anyone here on paxil?????????

[Steffi N]

I am on Paxil and clomipramine (generic Anafranil) for obsessive-compulsive disorder, which I have had for most of my life. I know the medications have risks, but they help me to concentrate abd provide a platform from which I can work to have a normal life. I react well to both of them , I did not react well to Prozac, which put me in a mental fog.

I have found that I need to stay on the medications.

I am going to post a link to the package insert (prescribing information) for Paxil. This material is approved by the Food and Drug administration and all marketing material is supposed to be in accordance with it.

[Steffi N]

Here is the information

http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_paxil.pdf

PDF version from Paxil.com


http://www.fda.gov/cder/approval/index.htm

html version from FDA website

I hope this is helpful. Your pharmacist should be able to give you this material, but this might be easier to read (not such small print). My best wishes for you, Truffles.

[lv4dogs]

Gosh I'm glad there are a lot of others out there with this problem. I am 28, have almost always been shy, reserved, nervous around people, it has gotten worse since a long-term breakup about 8 months ago & unfortunatly lots of other mis-haps since & bfore then. I do not & can not afford health care though. I see a gyno once a year, through planned parenthood, cause they are cheap. Do they have cheap dr's out there for this sort of problem?
I was always kind of scared to mention this as I thought most people will think i'm crazy & it's all in my head that I should be able to fix it on my own. Well I try & I can't.

[green_chameleon_girl]

I have anxiety too. Im not on anything because its not extremly bad... I just cant sleepover at people's houses, sometimes im to afraid too go to school and so on..but im slowly getting over it.

[kimlovescats]

Well, well..... I just stumbled upon this thread. Do I know anti-depressants!!!!

I'm not sure of the order but I have been on Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Buspar, Effexor, and maybe one or two more. The one that finally has helped the most for me, has been Celexa. I have been on it now for about 4 years. I had to increase my dosage after a while, and am now at 40mg per day. It helps my depression a great deal, and my panic disorder as well. I do however, have panic attacks from time to time ... for which I have to take the powerful Xanax. My worst side effect has been foggy mindedness and terrible short-term memory loss. Most of the time I feel like a bumbling idiot, until someone reminds me (like this thread) that I am on a mind-altering medication!!!

Guess this is one main reason I have failed so many of my pets as of late ..... yep, just lost another one to Rainbow Bridge .... due to my memory problems and brain farts!

[Laura's Babies]

Kim, so sorry about Dudley. So sad! Our hearts are with you in your time of sadness..

I too, have been on Paxil and I am one that did not do well on it. It made a total zombie out of me and I was so zonked out, I couldn't even make the doctor understand my mind was gone on the stuff. They did eventually put me on Celexa and I only took half the dose they wanted me to take and did fine on that. I decided I no longer needed it since the source of my anxiety attacks was gone and slowely wiened myself off over a years period of time. Now, I am off completely. I, at the time was just caught in a situation when my Mom was dying that I had to stay in so I could be by her side when the time came for her to go. Loosing Mama was depressing but I expected that, it was the people kicking me while I was down that caused my anxiety.