PAXIL CR Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (595 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PAXIL CR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL CR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | yes | Fatigue, sexual side effects (but only in the first month, then back to normal) | This medication has helped me greatly. I feel like myself again. I am able to communicate with people again and I feel comfortable around others. I have OCD, and it has almost completely dissapeared, I rarely have distressing thoughts. I'm almost always in a positive mood and I rarely become depressed. This has greatly improved my life! | F | 25 | 6 months | 12/27/2006 | 5 | Not much sexual desire and difficult to reach orgasms | This drug saved my life!! If i went on my life the way i was doing, i would be death before my 30th birthday, I'm sure of that. I couldn't find a way out. I was tired of struggling... But I still had a little bit energy to go the psych. Since the first day I took it, i felt things were changing. A few months later I am a quit, energetic man. I can see things in perspective again. I can breathe again, this is one big reliefe. Life is not bad anymore, i like other people back again and i get out of bed easily. My sex life is flushed down the loo, but it's better then the horror i experienced before, thank god for living!! | M | 25 | 7 weeks | 2/16/2007 | 5 | OCD, dysthymic disorder | Tightness in the jaw, yawning, helped me to sleep, decreased appetite, slight loss of libido | Ive only been taking this for 8 days but the difference is already huge. From the comments in here it seems that this drug is especially good for OCD. If these are the only side effects then bring it on! I am hoping the loss in libido will improve but only time will tell.I feel so much more positive and the obsessive thoughts have reduced dramatically. I'm combining this with regular CBT sessions with a psychologist for the best effect possible and for the first time in a long while I feel excited and positive about the future! Good luck everyone. | F | 25 | 8 days | 8/4/2008 | 4 | Anxiety, Panic Attacks | WEIGHT GAIN. I think i have gained about 25 lbs since taking this medicine. I have been on it for about 3 months. I am also tired all the time, but i do not know if this is because i work full time and go to school full time or the medicine. | F | 25 | 3 months | 2/24/2005 | 4 | anxiety | difficulty with sex, fatigue, weight gain | it has side effects but it definetly stopped my anxiety | F | 25 | 60 days | 9/29/2003 | 4 | anxiety panic | blurred vision and/or photosensitivity | It does a great job of keeping my anxiety down but after being off of it for a while I start to get headaches. | M | 25 | 2 years | 1/31/2007 | 4 | panic attacks/ depression | weight gain 25 lbs. no sex drive. dizziness | the first month or so every thing looked very animated and my body was very tingely. attacks were still there but very mild. socially it works great, no fear. hard to cry and release emotion, i dont freak out anymore, im just very calm. weening off next month to 25 mg. im a little scared. | F | 25 | 2 days | 4/16/2004 | 4 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Side Effects: sleepiness, dry mouth, and decreased libido. | My Comments: Overall, I have been feeling a lot better since earlier this year. In the beginning, I started at 25mg and recently it has been increased to 37.5 mg. I have felt more confident and less anxiety about many things. However, at times, I become too confident and say things I should not say that offend people. But when I say them, it is like I have no remorse...sometimes. Is that a good thing? I am learning to think before I speak...now I have to work on communication skills! | F | 25 | 7 months | 10/10/2004 | 4 | Ocd and ptsd | No side effect. | Is gud med. | M | 25 | 9 months 25mg | 6/20/2017 | 3 | PTSD & Panic Attacks | Throat is closed, hard to swallow, clenching jaw, grinding teeth, wake up at night and can't go back to sleep, sweating, weird food cravings, twitching muscles, severe headaches, drowsy, lack of focus, detached from emotions, feeling like I'm floating outside my body, loss of appetite, lightheaded, decrease in sex drive... | Some improvement in mood but mostly because I'm too sleepy to care anymore and most of my focus is on staying awake. I attribute the sexual dysfunction to the sleepiness too. Started on 12.5 mg Paxil-CR for 7 days, this is day 5 of 25 mg to continue indefinitely. | F | 25 | 12 days | 11/16/2004 | 3 | anxiety/depression | it makes me content but it also makes me feel like i have no emotions and don't care about anything. i don't feel anxious or depressed really though and i don't worry about every little thing anymore. i have been eating ALOT more also. i feel more lazy and tired. i want my emotions back though, i think i am going to stop taking it. | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 9/15/2006 | 2 | Anxiety problems | Tremors, more anxiety, sexual disfunction | Didn't work for me! Made my anxiety a thousand times worse! | F | 25 | 5 months | 3/5/2006 | 1 | Bipolar/Depression/Anxiety | While taking