| stevesmith |
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| 10/19/04 12:10 PM |
 Re: Meds for stress-not benzos
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hi angel,
once my doctor (psych) thought that i might have sad and offered me a prescription for paxil. he said that it helps with anxiety. i wish that i could tell you how it affected me but i turned it down for a couple of reasons. 1. i don't believe that i have sad, it's just that i would much rather hang out with my dogs than socialize with people, it's a personal decision. 2. at 95 lbs. i really didn't want to add another drug to my system as i have had doctors look at my chart and say things like, "oh my, you're such a small person, and you take all these?" i have since cut out more than half of my daily meds.
but he was one of the best, most caring psychs i have ever had and i trust his choice of meds. you
should ask your doctor about paxil. as for sleeping, i find ambein to be effective, but if you had a problem with benzos... i know ambein is not a benzo... well, best to ask your doctor about that too.
good luck!
cheers, c.(angel)
p.s. the depakote is also supposed to help preventing migraines even though you are rxed it for bi-polar. that was another one of the meds that i dropped from my menu.
DO NOT TAKE PAXIL REPEAT DO NOT TAKE PAXIL REPEAT DO NOT TAKE PAXIL ESPECIALLY PAXIL CR
this si just my experience and everyone else I have ever emt or talked to who wook paxil: is is habit forming. you wont be joesing for another pill, but yer body will be. The withdrawl symptoms come on almost exactly 24 hours after eating the last pill. I started on paxil, theneventually was on CR. it had my head always messed up, my balance always off. If i woudl bend over too fast or even turn my head too fast woudl get sicka dn be in bed ALL DAY. was in bed for 3 weeks with withdrawls when I finaly got off it. Took another few months for the elctronic pulses and for the weird detachment feeling to go away. I cant explain it if you dont knwo what I mean. where you feel liek yer head or brain isnt connected tot he rest of your body. ultimately the side effects were way too much for me and after awhile I built up tolerance and as for anxiety LOL paxil didnt ever help really stop anxiety. I woudl still get anxious and all that just made me lazy and weak and fat.
search the board. there was a good paxil thread week or 2 back where alot others liek me were relating their experiences and feelings towards paxil
EVERY ASPECT of my life was affected and hurt while i was on paxil. relationships, work anything and everything. I wish I coudl get bck that time spent in that "paxil haze"
for me LOTS of excersise fights anxiety just as well as valiums which I do keep on hand for emergencies like if I have a panic attack casued by soemthing serious ya know, not liek how I used to be where i'd have panix attacks over trivial everyday Best if kept off the board.
another word that comes to mind when rem,embering my "paxil haze" SUICIDE. It made me think alot bout killing myself. if anything happened, no matter how minor or major.
i keep coming back editing cause I keep remembering how awful paxil was. it had negative effects on my sex drive and performance, made me sweat like a pig, headaches, diahrea (or however you spell it) memory loss, made me crazy in my opinion really.
JMO
