Paxil Withdrawal

[Cathy]

How long is withdrawal from Paxil supposed to take?  I have been off it for 5 days now and still feel the ocean-like, electrical shock-like, cymbal-crashing feeling in my head.  Can I expect this to end anytime soon?

[Derek Hansen]

I am 14 and I started taking paxil about a month ago. I was taking for a small twoitch I had in my face. About 3 weeks after I started taking it I began to have terrible stomach pains I belive were caused by trapped gas.  My doctor didn't think that the gas was caused by the paxil . He wanted to have an experiment to see if it was caused by the paxil. He imeadeatly took me off it.

I was fine for a few days after that.  My stomach pains stared going away and I thought I was getting better.  Until I started having withdrawls.  I constantly felt dizzy, I had a bad head ache and I felt like I was going to throw up. I am usualy fine if I sit or lay down, but I can't walk. In fact I fell down the stairs twice yesterday because I can't walk good because of dizzieness.

I have missed a couple weeks of school already.  Since this is my first years of high school my grades are really important,.  Myt mother went to the school to get my school work, but I am so dizzie I can't consintrate. I am lookining through this thing and I can find lots of errors.  I can't even type good.  

Paxil worked good for my face twitching and it helped with social anxyity, but it is not worth the side effects.  Any suggestions about how to lessen or stop the side effects e-mail me at Playstation-***@****. Thanks!

[JG]

To all the dr's,pharms,and smithkline & beecham sales reps, I hope you all burn in hell for ignoring the torcher of paxil withdrawl. When I was presciribed paxil I wasn't told of the extreme withdrawl symptoms. Word of the withdrawl problem had long been heard of at the time of my dr. prescibing paxil. I'd rather go back to the panic attacks than deal with the nausea, diziness, headaches, nervousness, and the added anxiety of not knowing how long this nightmare will last. I've seen some postings about a class action lawsuit being implemented. Well, count me in. E-mail me if you know of any info regarding any treatments for the withdrawls or the lawsuit against smithkline & Beecham. e-mail (***@****)

[Caroline]

i'd like to mention one side-effect
that I think was linked to my
paxil (taking AND withdrawal)
but I'm not sure...
it is TOOTH ache.
I feel like I have a few cavities in
my mouth near the back...
the pain is spread
in my jaw.

Anyone else has that feeling?

My 2 cents :
usually, tooth ache goes
hand in hand with flue-like
symptoms.
But I don't have the flue
(I am happy that it's not winter
(I am in quebec) and
that germs are not floating aroud me.)

[Caroline]

I took Paxil for three weeks (starting 4 weeks ago).

I am not a regular user of anti-depressants
although I have had major depressive "episodes" in my life,
one during which I was hospitalized.

What I do with prozac (2 times a year) is take
it for a while until the placebo effects
kick in ;-) (or real effects?
The anti-depressant effects are supposed
to kick in after 3-4 weekgs, with me
it takes 3-4 days !!!)

I took paxil ONLY once before(three years ago) but
did not get
to the third of my prescription because
of nightmares and zombie feeling.

SO 4 WEEKS AGO, I took Paxil for 3 weeks, not from
a prescription but from someone else's
(my dad).

I was better quite quickly (although I
first woke up at 5h00 every morning
and had weird dreams - it didn't matter
cause it made me feel better altogether.
Placebo? Umm... I don't think so.)

After 3 weeks, I ran out of what
I had taken from my father's
and did not want to get
a prescription of my own because
I felt STRONG and better, felt
I was able
to be happy without meds.

So I went cold-turkey...

from an alternative dosage
(from beginning of the 3 weeks
I had taken the drug) of 10 than
20 than back to 10 than 20 and so on
all through my taking the drug.

First 3 days = just fine.

Than.......
On the 4rth day, horrific nightmares.
Mood swings (I snap when I can't get to
swim one day, cry for an hour, my
face muscles ache form the sobbering....)
Feel nauseatous but mostly
DIZZY
First I felt dizzy when standing up and moving
my eyes or head.
It has gotten worst and worst...
no longer crying of nauseatous
but MORE AND MORE DIZZY.
It has been more than a week
and now I am afraid to walk outside,
I have the feeling I a swimming in zig-zag.
(Swimming has helped me a lot
though, it makes me feeeel GOOOOOOD
mood-wise).
I am paraplegic and use a chair once in
a while and the rest of the time -almost always-
use braces and crutches.
Well nowadays, I use my wheel chair most of the time.
Waking up in the morning is very difficult
because it's like my ear-equilibrium is
not functioning.
It's hard to sit in my bed.
I am afraid to fall from the toilet....
If that's not an addictive drug,
what is ?
If you get severe withdrawal
symptoms from discontinuation of a drug,
then that's addictive, no?
Excuse my english.
I am French.

[steve]

i stopped taking paxil 20 mg yesterday and went on wellbutrin today will i experence withdrawal from the paxil or will the wellbutrin prevent it

[wade]

I'm going through Paxil withdrawls right now, as I type this.  I had no idea until a few weeks ago, when I stopped taking Paxil.  I take Lithium and Paxil, but while on Paxil, I seemed to have lost that "drive" in my day to day work.  Sex drive, well it surely diminished.  Very difficult to reach that special point, have to concentrate beyond belief to reach it.  Paxil seems great, if you have no responsibilities in life, but being a partner in a company, it drastically affected my performance.

A few weeks ago, I decided to stop taking it.  I didn't know of any side effects, nor did I anticipate any.  After the second day, I started having symptoms of dizziness, nausea, disorientation, confusion, sleepiness, and vomiting.  I thought I was getting sick, and after the third day, thought I should go ahead and take Paxil again to see if it was the cause.  Sure enough, after taking it, I started feeling better.  I stopped again two days ago, and it's starting to hit me hard again.

I'm dizzy, disoriented, confused, cannot focus, and feel like vomiting.  I have some Prozac (which never seemed to do anything for me) and was wondering if I could use it to wean off Paxil, and if it would help with any of the symptoms?  I have to get off this stuff, I need my "productive" self back again.