stopped the paxil

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hey all.

Just an update;

I had to stop the paxil. I was getting very, VERY depressed and more suicidal than I've ever been. I even had a plan. I contacted the doc a couple weeks ago when the depression was setting in. He said the drug levels wouldn't reach clinical levels for another couple of weeks and to give it a little while longer. I called him the other day when I got feeling suicidal and he told me to stop it immediately.

I have an appointment with him tomorrow to go on something else. I liked the Effexor but I was hoping to go on something that would help with social anxiety too which is why I requested the paxil.

thats what happend to me and i couldnt use my tool. its why im so against medications

heh.

Me too. Though, I could use it in a limited sense if you know what I mean.

Good job.

Paxil is BAD NEWS.

s**t, I'm on Paxil, and I'm also very depressed and suicidal... Been off of work because of my depression. I've been wanting to get off of it for a while, been having other problems with it lately.

As far as I know there is no medication that can directly target social phobia.

Celexa, Effexor and even Zoloft reduce social phobia in many people... the Effexor obviously didn't have that effect on you. My friend was on Paxil and overdosed on sleeping pills, perhaps after drinking which he often did on the Paxil. A lot of us are confused as to whether it was a suicide or a misadventure. Why the sleeping pills though? He took sleeping pills on the Paxil, as well as drinking, but I think it just MAY have been a suicide. I don't think he was on the sleeping pills for very long... Paxil may not sit well with them, or other things, if you're on them or anything else.

I just replied in the other thread you started about Paxil. I'm glad you've stop if you were getting that bad. Good to hear you're OK, relatively speaking.

Watch out man; Paxil has some pretty sh***y withdrawal effects. Be prepared for a stormy ride.

http://www.quitpaxil.info/Main/symptoms.htm

Personally, I've experienced these withdrawal effects:

- intense insomnia
- intense fear of losing your sanity
- panic attacks (even if you never had one before)
- severe mood swings, esp. heightened irritability / anger
- suicidal thoughts (in extreme cases)
- the feeling of shocks, similar to mild electric one, running the length of your body (a.k.a. "the zaps")

I was a veritable maniac during withdrawal (er, more so than I normally am, I mean); I completely lost touch for a bit, and I very nearly shot myself; and the zaps just plain suck. If you're lucky, you'll just feel like s**t for a few days; I hope you're lucky.

Good fortune,

- Icarus kept the shell casing as a reminder of those times...

Yes take great care and keep checking in here and let us know how your doing.

Thinking of you and remember your not alone, though you sure as hell might feel that way at times.

Yea good that stopped paxil, that is a horrible drug, i remember taking it as a child, whoa did that totally change me into a horrible sucidal monster. It was taken off the market for children shortly after i stopped taking it. Studies showed that it changed the childs behavior and the person itself, and didn't help the person, instead made them much worse. They actually did a thing about it, saying how they didn't thoroughly research it properly before distributing it to the public.

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I think this is my second day off the Paxil. No withdrawal effects yet.

I have an appointment in half an hour with the doc. Hopefully I can go back on the effexor XR. It worked nicely. All I need is a pre authorization to get it.

If you haven't been on paxil long enough for it to fully saturate into your system, you probably won't have too much withdraw if any.

I took paxil, had seratonin toxicity , and spent 2 days thinking my brain was going to explode, my skin was going to fly off, and i started turning green.

I think i took way too much.

Anyway, I really wonder what the hell it does for you, it made me feel completely horrible.

Kalister1, paxil's an SSRI (Select Seraton Reuptake Inhibiter) anti-depressant; like most SSRIs it has an off-shelf use in ASD's mainly to try and control compulsiveness and outer-lying anxiety issues. Also like most anti-depressants, and one could argue psychoative drugs, it doesn't work on everyone, can have adversive effects on some, and and directly treat the core symptoms of Autism or AS. We do not have any medication which can do that; they all target outer-lying symptoms and issues, sometimes this can help with the core symptoms by alleviating the outer ones, and sometimes it can't.

It made me feel like barf. Adderal was much better. Different strokes for different folks.