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PAXIL WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS MIMIC HEROIN WITHDRAWAL!
I am suffering from Paxil withdrawals. Below is more information that the doctors won't tell you!!!
Tell your Doctors, and perhaps they will make the connection! How hard has it been for you to wean yourself from Paxil? It's as agonizing as coming off of heroin..and shares most of the same symptoms and long term effects! While researching an answer to all of the awful symptoms I experienced during my Paxil withdrawal, I was unable to find any medical resources listing Paxil as a source of these particular symptoms we all experience. Guess where I kept finding my search results directing me to? Heroin withdrawal. The symptoms associated with heroin withdrawal that are similar to Paxil withdrawal are: nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, restlessness, and leg movements, or jerking. While heroin produces muscle and bone pain, insomnia, and cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), which are not identical to Paxil withdrawal, the Paxil symptoms of headache, "electric shocks", dizziness and hot flashes as well as psychotic mental state (violent anger/hopeless depression, unwanted suicidal/homicidal thinking) are similarly debilitating and certainly result in the return to the use of the drug (paxil) in the same way that heroin produces that result! Most experts agree that the major withdrawal symptoms peak between 24 and 48 hours after the last dose of heroin and subside after about a week. However, some people have shown persistent withdrawal signs for many months. I think that most of us (the "experts" on paxil withdrawal!) would agree that, even with careful and lengthy periods of weaning off the drug, at least some of these frightening effects occur and are problematic in our lives for longer than the average heroin withdrawal duration of about a week! Most of us have found that, by the time a week has passed,off Paxil, the terrible sickness we feel has become so great, we are desperate to return to taking the drug again to alleviate the symptoms. And many often do return this way, again and again...simply because we can't afford to lose three weeks or more of work, withdrawing from a medication that Doctors routinely dismiss as not being a cause of such sickness (we all have a really bad case of the flu), or because we are so frightened by the strange, indescribeable physical and mental feelings of disassociation and nervous system "zaps" that we go back to the drug to restore clear thinking, fearing that we are "crazy"...especially since our doctors seem to have no understanding of any of these symptoms as relating to anything they have seen before. I hope everyone who is serious about finding the truth about the drug Paxil and it's horrible withdrawal symptoms will be sure to notify their health care providers of all of the symptoms experienced with this drug and insist that the details be documented and reported to the manufacturer, distributors, pharmacists and anyone in the medical field who can process this information officially and end the notion that these symptoms are "hearsay", simply because the drug company has not chosen to make them "fact"! And the next time you feel, or someone tells you that withdrawing from Paxil is "not that bad", remember that you are in the throes of a withdrawal so severe. that few others, except heroin addicts, have experienced, and YES, IT IS BAD! But it can be survived!
: Shawn Allen
Tell your Doctors, and perhaps they will make the connection! How hard has it been for you to wean yourself from Paxil? It's as agonizing as coming off of heroin..and shares most of the same symptoms and long term effects! While researching an answer to all of the awful symptoms I experienced during my Paxil withdrawal, I was unable to find any medical resources listing Paxil as a source of these particular symptoms we all experience. Guess where I kept finding my search results directing me to? Heroin withdrawal. The symptoms associated with heroin withdrawal that are similar to Paxil withdrawal are: nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, restlessness, and leg movements, or jerking. While heroin produces muscle and bone pain, insomnia, and cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), which are not identical to Paxil withdrawal, the Paxil symptoms of headache, "electric shocks", dizziness and hot flashes as well as psychotic mental state (violent anger/hopeless depression, unwanted suicidal/homicidal thinking) are similarly debilitating and certainly result in the return to the use of the drug (paxil) in the same way that heroin produces that result! Most experts agree that the major withdrawal symptoms peak between 24 and 48 hours after the last dose of heroin and subside after about a week. However, some people have shown persistent withdrawal signs for many months. I think that most of us (the "experts" on paxil withdrawal!) would agree that, even with careful and lengthy periods of weaning off the drug, at least some of these frightening effects occur and are problematic in our lives for longer than the average heroin withdrawal duration of about a week! Most of us have found that, by the time a week has passed,off Paxil, the terrible sickness we feel has become so great, we are desperate to return to taking the drug again to alleviate the symptoms. And many often do return this way, again and again...simply because we can't afford to lose three weeks or more of work, withdrawing from a medication that Doctors routinely dismiss as not being a cause of such sickness (we all have a really bad case of the flu), or because we are so frightened by the strange, indescribeable physical and mental feelings of disassociation and nervous system "zaps" that we go back to the drug to restore clear thinking, fearing that we are "crazy"...especially since our doctors seem to have no understanding of any of these symptoms as relating to anything they have seen before. I hope everyone who is serious about finding the truth about the drug Paxil and it's horrible withdrawal symptoms will be sure to notify their health care providers of all of the symptoms experienced with this drug and insist that the details be documented and reported to the manufacturer, distributors, pharmacists and anyone in the medical field who can process this information officially and end the notion that these symptoms are "hearsay", simply because the drug company has not chosen to make them "fact"! And the next time you feel, or someone tells you that withdrawing from Paxil is "not that bad", remember that you are in the throes of a withdrawal so severe. that few others, except heroin addicts, have experienced, and YES, IT IS BAD! But it can be survived!
