PAXIL Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1022 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PAXIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Anxiety | I had a little weight gain, but nothing that wasn't manageable. The sexual side effects were offset by Levitra, and I actually became a better lover, because I had no premature ejaculation. | I've been on this drug for 11 years, and it really did save my life. I don't mind taking it for the rest of my life, for I am a stable, happy person. I know a lot of people have had problems with it, but Paxil hits my sweet spot. I was on other SSRIs before Paxil, but nothing "did it" quite as well for me. | M | 62 | 11 years | 3/15/2009 | 2 | depression | HORRIBLE WEIGHT GAIN!! i seriously gained 30 pounds in a month. diet and exercise did nothing. I kept gaining until I stopped taking it. | only alleviated my depression a little | F | 21 | 3 months | 3/12/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | My husband has been on this drug for 6months now and says it has helped with his frustration and anxiety. I only just discovered today the probem with this medication. It has made him (in the last 6months) COMPLETELY apathetic. He started taking this medication right before we found out we're having a baby. My entire pregnancy has been a disaster. I have zero support from him, he is emotionally unavailable. It's not his fault, its the meds. He takes 20mg/night and it does help him to sleep, but I could be screaming in the middle of the night and he is stil passed out. Overall he has no feeling emotionally, he says he doesnt have any kind of feelings towards me that he used to have and he is confused because he doesn't know why. This medication almost cost him his marriage and family. I literally moved into the other room (i didn't know why he was acting that way, neither did he) and I packed all of my things and threatened to leave and STILL no emotion. He was like a zombie. We agre | His other symptoms were no sex drive, no orgasm, night sweats, weight gain (like 30 pounds in 4months which he has worked off thanks to a gym membership), emotional avoidance, the zombie affect, zero feelings about anything, no motivation! | M | 28 | 6 months | 3/10/2009 | 4 | anxiety | craving for alcohol | I rarely drank alcohol on seroxat I was drinking three bottles of brandy a week with no hangover, now I have practically withdrawn from seroxat cant stand alcohol | F | 56 | 10 years | 3/8/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | Increased appetite, poor judgement. | I tapered off of a low dosage for over 10 months (very gradual). The withdrawal symptoms were a "zap" feeling on my lips. This withdrawal symptom lasted until about 4 months after I'd taken my last paxil. (Amazing!) My thinking was sharper after being off but my anxiety returned so I turned to Zoloft. It's amazing for me. No side effects but reduced appetite. I'm lucid and normal on zoloft. I still have justfied anxiety in extreme situations (a family hospitalized, financial, loss of job risk). I feel very lucky to have this med. Srsly!@ | F | 47 | 8 months | 3/8/2009 | 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 | 1 | depression | terrible tremors, vision shaking, blinding rages, irrational behavior, extreme spaciness, SCARY SCARY STUFF | I actually got into a car accident while on this stuff! I was staring right at the car in front of me and it didn't even dawn on me that I hit it till like 30 seconds later! Please Please be careful when you take this medication. I understand it works different for everyone but no one ever told me that these symptoms were a possibility! thank god no one was hurt, when with drawing from the meds i went into such blinding rages my vision would literally shake so bad i couldn't see straight. (just like in a bad horror movie!) i thank god i made it through that experience a live! yes it was that bad, i blacked out a few times, i don't remember what i said or the people i may have hurt... just be careful (p.s. i was only 19 when taking it) | F | 27 | 4 months | 3/6/2009 | 1 | depression | I was completely lethargic, wouldn't get out of bed and emotionless | Paxil works for some people unfortunatly it didn't work for me. | F | 24 | 1 weeks | 3/5/2009 | 4 | depression | almost unable to reach orgasm, night sweating, weight gain, makes me a little bit sleepy, must use EVERY dose or I had horrible withdrawal effects | Paxil helped me a lot with social phobia and depression. But you gain nothing for free. I take 20 mg and it's almost impossible to reach orgasm. I had to take 30 mg for some time and it was MCI (Mission Completely Impossible). I feel sleepy too, I gained 10 kg. Also you cannot take this med while you are pregnant. I don't know what I will do then because it's the only helping AD for me. | F | 28 | 7 years | 3/3/2009 | 2 | anxiety, SAD | (After combining with Biaxin), extremely cold, very tired, suicidal thoughts, inability to emotionally connect to my loved ones, feeling like i was barely hanging in there, feeling like i was going crazy, very scarey | I was prescribed this to help me through the winter months with the intent to wean off as the Spring approached. Seemed okay for 6 weeks, though i only took 1/2 the dose (10mg) i was prescribed. I noticed that my body responded with a 'dull like' response rather than a typical anxiety reaction. This all changed when i was prescribed Biaxin for bronchitis. After two days on this antibiotic, my thoughts became suicidal. I researched it and discovered the two should not be combined. The pharmacist agreed and my MD put me on Flagyl. After further reading about Paxil I gradually weaned myself off it; very slowly, very carefully and i am okay. I am learning that my pattern of anxiety may be linked to the antibiotics that i have had to take over