Decided to stop taking my Paroxetine (paxil).

[Doyle]

No, I'm fine. The random electric shock feelings and strange motion blurs and are about the worst of my personal symptoms. I'm also crying on the drop of a hat. I was crying watching the Panther OTA videos this morning. Hah.

I know exactly what you are talking about. I quit prozac about 6 months ago. The withdrawals were every bit of 6 weeks and maybe eight. You'll be glad you did it once its over. I got the shock feelings but the worst for me was I would feel like I was about to pass out 2 or 3 times a day.

[nickzz]

start smoking weed and you'll be fine

[B wood]

Yeah, you seem like the medicated type.

[Floppin]

start smoking weed and you'll be fine

Nope, haven't smoked weed since I started having panic attacks. Getting high would induce them and I started to mentally associate the feeling of being high with the feeling of a panic attack. Needless to say it took all the fun out of it.

I've been on paroxetine for about 18 months, so I haven't been on it for years or anything.

[Hairless Cat]

My doctor convinced me to go on Lexapro a few years ago due to anxiety attacks and depression - so I went on it and had very fugged up frightening vivid dreams, and my sex life went to hell lost most of the urge and ejaculation was like warm molasses through a straw with no feeling - I gained some weight, felt moobs growing. I think it might have helped the depression a little - maybe even the anxiety, but in general I felt like a zombie and things werent all that much better - I went off mine by cutting the dosage in half for a while and then in half again. I have valium now for when the poo hits the fan (thank God) and if that runs out chugging a couple high test beers helps.

I highly suggest strenouous exercise as another way to get rid of anxiety - good luck with it - Id have to say you probably ought to step off it gradually though..

[cptx]

Damn, I thought coming off of lorezepam was rough. The worse part was the shakes, luckily I had muscle relaxers to take the edge off of that. Doc had me on lorezepam and a beta blocker for anxiety and a heart palpitation, I've been off both for about 6 months. I found it was easier to control with diet and exercise than taking pills, but when I suggested this to my doc, he came back with trying to increase my dose so I just quit. Good luck man.

[thefuzz]

These type threads make me happy I only have a slight drinking problem.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

half of those symptoms sounds like a bunch of poo i go through every day

[Brooklyn Bully]

Been on Paxil for about a year. Feels good, man.

[Floppin]

I'm glad to be going off of it. I felt like I was just wandering through life, really disconnected. I felt like an emotional zombie.

[Doyle]

I'm glad to be going off of it. I felt like I was just wandering through life, really disconnected. I felt like an emotional zombie.

I described it to people as just not giving a sh*t about anything. Also I never suffered from anxiety until I started taking prozac. Now even that I'm off it I still have attacks. Thanks doc.

[Hairless Cat]

I said the same thing about feeling like a zombie when on lexapro - on the other hand sometimes feeling like a zombie is preferable to panic or anxiety attacks or constant weeping or just plain moving through life with a very short fuse ready to go off on someone or something at teh drop of a hat. If youre married ask your wife about that last part. Not ragging on you - just someone who has been there and made their share of mistakes.

I think the SSRI s works for a small percentage of folks the way it was intended to and genuinely improves their lives - for the rest its not such good news and can make things worse. Sometimes talking with a counselor can help.

[Floppin]

I went on the poo because I was having panic attacks. At my disorders height I was having at least one every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Also due to my anxiety I was building up an incredible amount of gas in my stomach while sleeping, from swallowing air. This would cause my stomach to become incredibly distended and was really painful, as such I couldn't sleep more than 5 hours in a row, EVER.

This is why I went on the meds.

For the majority of my anxiety disorder, I didn't realize that I had a disorder. I thought that my panic attacks were a heart condition and that I was dying, and I thought that my gas pain was some sort of intestinal problem. I was diagnosed and put onto meds in the same meeting so I never had a period to really come to grips with what was really wrong with me and try to get myself into a different place mentally in order to deal with it naturally. I have been able to do this now, and I have better ways or dealing with my stress and anxiety that I was not capable of before.

[Iceberg Slim]

:blink: lotta of folks on here know a lot about medication.........