: Shawn Allen
I have been on Paxil for 3 months, 10 mg a day. Out of the blue for the past 2 days I have not taken it. After reading everything posted on this page today I am terrified. I have been feeling extremely angry and depressed for the past 2 days. Today I had spots appear in front of my eyes that lasted about 5 minutes and went away followed by a horrible headache. I could hardly pull myself out of bed this morning, I thought it was a result of my depression, guess not, it was a result of not taking my paxil for a couple of days. I have also gained 10 lbs in 3 months, I thought this also was because I had to be eating more, I haven't it is these pills.I have decide to stay off these pills until I can get in to see my doctor. I would rather suffer my depression than continue with these added medical problems. Then what do I do? I suppose I have to trust the next drug I have to take.
After taking Paxil for two years for depression, I decided that
I would like to get off of it. I had tolerated the yawns and
the feelings of drugged sleep, but it had carried over to my
waking hours. I would sit for hours if no one motivated me to
get moving. I drive for a living and I would have a hard time
staying alert after five minutes at the wheel. I just wanted
to pull over and take a nap. I never took more than 10mg and
at the time I decided to quit, I was using 7 1/2mg daily. I cut
that down and then stopped completely about 2 weeks ago. The
first few days I was completely unmotivated about everything.
I was dizzy, had muscle pain in my neck and back, depressed and
a little scared. Finding this site has lifted my spirits and
I am trying to ride out these symtoms, do they ever stop?
I would like to get off of it. I had tolerated the yawns and
the feelings of drugged sleep, but it had carried over to my
waking hours. I would sit for hours if no one motivated me to
get moving. I drive for a living and I would have a hard time
staying alert after five minutes at the wheel. I just wanted
to pull over and take a nap. I never took more than 10mg and
at the time I decided to quit, I was using 7 1/2mg daily. I cut
that down and then stopped completely about 2 weeks ago. The
first few days I was completely unmotivated about everything.
I was dizzy, had muscle pain in my neck and back, depressed and
a little scared. Finding this site has lifted my spirits and
I am trying to ride out these symtoms, do they ever stop?
I have been on Paxil for about 2-3 years when we thought we were going to try and get pregnant. I weaned myself off cold turkey and only took a pill (20 mg) when I really felt I needed it. This would be every other day about. When my conception interest peaked, I went off completly...no more every other day fix. I have head the "flu" ever since. My body feels as if it is running a high fever, my head is "swimmy" all the time, eyes burning as if I have a cold, weepy at nothing, angry beyond words, and wondering if I should go back on (tempted) but more so wishing that this withdrawel would go away. Like many of you, my doctor never explained the side effects of coming off the Paxil. I was in need of the Rx when I was perscribed it and it did help me turn my life around. I wish I had been on it years earlier. The withdrawel is bad but I can deal with it. The beneifts the drug provided for me, to help me to be able to enjoy my life in the smallest degrees was so worth it. The w/drawel is something I can do without and I do feel very vunerable, but I will never regret going on the drug in the first place. If we were not trying to have a family, I would still be on it.
To "Want to be myself again"
I can't believe how similar our stories are! Weight gain, diabetic problems. I'm weening myself off paxel and feeling really crappy. My vision goes wavy and I basically can't focus on anything. It lasts about 1/2 hour. Doctors think it's a type of migraine, but don't have the real pain most people do. Although I do get a headache, its' just not as bad as other migraine sufferers. Anyway, I'm hoping you're feeling better and that I some day will too. I wonder if anyone has successfully come off off paxel and living well.
I can't believe how similar our stories are! Weight gain, diabetic problems. I'm weening myself off paxel and feeling really crappy. My vision goes wavy and I basically can't focus on anything. It lasts about 1/2 hour. Doctors think it's a type of migraine, but don't have the real pain most people do. Although I do get a headache, its' just not as bad as other migraine sufferers. Anyway, I'm hoping you're feeling better and that I some day will too. I wonder if anyone has successfully come off off paxel and living well.
I'm on this website at the current moment trying to find out if there is any possible way to alleviate some of the withdrawl symptoms of Paxil. This is the thrid time I've experienced dizziness, nausea, etc. by trying to stop taking the drug. I'm only twenty-one year old and have been taking Paxil for two years now. I've repeatedly told my doctor I want to stop taking it and she repeatedly convinces me to stay on it. She seems to feel it may be a life long need for me. I beg to differ. I want off and the sooner, the better. I really feel for people who go through this. Especially when doctors deny the fact that there is a major problem in withdrawing from the drug. I hope within a short amount of time, I will be done with Paxil for good. I don't want to go through this again.
I'm on this website at the current moment trying to find out if there is any possible way to alleviate some of the withdrawl symptoms of Paxil. This is the thrid time I've experienced dizziness, nausea, etc. by trying to stop taking the drug. I'm only twenty-one year old and have been taking Paxil for two years now. I've repeatedly told my doctor I want to stop taking it and she repeatedly convinces me to stay on it. She seems to feel it may be a life long need for me. I beg to differ. I want off and the sooner, the better. I really feel for people who go through this. Especially when doctors deny the fact that there is a major problem in withdrawing from the drug. I hope within a short amount of time, I will be done with Paxil for good. I don't want to go through this again.
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