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 |
| 5 | depression | total loss of libido | This drug transformed my life! made sobriety easier, and me a much nicer person. I totally lost my libido, but to me, it's a fair trade. | 55 | 8 years | 8/31/2003 | 4 | Depression, anxiety, panic attacks | Loss of libido, inability to reach orgasm for a few months, increased apetite, weight gain (over 20 pounds), and occasional dizzyness. | Depression and anxiety had always been a factor in my adult life, but had gotten increasingly severe with age. Paxil has 1. Greatly minimized my incompacitating symptoms of depression. 2. Rendered managable my anxiety, and 3. Completely eliminated my overwhelming and embarassing panic attacks. I'd rate the medication higher if the side effects weren't as severe as they have been and I'd definitely recommend that any adjustments in the dosage of this medication be undertaken only on the advice of a doctor. | F | 55 | 20 months | 1/3/2004 | 4 | depression,low slf worth | I had very few side affects,however,I am unable to get off of the medication,without having non stop crying and overall feeling of depression,moreso then when I first needed the medication!!I wonder if there are any othere people who have tried to get off of the medication and feel like I do, that I need some ones help! | F | 55 | 8 years | 5/25/2003 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | Yawning, diarrhea, fatigue, jittering, Complete loss of sex drive or ability to orgasm. | Even though there were some mild side effects initally, I felt so good the first few weeks I didn't care. At about 4 weeks at 20mg the good effects waned and I was left tired, with diarrhea, and unable to orgasm. The calm I felt in the beginning was gone. When I saw my doctor he switched me to Wellbutrin. So now I need to wean myself. I know I will have weaning side effects because I could tell when I was a few hours late with my pill. I know this drug helps a lot of people but if something else works for you then being unable to orgasm is unacceptable. | F | 55 | 6 weeks | 9/14/2006 | 3 | Anxiety | Upon starting, extreme headaches Upon starting the taper, headaches are common. Found that I had leaky gut or IBS. It took a year on a healing program to really notice a difference. I think healing the gut first and then attempting the taper is important for the success I am having so far. Went from 20mg down to 11.25. Hard to break 10mg tabs into 8 pieces but not letting that stop me. | Although Paxil did curb the high anxiety, it held me captive as a zombie w/no expression. And now the taper is far from comfortable. It takes me seven weeks to go from on dosage amount down to the next level. I have headaches for days with no relief, vertigo, blood pressure and blood sugar variances, aches and pains, brain zaps, and anxiety. All these usually go away by the seventh week with residual effects for another three to six weeks or more. | F | 55 | 1 years 11.25 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 1 | high cortisol -depression - anxiety | Took it 5 years ago and it destroyed me. Clouded my rational deep-thinking abilities. It put me on AUTO-PILOT and it's like I lost the next 2 years of my life. I don't know where they went. I did things I never would have done before -took more prescription drugs that I NEVER should have been prescribed or taken. Loss of libido. It was supposed to LOWER my cortisol and depression - but it ELEVATED the cortisol. I could sleep - but it somehow masked the high cortisol and subsequently destroyed my life. | If I had known about this site and read it - it would have SAVED MY LIFE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH - DO NOT TAKE ANY SSRI'S - especially this PAXIL POISON. MD's should NOT be allowed to dispense this toxic garbage - it is a crime. Doctors know JACK - about what drugs actually do - they learn their spiel from the Barbie & Ken drug reps who bring their office fancy lunches and nice pens and jokes. I have watched this myself. All I needed was good cognitive therapy but doctors don't push that - they push drugs. Because they make money from that and get free trips and gifts. NO ONE knows what these drugs actually do to your IMMUNE SYSTEM and the long term damage. Most serotonin is in your GUT. Taking Paxil is one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It began the snowball rolling downhill, other illnesses came from it and now I am in decline. NEVER TRUST DOCTORS - DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK FIRST. There are nearly always SAFE, effective, natural alternatives - to these prescription poisons - that have been around for centuries or more. PAXIL IS POISON | M | 55 | 1 years 25 1X day | 3/18/2011 | 1 | depression | I would like to report what Paxil is like from the view of a person living with someone who is taking it. My husband said he really loved his Paxil, now he could say or do anything he wanted to to anyone and he didn't have to worry how they thought or felt, he simply didn't care. He would be extremely mean and abusive to the cat. He would put his motorcycle gloves on so he could hurt her and she couldn't scratch or bite him. One time he calmly reported that he had been so mean to her she had lost control of her bowel and bladder all over, just like it was an incident in a normal day, nothing to it. Driving, he loved nothing better than to steal someone's parking place or follow about 5 feet behind them and lay on the horn for about 5 miles. If he could make another driver get out of his car and scream and shake his fist at him, he would scream back till the other guy got in his car and drove away, then he would laugh and think it was so funny. And he was terribly mean to me | F | 55 | 2 years | 4/8/2006 | 1 | ADD | i became like a robot, not sensitive and do not care much about anything in life, i lost my memories and my sex drive. | i took it for 10+ yrs and i was very tired all the time and decided to stop it cold turkey and it has been 6 weeks going through hell with this paxhell. i advice people not to even try it. the withdrawa symptoms including suicide thoughts, immoral thoughts, extreme depression, lack of sleep, crying spells, wanting to be alone, feeling sick, lost interest in family and friends and many many other bad and dangerous withdrawal symptoms. