Paxil withdrawal

[Misun]

Anyone dealt with this? If so, what was your experience like?

[Asha]

Awful.
Just stay in bed, drink loads of tea and take over the counter sleep pills (Nytol if you get it there).

Just sleep it off. It's fucking awful I know lol.
I once ran out of prozac and after a few days i got really twitchy, jumpy and worst of all I developed something similar to a mild Tourrettes.
It wears off, but so does the numbness you get from the pills, which is what they were for in the first place.

Like I said. Stay in bed, sleep it off. You really shouldn't have been taken off them so abrubtly that they'd give you withdrawals.

[Stanley Burrell]

My opinion is that Paxil sucks ass:

Indeed, Paxil raped me with an ambush rimjob where I was giver. My withdrawal symptoms were that the added anxiety and acathesia + tunnel vision lessened when I got off that dumb shit. Seriously, why put people with social anxiety on activators? Screw that, with a high-powered drill used for boring into human skulls as a recreational activity, so sayeth I.

[Misun]

Just stay in bed, drink loads of tea and take over the counter sleep pills (Nytol if you get it there) and pain killers (nothing with codeine in it).

I don't have that luxury.

[Stanley Burrell]

Did you halt a high dosage, or are you doing a taper?

[Asha]

Sounds like a halt.
If you can't stay in bed, keep yourself occupied. Since you don't have the luxury I assume you're working or have other engagements.
Immerse yourself in them and remember you must be doing fine if you're in no need for Paxil anymore.
Still drink loads of tea though. It's brilliant.

[Misun]

Did you halt a high dosage, or are you doing a taper?

The highest dosage I was ever on was 20mg/day. I went down to 10mg the skipping days because I would just forget. Symptoms wouldn't show up for a couple of days. I would go as much as 3 days without. I ran out and decided to just stop. Been over a week now.

[Asha]

You're over the worst then.
But you really shouldn't just stop like that. Good luck anyway.

[Misun]

Sounds like a halt.
If you can't stay in bed, keep yourself occupied. Since you don't have the luxury I assume you're working or have other engagements.
Immerse yourself in them and remember you must be doing fine if you're in no need for Paxil anymore.
Still drink loads of tea though. It's brilliant.

Yeah, the hardest part is the difficulty of concentration. The 'zaps' and dizziness suck hard. Numbness and nausea too. I don't know how long this will last. I hope not long because I'm so tempted to start taking it again just to stop feeling this way. Yay, I'm an addict.....lovely.

[Stanley Burrell]

Any physician would tell you to go back to a minimal clinical dose until you stabilized. But, yeah. My unprofessional advice is to keep the emergency contact for your Rx prescriber handy, just as sort of a mental reassurance, and my even less professional advice would be to take PRN downers/non-anticholinergic sleep aides at bedtime, excluding alcohol.

Just do things like stretching the fuck out and drink shit tons of cool water and a decaf ionized soda like ginger ale.

[Asha]

lol if you start taking them again you'll have the same blasting shit that comes with taking them for the first time.
The withdrawals are on their way out now. After a week you should be clearing up alot. I haven't taken them since last spring. Took roughly a week to be able to function like normal and maybe a month to feel like I didn't need them anyway.

[Asha]

take PRN downers/non-anticholinergic sleep aides at bedtime, excluding alcohol.

Just do things like stretching the fuck out and drink shit tons of cool water and a decaf ionized soda like ginger ale.

^^^

[Misun]

my even less professional advice would be to take PRN downers/non-anticholinergic sleep aides at bedtime, excluding alcohol.

Just do things like stretching the fuck out and drink shit tons of cool water and a decaf ionized soda like ginger ale.

Thanks, I'm doing the water, sleep aid and such. I found that taking Benedryl helps with the dizziness and nausea a bit. I am considering taking Niacin every couple of days to help speed up the process but not sure I want to yet.

Any expected time frames on how long this will last? I've heard of it lasting weeks and months even. I don't think I can do that.

[Stanley Burrell]

Constant niacin + Benadryl is not going to be productive, you're not really going to pee out liver metabolites. And if you're getting flushed from the B3, that (+ Benadryl) can exacerbate sweaty-disgusting CNS symptoms. But, my experiences of people taking niacin has been related to witnessing folks eating entire bottles to pass urinalyses.

