paxil

hey if you take paxil does it make you sick? It make me

No, it doesn't make me sick.

I take 75 mg paxil cr It does not make me sick.

I take paxil.... it can cause nausea, particularly when you start taking it. Are you on a high dose? I hope it eases up for you....

Fuzzy

The first 2-4 weeks I had many side effects from it but after that I was ok. I was on it for three years. After taking a depression managent class my physician took me off it because I needed to be able to feel a full range of emotions in order to work on my Dissociative Identity Disorder. Antidepressants are meant to keep the person at neutral - not too sad and not cartwheel happy either.

ummm that's totally not right ...

they only replace what's missing.

don't say they are not meant to let u feel full range of emotion - the point is that they let you feel a NORMAL range of emotion.

i can't believe how much misinterpretation there is out there

I'm sorry, but I don't think that's the intent, to make people neutral. Instead, it is to move neutral back where it belongs. Nor are they meant to suppress emotion, although that can happen. I would consider emotional suppression to be an adverse effect, unless it was the specific desire of the person so affected.

We're all so different, both in how the drugs affect us, and in what we want the drugs to do.

It's matching the two realms effectively that is the hard part to accomplish.

Regards,
Lar

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The first 2-4 weeks I had many side effects from it but after that I was ok. I was on it for three years. After taking a depression managent class my physician took me off it because I needed to be able to feel a full range of emotions in order to work on my Dissociative Identity Disorder. Antidepressants are meant to keep the person at neutral - not too sad and not cartwheel happy either.

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Hello!

I'd like to help clear up some misconceptions about antidepressants. Yes, many people do get a flattening of affect - or flattenting of emotions -feeling not depressed but not great either. Many report feeling "blah" or "plain" on SSRIs like Paxil. However, that's not the intended effect. The goal of SSRIs like Paxil is to help achieve a "balance" of serotonin between synapses and one theory shows them to downregulate serotonin receptors on the post-synaptic receptor. Which means - that if you have too many or too little serotonin receptors - meds like Paxil work to "correct" the number of receptors. However, as I stated above, this downregulation can also cause flat emotions or anhedonia. Sometimes to combat this, doctors augment Paxil and meds like it with a stimulant (Adderall, Concerta, Provigil) or another antidepressant like Wellbutrin.

So, you could say that this flattenting of emotions is "normal" for SSRIs - but not the intention - if that makes any sense.

As for Paxil itself - many do experiences side effects upon beginning treatment. It's important to follow your doctor's instructions and start low and go slow - meaning, start at a low dose and slowly move up. This helps to reduce the severeity of side effects. Side effects can include: night sweats, weird dreams, irritability, insomnia, fatigue and sexual side effects - among others. However, just because a med has side effects doesn't mean you'll have them all - or any for that matter.

If you are experiencing side effects, I would talk to your doctor about perhaps lowering the dosage for a while so your body can adjust to the medication. Then slowly increase the dosages. As some members have already posted - side effects usually go away within a couple weeks.

I hope this helps!
Jerry

This is how my physician exlained anti depressants to me. he drew a diagram of two arrows to represent the brain nerons and so on and a space in the middle. Then he said that with depression the electronic impulses pass between the two sides sometimes too fast and sometimes too slow. and that results in the person experiencing their moods switching from extreme sadness and extreme happyness. Antidepressants change the chemical between the two nerons so that the electrical impulses passes from one to the other at an eve rate not too fast and not too slow. This way the person does not experience extreme sadness and extreme happyness they instead stay in the middle neutral ranges.

DID people dissociate their feelings/emotions. which leads to the person not feeling anything they are numb.

I have DID the only time I could recognise a feeling was when I was experiencing the extreme happyness the extreme sadness, extreme anger, extreme.

Antidepressants keep people in the middle range so in order for me to recognise what I was feeling I had to go off the antidepressants in order to work on my DID.