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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Panic disorder w/ agoraphobia | Weight gain | Before Paxil I could not leave my house due to agoraphobia brought on by Panic Disorder. After Paxil, I could go anywhere. I had no side effects but I did gain about 70 pounds on it, although I was also eating more because I was happy. After 2 years, I no longer felt I needed to be on it and quit cold turkey. Unlike others, I suffered no withdrawal and have been off of it for a year. My panic attacks have not returned and I am now stable and functioning. I am thankful for Paxil getting me over that bridge to recovery. It was exactly what I needed and I'm saddened some people want this taken off the market for the withdrawals--I had none and this drug saved me from a life of being cooped up in my house. | M | 29 | 2 years 10MG 1X day | 12/17/2014 | 5 | Depression & Anxiety | Always Sleepy | After taking this drug for four years, I feel like giving my personal input to this wonderful website which gave me a lot of useful information. I would say I am extremely grateful to paxil. Before 2011, I was functioning OK but was at the same time manifesting some symptoms which looking back were actually the symptoms of depression. In April 2011, I had a major bout of depression and was almost unable to sit through my daily job and live a normal life. I was sleepy, tired, sore all over my body and have bowel problems, fever-like symptoms. I almost thought I was dying. After a whole series of medical check, it was eventually clear to me that I had depression. My doctor prescribed Paxil 10mg for daily intake. I felt much better after staying on the drug for about one month but at the same time suffered from a host of side effects such as low sex drive, sleepiness, emotional detachment. The low sex drive went away after some time but sleepiness never disappeared. But overall, on paxil I was eating healthy, exercising everyday and had a positive outlook for life. During the process, I switched to Zoloft once for about 2 months, only to find that Zoloft had almost the same effect but put a whole lot of weight on me (which is all fat). With 10mg paxil and exercise, I was always in good shape. This made me determined to turn back to 10mg paxil again. For those with depression, paxil is something that may help you find a way out. | M | 29 | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 8/31/2015 Patient History | 4 | Anxiety, insomnia | Extreme drowsiness, tinnitis | F | 29 | 3 months 20mg | 1/24/2016 | 4 | anxiety/depression | drowsiness, excessive yawning, trouble ejaculating (once went 3 hours with no result) | This drug does help with depression. I don't experience the negative thoughts and feelings that were making life unbearable as often and after about three weeks I adjusted to all the side effects. I was really worried about not being able to finish during sex and considered stopping taking it out of frustration but with a lot of persistence and an understanding girlfriend I was able to overcome (no pun intended)it. So my advice is not give up on it right away. With persistence and optimism you may be able to get over the annoying side effects. | M | 29 | 30 days | 1/11/2009 | 4 | Anxiety | Yawning, jaw chatters, dizziness, nausea, some brain zaps & vision disturbance. | Started @ 10mg the 1st week, then went to 20mg. Stayed there for 8 months. Worked GREAT! no more attacks, took my Ativanmaybe once a month if that. Thought I was "better" so we started to wean off. It SUCKED but not unbearable. Now, 8 months later again....I am back to the panic/anxiety attacks & a mess. Worse this time around, taking twice the Ativan(lorazepam) as before. We tried Lexapro, but didnt work. So I am now getting back on Paxil. Its what worked! As well, doing the relaxation, self help books and changing stress in life. | F | 29 | 8 months | 1/12/2008 | 4 | Panic Disorder/ Depression | 1st month. very tired, no ambition, didn't want to do anything at all. Decreased sex-drive | Went off it after 1 year for 3 months... could NOT function got extreamly depressed... back on it for 2 months now and I am starting to feel WONDERFUL AGAIN! It really takes the edge off for me. I am starting to be normal Again :) | F | 29 | 14 months | 5/23/2002 | 4 | Social Anxiety disorder | Weight gain, couldn't lose weight with diet and exercise, sometimes slight headache | It worked very well for Social Anxiety disorder. I couldn't take above 20 mg due to feeling too tired and fatigued if I went on a higher dose. My doctor recommended trying another anti-depressant. | F | 29 | 2 years 20 mg 1X day | 7/3/2012 | 4 | Depression | chattering teeth, night sweats, sexual dysfunction (delayed orgasm) | did reduce depression, but side effects are frustrating, especially night sweats | M | 29 | 4 weeks | 5/28/2001 | 4 | depression and anxiety | feeling tired | decreased sexual drive | F | 29 | 4 years | 4/23/2007 | 4 | Agorphobia/Social anxiety/Depressio | Hot flashes/Insomnia/exsessive sweating/yawning/hiccups/Cotton mouth/Nightmares/longer to reach orgazim/less menstral pain/bloodshot eyes/tired during the day/thirsty | I stopped taking it years ago and doing it cold turkey is very scary. I found myself on the floor feeling dizzy and shaking and it was as though i was under water because every sound was muffled. My sight was blured. I have since gotten back on Paxil 20 mg and when the time comes to end it I will be under the care of a medical profesional. DO NOT STOP IT ON YOUR OWN!!!! | F | 29 | 43 days | 9/26/2006 | 3 | Depression, anxiety | weight gain, vivid dreams and nightmares,memory problems, shaking,lack of sexual interest, want to sleep all the time | The