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 |
| 4 | anxiety | No side effects starting out for me when i was 18. unlike prozac and celexa i was on when i was 16 and 17. Been on it for about 6 months and anxiety is rarely there. Recently missed 2 doses and feel HORRIBLE. i've heard that the withdrawal symptoms is similar to coming off heroin. I am so dizzy and nauseated. My ears hurt and i'm twitchy. Strongly recommend not missing any doses! | F | 19 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 1/28/2014 | 2 | depression | loss of sex drive, inability to have an orgasm, weight gain, nausea, dizziness, extreme withdrawal effects. | I've taken paxil for two months, it helped calm me down and be less irritable. Due to the loss of sex drive I was weaned off of it and had extreme side effects such as nausea, hot flashes, dizziness, fevers, lightheaded, headaches, and stomach pain. | F | 19 | 2 months | 3/6/2009 | 2 | Depression/social anxiety | None at all | Paxil did not affect me at all, in neither a good way or bad way. I started wondering if they had given me placebos instead. They started me out on 12.5 mgs, and after a little while I upped it to 25 mgs. And it still did nothing for me. I finally gave up on it cold turkey 2 months later and had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. Oh well. | F | 19 | 60 days | 12/6/2008 | 2 | Depression and Anxiety Disorder | I had to choose if i wanted to be tired all day and sleep at night or be wide awake all day and not be able to sleep at night. I felt floaty and numb 95% of the time. About 6-8 months while taking Paxil and increasing the number of pills, i had increased suicidal thoughts and had self-destructive behaviors. | If this pill works for you, that's great. But realize that in recent years that studies show that this pill can actually make more people kill themselves rather than help them. Be careful and maybe keep a little notebook and write down how you feel each day. If you seem to be getting worse, get off Paxil as soon as possible. | F | 19 | 1 years | 2/9/2007 | 2 | depression | feeling of general indifference. numbness of emotions. weak, dizzy, shaky. | F | 19 | 1 years | 4/5/2001 | 1 | Depression, anxiety, ocd, anger | Anger, no hope, thoughts of suicide, no sympathy for others, rage, hatred, increased depression, feeling like nothing was real, no motivation | Please don't take this it ruined my already miserable life | M | 19 | 1.5 years 75 1X day | 12/29/2011 | 1 | social anxiety | loss of sex drive; constipation | might as well have been a placebo | M | 19 | 1 months | 6/27/2005 | 1 | Anxiety and Depression | Severe Weight gain | I was 120 Lbs when i started taking Paxil, after taking it for 6 months I was at 250 Lbs, Since Paxil made me put on so much weight in such a short amount of time my liver had made multiple fat deposits on it. The doctor took me off of Paxil and within a few weeks I began losing the weight, and the fat deposits on my liver disappeared. One of the reasons I was on it was depression, gaining that much weight did not make me feel better about myself. Now Im on Lexapro and its working well without any side effects. | F | 19 | 10 months | 11/19/2004 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Took my first Paxil (20mg) 24hrs ago; Nausea ALL DAY! I can't wait until this gets out of my body! | F | 19 | 1 days | 6/6/2006 | 1 | Social Anxiety Disorder, Depression | weight loss, night sweats, electric sensations, dizziness, somnolence, inability to experience orgasm | After having no success with Zoloft or Prozac, my doctor put me on Paxil for social anxiety disorder and depression. Paxil was horrible for me. It made my depression about twice as bad as it originally was, and I was contemplating suicide every day. Paxil had no effect on my social anxiety. While on Paxil, I found it very hard to stay awake all day and I seemed to require at least ten hours of sleep each night (compared to the eight hours each night before taking Paxil). While on Paxil, I would wake up at least five times every night after I’d fallen asleep. I would wake up cold and shivering, my whole body drenched with sweat. I lost 20 pounds while on Paxil, without trying to. After I’d been taking Paxil for a while, I started experiencing electric-shock sensations when I turned my head or moved my eyes. This seemed to happen at random times, but it gradually became more frequent the longer I’d been taking Paxil. I’ve tried many different antidepressants, and Paxil was the worst. | F | 19 | 4 months | 3/17/2004 | 1 | Anxiety and Depression | Horrible fatigue, worsened depression, lost almost all libido. | It made my anxiety better for a few weeks but then once I upped my dose to 20-30 mg I