophrenia. Didn't have skitzophrenia b4 feel like I've got depression and anxiety nervousness and insomnia from it. I'm still on it. Right when I first started taking invega systems injection and the first week after each injection feeling weary tired sleeping too much during day. I can sleep just no energy to do anything but laze about. And my brain is real lazy. Then as the month progresses. It gets hard to sleep. Injection is on a month every 4 weeks. My phycitrist is useless and uncaring. | F | 39 | 2 years 100mg | 11/23/2015 | 1 | Misdiagnose | Anhedonia, overall weakness feeling, emotionless. | Worst medecine I have taken ever. | M | 39 | 2 months 109 | 7/5/2015 | 4 | Schizophrenia | I do dream Everytime I sleep and have started feeling prickly sensations on skin as well as some weight gain. | But I no longer hear loud voices and can get some rest unlike walking around at night scared someone is after me. | F | 40 | 70 days 3mg 1X day | 6/14/2021 | 4 | Psychosis | - weight gain (8 kilo's) - sometimes strange expression around mouth, stiffness - tiredness/weakness, need more sleep - intense dreaming, sometimes nightmares - harder to breath through nose - increase of ALAT blood values (80) - dizziness after sudden activity - heartburn | Positive symptoms are completely absent mainly due to the Invega. | M | 40 | 10 months 3 1X day | 11/26/2012 | 3 | BPD and Mild Bipolar | Sudden drop in blood pressure, shortness of breath and hair loss, frequent urination | Normally I'm pretty good with a side effect profile on medications but the was enough to make me stop taking it. It did relieve some of the rapid brain activity and level out my moods a bit. And it probably would eventually have worked pretty good. But the few side effects I had were enough to make me stop. I had some rapid heartbeat in the beginning but that passed after just a few days. Then about 2 weeks into it I started having sudden and frequent drops in blood pressure and shortness of breath which was enough to scare me off of it. Although peeing a lot and the hair loss would have been tolerable if it worked really well, the other two gave me my answer about continuing. I was peeing about every hour and sometimes had a difficult time getting the flow going. That was a little concerning but not scary. The hair loss was ample. I'm a guy with long hair so I'm used to seeing shedding but within two weeks I was pulling gobs of hair out in the shower and noticed lots of shedding during the day on my clothes.. | M | 40 | 1 months 1X day | 1/11/2014 | 3 | Telecare FSP psych | Weight gain stomach pain feeling of dizziness lack of motivation | This drug was prescribed to me after I found chemicals in the window pane of the Los Angeles county run mental health rehab I accidentally broke the window and they said I had a psychotic episode so they sent me to the hospital the hospital falsified records because I'm on Medicare to hold me for an additional time frame of 2 weeks telling me I couldn't leave unless I got an invega shot so I agreed which was a big mistake now the dosage is way too high and I feel serotonin syndrome I talked with my telecare team and they will not take me off of it I can't believe they can do this to people I've told them the way I feel and they just say just give it time but it's getting worse | 40 | 45 days 100mg 1X M | 12/15/2020 | 2 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Anhedonia, Hyperprolactinemia, Avolition, Flat Affect, Suicidal, Weight Gain, Increased Appetite and Amenorrhea. | As a person who eats only raw plant foods (Raw Vegan/Fruitarian) I still gained weight on the 150mg monthly depot. I used to be stable on the 3mg tablets and 10kg s lighter with minimal side effects except for a very slight adiposity (compared to most raw vegans) with high prolactin. A CTO has me under the monitoring of a psychiatrist who does not want to lower my medication yet when I am stable, only experiencing side effects of the medication I am on. | F | 40 | 150mg 1X day | 4/19/2023 Patient History |