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What should I do about pain from Paxil withdrawal?

I've been on 2 pills (40mg) of Paxil for almoust 10 years. From 17/18 to currently 27 years old. Reason was chest pains which were diagnosed as Panic Disorder. So after all this time on 2 pills a day last month I told the psychiatrist I wanted to stop, because I hadn't had a panic attack in a long time, and was feeling pretty good. Well he told me to go from 1/2 for 10 days to 1/4 another 10 days, and then stop taking the pills. I think I'm sorry, I listened to him. Two weeks went by, I had dizziness and diarrhea which didn't last long, I'm happy to say. Currently I'm free of any Paxil in my body, but I'm feeling huge pain daily, and a feeling of stress and anxiety. The pain can last the whole day, and I scheduled an appointment with a different doctor for next week, because is was becoming the focus of my day. Should I look to restart my previous dose? I don't want to be tricked by psychiatrist who don't care about me anymore. (one of them prescribed me Deanxit which is banned in alot of big countries like the US and even its origin country, atleast the paxil i took was a more modern drug than that and it worked) The only thing I'm able to stomach down now is some yogurt. Im not even sure how, I will be able to get myself to the doctors office next week, because my self confidence seems to have went puff and this is the first time in years, I might have a full blown panic attack due to the constant pain. So yeah Im in this situation I put myself, in unfortunately. Lastly I could ignore the pain, and see if I hit rock bottom with it. I'm not sure if just doing nothing will put me in a state where I might have a mental breakdown or a serius life threatening event might occurs since this is the first time I'm withdrawing from Paxil, and aside from the pain, and anxiety I don't know what will come next? Maybe this pain I'm feeling is normal, after all the time I took Paxil. Please excuse any punctuation mistakes, English is not my mother language.







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