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 |
| 3 | anxiety | jaw clentching,body tension,30 lb. weight gain, extreme sleppinees during the day, no motivation, some twitches... | I have been increasing my dosage very slowly...I will say it helped my anxiety, however I will not stay on a drug with this kind of weight gain even while staying active & proper diet, I'm tired of feeling my body all tensed up, yawning and so tired I feel like I have to lie down at that EXACT moment! I'll slowly take myself off and try something else with my doctors help. | F | 47 | 8 months | 6/18/2006 | 1 | night terrors. sweats | M | 50 | 1 years | 6/18/2006 | 3 | panic/ anxiety | weight gain, short term memory problems, at first no orgasam, but that seemed to fix it's self | worked Ok for a while, but I started to have panic attacks again. I was at 50mg and didn't want to increase- I thought my dose was already high. I did put on about 17 pounds in 9 months. I just finished taking my last pill 3 days ago. I did feel sick each time I lowered the dose, but only for a day or two.My Dr. told me to lower by 10 mg every 10 days. Taking Xanax helps to quit this medication too | F | 36 | 9 months | 6/17/2006 | 1 | anxiety, panic attacks | Weight gain, robotic addictive existence, increased compulsive behaviour incl. hoarding, hair pulling, gambling; lack of self care with hygeine, eating; sweet & carbo craving; some very agressive behaviour; loss of creative drive; diminished sexual drive & capacity, and more...... | Feedbacks show that this drug is extremely powerful in its negative affects beyond the target problems. For this reason, and because many Doctors are negligent in their management of the use and withdrawals, I would never recommend this drug (also known as Aropax. If I thought side effects were bad then I was about to be taken to a level of extreme distress when withdrawing. Have since learnt that going from 10mg alternate days as the final level was not low enough -but no warning was given. Withdrawals can take around 7-10 days AFTER your last dose and then extend for weeks months or years - so I have read. Currently for me it is 7 weeks free of the drug but 6 weeks of hell -weeks of nausea and sweating, extreme mental irritation, completely upset gastro system -burping and diarrhoea; one bout of strong anxiety, one bout of suicidal thoughts,constant exhaustion; kidney or lower back ache, pains down legs; shuffling gait. Current main symptom is exhaustion in daytime and alertness, som | F | 52 | 3 years | 6/13/2006 | 3 | depression | Weight gain, sleeping way too much | It did help my depression but it made me very tired. Also the weight gain was a deal breaker. | F | 22 | 6 months | 6/9/2006 | 5 | social anxiety disorder | the only side effects that i have really noticed are jaw clenching, weight gain (even with restricted diet and exercise), a loss of motivation to workout, and the worst one, i have an inability to achieve orgasm. | My inability to achieve orgasm bothers me much more than it does my fiance. She says that while she would like to see me achieve more sexual satisfaction she feels that the benefits it has given me are far more important. I own a company with over 1000 clients and before taking Paxil I had only met 3 of them in person. since i started taking Paxil i have met more than half of them and am still working my way thru. i was encouraged by the number of people who indicated they had had some relief of symptoms with decreased dosage and am going to discuss that with my doctor. | M | 57 | 3 years | 6/7/2006 | 5 | aniexity | occasional tiredness | M | 38 | 2 years | 6/7/2006 | 1 | Mild depression | I went from midly depressed to extreemly depressed and became suicidal.I started cutting almost every day and my personality completely changed to angery and irritable and to wanting to harm myself. I hardly slept, and truely did want to kill myself, an urge that wasn't there before. I stoped cold because I heard it was painful, I was lucky and didn't reall experiance whithdrawl despite being on one of the highest doses. All my suisidal tendancys stopped within a week. | I believe this can be helpful for some people, but I do not advocate drugs as a first resort, try therapy first. I did not need drugs, but I was put on Paxil after a 15-20 min vistit with a General Medicine Doc. I was 17/18 when I took this medication. | F | 18 | 10 months | 6/7/2006 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Took my first Paxil (20mg) 24hrs ago; Nausea ALL DAY! I can't wait until this gets out of my body! | F | 19 | 1 days | 6/6/2006 | 2 | school phobia/depression | increased appetite, weight gain. | i hated