40 mg of Paxil for 2.5 months - please help

[RobertKas]

Hi Great People,
2.5 month ago my doc put me on 40mg of Paxil (I was just bit frastrated in work) and I dont want to take this pill anymore.  Can you please suggest a safest taper from 40 mg of Paxil being on it for 2.5 months.
All I know it cant be c/t.
Thanks very much,
Robert

[RobertKas]

Thanks man.
I was actually debating why Iately I have so many intrussive thoughts which are more and more intense.  even I asked my doc. who told me I can be developing an OCD.  but you mentioned that it one of the side effects of Paxil... I really need to taper this evil drug asap.
Robert

[Paxiled]

Don't obsess.  Easy to say, hard to do.  Paxil causes obsessive thinking, one of its common side effects.  But it really just makes it worse.  Keep on doing what you think is best for you, don't worry about what happened to others.  Good to know, bad to worry.

[RobertKas]

Thank again for you full explanation on withdrawal process.
I believe reason I was hit hard was I cut my dose from 40 mg to 20 mg and it was a big drop.  I am back now on 40 mg and once stabilized I will go much slower.
Indeed Paxiled, i am kind of obsessing about it because so many horroor stories on diff. forums and just being affraid, what if.
Best,
Robert

[Paxiled]

Don't know about video guy's plan.  I go by the original taper suggested by Dr. Healy (don't know first name or if that's the right spelling) who was the English psychiatrist who first went public with this in 1996 and was the one who did the discovery in the lawsuits against GlaxoSmithKline.  Also a book by Joseph Glenmullen, you can find it on Amazon, where he gives a detailed explanation of tapering.  And yes, you can go back up in dosage.  The recommendations I've seen is to go back to the last dosage at which you had no withdrawal symptoms, then taper more slowly from there.  It says this right on the GlaxoSmithKline website and the website of every ssri, because the FDA required them to say it.  

Remember, I originally recommended a six week taper to start, with the above recommendation if you ran into trouble.  Even my quack psychiatrist used the recommended six week taper, not such a fast one.  It's just exercising caution.  Though I didn't think you'd have that big a problem.  I think, and I know this is going to sound bad but don't take it that way, that you've been obsessing on this for so long that it's making it worse.  Try, and I know this is hard, to just accept what's happening and move through it.  Remember, mine was so bad in large part because I didn't know what was happening -- my shrink never told me about withdrawal and I didn't know, and when it started, he still said nothing.  It was weeks before I had the courage to go on the internet and find out what was happening to me.  You know, so you should be able to use that to your advantage.  Most of the people with the worst withdrawals on the websites you looked at did not know they were in withdrawal because they were never told, like me.

[RobertKas]

Hey Guys,
As for this taper plan presented by videoguy, can you please tel me in more details.
Can you really play around with paxil like that; once you take a full dose, then after few days 10 mg less and then again full dose... does it not confuse your brain chemistry even more. but let assume it will work for me like this.
my step after 2 weeks would be:
m; 30 t; 20; w;30 t; 30 f; 30 s; 20 and sunday 30?
is this how it works?
thank you for answering,
robert

[RobertKas]

Tay, can you please tell me how much of your full dose of Paxil was and how did you taper and for how long?
thanks,
Robert