seratonin

is it true that paxil causes less seratonin after it is discontinued??? is that what causes the withdrawl? will taking przac as a replacement help and then come off of it later as it is way easier to stop?????

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[darcyb]

I believe it's a readjustment period as your system has to get used to being the driver's seat again. When you interrupt a natrual process, the body continually tries to adapt or return to where it was before unless a permanent change was made.

So, with Paxil forcing the body to not reabsorb serotonin (reuptake inhibitor after all), it gets more completed serotonin messages and this is a nice bath or wash that generalizes many things, like emotions. You wash out anxiety and depression but you also spread thinly your passion and sexuality. Of course, the body is free to react anxiously when its being toyed with hehe. A very simplified way to entertain the mechanics behind the anxiety side effect of Paxil, but either way, the body wants to drive.

It has millions of years of experience ahead of our pharmaceutical industry. Now, how long it takes the body to get back into control of its own self, is relative to the person's make-up and considering many scientific tests and trials are too short to notice a body that chooses to take longer to heal then expected, it may seem that serotonin is in short supply or its mechanics affected in a more permanent way.

What's funny is that some tests to measure if serotonin is being affected by SSRI meds at all, was to give the drug in pure form (ours is mixed with fillers) to mice for a while, then kill them, then blend their brains with a dye reacting agent to show a color of varying degrees depending on the levels of serotonin present.

But yeah, when you quit Paxil, your body is faced with the experience of less serotonin being received after transmission and it can feel shocking to be suddenly altered. Prozac can be used as a 'buffer' because its half life is much longer then Paxil. This means, reducing Prozac will result in a slower change to serotonin reuptake and the body has more time to adjust gradually instead of abruptly.

Not that my description here is without flaws. I didn't do the tests myself after all.

thats what i thought.....the brain is still making seratonin but it is used to not re uptaking it because of the paxil. so the nervous, shakes, all that stuff is dirrect nervous system activity because it is shocked by the change. so support the nervous system during this time...im taking lecithin, b complex, b 12, magnesium, glutathione, fish oil, vit. c, and the seratonin needs to be raised to stop a lot of the shock. well i plan to take 5htp in a few days(waiting for the two days of paxil i took to get out) because is is a precurser to seratonin.....your barin is still in the driver seat with it unlike ssri's. i havent taken it yet but all signs point to it aleiviating all the symptoms caused by the seratonin drop after quitting.

i just wonder how long i should take it. while im taking it the brain should slowly stabalize and learn to do it on its own shouldnt it??? likw i said it doesnt block reuptake it just causes the brain to make more or is converted to seratonin, i forget.