PAXIL Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1018 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PAXIL with similar:
Type: Rx Drug
|
Results are sorted by Age oldest to youngest. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 |
More on PAXIL: Reviews Summary | Drug Safety Information
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | GAD | Strange sensation sometimes when I look in a different direction/turn my head quickly. Also weird "electric" feelings in my feet at times when I am walking. Lex gave me some really good initiative and drive, but Pax has increased it along with adding assertiveness (in a good way!) | Started on Lexapro 10mg 9 months ago and then Dr. increased to 20mg 3 months ago to help with continuing panic symptoms. I started having hypnic twitches and was absolutely unable to orgasm although it gave me LOTS of libido back. In retrospect, I must have had a bit of depression as well so the Lex helped that and made me a regular horny dude again. :-) On Paxil now 3 weeks and was tired for the first couple of weeks, but now I feel better than I have in recent memory. Jaw clenching is going away and I am able to orgasm (woot-WOOT!!!) With that an my recent vasectomy, Wifey and I are having some MAJOR fun I can tell you - I feel like a newlywed again. I did ask my Dr. about coming off the Pax in the future if it helped me. He said that he used to be worried about long-term use, but now with the years of first-hand observation he came to the conclusion that if it is giving you a happy "normal" life then why stop at all. The way I feel now, I tend to agree. I'm interested to hear other men's experiences of switching from Lex to Pax. Please drop me a line! PS - I would like to say that I am appalled with all the news-making tragedies that have happened (SC shooter, German Wings pilot, CT shooter, Columbine, etc.) for young men taking SSRI's. If you are in your 20s or younger, I am BEGGING you to man-up and question your doctor as to why they are prescribing you SSRI's with all of the research that shows it to be potentially DEADLY for young men. Take cha | M | 48 | 3 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 9/4/2015 | 5 | Bipolar Depression | Lack of a sex drive. Tiny weight gain | I was on Paxil 5 years ago to assist me through a divorce. When that was over I had many attemts to go off it. My doctor moved away and after taking 40mg.daily I quit. I knew I was "in for it" but I was determined to do it. The next two weeks was quite an experience. Here I am 5 years later and am back on Pexeva - almost the same thing. I feel a lot better and I know what hell awaits me when I come down. But it helps me right now. Good luck to all ! | M | 48 | 1 years | 6/12/2007 | 5 | anxiety disorder, panic attacks | Very mild reduction in sex drive; my sense of balance isn't quite what it was; occasional dry mouth (but nothing like what it was like when I was a wretched ball of nerves all the time!); a bit 'snoozy' when I have nothing to do, which is no bad thing. | This drug came into my life when I was 40 and at my wits end after thirty years of emotional nonsense. It is no exaggeration to say that it has enabled me to transform my life. Although I take only a 'baby' dose (10mg), over time I have become much happier, confident and calmer person. I can think more clearly than at anytime since I was a kid and my overall health has improved drastically (probably because all that negative anxiety isn't shaking me apart anymore). I have gained quite a bit of weight but I needed to after all those years of chronic anxiety, unfocused fear and lack of appetite. Once I began taking the drug I began to enjoy my food much more than ever before. I also had enough extra energy and interest in life to begin exercising with enthusiasm. Over the past seven years I have gained 70 lbs., virtually all of it muscle (my waist size has increased by barely an inch but my chest has increased from about 38 inches to 48 and my biceps from perhaps 12 inches to | M | 48 | 8 years | 2/16/2009 | 4 | anxiety/panic | Drowsiness, numbing of clitoris, difficult reaching orgasm | I discovered that 20 mg of paxil has resolved my IBS and I my stomach/bowels feel so much better. I recommend this drug for IBS or "nervous stomach." It takes me longer to achieve orgasm, but I can, with patience. My sex drive was out of control before I went on paxil and now I feel much more romantic and able to enjoy lovemaking over a longer period of time. | F | 48 | 3 years | 2/21/2008 | 3 | premature ejaculation | Just felt awful | M | 48 | 30 days | 2/18/2005 | 3 | Jittery, reved up, frequent waking during the night with vivid dreams and dry mouth. | M | 48 | 28 days | 4/23/2002 | 3 | Depression/anxiety | Very bad withdrawals !. | If I had known about the side effects & Withdrawal issies, I would have NEVER taken this medication | M | 48 | 3 times | 5/3/2006 | 3 | Anxiety and migraines | WEIGHT GAIN. HORRIBLE. 60 LBS AND I EXERCISE 6 DAYS A WEEK AND DONT EAT AS MUCH AS I USED TO. DESPERATE TO LOSE IT .have tried switching to wellbutrin and effexor but FELT HORRIBLE on those drugs. all my panic issues came back on those drugs. | Has really helped my severe anxiety and panic attacks and am very calm now but the weight gain has just about done me in. | F | 48 | 5 years | 4/23/2007 | 2 | Anxiety | Lethargy and weight gain. The loss of anxiety can lead to an attitude of not caring about doing much of anything. Paxil was very helpful for the first several months, but now I want to get off it. I'm very tired most of the time, even though I sleep more than I did before. I could sleep all night and day now, which is wonderful at first after a lifetime of anxiety, but now I want my energy back and do things again. | I've been on it for about 2 years. I would have recommended it a year ago, but not any more. I've gained a ton of weight. I lost my job... it helped in the beginning with social anxiety at work, calmed me down so I could be more productive, but then made things worse by becoming lazy and not caring about stuff. In the beginning it helped with