Paxil (or Seroxat in the UK) is an antidepressant by the company GlaxoSmithKline and it is used to treat major depression. The active chemical is paroxetine, which is associated with weight gain. However, while I was on Paxil I did not gain any weight but I did experience the other side effects like nausea, somnolence, dry mouth, and headache.

The legal status of this medication is prescription only which means that the only way to obtain Paxil should Read the rest of this entry »

The medical Condition, not the  U2 song ;-p
In a previous post I was explaining about the withdrawal symptoms I am having after I stoping paxil, Vertigo is one of those symptoms.

When you feel things are dizzily turning around or things are dizzily turning about you, that is the vertigo feeling. It is very common to have that symptom after you stop taking paxil, it can also mean a problem with the inner ear.

I was having some problems with my ear a couple of weeks ago, I was feeling some pressure inside my ear ; it was like I had something in it. I did some research about it and I putted some oxygen water inside my ear three times a day and the pain when away,but  it wasn’t really pain I was feeling , it was just bothering me at the moment I had to open my mouth or speak.

I also stop taking paxil a month ago, which is about the time I started feeling vertigo… But I also had the same ear problem months ago… I don’t remember exactly when… hmmm.

what could the reason be?

I stop taking Paxil a month ago, I did have some withdrawal symptoms like nausea, dizziness, vertigo, mood swings. Most of those symptoms have stop after one month, but I still have vertigo and mood swings.

The vertigo doesn’t bothers me as much as the mood swings… I mean going from happiness to a sad stage is a very frustrating situation.  During my PMS! my Goodness, it is a roller coaster of emotion.

Why women have to go through so many things? I don’t think men have so many problems with their moods, they are angry, happy, sad; but we in the other hand have what is in between, angry-happiness, sadness-happiness, angry-sadness, etc. Sometimes we don’t even know what emotion we are feeling…

Men have to be very patient with women sometimes, how do they do it? if sometimes I can’t even stand myself.

I guess lowering the doses, helped me to stop taking paxil. After a month, sometimes before I go to bed I feel like I’m forgetting something, but then I remember ”hey I don’t have to take any pills again!!” I am Paxil Free ;-p

Last Sunday, my last 5 paxil pills ended in the toilet… and with that action I started a new journey, which I want to call ” Paxil Free, The Withdrawals effect”

After 3 days of no paxil, I am starting to feel some withdrawal symptoms. This morning during breakfast I was thinking ” looks like I not going to have that many problems after all..” but, during the afternoon I started to feel a weird sensation in the back of my head… inside of my head… is right at the back of my brain. I really do not know how to explain it, what I know is not a headache, it’s not a migraine; it could be like the feeling you get when you eat something really cold. The sensation is just at the back, only at the back of my head. It is not in my neck.

I’m also having some nausea and vertigo. The vertigo is not a good thing to have, specially if you work at the 20th floor…. :-S

Also, I’m feeling really tired all the time.

The only advise I can give to myself is: take it easy, just handle one day at the time, rest honey… you need your rest.