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Tapering off of Paxil
by ladysopranoinjersey, May 09, 2002 12:00AM
Hi everyone, hope you all are having a pain free day and with NO pill usage - I love this group, it is encouraging to read other peoples post and to have hope that there is an existence without drugs! My question is, I have been taking Paxils (30MG @ bedtime) for the last 2 years and my doctor wants me to stop and go on Serzone (150 MG 1x per day in AM). I starting tapering off last Tuesday and immediately began having severe dizzy spells - it was so awful I had to stay home from work and lie down all day. Has anyone else experienced severe withdrawal symptoms from paxil? How long does it take to taper off and what was your experience like? Thanks for any replies....
GWH
I've taken Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Celexa. I was never real regular with any of them (forgot to get refills, etc.), but did notice that when I WAS regular if I would then stop taking it I got dizzy spells, almost like the room kept moving for a few moments as I turned. However, it was nothing like WDs from opiates. I did encounter some people who totally freaked coming off these, but this was usually people who had a severe underlying reason for needing the meds in the first place (I took mostly to help with chronic pain, some depression but not severe).
The Celexa had the fewest side effects for me. I recently stopped taking it, and I can tell I have less energy, but I'm hoping to get my head straight without chemicals, plus I can't afford it, thus the quit. I didn't taper, just quit, and have been mostly okay.
Good luck and please let us know how you are doing. Do you have to be completely off one before you start another? I wish you the best. t
pressure and i was really laughing the other night, watching some special on the honey mooner's. That is something that has been lacking to the point of extinction the last year or so.
As far as paxal I took it for a six month period, right arter my younger brother died of overdose, back in 97, when i stopped i was dizzy for about a week during the mornings. once i got to working and sweating the dizziness/headache went away .
hope everone is feeling strong, thinking good thoughts, and
enjoying the day,
I am trying to be a human being today and not a human doing.
peace
my brother passed away when he got 100,000. settel ment do to a work injury before that he was clean for 15 years in NA. then my Na sponser passed from hep c, then a year later my mother in law
had stroke and passed , she was bed ridden for a few years, we took care of her at home till the end, she really suffered, i had a real strong relationship, i used to play cards and kismet with her everyday along with end less doctor appt.s.. and just last may her husband my father in law passed away from cancer.
Of course we were there with him the whole time. he passed may 9th a year today.
Well i must say i think all that pain was to much on me ,I think that is why i started to abuse the vikes,. I must say i was gun shy about death and was really starting to look over my own shoulder.the death thing is really huanting.
I am married to great woman we are both 43 and met in NA about 16 years ago,she has been really good about my own addiction to the pills. my eldest daughter from my 1st marraig is 24 and is married with a 4 year old boy ian. he is one of the great joys in my life. and my youngest son is finishing up high school this week he is from my 2nd marriage ,he lives with me and my 3rd wife of 14 years. The sad thing is he"s off to sarycuse in the fall, he got a full scholarship. what is a little sad is he grew up so fast and now the kids are all going to be out of the house.
I wish he was still in grde school, i have always loved kids , they grow up so fast it's scary.
well im rambling ,hope your well today , you sound like you have a real nice famly ,love with all ya got. peace
did you say your youngest son has been married twice, and he's still in highschool? that is tough...it must have been hard for you to go thru...
anyway, you always have such kind words for me and everyone else on the forum...thank you and take care.
my two cents!
WW
i od'd a week after grandma mary died. i took care of mom and she never spent one night in a hospital. my dad and grandma mary were with my uncle jim who is a doctor in their rural area. i still cry over Mother's death. i never went through any grief counselling. after the od, i went into a half rehab half psyche place. i yes and no sirred until i got out. my stay was only a week in patient with a week out patient. i had ret (rational emotive therapy) out the behind. i've gotten closer to my sister, although she did some rotten things when Momma died. I expected no less from her. i have seen my brother once in 6 years. they are both older than me. my sister is 6 years older, and my brother is 11 years older than me. yet, i was responsible for mother's care and the funeral cost. when i bought the cascade for my father's casket of red and white roses, my siblings pledged me money, when i did not ask for any money. i never got any. i have not dealt with the passing of those so close to me. i think i've forgiven God, but i still get upset and wonder why. Hippy, i can really identify with what that kind of losses can do to a person. you hit it on the nail when you said "death is haunting". Thank you for posting.
Yeah, I think you're right. I've always liked sweets, but never like this. I have been off everything for 1 month 9 days, and after I went through WD, I started loving anything with sugar in it. I've also heard that heroin addicts love sweets after they kick, so yes I think it's safe to say that quitting opiates makes you want sweets..
Does the 5HTP help with the mood swings? God, I just want to feel normal finally! I'm at almost six weeks now. Maybe it's turning 33 this weekend that has me down, and finding gray hairs. Just kidding, that doesn't really bother me.
How are you Angst? I don't know what grief counseling consists of, but it sure couldn't hurt. When you ODd, was that intentional? Sometimes it's just hard not to believe that people wouldn't be better off without me and my problems, although I know that's just the depression talking. I started my Celexa again yesterday; maybe that will help.
I wouldn't touch it with YOUR ten foot pole.
Francois
jimmy stewert, he thinks everybody would be better off with him not being around, and then a ANGEL comes down from heaven
and show's how that would really be, and it's a nightmare.
IT'S A WONDERFIL LIFE/GET IN TOUCH WITH THAT ANGEL
Also, I started reading that book "A child called It" specifically so i could stop feeling so sorry for myself and realize other people have gone through much, much worse. It's so stupid but I get depressed when my house is a mess and I have no energy to clean it. And it's not even that bad! It's the stupid things, I know. Anyway thanks everyone for letting me whine, and I promise to be better now. And no, I didn't give in to cravings, so that's a step in the right direction!
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