How Long Does Invega Sustenna Stay in Your System After it Has Been Discontinued?
Question posted by dson on 8 July 2013
Last updated on 29 April 2022
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Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Nov 3, 2020.
Invega Sustenna (intramuscular injection) has a long half life range of 25 to 49 days. This is the time it takes for plasma levels to reduced by half, then in the next 25 to 49 days the plasma levels are reduced again by half and it continues.
It roughly takes around 5 to 6 half lives for a drug to be eliminated from your system to the point it is clinically no longer noticeable.
Using this calculation, as a guide, after your last dose, you could expect it to take anywhere between 150 to 300 days to be cleared from your system. Factors that cause personal variation include age, health, weight, metabolism and other medical factors.
Hi Suzanna,
If Invega takes 25 to 49 days to reach half the plasma level then wouldn't the other half be eliminated in the next 49 days or so. Why does the half life start at 100 percent again, or 50 percent of what is left?
after the invega or paliperidone is is eliminated from your system how long does it take for your serotonin and dopamine levels to go back to normal? or does the dopamine serotonin antagonist effect last permanently?
How long does the dopamine effect take?
How long before your body go's back to normal?
I really want to know when my hormones will return to normal. It's been 6 weeks since my last injection and I off the med now. When will my body come back
Suzanne
Are u there does it cause permanent damage to your hormones
How long Will your serotonin and dopamine receptors take to go back to normal
This drug is just as terrible as any other. I have had to take a leave of absence from work because I got so lightheaded I almost passed out. Not to mention my hand now shaking. It's a little easier to handle than risperdal, but still poison in my book. Thank god I refused the over 100 mg increase of the shot because I would have been a zombie. Now I find out it takes 300 days to leave my system... a good way to ensure meds keep working until someone gets a person back on them. BS if you ask me.
This drug was forced on me with my explicit non-consent and now it will keep making me miserable for almost a year? I've had enough. I'm going on a god damn rampage. The people who did this to me are going to be punished.
I have had it also still suffering side effects after nearly 6 months off it.
it made me really depressed and have had to be put on anti depressants which are maybe now only just starting to take effect.
paliperidone is horrible, left me where I couldn't even sit in a chair still without irritation.
glad im off it and will no longer take anti psychotics, its horrible in every way I was on 150mg injection then down to 75mg, never again
if you are reading this get off it, you, will only suffer
How are you feeling now, Andrew?
I could not be more upset that I was forced this drug. How could it last in someone's system that long? This is very irresponsible of drug manufactures and health care "professionals" to prescribe this. I literally had a stalker and the hospital said no you are schizophrenic affective instead and forced this injection on me in a psych ward. Total b.s. I HAD A STALKER.I wonder if exercise and activated charcoal would help eliminate this from my body. I have never been so fat and tired all the time and feeling so weird inside myself.
I have been feeling really I'll since being on this drug with a lot of sleeping in and no motivation and depressed all the time
I think this drug made me really depressed as well with increased anxiety. It reduces the activity of dopamine AND serotonin... it is well know that high activity levels of both these neurotransmitters increase confidence and happiness. Prescribing this drug to someone who maybe doesn’t need it, or perhaps even someone who does, is a sure fire way to make someone depressed, or worsen depression.
I feel for all the people (like me) who have been forcibly prescribed this medication. It literally works in the opposite way to a powerful antidepressant. Psychiatrists should prescribe with caution.
I know you are suffering as I have too, but it will be alright. my symptoms have lessened and its been eight months and I guess it depends on how your body eliminates foreign chemicals in your body. I have hope that I will eventually be able to sleep until 7am instead of 5am and take day naps. Just hang in there!!! and don't stress.
Hi
Its been 6 and half month since my last injection and i still have side effects like tired body headache loss in concentration and pressure in my lungs can there be any type of solution to get rid of these side effects? Give me hope and God bless !!
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