paxil withdrawl or something else?

[freedomslegend]

Hi. First of all I appreciate all the useful, real life information I find here. Second, I have been taking Paxil for 14 years. I began at 20 mg and have increased slowly to 40 mg. I have cut down to 10 mg twice during pregnancies. Like most others, if I were to miss one or two doses I experienced unbearable headaches and nausea. Over the years I have quit cold turkey, as well (loss of insurance, etc). My symptoms of depression always came back, so I believed I was a lifer. No problem. Now, after 14 years I just feel like I'm immune. Just plain old "blah." My doctor suggested a different SSRI (Celexa), which I began while cutting back on Paxil 10 mg a week. This has all occurred in the last 4 weeks. In the past 3 weeks, I have experienced low back pain, random leg pain, hip pain, heartburn, frequent urination, kidney pain and ovarian pain. 3 pregnancy tests have confirmed that I am NOT pregnant. My doctor believes this is all withdrawl. I have never had back pain like this before from withdrawl. I am also not experiencing the headaches normally associated with withdrawl (yet). I may be a bit of a hypochondriac, but these are also symptoms associated with ovarian cysts. I have been recommended to wait it out and see if things get better over the next month. So, my questions are 1.) Has anyone else experienced back and/or leg pains and these other symptoms?  2.) If I developed an imunity to one SSRI is it likely that another in the same family would do any good? Thanks for the support and please be positive. I have enough negativity in my own mind, and don't need any more help there!

[faiythe]

withdrawals from ant-deppressants are horrible feels like your brain is short circuting ask your doc for cymbalta it helps with deppression and bacpain kill 2 birds with one stone but dont ever miss a dose good luck and god bless

[looloo141]

Hi there, it sounds like this is all worrying you, that doesn't make you a hypochondriac!
I totally sympathise with these physical symptoms you are experiencing, I am no doctor but I would hazard a guess that they are not withdrawal symptoms..
I speak from experience, I have bipolar disorder, and about 2 yrs ago I noticed a lot of changes hormonally and was experiencing pain mid cycle or on 1 side.. it had a severe impact on my moods, mainly because nobody believed me! Everything was blamed on my bipolar or my bipolar meds! Things got worse and I was being prescribed very strong painkillers so they eventually sent me for a scan, which revealed a 5cm cyst, the next month there was one on the other side.. it wasn't my family doctor that arranged this, it was a doctor at our free sexual health clinic, so you could try going there..

As for the anti depressants, you might benefit from a different one, even if its in the same family, they do differ and help people in different ways they are just grouped together as ssri''s.

I hope this helps!
Good luck!