My Paxil / Seroxat Story Part II - Quitting and Withdrawal

I quit Paxil cold turkey; this is not recommended because of the dangers of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor withdrawal (SSRI, the Paxil class of drugs). This is a short video mentioning that fact.

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[jazzmanEE]

it depends on how you quit seroxat/paxil....quitting slowly might help...

[pattygoat]

You are very right. Tapering is the way of choice of most people withdrawing from Paxil. More people succeed that way. I'd still probably do it cold turkey again, but knowing what I know now, I sure would be more careful and have much more medical support than I did.

[mindnumber9]

@lighthesky1021 it's been 2 years... are you still drug dependent? i hope you are doing well, whether on drugs or not.

[mindnumber9]

@Davidvideos83 isn't that interesting... prescribed drugs seem to have exactly the same effect as street drugs (starts off great, but then reality crashes and one discovers how TOXIC the drugs truly are). it's been 3 weeks since you commented, i hope you're doing / feeling better... but i have to say, from experience: trazodone caused me to feel homicidal. i'm not familiar with the other drugs you're taking but maybe ridding the trazodone could help to alleviate that "killing" feeling.

[Davidvideos83]

I started on Wellbutrin, next to Celexa, then it was Effexor, Then from there is was Cymbalta. When I first started on anti-depressants they felt like just what I needed. I felt good, I laughed a lot, I always was in a positive optimistic mood. Believe it or not it all started with just one pill Wellbutrin which was administered just after my coming clean off of street drugs and alcohol addiction. Currently I am on: hydroxiyzine, trazodone, clontidine, and Cymbalta. I feel like killing myself. ☹

[xxterrynxx]

I have just got off paxil a week ago. I was on it for about 3 yrs up to 40 mg and gained almost 100 pounds!!! My doctor put me on zoloft because it tricks your body so you will have no or less wthdrawal symptoms, so far just dizzy, feeling low.... I was 5'6 120 pounds and very active healthy physically...It makes you lazy now im a fatty:( I can not wait to get this weight off, I even cancelled my wedding cause of this drug!!! but it did help me very much in the begining.

[RonaldBarone]

MY HERO

[gerardeflow]

...attacks, I can't think straight, I feel like im in a dream state, I cannot stop crying, I am irratable to the extreme, I take everything out on my wife, I have horrible thoughts (suicidal, homicidal, angry thoughts that I never had in my life), I get dizzy, severe depression, insomnia, hallucinations, extreme brain shivers and I just plain feel like I am in Hell. I went to the doctor again to seek psychiactric help and all he did was presribe me more ANTI DEPRESSENTS!!! WTF!!!

[gerardeflow]

I have been taking effexor (venlafaxine) for 6 years and have recently quit using the drug. I had tried quitting cold turkey and was in a state of "hell". Literally, the feelings are worse that anyone could explain in words let alone the thoughts and confusion. I recently began to reduce my dosage per every 3 months to quit. I went from 75mg, to 37mg, to every second day to none... I FEEL TERRIBLE!!! It has been only 3 weeks and I am feeling like I am in a living hell. I have constant panic...

[LMN1968]

You should report these side effects from these drugs to the food and Drug administration.

I agree with you 100% doctors do not know as much as the user does about these medicines.

[ndurepo1]

I have been 17 in been taking it probably 1 in a half years since than have went from a healthy 189 pounds to 310 and have been in football and exercising but was still gaining weight they insisted that i have to exercise and eat right i dont eat much anyways my friends and parents have said such things to these doctors could have killed me.