paxil anyone?

[The patriot]

Dave maybe you should try a Psycologist? My female family member (the one I wrote about) went to a Psyciatrist, and it seems their answer is drugs.



I was out of full time work for 2 years at one point. I was lucky enough to not get depression over it. (Most things dont bother me except taxes and government. )

Corney as it sounds, I think God got me through it. I have no idea how I existed on what I made. I actually even saved money!! My wife didnt work either!!

I went from a job that payed so-so to a job that pays double what I made. I would have never been able to afford a CTD in my last job.

Guess the moral of the story is, things will get better. Sometimes they dont happen as fast as we'd like though.

Eric

 

[Steve M]

Dave,

I started having those kind of days and had to cut my pills in half. I was on 20mg for a couple of months. I layed around and slept most of four weekends. Like you, I didn't want to do anything at all. The initial "up" wore off after a couple of weeks and then I was cronically tired. But strangely content with being a zombi. When I went to 10mg I had some withdrawl symtoms just from the reduction. When that passed after about 10 days of the runs, headache, nausea, sore eyeballs, nightmares, electric shocks in my body, dizzy, confused, very little short term memory, and difficulty concentrating, I was better off on 10mg and awake enough to realize that this stuff was doing bad things to me. When I tried to go from 10 to 0 was when it hit me so hard I had to go back on after day 7 of no meds. This stuff is wicked.

It sounds like you have some other issues that need to be sorted out and resolved. I do too. But like me, you need to get off the Paxil. I'm 6'2" and almost 180 lbs. It's imbarrassing to be all fct up on this stuff. It's not you. It's the drug.

I'm down to 5mg now for the past five days and although I'm having some withdrawl symptoms, it is tolerable and I know I'll be better off once I'm off. I'll have to learn how to deal with the anxiety some other way.

If you go to the website,

http://depressionforums.com/forum/ikonboard.cgi

and scroll down to Paxil, you'll find alot of other people either just starting on Paxil or trying to get off of it. It's not my new home page but it did shed some light on this drug. I have some problems with anxiety over some solvable issues. Paxil did calm me down about the issues but the price is way too high.

I need to solve the issues that I'm uncomfortable about with the people I have these issues with or re-locate myself with people I don't have these troubling issues with. I'm obviously not the kind of person who can easily shrug things off.