Paxil: The effects I noticed were vivid dreams, nightmares and night terrors (screaming/crying in my sleep). It didn't seem to be helping my condition, either. Upon withdrawal: Intense nausea, headaches, dizziness, insomnia (awake over 72 hours at a time), slurred speech (as if drunk but no alcohol in blood for weeks), confusion/disorientation, paranoia, problems with memory and concentration, increased anxiety, extreme mood swings (unlike those associated with Bipolar), intense anger towards everyone and everything, hot flashes and chills, muscle pain/cramps, vision problems (blurred/blackouts/spotty), uncontrollable fits (crying or rage), sensitivity to motion and sound, no appetite, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, and other symptoms similar to those of heroin withdrawal (so I've read on several sites online). Also: I've been having sexual problems that I now realize might be associated with the Paxil. Visit counselcity.com for valuable resources. | My doc didn't tell me what I might experience taking Paxil. I'd taken it before, and wasn't informed of the side effects then either. I read the med info provided with my RX and noted the mild effects listed. After my experience, my doc said to give it another 2 weeks, then try Lexapro. A week later, it was unbearable, so I called to get the Lexapro. She said to fill the RX for Paxil and we'd change my meds at next appt. I was at 37.5 mg Paxil. We started to taper down. She didn't tell me what I might experience during withdrawal. It was horrifying. I felt like I was dying, but knew I wasn't. I was terrified, and didn't know what to do. ER wouldn't treat me because I wasn't in life-threatening danger. I made calls to my doc, all times day/night. A nurse I spoke with said Paxil doesn't cause any [side effects/withdrawal]. People uninformed about these things SHOULD NOT have the privelage to discuss meds or give advice to patients. Make Paxil illegal to produce/distribute! | F | 25 | 2 months | 8/31/2006 | 1 | panic attacks | I could NOT sleep on it to save my life. And when I was awake I was so tired that I just laid around doing nothing. which included not eating, therefore lost 10% of my body weight in ONE WEEK. That one week that I was on it, my life was hell. | I didn't stay on it long enough to even see if it worked but bad side effects was bad enough for me to get off of them. | F | 25 | 7 days | 4/5/2007 | 1 | anxiety..panic attacks | intense trembling (tremors),teeth grinding,sweating,insomnia...no sleep what-so-ever,eyes hurt,attention disorder, | I did not like the way this drug made me feel at all! | F | 25 | 30 days | 1/25/2004 | 1 | Anxiety | I felt extremely tired and oblivious to the world. I could careless about anything going on around me. If I didn't take the medicine at the same time everyday, I would began experiencing withdrawl symptoms. After quitting, it took nearly 2 months to get rid of the "electric shocks" that were torturing my brain. I also became depressed after quitting, even though it was prescribed for anxiety. | F | 25 | 3 months | 2/4/2008 | 5 | Depression, Anxiety, OCD | Paxil 20mg: Yawn, tired, and some brain shocks when missing a dose. PaxilCR 37.5: WEIGHT GAIN, Water Retention, Missed Period(s), unique dreams, bloating. | I have been a changed person since I started taking Paxil one year ago. I use to stress and worry about the dumbest things. My mind use to wonder and I had difficulty concentrating, not to mention I would obsess over stupid things. I do not do this. I do not care what the side effects are or will be. This drug has made me a better person, the person that has been barried inside of me for 26 years. | F | 26 | 1 years | 1/4/2004 | 5 | anxiety and panic attacks | weight gain, sexual disfunction | I have been trying to get off this drug. The drug was wonderful while I was on it. I did not experience that bad of side effects until I stopped taking it. I have SEVERE dizziness, nausea, light headedness, disconnected feeling, fuzzyhead all the time. It is awful. The mood swings are massive. I feel like a monster. | F | 26 | 5 months | 12/30/2002 | 5 | Socia Phobia | I dont have any side effects until I miss a couple of days, then I feel very tired, my eyes feel like they are moving around in weird ways, I get real depressed,severe weight gain. A couple of times I even felt like I was not inside of my own body. It felt like I was out of my body. | This drug does help me out greatly with social phobia. I am now attending college and working when before I couldnt even be around my own family. I tried to quit paxil because I gained almost 70 pounds since I have been taking it. It has bad withdrawl symptoms. It makes me feel crazy. | F | 26 | 2 years | 1/1/2005 | 5 | Anxiety | No sex drive, inability to orgasm, emotionless, inability to concentrate | Somtimes i think this drug works too well. As in I don't care about much. I went back and forth from 12.5 to 25 mg. Withdrawls are REALLY hard. Ive tried to get off of the drug and just can't. No weight gain, maybe even decreased appetite. Great at combating anxiety, but it really just masks symptoms. | F | 26 | 6 years 12.5 1X day | 6/4/2010 |