PAXIL Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1018 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PAXIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | PTSD/Depression | Helped for about 6 years. Then hit the "poop out" stage. (It DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!!!!) Had to withdrawel over 1 in a half years. WORST pain, hell, horror, panic attacts/anxiety ever!! Wanted to kill myself. 11 months off, now BETTER!! Live life again! Keep the faith and God will get you through anything!! | M | 35 | 8 years 40mg 1X day | 5/3/2010 | 1 | Depression | Nausea, Tiredness, | Too many side effects and not enough depression relief to be worthwhile. Need to taper off slowly to avoid headaches during withdrawl. | M | 35 | 2 years | 8/23/2003 | 1 | depression/anxiety | short and long term memory loss, thoughts of suicide, severe depression, sadness, melancholy | I only took this for about a month and it was AWFUL. I would dial a phone number and by the time someone answered, I had forgotten who I was calling! I would walk into a room and forget why I had went there......it increased my depression, added suicidal thoughts and terrible nightmares and hallucinations. TERRIBLE DRUG! DO NOT TAKE! Luckily, I wasn't on it long enough to experience withdrawel! | F | 35 | 1 months | 3/13/2007 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | Weight gain(40 lbs)and night sweats. Bad withdrawal. Re: weight gain, it's not you people it's the Paxil. | I can't believe doctors are still prescribing Paxil - how old school/1995. This crap will make you fat, put you at risk for diabetes and not only will you look like a pig from the massive weight gain but you will sweat like one too while you are trying to sleep. My doctor won't even prescribe Paxil b/c it is such a JOKE! Paxil is PASSE people! | F | 35 | 14 months | 3/14/2007 | 1 | depression | electric "jolts" feeling in head, weight loss, anger | I would not recommend that anyone EVER take this medication! It landed me in the hospital for 3 weeks with a diagnosis of bipolar mania. It made me realize what a mess our medical system is and how poorly people who need help are treated. No trust in our system at this point. | F | 35 | 3 months | 2/22/2008 | 1 | depression and anxiety attacks | Tremors (all over body shakes, like really really bad case of the coffee jitters), insomnia--my brain was WIDE awake at 2 am--hot and cold flashes, I went from freezing cold to burning up in a matter of a minute, and when the hot flashes came, my skin felt as if it were being burned, it acted as a diuretic, made me have to go to the bathroom every ten minutes, and it made me really really nauseous. | I've got the generic form of Paxil, Paroxetine, and I was prescribed the drug for help with raging PTSD symptoms. But this is not worth it. I'll take the anxiety attacks over these side effects any day. And I was NOT aware that this drug is so addicting. I don't want to take a medicine I have to wean myself off of. No thanks. | F | 35 | 1 days | 11/8/2007 | 1 | anxiety, depression | Lack of concentration. Severe headaches. Weakness. The withdrawals of stopping this were unbelievable. I will never take this med again. I used it for a brief period and felt like it was time to handle reality on my own. After slowly reducing my dosage,(with a Dr's help of course), I felt severe electrical-like zaps in my head, nausea, headaches and I couldn't stand up for more than a minute. Took about 5 days to get back to feeling okay. When deciding which med is right for you, ask the doctor about the "half-life" of each of the meds you are considering. | This "half-life" of this med is extremely short. The side effects of stopping this med can be severe. DO NOT stop any of these drugs without consulting your Dr. Years ago I took Prozac which was great. I was only on it for 6 months. Nothing negative about it. Feeling blah again, I thought about trying Zoloft, but after learning the "half-life" is very close to Paxil, I am going to try Prozac again. | F | 35 | 3 months | 7/19/2002 | 1 | Depression | While taking Paxil I experienced weight gain, loss of ambition and enthusiasm, tremors/shaky hands, loss of sex drive, much constipation, and joint pain. My stomach has never been right and my bowel movements only occur in extremes, terrible constipation or hours of diarrhea. Sleep patterns became a horrific cycle of being unable to fall asleep at bedtime coupled with an insatiable need to sleep for 10-13 hours per day. You can imagine how disruptive it could be to lie in bed until 4 or 5 a.m. trying to fall asleep then feeling as though getting only 9-10 hours of sleep leaving you feeling drained and in an up-but-not-awake physical state. Scary as all this sounds, these issues pale in comparison to the nightmare of cessation from Paxil use. Just like most here have reported, I've been experiencing a maddening throbbing in my ears and am an emotional wreck. As a 35 year old male with only a mild state of depression I can't even remember the last time I cried about something until I quit taking Paxil. I cried on the 9/11 anniversary at least a dozen times, I cried when Johnny Unitas died, I cry when I listen to music, I cry, I cry, I cry. Do yourself a favor, stand your ground with your healthcare provider and REFUSE to take this medication. Zoloft worked much beteer without all the scary side effects. Unlike some of the other folks here, I never experienced the bad dreams or jaw clenching. | These side effects took a while to manifest themselves so I didn't realize they were related to Paxil until some recent media coverage began to report on some of the dangers associated with Paxil. | M | 35 | 2 years | 9/17/2002 | 1 | stress | loss of libido, no impulse control, very open with people, hair loss, weight gain, severe acne, dry eyes, fatigue, chronic pain, female problems, stomach problems, etc. etc. - this drug is EVIL !!! A lot of you on here just started taking it and think that it is wonderful - I used to think that too - just wait until you hit tolerance