I am getting off my anxiety medication, Paxil, and experiencing very odd side effects. Help!?
ByI have been slowly easing my way off Paxil for 2 weeks now. I first had some headaches, insomnia, lack of appetite etc…. But now I am having weird memory issues. I can’t remember stuff that happened to me this morning. I am quite scared. Has anyone else trying to get off Paxil experienced this?
All with help of my doctor
i quit basically cold turkey from 25 mg paxil cr (keeping in contact with my dr regularly, though) and it was fairly uncomfortable. the first few attempts made me feel like crap, so i had try a couple times before successfully stopping. paxil has a really short half-life and is eliminated from your body quickly, much more than other similar drugs, so quitting can be tough.
i mostly had nausea, fatigue and the dreaded paxil "zaps".
2 Comments
July 30th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
1] are you doing this with the help of your doctor?
2] should ONLY be done with doctor’s supervision
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July 30th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
i quit basically cold turkey from 25 mg paxil cr (keeping in contact with my dr regularly, though) and it was fairly uncomfortable. the first few attempts made me feel like crap, so i had try a couple times before successfully stopping. paxil has a really short half-life and is eliminated from your body quickly, much more than other similar drugs, so quitting can be tough.
i mostly had nausea, fatigue and the dreaded paxil "zaps".
References :