Re: Anyone take PAXIL......
From: Michelle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Jul 26 12:49:42 2003
April,
Thank you for your experience, doesnt sound like a very good one, right
now i think i'm going to take my chances on it and see what happends,
obviously all anti-depressents make you crazy when you stop them, that's
what happend to me last week. And about the weight gain, I take a ton
of narcotics and have already put on 15 lbs, so i'm sort of not worried
that much about the weight right now, because I think I may be taking
out a membership to the gym soon. If any of those nightmares or things
start happening i will tell my doctor at once and they will have to put
me on something else, i really appreciate you being so honest about what
happend to you. thanks for the advice.
--
Michelle
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003, April wrote:
>
>Hi there! Wow, if i were able to redo my life, i'd never have started
>Paxil! Never. I know that everyone is differant, but here, listen to my
>story with it. I had been on it for about 4 months the first time that
>i tryed taking myself off of it. I went through 2 days of crying
>because of such painful head "zaps". I couldn't function at all. So,
>yes the side effects are still there with coming off of Paxil. I
>started out on 20mg, and it worked for a few weeks, then stopped
>working, so i was moved to 30mg. Same thing happened, and on and on it
>went. I was on 60mg before i decided to get off completely. I switched
>to Lexapro which has fewer side affects. It has been working good so
>far. With the Paxil, i gained about 30 pounds in 2 months, and i was
>always sleeping. I felt like i never got out of bed. So anyways, each
>person handles Paxil differently, but i don't want anyone to go through
>what i have with this stuff. It has made me have such horribly violent
>and graphic nightmares, that i was terrified to go to sleep at night. I
>had to sleep with the light on. Plus, it made me unable to have an
>orgasm at all. So, think about it before you stay on it. I don't want
>you to experience what i did.
>
>Take Care! Good Luck!
>April
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