8 months

[genevieve]

Hello everybody!
This is a little post to tell you how I am fealing after 8 months paxil free! Remember that even if the physical problems started with the withdrawal, they could still be related to another disease and/or just a coincidence. And the psychological difficulties may also be part of my original condition (anxiety + agoraphobia + panic attacks). So, here I am, paxil free for 8 months after 5 years on the drug and a 6 months tapper schedule. I am currently taking nothing except a multivitamin :

-nausea : this is almost totally gone but it was horrible for the 5 first months of withdrawal!
-I still have to sleep 7 hours (at least). This weekend I slept one night only 6 hours and I was so dizzy and nauseus the next day! I feel like an old weak women...
-the moments of "weakness hypoglycemia-like" are not gone. I still have them 2-3 times a week. I feel like fainting, with no energy at all, but I dont faint and I can still move. Is this stress related? neurological? I dont know!!!!
-Minor problems that I still experience : the eyes flotters, the muscle twitches, the occasionnal vertigo (there are certainly others that I dont remember now!)
-I am anxious, I am struggling with agoraphobia and frequent panic attacks that came back after 6 months. This difficult period is gone (with the help of CBT, thanks to my wonderful therapist) but I still feel really shaky, not able to cope with everyday stress. My heart pounds for nothing (the phone ringing), I feel a lot more stressful that I ever did...
-I still have the fealing from time to time that I am going completly insane. This is what I call my "emotionnal panic" : really though do deal with!

-With all of this I can say I am still a full time student but to be a full time worker would be hard! (a full time student is working half his job at home...). I am trying the best I can to stay away from drugs. (and stress!!!)

I have seen that there is a lot of new people recently on the forum, this is great (but still a little confusing since I get mixed up with who is who, who is still on paxil or not, etc.) I will try to write a little more often.

Have a nice day everybody!!!!

Hi Genevieve - youve done so brilliantly to get this far -AND keep your studies going.
Kizziex

[hope]

Wow genevieve, I didn't realize you'd been going on for so long. I only tapered for a couple of months. I honestly don't think it would have been much easier if I had gone slower, but who knows. Not many people around me know about paxil being a hard one to beat. My husband has recently come around and is being very very nice to me, even if he disagrees with my opinion. I am a little more opinionated so that's pretty good for him.

The dizziness is what's getting me now. Every now and then I have a moment where it lessens and i just go "wow".