Posted by Katgirl on April 26, 2010, at 19:25:33
In reply to Re: Are Psychs avoiding helping with Paxil withdrawal?, posted by Laney on April 26, 2010, at 12:33:32
Hey TCV, I am the woman that Laney made reference to in an earlier post. (Laney, I will babble you back when I'm feeling better. Turns out I have swine flu and am on week 7 of feeling like I'm on death's door).
I went through withdrawal to paxil and it so changed my biochemistry that I now can't take ANY of the SSRIS (and I need to be on a med!!) They either don't work anymore or I am no longer able to tolerate them.
I had very severe withdrawal symptoms when I would try to drop down off the last 2.5mg. I would throw up, shake like I was having a seizure, be unable to stand up from vertigo, stop sleeping entirely and have bone shaking, crawling out of my skin anxiety. The way I finally got off of it was by getting the liquid and diluting it with water to drop very very slowly over many many months. But all hell still broke loose after the drug cleared my system. Within a few months I relapsed into clinical/agitated depression and then the unsuccessful drug trials began. Just a nightmare.
Why did I go off the drug? Pressure from an ex-husband. And, like you I also got involved in meditation and energy work, and thought that I didn't need the drug anymore (although there were a LOT of people I was hanging around at the time who were really putting the "if you were more spiritual/healing you wouldn't need to take these drugs" rap on me.
But in the end, I am responsible for the choice I made. It is a choice I regret, because I still have not gotten my life back.
If you are doing well on the drug, I would reccomend staying on it, but that is because of my own very harsh experience with my discontinuation of the drug.
I personally know two other people who went through either no or very mild withdrawal symptoms and have been fine since.
Unfortunately, there is no way to know which camp you are going to fall in.
I wish you all the best,
Kathleen
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