Quitting Paxil #4
Posted by kalengirlMay 17
I’m still lowering the dose of Paxil, on the 23 I will go down to 5mg every day.
It is not an easy situation, especially when the lowering starts to affect your personality by making you more sensitive and easy to get angry… I have been having some insomnia, perhaps I should buy some sleeping pills, because without my sleep I can’t have a good mood and that affects the people around me.
I have made enough damage to the people around me already…
Besides the insomnia and mood swings, I feeling better than the last time I wrote (I was seeing the light and everything hahaha) I’m not having stomach problems anymore, which is good, I guess.
Due to the insomnia, I’m very tired lately… it’s not that I do not sleep it just the quality of my sleep is not very good.
Sometimes I feel dizzy but I take something for the dizziness and I’m back to normal 
I was on Paxil many years ago. I assume you know that there is a way to do this so as to limit the side effects.Sees you are lowering it too quickly. going from 10 mg to 5 doesnt do it. after you chane the dose, you have to fine tune it even more.
It took me weeks.Perhpas over a month. I weened my off very very slowly, to the point I was taking a small chip a day. That is the only way to do it. Each time you change the dose stay on it for a while. Then do that particular dose every other day. Then keep lowering…….i mean till it gets down to slivers. Even then it’s not easy. I still, when i finally finished I had a bad attack of depression, anxiety, all at the same time. I took a day and put my head under the covers……..and by the time I awoke I was more or less back to “noral” me. Please be careful and good luck. I’ve been there.
I know, the bad things is, here in panama the lowes we have is 10 mg… and what I have been doing with the help of my doctor is taking 10mg one day and 5 the other day so by doing the math I’m actually taking 7. 5 a day. I did that for a month (on the 23 of may) and after that I will go down to 5 mg everyday for a month. my doctor and I were trying to cut the pills really tine but it was really difficult..
thanks for the comment
Sorry this took so long, my laptop was messed up. It came to a point where I was literally smashing them up and using a razor blade to break them into teensy pieces. I’m not a doctor, but this is the way I did it and it was still not easy. Has your doc considered putting you on something else just to help ween you off?
I really didn’t want to get in something else… while I’m trying to get out of paxil. The only thing I’m taking is medicine for the nausa and dizziness; I’m also drinking a lot of water. the only bad side effect I had was the anxiety attach on Tuesday.
thanks for the reply