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 | major panic, anxiety and depression | This drug saved my life. I've had every side-affect there is, but the long lasting ones are weight gain (30pds) and loss of sex drive...takes 10 times longer to orgasam | After tapering from 60mg for 6 months, I have been Paxil free for 3 months. These 3 months have been up and down hell...the intense anxiety and emotional low feelings are ones I never had pre-paxil...they come in waves...then go away...serveral times I have felt like going back on Paxil or something else...I hope I don't endure many more months of this withdrawal hell... | M | 45 | 6 years | 9/17/2007 | 3 | anxiety/depression | drymouth, insomnia | I just started this drug - everyone says they gain weight. Is this because everyone is just feeling better and eating better or are people eating the same amount and experience a slow down of their metabolism? | F | 33 | 4 days | 9/12/2007 | 4 | anxiety and panic attacks | clenching jaw, weight gain of about 20 lbs., excessive yawning, slight insomnia at first and decreased sexual orgasms. | worked great for my panic attacks on 20mgs. | F | 51 | 8 months | 9/11/2007 | 5 | Anxiety, Depression, Panic Disorder | At first: nausea, jaw clenching and teeth grinding, unable to sleep more than 3-4 hours. These side effects all went away after a few weeks. Some mild side effects still remain: Slightly delayed orgasm, jaw tightness, and some daytime tiredness. | I have been taking Paxil along with Omega 3 supplements, and together they have helped quite a bit with my issues. Before the medication, anxiety and panic gave me great difficulty driving, making it through a day of work, or spending time doing anything outside my apartment. Sometimes I thought I was going crazy or having a full-blown nervous breakdown. This worsened my depression, and I felt horrible and was losing the will to live. Little by little, most of these problems faded away with time and the medication. I no longer have thoughts of insanity or suicide. As each day passes, that stuff is beginning to seem like a distant memory. So far, Paxil has made life so much more manageable. I hope this continues. I feel more well-adjusted than I ever have before. | M | 25 | 2 months | 9/8/2007 | 4 | depression | | 9/5/2007 | 1 | post pardum | AWFUL - anxiety, depression worse, twitching, hands and arms were numb and tingly, severe insomnia, ended up in er, withdrawal symptoms going off (slowly) | I begged my doc to take me off of this and they didn't believe me that it was causing any of this. DO NOT LET YOUR PRIMARY treat depression. Paxil should be taken off the market | F | 31 | 4 months | 8/29/2007 | 2 | PTSD and Depression | rapid weight gain, dizziness, memory loss, rapid heartbeat, loss of concentration, vertigo, nausea, decreased libido, ringing in ears, drymouth, difficulty sleeping, bad nightmares, spontaneous crying episodes | I have these symptoms on a constant basis. It lessens the severity of my anxiety attacks, but I still have them. I hate this drug but I'm afraid to go off it. I find that my mind wanders even during sex (incredibly unusual), my job is in jeopardy. I've been through 4 jobs in the last 5 years and each time they end up with me being laid off because of my memory and focus problems. This is new to me. I've never had these problems before. | F | 34 | 5 years | 8/17/2007 | 5 | anxiety and depression | Ongoing headache that wouldn't respond to medication. This lasted about two weeks, then went away. No other side effects. | I was greatly helped by 20mg of Paxil. My anxiety went away as soon as I went from 10mg to 20mg. I did gain about 15 lbs., but it was okay since I could deal with life. I had no trouble going off of Paxil. I tapered down from 20 to 10 to 5mgs. | F | 57 | 3 years | 8/4/2007 | 1 | Anxiety | Turned into a zombie. Extremely sleepy during the day, can't fall asleep at night. Tried getting off it and experienced immense anger at everything. Short blackouts and "electric shocks" with accompanying flashes of light. Hot flushes (I'm male). Shaking, increased perspiration. | Works wonders for anxiety. Hell to get off this thing. | M | 47 | 18 months | 8/2/2007 | 2 | Major Depression and Anxiety | Memory Loss (after a year). The occasional severe migraine. Sleepiness. Chronically upset digestion. | When I first started using this, it worked a treat. Wasn't so sensitive to negative outcomes (eg playing Monopoly and losing). Could take delight in things. Became self-expressed. After some time, it lost its efficacy. Dosage increased to compensate but this caused really bad short term memory problems, which made me a worse student/worker which made me depressed again. Have been off meds for 5 years now but still have memory problems under stress. | M | 34 | 3 years | 7/27/2007 | 1 | depression/axiety | some tiredness when I first started taking it but it went away. Severe weight gain. about 50 pounds in 6 months | Other than the weight gain things were fine when I was on it. Comming off of it about killed me though.Even slowly comming off it the withdrawl symptoms are HORRIBLE!!!! I just wanted to die. | F | 25 | 2 years | 7/26/2007 | 2 | Manic Depressive, Soc. Anxiety Dis. | Drowsy, Decreased sexual urge, sleep too much, memory loss, detached feeling, dizziness, mood swings, weight gain. | I cannot get off of it! Yes, it did help with some of my panic attacks in the past. At first it was Fantastic to help with my emotions. But the thing is , it