Paxil for anti-anxiety.

[arbusto_baboso]

Anyone else take this? My doc has fiddled with dosage so we've eliminated the sexual side effects, but now I'm starting to gain weight. Bleh!

[rcrush]

1. I hate that shit.

They made me take it in high school. It didnt make me feel better. There were side effects.

[arbusto_baboso]

3. The extended release stuff isn't nearly as bad as the older, standard release stuff.

The standard release doses are truly heinous. Made me feel like I was walking underwater all the time.

[TZ]

2. Works for some not for others.-I've known people who love it and people who hate it

I rather like Lexapro ,, less sides IMO. But it really depends on the person.

[no name no slogan]

4. I'd post this in the mental health forum

You'll probably get better results than you will here.

I fucking hated Paxil. I gained 80 lbs on that shit back in the 1990s, and I'm still struggling with the side effects ten years later. Not to mention the horrible panic attacks I got when I went off it. That is some nasty shit.

[rcrush]

5. !!!!

YES thats what happend to me! Not really great for a kid thats fat already in high school!


These damn prescription drugs are poison!

[TZ]

6. For some people they are life savers

Me for one. My uncle literally would be dead without them as well. These prescription drugs do a lot of good for a lot of people they are not "poison". They are overprescribed though.

[no name no slogan]

12. Totally agree. I'd would be dead without my medications

Unfortunately, Paxil was not the right one for me. But the ones I am on right now seem to be working pretty well.

[Deep13]

9. They have side effects. It is not poison. nt

[Deep13]

7. So you hate it for what happened when you no longer took it?

I agree about the weight gain. That's pretty unpleasant.

[no name no slogan]

13. I was probably mis-prescribed it by an irresponsible psychiatrist

I also had problems when I was on it. I was probably having hypomanic episodes which were exacerbated by Paxil. I have bipolar disorder, which is often made worse when anti-depressants are not prescribed properly. Paxil created more problems for me than it solved, in the long run. I took it for about three years, and the problems it caused were not worth the problems it fixed.

I've subsequently gotten better treatment and medications, but Paxil was not a good experience for me. I think there are better drugs available these days that work more effectively with less severe side effects (Paxil was one of the first SSRIs, right after Prozac, and is almost 20 years old). However, if it works for someone, they should stay on it, as long as they can tolerate the side effects.

[Deep13]

14. Ah, wrong treatment. Gotcha.

It's for anxiety, not bi-polar disorder.

:hi:

[no name no slogan]

15. It's actually an SSRI (anti-depressant), like Prozac

It was initially prescribed for depression, but one of the secondary effects is anti-anxiety, and so they started to prescribe it for that as well. Unfortunately, hypomania (in patients with bipolar II) can look a lot like anxiety in many cases, so it was prescribed as primarily as an anti-depressant, and secondarily as a mild anti-anxiety treatment.

A lot of drugs are prescribed "off-label" because of their secondary effects. Wellbutrin, for example, was originally prescribed to treat depression, but one of its secondary effects was that it made the tobacco craving in some patients decrease. So, it was rebranded as Zyban, and marketed as a smoking cessation aid.

:)

[Deep13]

16. The doc tried to switch me to Wellbutrin.

After a week she switched me back because I was climbing the walls and becoming really combative. Sweetie did not like that. The doc could see the anxiety was much worse because there was white all the way around my irises.

[Deep13]

8. It made me fat. Still, that is better than crazy.

I wasn't insane or anything, but the anxiety was constant and sometimes really bad.

[supernova]

10. Is it worth it? At one time I was dx with social anxiety

It is much less now, but I go into withdrawl mode once a month for about a week and have considered taking something for it. There are times when it really hinders me.

[lizziegrace]

11. I take Klonapin as needed for anxiety

it's an old drug that takes the edge off and calms me down.

[mitchum]

17. It gave me satyriasis; a four hour erection sounds cool in theory, but...