social anxiety, but now I am LESS sociable than I was before. Some anxiety is good, but I don't have any! I want some again...it motivates me. I'm going to quit this after I speak with my doc. in a week or so. | M | 48 | 2 years | 10/21/2006 | 2 | depression and panic attacks | blunted personality, no sexual drive,extreme withdrawal effects, | My doctor put me on this. I was reluctant, but figured she knew best. I had no personality on it and felt no emotions, which may have been a good thing at the time. I went off it after 1 year. I had extreme problems with the withdrawal and initally tried to take a dose (10 mg) every other day for 4 days. I had the same electrical zaps in my head that others describe and felt dizzy and off balance. Once at work I had difficulty walking and had to hold onto the walls because of the strange electrical zapping in my head and loss of balance. It was very disorientating. I decided to stop completely after about 2 weeks of weaning myself off it. | F | 48 | 1 years | 6/26/2005 | 2 | Bipolar II | hand numbness/tingling/fullness; headaches | I didn't read this in anyone else's comments--my hands felt numb, tingly, and filled with fluid (like when you come inside with cold hands or feet and put them in a tub of warm water). I'm a writer and couldn't hardly type. Went off this medication after 2 days. | F | 48 | 2 days | 2/24/2009 | 1 | Panic disorder | Side effects while taking Paxil were anorgasmia and dulling of my emotions. | Trying to get off this poison has been absolute hellish. Please, please, please stear clear of this SSRI. | F | 48 | 9 years | 12/20/2006 | 1 | DEPRESSION | UNABLE TO CONCENTRATE, DIZZY, WAS NOT COORDINATED, AND KEPT GETTING HURT. FRIENDS AND FAMILY SAID I ACTED CRAZY. MY 29TH MARRIAGE ANNIVERSERY CAME AND WENT AND I CAN BARELY RECALL. | M | 48 | 2 months | 6/21/2004 | 1 | anxiety | nausea; loss of appetite; dry mouth; night sweats; lethargy; leg twitches; agitation; depression; feelings of loneliness and isolation; wild-eyed look; became withdrawn from family. | Family doctor prescribed for anxiety; however, medicine made me physically ill and threw me into a state of deep depression. I was barely functioning and my wife made inquiries (and reviewed this site) and felt strongly that I was having a bad reaction to the medication. Consulted doctors who thought I was in a deep depression (which was true but caused by the medicine) I immediately stopped taking medicine and within days physical side effects ceased and all evidence of any depression vanished. | M | 48 | 10 days | 6/24/2004 | 1 | Panic/Anxiety | Loss of sex drive - I seemed to stop dreaming altogether - It took my personality away, I felt 'blank' - Craving sweets - weight gain of 30 lbs - Hideous withdrawal symptoms!!! | BEWARE!! RECONSIDER taking Paxil! Please listen to me when I say...This drug is poison!! The withdrawal symptoms, which, by the way, my Doctors wouldn`t admit to Paxil withdrawal even existing; are HIDEOUS!! My life was a living hell from his drug. From all of the reading and research I have done on Paxil, I liken the withdrawal to a heroin withdrawal & I am not exaggerating. Please if you are considering using this drug, try somethig else, anything else. live with your panic/ anxiety, whatever; its much better than the hell Paxil will cause in your life. I wish and pray for Paxil withdrawal symptoms to happen to the makers of this Drug and the Doctors who prescribe it to their trusting patients. I now use Xanax for panic/anxiety with no problems at all :-) | F | 48 | 2 years | 9/24/2006 | 1 | depression | M | 48 | 6 weeks 1X day | 4/15/2010 | 5 | High Anxiety and panic attacks | weight gain, which I needed anyway (35+ lbs), hard to reach orgasm at low dose (10mg) and no orgasms at 20mg. FIX THIS! | Paxil REALLY helps me a great deal, I'm a MUCH nicer person to be around as a result of taking this drug. I used to get very easily angry over anything and got verbally nasty. Also cried a lot and sometimes for no apparent reason. Now I'm alway calm and nothing really gets me going. The only really bad effect is not reaching orgasm anymore which I will somehow fix one way of the other as I miss it. A LOT. | M | 47 | 1.5 years | 12/24/2005 | 5 | depression and anxiety | weight gain, blurred vission, | relieved anxiety, still was depressed, | F | 47 | 7 years | 10/3/2004 | 5 | panic attacks and fibromyalgia | a lot of weight gain without increased appetite (60 pounds in a year). Very tired in higher doses. | It worked great but damn, 60 pounds! My panic attacks went away and I stopped having anticipitory anxiety as well! My migraines got better and my fibro didn't bother me as much. I've tried them all and I'm very sensitive to medications. I've even ended up in the ER from SSRI's just in the first few days from the side effects, but Paxil was started on a very low dose for me. We went with liquid Paxil and I started with 1 ML for 2 months, then went to 2 ML for 4 months. Then we got me to 5ML that is equal to 10mg. and I had theraputic results, that's how sensitive I am. But, the weight gain made me insane so I stopped the meds in May 06, and the panic is back (Sept 06 now) so I might have to take it again but being FAT isn't healthy either! Right now we're talking about Cymbalta but they don't make Cymbalta in liquid or in a dose smaller than 20mg, so we'll see, but Paxil did help me a lot. | F | 47 | 2 years | 9/27/2006 | 5 | severe anxiety, some depression | initially dry mouth, upset stomach, loss of appetite, difficulty having orgasm Now- all gone except slow orgasm | This drug has DRASTICALLY improved my life. (20 mg) I no longer have to wonder where or when the next wave of panic will hit me. I have only had a very few brief, mild episodes since taking- they seem to be related to my cycle. I had stopped going places and doing things in case I would panic- even simple things like going into a store could do it. I have my life back. From what I can see this works best on anxiety, not as reliably on depression. I will gladly trade quicker orgasms for a normal life! | F | 47 | 8 months | 2/15/2008 |