weight gain rumours are true! Doctors will tell you that Paxil will not cause weight gain but it does! | F | 29 | 9 months | 4/30/2002 | 3 | OCD | slight hand tremors, yawning without being tired, tense feeling in jaw muscles, tendency to gnash/grind teeth sometimes (not too severe or frequent), sexual side effects | I've been on the 20 mg dose for 8 days, with directions to move to 40 mg after another week, for OCD. So far, on some days, my mind stops in the usual places, but is able to move on more quickly. On other days, it seems like things are back to normal (or worse) again. I'm hopeful that the higher dose will help, although I don't want to the side effects (especially the hand tremors and yawning) to get worse. | M | 29 | 8 days | 5/11/2007 | 3 | Anxiety and depression | "fuzziness", mental numbness, weight gain, some loss in libido | Paxil helped in a way, by keeping me from thinking very deeply about some tough steps I needed to take in my life but had been putting off for several years. I got through them with much less trouble than I would have without the Paxil. The major downsides were that I gained a lot of weight, and getting off of this drug is HORRIBLE! | F | 29 | 2 years | 5/16/2007 | 2 | Anxiety | Migraines Weight Loss Hair Loss Loss of libido Drowsiness Horrible withdrawal symptoms | F | 29 | 6 years 25mg | 10/11/2014 | 2 | Depression/Gen. Anxiety Disorder | Horrendous appetite, weight gain, daily grogginess, nightmares | The drug worked great, but the side effects were too awful, especially the appetite/weight gain and grogginess. Always felt a little "out of it" and always wanted to eat, which hindered my daily functions a bit. Nightmares were frequent and quite creative, usually involving someone trying to kill me. Too bad, Paxil has been more effective than Wellbutrin and Serzone. | F | 29 | 3 months | 5/26/2001 | 2 | Anxiety, depression | lower sex drive, then complete loss of libido! | This drug made me immune and unable to have proper reasoning. Sexual side effects are terrible. First lower sex drive, inability to have an orgasm during sex, then complete impotence! even 4 weeks after stopping the drug completely...I really hope it will all return to normal. | M | 29 | 4 months 5mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 1 | depression | insomnia, anxiety, panic, weight gain, increased depression, increased suicidal ideation, delayed ejaculation | Paxil ruined my life and I firmly believe it caused permanent neurological damage. I started taking it for depression (a single depressive bout!) when I was 17. If I had known then what I know now I would have shunned it like death. I took twenty milligrams a day for nine years. It caused horrible panic and anxiety. And it only worsened the depression it was supposed to help in the first place. These days if I get depressed, it feels organic, like a natural sort of depression. When I got depressed on Paxil, it was a crazy, pitch-black, suicidal depression. But the worst part of Paxil is still happening. After I quit, the panic and anxiety, which it caused, blossomed and rebounded in the meanest way possible. Understand, I never had panic or anxiety before Paxil. Now, four years later, I?m still dealing with the ?mean reds? and I think Paxil permanently re-wired something upstairs. Some days I?m so ?off? and so panicked and anxious that I don?t know who I am, what I?ve become. I?m a quivering shell of my old self all those many, many years ago. I had no idea those little pink pills could be so damning. Paxil is poison. Please do not take this drug. It will ruin you. | M | 29 | 9 years 20 1X day | 8/14/2010 | 1 | General Anxiety Disorder | Going on to the drug was hellish, but once I stabilised on 20mg it was only the 'mild' side-effects of emotional numbness, general apathy and sexual disfunction. However, the real fun started when I started to come off the drug.... nausea, chronic anxiety, diaorrhea, ear-ringing, vertigo, nightmares, weight-loss, emotional instability etc... | If you are prescribed this drug, please please please only take it for a short period of time whilst you get some CBT. It has ruined my life. | M | 29 | 9 years 20 1X day | 4/14/2010 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | Increased anxiety by 100%, increased appetite, tired yet unable to sleep, inability to reach orgasm. | Hear it works wonders for some but for me it was the worst antideppresant I have ever been on. Switched to Effexor XR which has worked outstanding for me, without any side effects whatsoever. | F | 29 | 2 months | 7/28/2001 | 1 | social anxiety | HOrrible. Laziness, forgetfullness, weight gain, zombie feeling, other weird symtoms | Horrible horrible drug do not take. Taking paxil for 8 months literally cost years off my life recovering from the after effects. I do not believe that my mind or my body has ever returned to the same since taking this medication. I immediately gained 25 pounds when taking this which has given me a struggle with my weight ever since. My memory is horrible now. Constructing sentences is difficult. I just have never felt the same. The worst of it I would say was the first two years after discontinuing, memory was horrilbe, word recall was horrible, felt very out of it our of sync. This is a horrible drug and these doctors will not help you when you have problems with it. They will blame the problems on you becase you came in with depression or anxiety so they discount your concerns and blame you as imaginging the side effects or already having them when you came in which you know is not true. If you have a choice always take care of depression or other anxiety related issues through therapy rather than meds first. | F | 29 | 8 months 1X day | 3/8/2010 |