this pill!! the pill worked for my depression but i gained 20 punds using paxil. i was on it for 3 years and as soon as i got off of the pill i lost a lot of weight and now im back to my normal weight. | F | 17 | 3 years | 5/31/2006 | 1 | depression | strong suicide thoughts, anxious, feeling of electrical shocks in the head during long withdrawl period. Difficulty walking a straight line if I would have had to. | M | 59 | 120 days | 5/27/2006 | 5 | ocd,anxiety | weight gain,tiredness | It has helped me tremendously with the OCD, I guess I am less anxious too | M | 14 | 4 years | 5/25/2006 | 1 | social anxiety-panic attacks | It made my anxiety worse I could sleep. I was irrtable and edgy. I was sucidal I self injured while this medication. This is by far the worse thing I have ever taken. the more my doc upped it worse I got. | I ended up quitting it cold turkey because of the side effects and I was only on it for 2 months a the most and the withdrawals are horrid. this stuff seriously shouldn't be legal in my opinion. | F | 27 | 2 months | 5/18/2006 | 2 | depression | complete loss of sex drive | worked ok on the depression except not having any sex drive at all when you're normally a horndog is really depressing. Stuck it out for long enough to decide the side effect wasn't going away. Switched to Celexa, no major side effects with that. | M | 35 | 6 months | 5/8/2006 | 3 | Depression/anxiety | Very bad withdrawals !. | If I had known about the side effects & Withdrawal issies, I would have NEVER taken this medication | M | 48 | 3 times | 5/3/2006 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Horrible, rapid weight gain and bloat, drenching night sweats, mania | I quit this cold turkey b/c I didn't know any better/I had a sucky doctor and almost died. This medication can pull you out of a dark whole but it is so strong in altering mind and body that you won't recognize yourself. I read once that a heroin addict said that it is much easier to withdraw from heroin than PAXHELL! Please be careful. | M | 33 | 18 months | 5/3/2006 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder | I experienced very dry mouth with sore tongue. I also experienced tremors in different parts of my body. Sometimes a twitching arm or leg or even my whole torso would convulse while trying to fall asleep which did not help the insomnia. Foggy headed with occasional dizziness was pretty constant from about week 3 to week 7. I had itchy skin all over and some dryness but the dryness may not be caused by Paxi. Overall, the negatives highly outweighed the benefit. Actually, I can't see any benefit since after I stopped taking Paxil, my anxiety dimished. | I don't think this was the right drug for me. Also, after relating my symptoms to my doctor in week 6 on Paxil he DOUBLED my dose to 40mg/day. It was shortly after that when things got very bad. I abruptly quit and am still having slight side effects one month later however, they are definitely diminishing. I am very happy to not be on Paxil and am instead seeing a psychologist who does cognitive behavioral therapy. The only side-effect of that is my smaller bank account. :-) | M | 35 | 7 weeks | 5/3/2006 | 1 | depression/anxiety | Memory loss, dizziness, headaches, alcoholism, stomach problems, indifference, exhaustion, personality changes, anger, irritability, food cravings, weight gain, sexual disfunction, major depressive episodes, loss of concentration, sensitivity to light. | I started Paxil 8 years ago and have tried many many times to discontinue it because of the side effects. It is nearly impossible to get off of - withdrawal is absolutely devastating. Withdrawal effects include head zaps, nausea, dizziness, headaches, body aches, feeling like you have the flu, extreme anxiety and depression (worse than before I went on the drug), shakiness, chills, fever, suicidal thoughts (I was NEVER suicidal before Paxil), feel like I'm losing it, can't stand up straight, extremely violent vivid dreams, insomnia, hallucinations, buzzing in my ears. I am hopefully in my final attempt to quit, I am using liquid Paxil to wean one mg at a time. It's taken me almost a year to get from 20 mg to 5 mg because of the awful withdrawal effects. I would not give Paxil to my worst enemy. | F | 25 | 8 years | 5/3/2006 | 1 | Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) | weight gain, tinnitus and withdrawal affects. | I had severe withdrawal affects when I tried to get off of it, and I'm still on it because I can't get off of it. It's very addicting. | F | 22 | 8 years | 5/3/2006 | 3 | anxiety/depression | weight gain! sexual side effects, 2 cardiac incidents | M | 35 | 7 years | 4/29/2006 |