the past year. | F | 46 | 45 days | 3/1/2009 | 1 | anxiety/depression | Made me so agitated that I almost committed suicide, even on one of the lowest doses possible, 5mg. Worst headache that you could imagine. Loss of sensation in taste-buds, extreme appetite (and weight gain), loss of feeling in penis/genitals. Insomnia and akathisia. | If you have to take this stuff, make sure you are prescribed a benzodiazepine to deal with the very high risk of agitation and the anxiety this drug induces. Better yet, don't even think of taking this stuff without a proper evaluation and diagnosis from a competent psychiatrist (not just your front-line GP/Family doctor). This is dangerous medicine. Also, start at a very low dose, 5mg, and work your way up. The side effects of a full dose could easily cause psychosis, suicidality, and a plethora of other nasty side effects. | M | 29 | 5 days | 2/26/2009 | 2 | Bipolar II | hand numbness/tingling/fullness; headaches | I didn't read this in anyone else's comments--my hands felt numb, tingly, and filled with fluid (like when you come inside with cold hands or feet and put them in a tub of warm water). I'm a writer and couldn't hardly type. Went off this medication after 2 days. | F | 48 | 2 days | 2/24/2009 | 1 | depression | Severe neurocognitive side-effects upon withdrawal. Even with tapering with prozac not only did depressive symptoms return, but severe dizziness, "zapping" feeling, inability to drive, inability to concentrate. I lost one month of work and quality of life to paxil and would caution anyone from taking this drug. I've had prozac in the past and did not suffer such withdrawal. | F | 52 | 2 years | 2/24/2009 | 1 | ibs-c | insomnia, tension, impotence, weirdness | Total nitemare, worst drug of any stripe I've ever tried. It did help some with motility and pain,but the trade-off is horrible. I'm glad I came off it so soon. Giving this out for IBS is just obtuse. | M | 57 | 6 days | 2/18/2009 | 2 | I’m just glad I noticed these side effects sooner than later because it will be easier to wean off of it since I haven’t been on it that long. These brain zaps are the strangest feeling though and can’t wait until those are gone. It feels like my brain is expanding inside my head. | | 2/17/2009 | 1 | Depression, interstitial cystitis | WEIGHT GAIN!! 65 LBS IN ONE YEAR!! Lost sex drive, could not climax, sleep 14 hours a day, loss of emotion, difficulty in urinating, constipation, fatigue, pupil dialated at strange times of the day. | I just hate this drug. It did what I wanted, helped to not feel anything that was going on in the world, sleep all my life away. Did help with IC pain. Withdrawal made me want to kill myself. I called a help line twice. | F | 34 | 18 months | 2/17/2009 | 5 | anxiety disorder, panic attacks | Very mild reduction in sex drive; my sense of balance isn't quite what it was; occasional dry mouth (but nothing like what it was like when I was a wretched ball of nerves all the time!); a bit 'snoozy' when I have nothing to do, which is no bad thing. | This drug came into my life when I was 40 and at my wits end after thirty years of emotional nonsense. It is no exaggeration to say that it has enabled me to transform my life. Although I take only a 'baby' dose (10mg), over time I have become much happier, confident and calmer person. I can think more clearly than at anytime since I was a kid and my overall health has improved drastically (probably because all that negative anxiety isn't shaking me apart anymore). I have gained quite a bit of weight but I needed to after all those years of chronic anxiety, unfocused fear and lack of appetite. Once I began taking the drug I began to enjoy my food much more than ever before. I also had enough extra energy and interest in life to begin exercising with enthusiasm. Over the past seven years I have gained 70 lbs., virtually all of it muscle (my waist size has increased by barely an inch but my chest has increased from about 38 inches to 48 and my biceps from perhaps 12 inches to | M | 48 | 8 years | 2/16/2009 | 5 | Depression and anxiety | constipation, decreased libido, headaches (at greater than 20mg/day), increased appetite(at greater than 20mg/day), sleepiness | Paxil has changed my life! Even with the side effects, it has been a great drug for me. I think Paxil gets a bad rap. I have had longstanding problems with depression and anxiety and have tried several different SSRI's (Zoloft, Prozac, Celexa, Wellbutrin). Paxil has worked the best for me. I think Prozac is the evil SSRI, not Paxil. I have noticed some breakthough symptoms of anxiety and depression on 20mg/day now that I am perimenopausal and I can not tolerate increasing my dose to 30mg/day. I did experience major withdrawl symptoms of nausea and dizziness when I forgot to take it for 2 days. I do notice that I feel more fatigued and sleep more than the average person while taking Paxil, but it works out well for me since I work mainly nights so I have no problem sleeping during the day. I have not had a problem with weight gain but I do notice that I have a major increase in appetite if I increase to 30mg/day. | F | 45 | 9 years | 2/9/2009 | 3 | Weight gain, increased sleeping, loss sexual desire and more difficulty having an orgasm, | Before taking it i was 24/7 crying and i was unable to work and function so it took away those feelings of loss and negativity... | F | 35 | 9 days | 2/5/2009 | 5 | anxiety | The only side effects I ever had were sexual, and they are dose-dependent: loss of libido, impotence, inability to ejaculate. | Works like magic. I was on it for 3 years and felt really great. I am now exploring a few other SSRIs hoping to find one with less sexual side effects. Keep in mind that this is a problem with all SSRIs and that's the trade-off you have to accept. | M | 29 | 3 years | 2/1/2009 |