Fahad: Who I can Withdraw from Invega 12mg/day

[Fahad]

Dear all brother and sister 

 

May God bless your life, your family and everyone you love


My son (17 years) has been receiving treatment for psychotic affective disorder since January 2019 (Invega 12mg taper).

He now has severe hoarseness, gynecomastia and severe sexual weakness, and I am afraid of the rest of the ghosts mentioned in the list of side effects

I want him to enter a drug withdrawal program.  

He get very high grade in talent test and get 98% Aptitude test for high school students .

 

next year he planning to study economics in university.

 

I need your support form them .

who we can start ?

Should I start with a 5% or 10% reduction of the dose?

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by ChessieCat
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[ChessieCat]

Hi Fahad and welcome to SA,

 

Please read Post #1 of this topic which provides information about tapering Invega:

 

tips-for-tapering-off-invega-paliperidone

 

Once you have read the above information please come back to the Introduction topic to ask any questions that you have.  This will keep the history in one place and you will not need to repeat your story.

[Fahad]

Thank you very much for your help and may God protect you.

 

If he takes a daily dose of 12 mg, then a month he takes 360 mg.  We do not have 1.5 mg pills. Should I start decreasing within 6 days, in month give home 9 mg , so that the decrease is 5% per month, from 360 to 342, then the next month 323 and so on.

[ChessieCat]

You are welcome.

 

Sorry but I do not know about this drug.  I have asked the other staff members to help you.  Please wait until they have answered your question.

 

Please create a drug signature following these instructions.  This is different from the drug history which you completed when you joined the site; it is only visible to staff.  The drug signature will appear below every post and allow the staff and other members to see the drug history at a glance.

 

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[Fahad]

I am sorry it is same drug 

Invega (paliperidone)

my English not good

i use google translator.

[Shep]

On 4/27/2022 at 4:14 AM, Fahad said:

If he takes a daily dose of 12 mg, then a month he takes 360 mg.  We do not have 1.5 mg pills. Should I start decreasing within 6 days, in month give home 9 mg , so that the decrease is 5% per month, from 360 to 342, then the next month 323 and so on.

 

Please do not worry about the monthly dose. Your son only needs to concentrate on the daily dose. It will make it easier to calculate. 

 

Is your son currently on any other psychiatric drugs? Has he been on psychiatric drugs in the past? If so, please list them along with the starting dates, the stop dates for any he no longer takes, and the dose. 

Edited April 28, 2022 by Shep
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[Fahad]

Now 

he take

12 mg Invega (paliperidone)

50 mg lustral ( Sertraline) 

 

daily

 

[Fahad]

How does a person know that they have entered the cycle of psychotic syndrome?

 

The dose was too high for his young mind.

[Shep]

What are your son's symptoms?

[Fahad]

Only delusions...

and ended with treatment

[Shep]

 

8 minutes ago, Fahad said:

Only delusions...

and ended with treatment

 

Do you mean when he started taking lustral (Sertraline) and Invega (paliperidone), his symptoms went away?

 

Please post your son's drug history. List the month and year he started taking psychiatric drugs, the names of the drugs and the doses. Include ALL drugs, doses, and dates (starting and stopping).

 

[Fahad]

Yes 

And he went to school completely normally.

After a year, the doctor reduced the medication from 12 to 9, stopped lustral, and continued for 3 months normally, and the episode came back to him, but in an 80% lighter form, but he refused to go to school and the doctor asked to go back to the previous 12 dose of Invega.

Now he refuses to go to school because colleagues know that he is mentally ill.

But he goes out to the street and goes to the market and walks normally.

[Shep]

5 minutes ago, Fahad said:

Yes 

And he went to school completely normally.

After a year, the doctor reduced the medication from 12 to 9, stopped lustral, and continued for 3 months normally, and the episode came back to him, but in an 80% lighter form, but he refused to go to school and the doctor asked to go back to the previous 12 dose of Invega.

Now he refuses to go to school because colleagues know that he is mentally ill.

But he goes out to the street and goes to the market and walks normally.

 

We really need to know your son's drug history.  Please list the month and year he started taking psychiatric drugs, the names of the drugs and the doses. Include ALL drugs, doses, and dates (starting and stopping).

 

This is really important because we need to know if he started the antidepressant before the antipsychotic. Psychosis is an adverse effect of antidepressants, especially in young people. Did he start the sertraline before the invega?

[Fahad]

Nov-2019

6 mg Invega 

100 mg lustral 

January-2020

9 mg Invega 

150 mg lustral 

February-2020

12 mg Invega

200 mg lustral

Change from lustral to seroxat 25mg

 

februry-2021 

9 mg Invega 

Stop seroxat

 

June - 2021

comeback to 12 Invega 

January - 2022

12 Invega 

50 mg lustral 

   

[Shep]

@FahadThanks for listing your son's drug history. I've listed it in your signature, which shows up beneath each of your posts so the moderators can see where your son is at in his tapering.

 

12 hours ago, Fahad said:

Now he refuses to go to school because colleagues know that he is mentally ill.

But he goes out to the street and goes to the market and walks normally.

 

Is your son able to join the forum and post? It's much easier working directly with the person tapering.