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Antipsychotic Injections Damage

Age: 26–35  ·  Duration of use: Less than 1 month  ·  Current status: No, have stopped
Symptoms: Akathisia, Brain zaps, Emotional blunting, Sexual dysfunction, Cognitive impairment, Insomnia, Depersonalization/Derealization, Suicidal ideation, Tinnitus, Neuropathy, Severe anxiety/panic, Muscle/joint pain, Anhedonia, GI disturbances

Due to a wrong diagnosis I got injected with Risperdal Consta 50 mg “cold blood”, took Risperdal oral liquid 1 ml/day for the following 11 days, and was injected with 50 mg again 12 days after the first shot. Then completely discontinued.

Benefits from that exposure: NONE.

Symptoms I never had in my life before that exposure started immediately, and they never went away. I am now 22.5 months after the harm, still in agony.

Instead of improving and healing over time, I developed chronic chest-muscle pain after 5 months, panic attacks after 8 months, severe head pressure after 10 months, tinnitus after 13 months, a crack in my throat when swallowing after 15 months, traumatic awakening at 6 AM after 17 months, stomach-digestive issues after 18 months, and I am at 22.5 months now.

I reached out to neurologists, university hospitals, everyone basically, to get help, but they all agreed that it is not possible I have lasting symptoms after almost 2 years.

From a perfectly functional and normal life I turned into a stay-at-home vegetable, agonizing and just enduring the siege/torture.

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