just hit rock bottom. I'm in college and now am failing almost all my classes. Can't get out of bed from either horrible fatigue or am too depressed to move. I'm getting weened off of it now and it's making me borderline suicidal and is making me have huge mood swings. | F | 19 | 3 months | 3/28/2009 | 1 | Depression/ mostly anxiety | shaking from the inside out, jaw tension, teeth grinding, panic, severe anxiety, borderline panic attacks, loss of appetite, insomnia, nausea | I thought that I finally got something to aleive me of my anxiety. It's only made it worse. I just got up to 20mg and the more I take it, the WORSE the side effects become. Depression is gone, but the anxiety is making me feel like I'm about to lose my mind! | F | 19 | 25 days | 5/7/2007 | 1 | depression | flat affect, extreme weight gain, decreasing social skills, lack of desire to communicate with family and friends, anxiety, insomnia | i was prescribed paxil by my pediatrician due to my depression at having to drop out of college. no follow-up appointment was made, and so for one month I descended into a true depression, weight gain, and decreasing mental state. eventually, after my family became concerned at my DRASTIC personality change, I was led to a psychologist who said the "paxil brought out my true bipolar nature" and sent me to a psych ward for a 3-day detox of the drug, but because of my actions while on paxil, i was given the label "bipolar" and placed on a 1.5 year polydrugging nightmare, the culmination of these medications caused me to gain 80lbs , develop hypothyroidism, and caused me to lose many personal relationships that meant a lot to me. i had never had weight problems in my life, but I experienced not only weight gain, but acne, and hair loss (possibly due to the hypothyroidism, which I will have to deal with for the rest of my life). Paxil is what started this route-to-chaos, and the doctors never took into account that it altered my personality so gravely. | F | 19 | 1 months 15mg 1X day | 4/24/2014 | 1 | Depression | Paxil ruined my life. It made me gain weight throughout my teenage years and did nothing for my depression. I would've stopped taking it but the withdrawal puts me in bed for about a week. I missed one pill the other night and I'm currently about to leave for the hospital because of these horrible symptoms. Please don't take this drug and save your life. | F | 19 | 6 years 12.5 MG | 8/12/2014 | 1 | anxiety | first day on Paxil. Have very bad anxiety. Worst day of my life. Gave me panic all day to the point where i thought i was dying. Made me so sick all day and scared out of my mine. Just wanted the day to end. I don't recommend this for anyone who has bad panic or anxiety. | DONT TAKE | F | 19 | 1 days 20 mg 1X day | 8/9/2015 | 5 | Depression mostly, also anxiety | Slight weight gain (which I welcomed), absolute loss of libido, inability to orgasm, worsened nightmares, more frequent night sweats, and now I am addicted. | I no longer require this drug, and would like to come off. However, the withdrawal is awful for me. If I take it even an hour later than usual, I am sick. Withdrawal includes nausea, vomitting, | F | 18 | 4 years | 8/31/2004 | 5 | Anxiety, Panic Attacks, &Depression | Extreme thirst and dry mouth; drink water. | Paxil rocks!! | F | 18 | 4 years | 1/10/2006 | 4 | panic attacks /depression/ life | shakey, threw up a few times, dizzy, but i feel more alive, no more panic attacks. but i also feel like i just smoked crack, heh. all loopy. kinda fun. | i love it. makes me happy, but i just hope i dont regret it. because i hear alot about sexual dysfunction and addiction/withdrawl | M | 18 | 2 days | 1/21/2003 | 4 | depression, anxiety, stress | Very few, at most a few...em..."weird" dreams, but overall I'm pleased. | OK folks...do you know why you are having "withdrawal" symptoms after getting off of this drug? Paxil is an antidepressant, which works to reduce the absorption of serotonin (body's natural antidepressant), so it remains within easy reach of the serotonin receptors in the brain, so that when needed, it is readily available to handle stress. When you go off of it (especially after being on it for a time) your body is not used to the lower serotonin levels that the Paxil works to keep elevated. You no longer have an adequate supply of this "natural antidepressant," so when your body needs it to handle stressful situations (many times including normal day-to-day activities), it is not there and you "crash." | M | 18 | 6 weeks | 1/23/2008 | 3 | depression/anxiety | worked ok for a while but i gained 40lbs on it in 3 months. after 3 month it didnt do much for me and its really hard to get on and off it | M | 18 | 3 months 2X day | 4/19/2011 |