Well. Since you're only taking Benadryl to deal specifically with timed withdrawal, I wouldn't advocate something like hydroxyzine or an alpha-2. And ... You're over the big hump, methinks. And I shall make this therepeutic emoticon that states as much: :)

[Asha]

Yeah it's all downhill from now on lol.

[Misun]

Well. Since you're only taking Benadryl to deal specifically with timed withdrawal, I wouldn't advocate something like hydroxyzine or an alpha-2. And ... You're over the big hump, methinks. And I shall make this therepeutic emoticon that states as much: :)

Yeah, I'm not super keen on taking Niacin. I never have before but heard of it from others who did probably for the same reasons you mentioned.

Thank you so much for the smiley. Yes, it helps...I haven't really told anyone what I've been doing and just trying to get through it. I guess trying to go it alone isn't a good idea but that's pretty predictive of me.

Thank you both for your advice, it's good to know that there is an end to this coz it's hell.

[Asha]

When it gets bad (which it really won't now since you;re through it) just think at least you're not Nelek or Soriel.
That's all the encouragement you need.

[Misun]

When it gets bad (which it really won't now since you;re through it) just think at least you're not Nelek or Soriel.
That's all the encouragement you need.

Or Gracy or Amberain. ;)

[Asha]

Yeah especially Gracy.
When I first started paying I fell into her trap and ended up IGdating with that shit once. That's my lowest point.
She referred to her bits as her ''beautiful Garden''.



...
Actually I don't think I'm ok.

[Misun]

Yeah especially Gracy.
When I first started paying I fell into her trap and ended up IGdating with that shit once. That's my lowest point.
She referred to her bits as her ''beautiful Garden''.



...
Actually I don't think I'm ok.

I so wish I hadn't read that, remember...I already have nausea. Don't do that again. :wink:

[thefarmer]

Smoke pot.

Really, it helps.

[Asha]

lol i really doubt it

[Snapp]

Or snort coke. I hear Seany Digital can get you a really good deal!

[Misun]

Smoke pot.

Really, it helps.

No way, I wouldn't anyway now but when I did it only made me paranoid, last thing I need right now.:thanx:

[thefarmer]

No way, I wouldn't anyway now but when I did it only made me paranoid, last thing I need right now.:thanx:

:(


lol i really doubt it

I was actually serious. I had two female friends that used pot to get through the withdrawals of paxil. They smoked just enough to calm down and not get the jitters and shakes, but not enough to get stoned out of their mind.

[Kyra231]

Yeah, the hardest part is the difficulty of concentration. The 'zaps' and dizziness suck hard. Numbness and nausea too. I don't know how long this will last. I hope not long because I'm so tempted to start taking it again just to stop feeling this way. Yay, I'm an addict.....lovely.

Same withdrawal from effexor xr :( I found a month after the zaps stopped if I took anything like benedryl or tylenol pm they would return with a vengeance(just a heads up). 7 months free of the addiction of SSRI's & no zaps, I'd say it was...3 months before I no longer had any, worst was over after 3 weeks.

Good luck to you, getting off antidepressants can be worse than what caused you to be prescribed them to begin with.

~K.

[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

Times like these make me thank god I don't need any sort of pills or medicine. NO ADDICTION FTW. Maybe I'm a bit TOO clean though, STANLEY HELP! Never touched alcohol, and I don't/never have smoked (anything).

[Misun]

Good luck to you, getting off antidepressants can be worse than what caused you to be prescribed them to begin with.

~K.

Thanks for the advice. I keep hearing about months of symptoms and it freaks me out a bit. I honestly don't think I can handle that with trying to still do everything I need to do daily. Driving is hard right now with the dizziness and such. I'm not ready to give up though.

You know...I originally went on it for panic attacks years ago. Stupid things. Wouldn't wish them on my worse enemy, nor would I wish the way I'm feeling right now on them either.

[Stanley Burrell]

STANLEY HELP!

Have more than verbal intercourse with members of the opposite sex.