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 |
| 3 | Mild depression | headaches,nausea,hot flashes and chills, feeling faint, chest discomfort after 12 days | I only took this because of a relationship ending. The initial effect was excellent:no obsessing thoughts, no ambivalence,no crying spells. However on 10 mgs. I am starting to feel side effects and reading these comments I will gradually cut down and then stop!!! THIS SHOULD BE SHORT TERM ONLY!!!! | F | 63 | 12 days | 12/11/2006 | 5 | depression,anxiety,other | Not really sure if I am satisfied with it yet or not as I have only have been taking it for 5 days but am having annoying side affects-headaches, bone aches, dry mouth,blurred vision, some tiredness. My pharmacist said most side effects will go away within 2-4 weeks. I hope I can hang in there. I was taking it in the morning and just switched to taking it at night hoping for less side effects. | I do already feel alittle better and have a somewhat more stable mood. I am alittle worried about the potential weight gain as I am already 50 pounds overweight. I just want to feel better and be a happier person with stable emotions and feel more in control. | F | 45 | 5 days | 12/6/2006 | 5 | panic attacks | weight gain | paxil provided me the time i needed to figure out why i was having panic attacks. it did not make my life perfect by any means, but paxil helped me to cope. paxil also helped me to recognize when i start to slide into a depression before it becomes a full blown episoe. paxil gives my thought processes time to recognize when i am feeling stressed and on the road to a panic attack before i have one. It still helps, 7 years later. | F | 34 | 7 years | 12/6/2006 | 2 | bipolar 2, social anxiety | extremely tired, impulsive cutting, suicidal thoughts | Hated this medication. Origonally got on it for social anxiety disorder (more for my intense fear of facial blushing) and it made me soooo tired all the time which is a problem for me because I'm very lethargic to begin with. Had very bad suicidal thoughts at night and my cutting increased to every day when it has never been like that. It did help with social anxiety, but def. wasen't worth it. Am now on Wellbutrin that doesn't make me tired, but doesnt help with the social anxiety disorder either | F | 20 | 2 months | 12/3/2006 | 5 | GAD, OCD, IRRITABILIITY | some fatigue at first - goes away - also lowered dosage - that helped - some water weight WEIGHT GAIN - INCRESED HUNGER ON 10 MG/ DAY SO LOWERED TO 5 MG -WORKS WELL! I ONLY TAKE 5 MG/ DAY! MORE IS LESS RE: PAXIL! | GREAT MED!!! I AM MUCH LESS SENSITIVE AND MORE SOCIABLE. I AM STILL ABLE TO FEEL APPROPRIATE EMOTION. I ALSO SLEEP BETTER. I AM A NICER PERSON TO BE AROUND...AND HUMBLE TOO (ha ha)! EVEN "JERKS" DON'T GET TO ME THE WAY THEY USED TO ;) | F | 43 | 9 months | 12/1/2006 | 5 | Anxiety | Weight gain; Had to adapt to the sedation it brought on--I was always tired at first but it went away. | It was the right drug for me. It decreased my anxiety and my obsessive thoughts. | F | 30 | 5 years | 11/30/2006 | 1 | chronic migraines | weight gain and impossible to stop taking the pills | My biggest problem is that I would like to stop taking Paxil and I CAN'T. Lowering the dose even just a little bit causes drastic headaches. Will I have to take this for the rest of my life? | F | 52 | 5 years | 11/29/2006 | 4 | depression/anxiety | trouble/long time for ejaculation, made me very drowsy had to take in the evening, took for 8 months and side effects never went away | Worked wonders for my generalized anxiety, nothing bothered me and may have been too liberal with my spending habits. Felt great. Had suicidal thoughts and acted upon them. | M | 27 | 8 months | 11/22/2006 | 1 | Anxiety, depression, ED. | I felt angry and very 'on'. Tweaked. When I withdrew from Paxil, I had to be hospitalized overnight, as I had unbelieveable bouts of rage, which was not like me. It may work for some, for me it did not. | F | 27 | 2 months | 11/22/2006 | 2 | Anxiety/Depression | Weight loss in beginning, then steady weight gain. | I thought this drug was God's gift when I started it. But, I have been on several years and have a constant gnawing hunger like something is actually eating my stomach. I am starting to taper off VERY SLOWLY because if you do it too quickly, it is very bad getting off. I remember the doc said it takes three to four weeks to reach peak performance, so I am dropping the dosage only once every two months. It will take a while, but I hope it does the trick. I did notice, though, that for every 5 mg. you drop, it automatically cuts about 300 calories off the daily diet. | F | 56 | 5 years | 11/21/2006 | 5 | Panic, Anxiety, Violent thoughts | Acute Bedwetting(It comes and goes), and I had never wet the bed in my entire life before taking this med. Also, some bizarre nightmares, mostly involving extreme acts of violence, and gore, but that is usually if I miss a dose. | The benefits to me and everybody around me are so signifigant, that I can deal with the occasional bedwetting that it causes. I am told that i am a much more pleasant person to be around, less likely to fly off the handle, and i don't have such a short fuse. My moods are more consistent and predictable. Social Anxiety is gone, and i'm much more likely to seek out people for conversation. The thoughts of causing other people bodily harm have practically gone away entirely because of theis Med. Whew! What a relief! | M | 34 | 12 months | 11/13/2006 | 2 | depression | Heavy nausea Difficulty in reaching sexual climal | More than the above??? | M | 65 | | 11/13/2006 | 1 | depression | Initial weight loss negated by subsequent gain, emotional numbing, dumbing down, yawning. | This drug made me fat and happy like the fat little Zoloft bubble. After a few years it just quits working. Withdrawal from it is HELL as it snakes its tentacles into every part of you, physical and mental. Would not give this to my worst enemy. | F | 38 | 6 years | 11/13/2006 | 1 | PMS | on the lowest dose i'm unable to drive or take care of my kids because i'm falling asleep. | F | 41 | 8 days | 11/13/2006 | 1 | anxiety | extremely dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, insomnia | I tried it less than 24 hours ago and it is one of the worst experiences in my life. Could not sleep at all, and feel extremely weak. I just have to drink 20 litres of water to get it out asap. | F | 36 | | 11/13/2006 | 1 | depression/anxiety | Weight loss (good). Emotional numbing. Drowsiness leading to 4-6 hour naps during daytime. | Paxil was the first AD I ever tried, way back in 1998. I wasn't sure what to expect, so I felt fairly neutral about it the first few months. Eventually, my doctor said it wasn't working and to get off of it, but he didn't explain how to taper! This led to me quitting cold turkey (very unpleasant experience). I wouldn't recommend this drug as a first-line of treatment for most people. | F | 32 | 7 months | 11/5/2006 | 1 | anxiety/panic attacks | racing thoughts, weight gain, depression/suicidal thoughts, headache and after about 2 months brain zaps. The worst were the night TERRORS and skin boils. | I read all the warnings about stopping this drug when my doc said "there may be side affects if you stop using it" Always a big sign that the doctors know the problems. I attempted suicide 3 times and they found my liver enzymes to be over 6000 (less than 300 is normal}.Each attempt the hospital put me back on paxil. I finally went to stay with a friend to go cold turkey. It was the worst 4 MONTHS of withdrawal (?) I ever experienced. I wanted to die. Slowly the boils began to heal (3 were removed surgically) and I began to be able to carry on conversations and stay awake longer and longer. Doctors get MONEY and GIFTS when they prescribe drugs like these. They have NO incentive ti tell you the side affects, even if they could kill you. Its been 2 years since I stopped taking paxil and the side affects are still lurking. My liver will never be the same and I still fear going to sleep. Beware of this drug, you have a right to know what it can do to you. | F | 45 | 2 days | 11/4/2006 | 2 | Anxiety | Lethargy and weight gain. The loss of anxiety can lead to an attitude of not caring about doing much of anything. Paxil was very helpful for the first several months, but now I want to get off it. I'm very tired most of the time, even though I sleep more than I did before. I could sleep all night and day now, which is wonderful at first after a lifetime of anxiety, but now I want my energy back and do things again. | I've been on it for about 2 years. I would have recommended it a year ago, but not any more. I've gained a ton of weight. I lost my job... it helped in the beginning with social anxiety at work, calmed me down so I could be more productive, but then made things worse by becoming lazy and not caring about stuff. In the beginning it helped with social anxiety, but now I am LESS sociable than I was before. Some anxiety is good, but I don't have any! I want some again...it motivates me. I'm going to quit this after I speak with my doc. in a week or so. | M | 48 | 2 years | 10/21/2006 | 1 | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | terrible nightmares, sleepiness, drowsiness, not being able to speak when i was tired, being so tired that i HAD to go to sleep the very second I got tired, seizure- which caused a car accident, EEG's, and an MRI, only to find out that it was the paxil that caused my seizure and car accident, feeling as though i'm being electricuted, no sex drive... the list goes on and on and on and on... | paxil is THE WORST DRUG ever made. you might as well be on heroine! DO NOT take paxil! it has made my life a living hell for the passed year and a half now. | F | 18 | 1 days | 10/20/2006 | 5 | Depression and anxiety | On Paxil: constipation, short term memory issues, occasional neck muscle tic. Getting off Paxil: severe headaches, vertigo, nausea, dizziness, paresthesias in lips and hands, loss of balance. | I went on Paxil over 7 years ago for suicidal thoughts and depression. I swear it saved me. In combination with clonazepam for anxiety, it was a life-saver. The ONLY reason I wanted to get off of it, was if I were to want to get pregnant. My only successful attempt to get off (after 7 years) was with the help of Prozac. I still had the withdrawal symptoms, but they weren't as bad with the addition of Prozac. Now I find that Prozac gives me its rare side effects and I have to get off that now. If only Paxil didn't have such horrible withdrawal effects!!! It works/worked for me and I may even go back on it. Rather than try the "drug dance" of seeing what works and what doesn't, I am lucky to have found that Paxil worked for me. Some of us might just need more serotonin in our brains to function. Diabetics need insulin, those with high blood pressure need blood pressure meds, etc. It isn't a crime to need a medication to function and be happy in life. | F | 37 | 7.5 years | 10/6/2006 |