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Old May 07, 2013, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by newlifeyeah View Post
hey!

I've been on paxil (paroxetine) for almost two months now. It's my 20th day on the regular 20mg dose, before that I took 10mg. the 10mg only increased my anxiety, and didn't have any good effects. when I started the 20mg, on the first day of it, I had a panic attack. it was horrible. But I kind of thought, okay, it's kind of normal to have side-effects, so I didn't care about it. and then at like 11-12 days it started to make my anxiety better, and then I even felt a bit of energy increase, and a better mood.
that lasted for about day 15, but in the last 5 days or so, it's slowly starting to get worse. I don't care about anything, I feel like I can't feel good or bad either, can't cry, can't laugh, no sexual drive at all, and I feel totally hopeless too. Whatever I try to get out of this, only makes it worse, that's what I feel. I know that they say, the "full effects/benefits only appear after 4-6 weeks or even 2 months... but come on! I actually feel suicidal today, and totally worn out and hopeless. Is this normal? is this a side effect of the meds? or is it that I'm getting fed up, of no matter how hard I'm trying, I can't make my condition any better?
what should I do? stop the meds?
Start jogging, even if I'm fatigued out as hell?
is there ANYTHING that actually helps??? I'm meeting some friends almost every day, they come over to visit me, I take daily walks, I take Omega 3, spirulina algae, multivitamin, i go twice a week to psychotherapy, i go once monthly to my psychiatrist, i take the meds every day at the same time... what the f--- is up? what more can I do? why isn't it getting better? why is it only getting worse?
I would literally do anything that people say it helps, but so far NOTHING helped!! wtf is this ??? i would rather have a broken leg or anything that has a normal diagnose and a normal cure.
I would like to 2nd the idea for you to contact your pdoc's office immediately. Be sure to impress upon whoever you talk to that this is an emergency. Don't let them put you off.

I was on Paxil (& Prozac) years ago. Neither Paxil nor Prozac had any effect on me at all one way or the other. So, from my perspective, the extreme effects you're having are odd indeed. But don't just stop taking it all at once either. That could make things even worse. Let your pdoc taper off the Paxil & substitute something else.

I've been on Cymbalta for over a year now & it has been the best SSRI I've taken. It's not perfect... but it helps & there are virtually no side effects for me.

Anyway I wish you all the best. Let us know how it's going.
Thanks for this!
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