made me like a zombie. This is not an answer for my problems. I suggest to anyone who has any psychological problems that they should not waist their money on shrinks or doctors. I have found that Friends were the best cure! | F | 24 | 5 years | 7/5/2007 | 5 | major depression and anxiety | In the first two weeks, there were headaches, etc., but after the initial side effects went away, there was just the lowering of libido and a numbness down there sometimes, which I've learned to live with and work around. | I've been on Paxil a LONG time. I've tried to go off of it and have lowered my dose many times in the past 13 years. Going off of it is not an option for me, but I still do lower my dose in half, to 10 mg. sometimes, if I'm feeling great and I want to feel completely sexual again. I always end up back at 20 mg. eventually. To be honest, my libido was way too high anyway before I got on Paxil. I had sexual thoughts constantly. My depression and anxiety are gone and I plan to be on Paxil for the rest of my life. | F | 46 | 13 years | 7/2/2007 | 2 | Anxiety | Loss of appetite, loss of sexual desire, inability to achieve orgasm, loss of empathy, sleep disruption, night sweats, felt like an emotional zombie. | Side effects were worse than the anxiety...stopped taking after 3 weeks...that's been 6 days ago and so far no withdrawal side effects. Original side effects have stopped, but the anxiety has returned...Dr. wants me to try Zoloft, but I'm hesitant after the Paxil experience. | M | 46 | 21 days | 6/28/2007 | 5 | terrible insomnia and anxiety | I couldn't have an orgasm for the first month or so, but I kept "working" on the problem and today it happened! I was very grateful. I love Paxil, I sleep like a baby every night and my life has improved 10 fold. I highly recommened it! | F | 49 | 40 days | 6/25/2007 | 3 | bipolar II disorder | Only noticeable side effects came from discontinuation. | This seemed to work like a charm, although its efficacy certainly decreased over time, even when I had my dose upped from 20 to 40 to 60mg. It didn't seem to give me any side effects (unlike other pills I had been on) and it didn't interact (noticeably) with any of the other drugs I was and am on (a variety of antimanics, antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs and so on). The real problem came if I missed a dose or two - persistence of vision, sweats, nausea, those awful electric shocks, vertigo, photosensitivity and sensitivity to noise, diarrhoea, increased suicidal ideation etc. All horrifically unpleasant, to the extent that even when the drug wasn't working terribly well, I felt that I had to continue taking it so as to avoid the discontinuation effects. I have recently come off it so as to try a different type of antidepressant - it has taken me around three months to get it out of my system and I am still suffering from some of the discontinuation effects, mainly the persistence of v | F | 25 | 6 years | 6/24/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | First week woke up with night sweats. After three weeks, unable to orgasm at ALL. By fourth week, felt like it stopped working. | M | 27 | 1 months | 6/21/2007 | 4 | depression and anxiety | major diarreah.. weight lose and lose of appetite. some headaches but for the most part it helped my issues. | F | 33 | 3 months | 6/20/2007 | 5 | Social/generalized anxiety | sleepiness, decreased orgasm | Paxil works great for me. I'm a 37 year old married woman. I'm on 30mg and I've been on it for about 5 months. I was also on it for a short time (1.5 months) a few years ago and it worked wonders as well. My whole life I've been suffering from generalized and social anxiety. My mother suffers from anxiety as well so I know it's hereditary. I was constantly dizzy from anxiety and I finally realized what it was. I didn't like going shopping, driving or anything that could cause even the slightest bit of anxiety. I was also very depressed. Paxil has given me my life back, or actually, to be more accurate, given me a life I've never had before. I feel so comfortable and confident and now know what it finally feels like to be a normal person. For those who say to go for therapy to get over anxiety,etc. I suppose there's truth to it. However, psychologists make lots of money for you to keep coming back for therapy and how many years is that going to take??? To me, Paxil is my therap | F | 37 | 5 months | 6/16/2007 | 5 | OCD and Panics and depression | night sweats | I currently take Paxil & Trazondone which works brilliantly. Before medication and therapy I was a prisoner of OCD, panics and depression. I now lead a wonderful life, with a successful marriage and business. 4 times per year I have maintenance sessions of therapy and med checks. I have had a couple of depressive episodes in the last 15 years but I attribute them to circumstance not medication. During one, my doctor suggested I try different meds. I went off Paxil for 1 month, & tried Cylexa and Effexor, neither worked. (Whether my reaction was from new meds or Paxil withdrawal I sincerely don't know, and yes it was horrible) We returned to Paxil with a 2.25 mg (1/4 of a 10mg) increase & it worked perfectly! I know I am blessed that we have found a medication and therapy situation that works so well. I am not thrilled that I take medication daily and I wish I didn't, but I do look at my situation like that of anyone with a physical problem ie. high blood pressure or dia | F | 38 | 15 years | 6/12/2007 |