PAXIL CR Reviews (PAROXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (595 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PAXIL CR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PAXIL CR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | anger/anxiety | My wife loves it because I can have sex for half an hour without ejaculating! She gets pleasured time and time again! However, I sometimes simply give up and can't! Not too cool...but my symptoms are GONE! | Great drug...but fix the ejaculatory delay!!! | M | 1.5 months | 9/10/2004 | 2 | Panic Attacks, S.A.D. | tremors, night sweats, weight gain, decreased libido, slightly helped with panic attacks and day to day stress, but there has got to be a better way! | I just read through everybody input and it seems as though we are all in the same boat, how do we get off this stuff without the terrifying side effects. Thank God for this website, i thought I was going to end up in the looney bin, I literally thought I was becoming a phycodic. The lighting shocks through your extremidies and the flashbacks of rediculous dreams. I will try taking the wellbutrin to get off this, hope it works. | M | 27 | 10 months | 9/7/2004 | 1 | Paxil 40mg | I have been on paxil 40mg for 10 years. My dr. prescribed this drug when I came to his office in tears and could not even tell him why I was crying. There were several outside issues going on in my life including panic attacks (severe) depression, angry all of the time, defensive. This drug changed my life and I considered it a wonder drug for years! I still do for the (brain aspect) However, I gained weight over the period of these years to the tune of 100lbs and have tried to go cold turkey on my own. I am dizzy, can't concentrate, cry and feel completely unhappy. I have had nightmares and the dreams are vivid. The constant dizzy in my head is driving me nuts! I bark at my children and cry - feel hopeless and like I want to die. I am finding out that I am a hostage of the drug Paxil. How do I get off of this nightmare? There has to be a normal balance. HELP! | F | 47 | 10 years | 9/5/2004 | 3 | aniexty depression | i first got on paxil 25mg for bout 2 months now im on 37.5 mgs daily. I have night sweats, nausea, weird dreams. I lost 5 pounds. I hope I see the weight gain sometime soon, I was wishing that would be one of my side effects. If i loose more weight I will soon get of this medication. | F | 33 | 3 months | 9/1/2004 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression | Swelling of lungs, nose membranes, lips, eyes, tongue, throat. Irritation, dizzy, blurred vision, nausea, trouble breathing, sweating, sleepiness,slowed down feeling, spacey feeling, dialated pupils, headache, rapid heart beat, palpitaions, nervousness, urge to bite, pull hair, swear | WOULD NOT TELL ANYONE TO TRY THIS | F | 24 | 1 days | 8/30/2004 | 4 | anxiety/depression | yawning/fatigue/weight gain | took Paxil CR for about a year; I forgot to call in refill, in just 2 days I became SICKER THAN A DOG! So sick I couldn't even go pick up my refill - thought I was dying. I was so sick - nausea, dizziness, wicked dreams, sweating, body aches. Bad. Really bad. Went to doctor because I was | F | 35 | 1 years | 8/26/2004 | 5 | depression anxiety | paxcil cr helped greatly in my mood and thinking altough it has caused me to gain 30 pounds and that has its own depression factor i tried to wein my self off and found it to be alot like an addict coming down so im told.im stuck between a rock and a hard place. | After wakng up im ready for a two hour nap,shortly after. I wuld not suggest this drug,im currently reseachering a new drug im a mother of three 7,2,and 1. I can't always be tired. There's got to be a happy medium in felling good on the inside and out. | F | 27 | 2 years | 8/24/2004 | 4 | anxiety | WEIGHT GAIN. Heart palpatations. | F | 22 | 1.5 years | 8/24/2004 | 3 | ANXIETY/DEPRESSION | The beginnning side effects were regular like other SSRI drugs and lasted a week or two. However, I am trying to get off of this drug and I am so overwhelmed by what to do. I have cut my 25 dose to 12.5 with my doctors help and have been at this for 5 days. I feel dizzy, sick to stomach, poor vision, high like on drugs, electric feelings in my body. Every time i blink, my fingers and toes tingle. I hope I don't have some lifelong problem. I gained 40 lbs on this. | I have been on Prozac (felt irrational), Effexor (gained 70 lbs), Zoloft (still anxious) and now this. Paxil has the worst side effects for coming off. If anyone has successfully got off Paxil CR please email me and tell me how. I am so desperate and do not know if I can make it through these withdrawl symptoms but I will not go back on something that is making my brain feel like jello and I sleep like 14 hours a day and work. Still no social life. Please HELP me! | F | 27 | 1 years | 8/23/2004 | 3 | | 8/20/2004 | 1 | major deppression/ anxiety | tierdness, feeling of not really being here, moody, vomitting, | i just want to let everyone know that is taking paxil how horrible it is to come off this drug, i am 20 years old and am trying to come off it and am so sick. i am tierd all the time, feel like i am not really here in my body, like i am all drugged up. extremly moody, vomitting, and my head is spinning and i feel like i can control my mind/thoughts. its so bad i have trouble taking care of my one year old daughter. so