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Hello friends,

I was on PAXIL for 1.5 years due to an extremly bad back injury.

Back is all better now and I have been trying to slowly quit PAXIL,

I was at 20 mg for a year and half.

I went to 10 mg for 4 months.

Then I went to 5mg for two weeks.

Instead of going to get more PAXIL I quit taking it
three days ago.

Of course I have the brain swooshes and anxiety etc.

I was never in need of PAXIL untill the injury, so anxiety is not
a trait I ever had in the past. So I think the anxiety is just due to the
BRAIN freak I am having to deal with.

QUESTION::::: If I was down to only 5mg a day, how long will these side affects take before they wear off??

Thank you all very much for having this forum. I don't have a family doctor right now, so I am just trying to take it EASy and hope this ride will
be over soon.

Yours,

Whoshooter.

[safarigal]

there is no way to tell you how long withdrawal will last, everyone experiences it differently.

[scotty]

OK first question, just out of curiosity. Why Paxil for a back injury???
That asked withdrawal is different for everyone. Some people have no problem at all, others go through months of symptoms. Dropping from 5mg is a pretty big drop, but you probably will continue to have symptoms for a while. You can do it!!

Thanx for the reply,

I'll never know why a back injury led to extreme stress symptoms, but that is what happened. My doctor said there is a relationship between physical pain and seritonin. Whatever it was, I was walking around in a horrible fog, could not eat without extreme nasuea. Could'nt sleep without two ativans. Urinating a ridiculous amount. Had the sense that I was dying.

Three weeks after taking 20 mgs of PAXIL I was fine.

Here I am now. I took 10mgs about three hours ago. I already feel some relief. I'll be buying some more tommorrow. I will go back to 10mgs
and make sure I am feeling better. I'll go to 5 again for a few weeks and then start bring it down SLOWLY to 1-2mgs.

I'll also talk to a doctor this time.

Man I'm pissed off at myself right now for not talking to a doctor first.

Thanx again for your replies.

It helped,

whos

Originally Posted by whoshooter

My doctor said there is a relationship between physical pain and seritonin.

what a load of #@&*. Of course there is a relationship between pain and serotonin. but to prescribe a drug that causes permanent changes in your brain for that... is stupid. my doctor prescribed for equaly as stupid a reason, but i didnt know the severity of the drug back then.

side effects will pass, youre still early into the detox. it will still be in your body. just try not to obsess about the withdrawal symptoms. the more you focus the more you will find.

[cshah]

i wouldnt downplay the doctor's opinion that much. they spend half of their life in medical school for some reason.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by cshah

i wouldnt downplay the doctor's opinion that much. they spend half of their life in medical school for some reason.

one doesn't need to have gone through med school to have knowledge.. as though medicine can only be learned there. True they learn a lot but that does not mean their beliefs and ways of doing things can be wrong. Afterall, the 3rd leading cause of death in the united states is doctors. 250,000 people die every year (in the u.s.) because of their faith that doctors will know what is best for them.

[scotty]

Whoshooter, the slower wean should make it more tolerable. My son was on Paxil CR so the regular paxil dosing I don't know much about, but reading alot on paxil seems to show that with the regular paxil the extremely slow wean on the lower doses works the best.
Don't beat yourself up over this, we all have been caught up in the paxil hype!!
The doctors comment made me laugh! I'm a nurse and have seen some REALLY bad ones!! Length of time spent in education does not a good doctor make!!!

[Scott]

this is just heresay but i heard the paxil cr 25mg is equal to 20mg of the regular.

[genevieve]

jsut to say that doctor DONT spend half their life in medical school. I am a student in medical school (in quebec : I dont know how it is outside the province) and it is actually 2 years!!! 2 years!!! The rest of the time is working in the hospital... Paxil AND medical school have shown me that doctors are not that knowledgable...

[Scott]

here in the u.s. to become a doctor you first go to general university, then you go on to medical school which is likely another 4 years.. THEN you go into internship where you work like a slave to gain experience before finally going into your own practice.. there is added time onto that for those in specialist fields such as cardiology etc...

[dar7726]

that doctors are not taught anything in medical school about nutrition, naturals or prevention. And that most funding for research and furthing education is coming from the drug co's.

We could all be well if they were taught, prevention and nutrition but hey who's going to profit from that.

Today you have to take care of your own health and learn what they were never taught to begin with.

For example, did you know that Otto Warburg won the Nobel prize in 1931, when he proved that sugar feeds cancer.

Today if you told a doctor that, he would laugh at you, but in the same breath might offer you a Pet Cat Scan after surgury to see if he can find more cancer. This happened to my sister in law.

Do you know what a Pet Cat Scan is. Radioactive Glucose. After they inject it into you they follow it to see if it goes to the cancer. Glucose is sugar.

It's all about money not about healing anyone.

Darlene