Paxil Is Freaking Me Out!

[seeseerider]

where would I find that man?

at your local health store....

 

[Weapon X]

Paxil has hellacious withdrawal symptoms. Even if you wean off, it can mean a few days to a week of headaches, nausea, head-spinning, and bad moods, including bad depression. Make sure you stay in touch with your doc if you're going off the stuff. Do a Web search at Google on "Paxil withdrawal."
There is a lot of info on the Web about it. Alot.
Also feel free to drop me a line at [email protected].
(For some reason, my PM box thinks it's full.)

 

[Zebo]

I got the hell off Paxil after only a few weeks.....

It turned me into a zombie. A zombie that couldn't have an orgasm...Fuck that..

Look into Wellbutrin too, I've had good results with it.

Good luck.

 

[musclebrains]

Do not go cold turkey off Paxil. Although many people have no withdrawal symptoms, it can produce severe effects in many other people, including strange neurological symptoms -- a kind of electrical buzzing.

YOu should give yourself at the very least a month to go off it, reducing your dose slowly. You should do this under a doctor´s plan.

Actually, I am wondering if your dosage, alternating between 20 and 40 mg daily, isn´t responsible for the side effects you experienced.

If you want to try an antidepressant, many people are having good experiences with Celexa.

 

[Weapon X]

Even weaning off over the course of 4 weeks, veeerrrry gradually, you can have about two weeks of horrible side-effects, regardless.
Watch that shit - that's when people are susceptible to suicide as well. Don't go off without a doctor's frequent contact and help.

 

[WODIN]

I had headaches, the razor shits, night sweats, cold treamors and a host of other fun and exiciting thing happen when I went through paxil wd. They should ban that shit....

Sucking down 10 tylenol , advil ...whatever a day helped with the headaches.

 

[Weapon X]

http://members.tripod.com/fstreicher/subpages/guide_to_paxil_withdrawal.htm

http://paxil.bizland.com/jbuzzw.htm

http://medhlp.netusa.net/HealthTopics/Paxil.html

 

[Weapon X]

They should ban that shit...

I respectfully disagree. That shit saved my life about 7 years ago.
They DO need to make people aware of what to expect from withdrawal, though. They probably downplay that to increase their market share, tho. That's bad.

 

[WODIN]

I respectfully disagree. That shit saved my life about 7 years ago.
They DO need to make people aware of what to expect from withdrawal, though. They probably downplay that to increase their market share, tho. That's bad.

Wellbutrin is just as effective and doesn't have all the sides that paxil has.

 

[Weapon X]

Wellbutrin is just as effective and doesn't have all the sides that paxil has.

But Wellbutrin is not as effective as Paxil for some people.
The docs still don't even completely understand why these meds work. Sure, they understand what is happening chemically, but they don't understand why the meds affect different people in such different ways, nor why they have the sides they do for some and not for others.
Some people have no sides from Paxil, and women usually have less instance of being anorgasmic than men do on these meds.

So, sides or not, Paxil is the best course of action for some people. For others, there's Celexa, Effexor, Wellbutrin, etc.