PAXIL Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 2.9 (1018 Ratings)

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PAXIL  (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Paroxetine is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (serotonin) in the brain. Paroxetine is known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. It may also reduce the urge to perform repeated tasks (compulsions such as hand-washing, counting, and checking) that interfere with daily living.   FDA Approval Date: 1992-12-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 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
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 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
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 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
 2  Anxiety/Depression Dry mouth, dry eyes, ear and fungal infections, severe withdrawl, no sex drive, fogginess, skittery eyes, dizzyness, more panic attacks...horrific drug to get off I am heart-sick about being perscribed this drug. I've been on it for over 6 years (it is now 2006) and I am caught in a vicious circle of trying to quit and then withdrawing so badly that I go back on. I now try and take it only when I have withdrawl symptoms, which is stupid, I know, but my doctor says I may have to be on it for life....God I'm so sad. I can't work if I have the 'zaps' and the dizziness and the overwhelming tension and anxiety, heart palpitations. I have cultivated a new spiritual and mental attitude and feel ready to quit, but it is so catastrophic when I've tried before. I feel like a guinea pig and am scared I will feel dumb/foggy/frigid the rest of my life. I've also been dealing with intense feelings of rage now too, which i've never had before. Not crazy rage, but enough to make make my husband wonder where his wife went. Ugly terrible, addictive stuff. I was clinically depressed 2x and I really needed help, but I just don't feel ANYTHING anymore and I'm scared F 31 6 years
4/17/2006
 3  OCD/depression After 8 years I suddenly experienced foreskin contraction, all came right when I stopped the Paxil. When back on it, and it happened again, very quicky. Delay/no ejeculation (depending on dose), sweating, needed 12 hours sleep, little libido, communication skills waned. Interested to hear if anyone experience the fist problem I mentionied no weight gain for me, good anti depressant, ok for OCD (might have taken too little), hard to come off. M 45 8 years
4/15/2006
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 1  depression I would like to report what Paxil is like from the view of a person living with someone who is taking it. My husband said he really loved his Paxil, now he could say or do anything he wanted to to anyone and he didn't have to worry how they thought or felt, he simply didn't care. He would be extremely mean and abusive to the cat. He would put his motorcycle gloves on so he could hurt her and she couldn't scratch or bite him. One time he calmly reported that he had been so mean to her she had lost control of her bowel and bladder all over, just like it was an incident in a normal day, nothing to it. Driving, he loved nothing better than to steal someone's parking place or follow about 5 feet behind them and lay on the horn for about 5 miles. If he could make another driver get out of his car and scream and shake his fist at him, he would scream back till the other guy got in his car and drove away, then he would laugh and think it was so funny. And he was terribly mean to me F 55 2 years
4/8/2006
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 3  anixiety/depression alcohol cravings F 28
4/5/2006

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