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG EVER. it robbed me from my thoughts and identity, personality, my nice me. it has been 5 weeks and i still suffer but slow improvement. it takes a long time to get it of my body, the worst was the brain zaps and suicide thoughts. Just hang in there my friend, we have to beat this poison and get it off the market. | M | 55 | 10 years 40 1X day | 11/23/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Most associated with SSRi's but worse. Headaches, tingling, nausea, incresed anxiety, extreme fatigue.Stopped the paxil after a week and a week later I'm still getting side effects. | My wife was on this drug for 6 months and is going through hell to get off of it. Do not take this drug if you don't want to spend months of severe side effects trying to wean yourself off of it. | M | 55 | 7 days | 5/20/2004 | 1 | Anger, hyperactivity, weight lose, insomnia, extrem head aches, panic attacks, after 5 months I weaned myself off! Not good for me! | I am now going through a divorce after being married for 38 years! Husband and family think I was on drugs, I lost 7 pounds, Now with Divorce I'm losing more! Didn't need weight loss to begin with, wish I hadn't taking Paxil 20mg | 55 | 1 days | 9/1/2015 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | Please do not get on this DRUG. Withdrawals stopping the medicine were Aweful. I felt i would die. Please dont put yourself through it. Please | I had lots of anxiety and My Dr felt PAXIL enhanced it. But getting of was a nightmare | F | 55 | 10 years | 11/4/2015 | 5 | Anxiety, depression | Increased appetite, weight gain. | F | 54 | 18 months | 12/10/2002 | 5 | anxiety | no side effects...I feel great | this drug gave me a life...I am patient warm and loving. My significant other thinks I have changed in the last five years. He doesnt know about the paxil!! I plan to take it for the rest of my life. | F | 54 | 2 years | 8/12/2005 | 4 | social anxiety | Extreme daytime sleepiness. I used to sleep 8 hours a night and this was plenty. Now I need at least ten. However, the improvement in anxiety regarding public speaking is wonderful. At this point I'm willing to accept the side effects for the payoff in anxiety reduction | M | 54 | 6 months | 7/1/2004 | 4 | Depression Social Anxiety Disorder | Yawning a lot. My boss always says "Are we boring you!" Absolutely no sex drive whatsoever. I have to fake it.... also you get electric shocks if you miss two doses. So NEVER MISS A DOSE. I am basically going to take this drug for the rest of my life. | Does what its supposed to do. | F | 54 | 20 years 40 1X day | 3/30/2014 | 3 | depression anxiety | tiredness, sexual SE's, | M | 54 | 15 years 20 mg 1X day | 1/23/2011 | 2 | Depression | Extreme fatigue, all I wanted to do was sleep. | Impossible to take this medication and still go to work. Stopped after 2 days with no side effects. | M | 54 | 2 days | 12/10/2008 | 1 | dysthymia | Discontination syndrome is terrible. This drug should be taken off the market. Even after tapering off, my discontinuation symptoms included: initially, electric shock-like brain | I was fine on Paxil for a couple of years, except for lethargy and greatly reduced sexual response. Then, on the advice of an incompetent psychiatrist, I tried Lexapro. He overdosed me (milligram for milligram, Lexapro is approximately twice as strong as Paxil). Went back on Paxil. Paxil pooped out after about a year and was causing increased depression and despair. (Another thing the incompetent psychiatrist didn't know -- you can't go on and off Paxil; it is less effective the second time around.) I realized the cure for Paxil poop-out is NOT more Paxil! But much to my horror, this thing is a treadmill. I have long-term discontinuation syndrome -- otherwise known as brain damage -- and am looking at having to get back on some other awful antidepressant that will also cause dependency. WARNING -- YOU MAY BE NEVER BE ABLE TO GET OFF ANTIDEPRESSANTS ONCE YOU START TAKING PAXIL. | F | 54 | 3 years | 5/8/2005 | 1 | Depression/insomnia | Light headed, mildly nauseous ('car sick') feeling from about day two. Felt distinctly 'dumber'. Within 5 days developed a strange body cycle whereby almost exactly every 6 hours (i.e. 4 times per 24 hour cycle) body temperature would sky rocket to point where sweat poured out of scalp, armpits, groin etc and ran down body. This effect would last about 1 hour and subside again, only to be repeated cyclically. At the same time, developed strong 'pins and needles' sensation in feet and lower legs in synch with cyclic heating effect. These effects persisted. After about 2 weeks one day the light headedness, nausea and 'pins and needles' effect suddenly increased in intensity. At that point the pins and needles effect also appeared in my arms and hands (as well as lower legs/feet) to the point where, sweating copiously, light headed and nauseaus and with limited peripheral limb sensation I almost crashed my car in heavy traffic on a freeway. On advice from doctor reduced the dose steadi | Prescribed by my doctor under brand name Aropax after my son's death in an air crash. As a middle aged PhD chemist by training, and as a consequence of these effects I would be very suspicious of this drug at least under this brand name - especially from the purity point of view. The side effects might well be caused by poor quality control with respect to limiting side reaction impurities. | M | 54 | 21 days | 3/5/2006 | 1 | depression | Memory loss, disorientation at times,reduced sexual drive, thinning of hair, gained 50 pounds, very bothered by noises, but went through menapause without a care in the world. | I am going to attempt to stop taking paxil, with a doctor's assistance. The memory loss and disorientation are of great concern. (I have had an EEG and MRI and neuropsychological tests which point to paxil as the cause.) | F | 54 | 13 years | 11/16/2004 |