Posted by k23d on September 26, 2002, at 20:41:36
In reply to Remeron vs Paxil?, posted by tensor on September 26, 2002, at 6:31:46
Hi Tensor,
Everyone's different and your milage may vary a lot but my experience is as follows:
I started on Paxil for Social Anxiety & Panic and after 4 months of trying to tolerate the side effects I switched to remeron 30mg.
The paxil made me very apathetic and took away all my motivation and drive. I didn't really procrastinate as I can do when anxious but just didn't feel motivated.
Paxil made sex awful for me. Everything worked but no orgasms even if I sometimes went at it for over an hour and a half.
I also gained weight on it in two ways. I think it fundamentally stuffed with my metabolism and secondly made me crave sugary foods.
Remeron for the first few weeks at 30mg was great and got me back to my motivated self and added an extra boost by taking away my anxiety based procrastination. After 6 weeks it kind of pooped so i've just gone up to 45mg to try to get this plus some other benefits back. My doc says this is normal when finding the right dose initially.
At 15mg I've heard remeron can be quite sedating due to the antihistamine effect whereas at higher dosages it tends to be more activating as the NE? effect kicks in. If you have clonazepam to control your anxiety, have you talked to your doc about raising the remeron dose to deal with depression?
As to your original question, personally I'll take remeron over paxil any day of the week...
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