and go completely manic like I did. | www.paxilprogress.org | F | 35 | 9 years | 9/3/2008 | 5 | Panic Disorder, Anxiety, OCD | Abnormal ejaculation for the first week or so; lowered sex drive; yawning. After that, nothing. Have not had a full-blown panic attack in almost 8 years thanks to Paxil. The side effects are nothing compared to the panic and anxiety I felt every day. Side effects subside; panic just gets worse unless you do something about it. | Absolutely wonderful drug. If you experience side effects, you must stop and think if the Paxil's actually causing them, or if your own anxiety and they way you think when you're anxious is causing them. My advice is to keep taking it and wait a few weeks. The side effects WILL wear off and once you give the medicine a chance to get into your system and start working, it will change your life. It saved mine without a doubt. | M | 34 | 8 years | 2/27/2006 | 5 | Anxiety, Panic, Depression | Dry mouth, lowered sex drive for a month or so, insomnia, weight gain, yawning. They all go away if you stick with it and let Paxil do its job. | For all you people who keep saying "Oh! I gained weight! I lost my sex drive! I have to go off Paxil because I gained so much weight!" Look - if you're seriously stopping Paxil because you're gaining a few pounds, then it's pretty obvious the panic, anxiety or depression you have is a JOKE and is not bad at all. If weight gain is more important to you than panicking every day, being depressed every day and feeling anxious all the time, then you need a serious reality check. Get some perspective, people. You have to give Paxil a month or so to start completely working. Once you do, the side effects will go away and you'll feel 100% better. But most people try it for 1 or 2 days and hate the side effects and quit. Once again, if the minor side effects are worse than your panic, depression or anxiety, then perhaps your 'problems' aren't really problems at all. | M | 34 | 8 years | 6/29/2006 | 5 | anxiety | None, except when I miss a day or two in a row. Horrible withdrawal symtoms: Headache, dizziness, hotflashes, sick stomache | F | 34 | 1.5 years | 7/26/2004 | 5 | anxiety and Panic Disorder | 30 lb weight gain in 5 years, low sex drive which did correct it self after a few months on the drugd | HaRD TO COME OFF OF, i ALTERNATED 30 MG ONE DAY 20 THE NEXT.FOR ABOUT A WEEK AND THEN WENT DOWN TO 20,..i DID THE SAME WITH 20 to 10, alternating,then 10 to 5 until I was down on 5.for the past 2 years....increase in Anxiety I am going back up on my PAxil | F | 34 | 6 years | 8/19/2004 | 5 | panic attacks | weight gain | paxil provided me the time i needed to figure out why i was having panic attacks. it did not make my life perfect by any means, but paxil helped me to cope. paxil also helped me to recognize when i start to slide into a depression before it becomes a full blown episoe. paxil gives my thought processes time to recognize when i am feeling stressed and on the road to a panic attack before i have one. It still helps, 7 years later. | F | 34 | 7 years | 12/6/2006 | 5 | Panic, Anxiety, Violent thoughts | Acute Bedwetting(It comes and goes), and I had never wet the bed in my entire life before taking this med. Also, some bizarre nightmares, mostly involving extreme acts of violence, and gore, but that is usually if I miss a dose. | The benefits to me and everybody around me are so signifigant, that I can deal with the occasional bedwetting that it causes. I am told that i am a much more pleasant person to be around, less likely to fly off the handle, and i don't have such a short fuse. My moods are more consistent and predictable. Social Anxiety is gone, and i'm much more likely to seek out people for conversation. The thoughts of causing other people bodily harm have practically gone away entirely because of theis Med. Whew! What a relief! | M | 34 | 12 months | 11/13/2006 | 4 | Agorophobia,Axiety/Depression | Major side effect for me was long and detailed nightmarish dreams.My own personal theory on this is two-fold. First, Paxil almost completely eliminated my high anxiety and panic attacks that I was suffering from during my 3 year bout with agorophobia.However the consequence of this is that the internal fears I felt during waking concsciousness were being suppressed so much, that in my dreaming subconscious state the fears came out in a heightened way.After 2 or 3 months the vivid,scary and often grotesque dreams did subside a bit, and after a year or so I became used to them- even learning from them, as I began to explore the recurring themes and patterns. The second reason why I believe this is happening has to do with the chemical make up of the drug and serotonin.Paxil increases serotonin activity in the brain.The chemical makeup of serotonin actually has similar qualities also present in LSD. Paxil itself is a very very mild hallucinatory drug which has accentuated the images, symb | M | 34 | 3 years | 1/2/2006 | 4 | anxiety | sleepy, weight gain, if miss a dose get very dizzy | F | 34 | 3 years | 1/13/2006 | 4 | Borderline PD, GAD, OCD, Depression | Cronic fatique and sleepiness (which sucks because I have kids at home). | So far so good. Hoping this continues to help. My depression has subsided. I am still suffering from irritability. | F | 34 | 1.5 months 20 MG 1X day | 7/14/2011 | 4 | Weight gain and sexual side effects | Stopping the medicine is hard, the withdrawal symptoms make you feel like you falling even if you just standing or stitting still. | F | 34 | 4 days | 8/11/2004 | 4 | anxiety | dizziness, vivid dreams even though not bad ones, decreased libido | This is the third time I have been on paxil. It has always worked well for me. When I went of it: I have allways decreased the dosage very slowly, 2.5mg at the time, giving myself a month to get used to the new dosage. So it took me months to get off it, but I did not have any severe withdrawal symptoms. I am back on it now (paxil CR), but seem to have a problem with dizziness now, which I never had before. | F | 34 | 14 days | 12/29/2002 |