a word of advice, make sure you have someone to help you out when going off this drug | F | 20 | 9 months | 8/19/2004 | 1 | stress, sleeplessness, pms, ibs | firt day-tired, second day-felt better than i had in twenty years, third day-ambulance-went into a severe panic attack/seizing type, fourth and fith days more panic attacks, sixth day went off paxil cr-went on effexor xr | F | 31 | 6 days | 8/19/2004 | 1 | anxiety | I didnt experience any side effects while on the paxil, nor did it help me. I had to bruptly stop taking the paxil and I have experienced severe dizziness, vomiting, nausea, hot flashes and am not able to sleep through the night. | I do not recommend this drug to anyone!!!! The side effects definately outweigh the benefits!! | F | 26 | 6 months | 8/17/2004 | 3 | | 8/12/2004 | 1 | depression | Weight gain, loss of libido, fatique, loss of emotions. | I tried to go off of this for over 30 days and the withdraw was pure hell! Your brain feels like it is being sqeezed by a vice. I would advise anyone to not take this drug! You can't laugh and you can't cry, like a teflon coating over your brain. Lexapro is much, much better | M | 55 | 5 years | 8/12/2004 | 5 | Depression/anxiety | The only side effect I have is sleepiness. I yawn alot. I am starting to feel like myself again. I did have some abdominal cramping but I don't know if that is the paxil CR, or the Mexican food I had that day. | I am still a little slow in the mornings but I am starting to see a slight difference in how I think and worry about things. The real side effect that I haven't experienced yet, but that really bothers me ,is the sexual side effects. I am getting married in March/2005 and want a healthy sex life. Loss of libido is not what I need right now. If anyone has found out what to do in this situation it would be greatly appreciated by me and my Fiance. As for all of the other side effects, I haven't experienced any that are intolerable. I thnk anyone taking an SSRI should undestand that there are going to be side effects and withdrawal symptoms, and just make sure you read about what is available and make your decision based on what you are trying to accomplish. I wish everyone the best of luck! :) | F | 28 | 2 weeks | 8/11/2004 | 4 | Depression & Anxiety | Diarreah the first week, major weight gain (15lbs), tired, lack of energy. My doctor changed my prescription to Wellbutrin and am having horrible withdrawals to the Paxcil...dizziness and naseau. | The Paxcil Cr worked great for the first year and then it kind of stopped working. My doctor said that Paxcil has a tendency to stop working for some people and I am one of the lucky ones. I am trying another antidepressant right now, but it's too early to say how well it is working. | F | 30 | 1 years | 8/9/2004 | 2 | Stress from work | Most of side effects have been since I quit taking the drug. I have been off a week now (25 mg). Here what I am experiencing: Insomnia with very wierd and strange dreams (many of these something or someone is after me);crawling skin, this is worse of all, it is accompanied by a hypervenalation type feeling, in this state I am completely misberbly. Hallucinations at night when waking (not knowing where I am); the pulse sensation, where you turn you head and you feel like a wave or waves of dizziness pass though you head; ear pulses too, same thing but I have short sporadic noises like a TV with no channel. Overall, out of control emotions especially when the crawling effect is going. I have left work twice for the day because I was on the verge of collaspe and could not communicate with my clients. | Don't do it or if you do you better need to anti-anxiety relief badly. I got talked into it by my family doctor during a tough time at work. In the end, my need was temporary but the side effects make me wonder why I ever put this stuff in my body? | M | 36 | 10 months | 8/7/2004 | 1 | ANXIETY ATTACKS | NAUSEA, DIZZY SPELLS.. MOOD SWINGS, WEIGHTGAIN THAT I AM SO UNHAPPY ABOUT | I FEEL THAT NONE OF THESE SIDE EFFECTS WERE EXPLAINED AND ITS SO HARD TO STOP TAKING THE PILL.. COMING OFF OF IT IS A NIGHTMARE | F | 29 | 5 months | 8/6/2004 | 4 | regular paxil mainly tried cr | i have severe panic/anxiety/depression with agriphobia which causes me to be unable to function pretty much at all without medicinal help...when i started taking it i yawned alot, slept alot, hand numbness and in my jaw, and major weight gain (80 lbs) | the drug was great while i was on it for the first 3 years, then it just stopped working...not completely but i started getting minor panic attacks again (nothing alittle xanax couldn't cure) i tried the paxil cr and it did nothing for me....now that i'm weening off the paxil i feel like i'm going to die, if you knew the side effects of coming off you would probably never start it...out of body feelings, dizziness constantly to the point i can't think or drive, sleeping for almost an entire day, no sex drive at all, numb finger tips, irritability (serious) loss of appetite, tremors, you name it it's happening and it's only been 1 day since my last step down dose, this is the scariest thing i've ever experienced and i've had some serious panic attacks that have landed me in the ER daily...if you are considering it weigh every pro and con and decide if you can handle the effects during and after...which is more important to you!!! | F | 30 | 5 years | 8/5/2004 |