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05-05-2005, 03:55 PM
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Brain Squeeze?????
This is a new one. I'm pretty freaked out. I was in the shower, reading a magazine article, when all of a sudden, I felt a tightening, starting from my right temple, which then spread across the upper portion of my face. It felt like my head was being squeezed. When it passed over my right eyeball, it felt like my eye might sink into my head. It lasted about two minutes, but now I feel nauseated and a bit dizzy. I'm scared. Has anyone else had this happen? I'm due for another MRI tomorrow, so I know my anxiety levels are high.
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05-05-2005, 04:00 PM
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"colors outside the lines"
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
shea...there was a post about this a week or so ago...it is also one of those yet unwrapped presents from GSK...I get them occassionaly, than god for that, it feels like someone is trying to scrap the inside of yur head with a rusty spoon through your eye holes.....
I also get the back of the head in a vice thing going on.. |
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05-05-2005, 04:09 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
I have to ask .... how do you read a magazine in the shower????
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05-05-2005, 04:11 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
I got those Shea. They were horrible and scary in the beginning. At the end they actually felt good and I would laugh. Weird!
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1 .5 Xanax a day for one month. C/T. Same year, 3 .5 mil Xanax a day, 4 by the end. Pooped out on me. 1 1/2 years on the drug. Doctors taper. Very bad w/d. 9 months later took 10 mg Paxil and my Xanax w/d dissapeared. On 20 mg by end. Pooped out on me. C/T then restarted it again after 3 days and big blow up. 6 months taper, never feeling much better. 2 1/2 years solid w/d then sporadic stuff for 5 years. Completely recovered! Drug free since June 2001. |
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05-05-2005, 04:19 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
hi Shea
yeah...ive gotten similar things. Had one a week or two ago in fact but very rarely now. Sometimes i get a bad headache afterwards. how do you read a magazine in the shower?  |
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05-05-2005, 05:20 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
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I wish I'd just signed up for the jelly of the month club instead. |
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05-05-2005, 09:29 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
Yup, had that one.
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Hope. "I never cared much for flim flam doctors." (Doctor Baker, Little House on the Prairie). Put on Paxil in 1996 for Post-partum depression. After 5th withdrawal attempt, went into severe debilitating withdrawal, restarted Paxil in the ER which didn't work anymore. Taken off again quickly by a shrink, started on Lexapro. Body rejected all drugs except benzos. Currently off all drugs. Not quite 100% yet, but working towards getting there. |
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05-05-2005, 09:44 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
Could have been a "surge" kind of zap. Take care of yourself Shea.
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05-05-2005, 09:48 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
A little better, this evening, but not good.
I have a detachable shower head, and since I tend to get dizzy, in the shower, I sit in the shower, with the shower head next to me. -Shea |
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05-05-2005, 10:03 PM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
glad to hear you feeling a little better tonight shea! i was a bit concerned before.
hopefully you can get a reasonable night of sleep. hopefully no more head pressure. I need to re-do my bathroom. I want a deeeeep tub and a removable showerhead like that. dont get the magazine wet!!  |
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05-05-2005, 10:24 PM
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"Stinks of lavender"
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
Shea,
Sometimes I still have them. It almost feels like your eyeballs are about to pop out... Interesting you read mags in the shower...lol.
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Paxilgirl Put on Paxil for situational depression in August 2003. Was also on .5 mg of Clonozapem. Started on 10mg and increased to 30mg. Weaned off during the summer of 2004. Became PAXIL FREE October 4, 2004. Completely recovered!!! 
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05-11-2005, 08:42 AM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
I just started my third try at Paxil withdrawal on Friday. The first two days were okay. By Monday, I started to feel the buzzing in the side of my head and ear, the disorientation, irritability, nausea, and insomnia. I had my first brain squeeze last night. Had them the other times I tried to withdraw. I'm so happy that this forum is here.
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05-11-2005, 09:15 AM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
Feelin Wiggy, welcome. Please read the faq page to give you a good idea on the weaning process, lots of other good stuff in the faq. I am happy you found this forum as well.
A moderator will kick in here at some poing and move this post so you will have your own thread. Take care.
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05-11-2005, 09:21 AM
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Re: Brain Squeeze?????
that most definately sounds like a paxil related 'brain squeeze'
I got them all the time , months after withdrawal I would sometimes get this sensation in my eyes like they were shaking , i think this was muslce spasms in the eyes, and probably related to the effect on the nervous system that paxil induces.... so wish i had never been on the drug...nobody should have to go through the trauma of the paxil experience....GSK have a lot to answer for....bastards..... |
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