stevesmith
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Hello all, I have suffered from depression & anxiety for years. I have bene on everything under the sun. I was last on Paxil CR for few years. it made me very lazy and unmotivated. made me like a boring zombie. it also made me physicaly ill. most my depression was over weight issue. I quit the paxil. i went thru withdraws for 3 weeks and then took another 2 months to feel normal again. since then I have lost 35 pounds and now Jog, Kickbox and weight lift everyday + play paintball. So i have beat the deprtession for ht emost part. I still suffere anxiety. I am going to my local doctor today. I am gonna try to get on valuim for the anxiety as I have tried it b4 and it works. is there anything I should know b4 getting on valuim? any horrible side affects etc. Aslo is there that much difference potency wise between generic V & name brand?
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hooba_gal
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stevesmith...you read my mind! i was driving home from work yesterday thinking about posting something like this very subject wondering if i were the only one suffering from the same side effects from paxil cr. i have put on 70 lbs. since starting anti-depressants (first zoloft and now paxil) and have no desire to do anything. i actually feel more depressed now than i ever have and the weight gain only makes me feel worse. especially since within the past 3 weeks i've had 3 people ask me why i got fat! i'm sure alcohol intake and food consumption hasn't helped but i didn't know if i was the only one who after starting anti-deppresants had gained weight!!! anyway, i used to take xanax (i posted this in another thread a couple of weeks ago) for my anxiety but the side effects were too much for me and i was taking the lowest dose possible and only when i had a panic attack. i went back to my doc and told him that when i took the xanax, no matter where i was, i had to lay my head down for at least 20 minutes and if it happened at work, that didn't go over too well with the bosses. anyway, i switched to valium and i like it much better. it controls the anxiety and helps me breathe better and i haven't found any side effects that effect me horribly. i am taking the generic (diazepam) 5 mg which i usually cut in half so i'm not taking a large dosage and i don't take them every day. i haven't ever taken the non-generic so i can't give you my opinion on that. i have been thinking that the valium maybe isn't as strong as something i might really need to take when i have my attacks but i just don't think that i can go back to the xanax. do you know if there is something that is in between the strength of xanax and valium? thanks for giving me someone to relate to stevesmith!! i wonder if anyone else out there has had similar problems with paxil and if they switched to something else. i would love to hear some relatable stories. by the way, congrats on the active lifestyle you now lead. i may need to get off the paxil but i don't think i will ever really be able to get off the daily pill popping to try to make myself "normal". good luck and continued success your way!
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t_oshan2003
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I tried paxil a few years ago to try and aleviate anxiety and only made it to day 3 before I couldn't take the side affects. I actually took a xanax that day to calm me down since it made me feel like Best if kept off the board.
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stevesmith
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stevesmith...you read my mind! i was driving home from work yesterday thinking about posting something like this very subject wondering if i were the only one suffering from the same side effects from paxil cr. i have put on 70 lbs. since starting anti-depressants (first zoloft and now paxil) and have no desire to do anything. i actually feel more depressed now than i ever have and the weight gain only makes me feel worse. especially since within the past 3 weeks i've had 3 people ask me why i got fat! i'm sure alcohol intake and food consumption hasn't helped but i didn't know if i was the only one who after starting anti-deppresants had gained weight!!! anyway, i used to take xanax (i posted this in another thread a couple of weeks ago) for my anxiety but the side effects were too much for me and i was taking the lowest dose possible and only when i had a panic attack. i went back to my doc and told him that when i took the xanax, no matter where i was, i had to lay my head down for at least 20 minutes and if it happened at work, that didn't go over too well with the bosses. anyway, i switched to valium and i like it much better. it controls the anxiety and helps me breathe better and i haven't found any side effects that effect me horribly. i am taking the generic (diazepam) 5 mg which i usually cut in half so i'm not taking a large dosage and i don't take them every day. i haven't ever taken the non-generic so i can't give you my opinion on that. i have been thinking that the valium maybe isn't as strong as something i might really need to take when i have my attacks but i just don't think that i can go back to the xanax. do you know if there is something that is in between the strength of xanax and valium? thanks for giving me someone to relate to stevesmith!! i wonder if anyone else out there has had similar problems with paxil and if they switched to something else. i would love to hear some relatable stories. by the way, congrats on the active lifestyle you now lead. i may need to get off the paxil but i don't think i will ever really be able to get off the daily pill popping to try to make myself "normal". good luck and continued success your way!
I wish the best of luck to you!! I can say that after the paxil was totaly outta my system soemthing just kinda clicked one day, and i began excersising etc. Now, the excersising has kinda takent he place of the anti-depressants. I feel so great and euphoric whiole excersising. Like a "runner's high" ya know . hte days I dont excersise for 1 reason or another I feel bad and depressed almost haha I truly believe a healthy body can help make a healthy mind! I only wish I hadnt have waste so many years under the haze of Paxil CR. the Valium is working great for me. But as u might know alot of things work great at first. time will tell. BEST OF LUCK!!!!!! GOD BLESS!!!!!!!
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stevesmith
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I tried paxil a few years ago to try and aleviate anxiety and only made it to day 3 before I couldn't take the side affects. I actually took a xanax that day to calm me down since it made me feel like Best if kept off the board.
yeah paxil is rough on you
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tukat
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Perhaps this could be a "how much i hate paxil thread!"
I took it a few years ago, gained weight was still depressed & getting off of it was hell!!! Those electric shock type feelings, and tremours were awful.
I too have lost weight & taken up exercise. Hypnosis, weight watchers & phentermine helped me.
I get a little depressed when i go off the phentermine tho, (I only take it half the time so that when I'm taking it it works.)
As far as valium, i don't know much except I like any benzo I try & but am very careful to avoid tolerance. WD after 1 month of ativan felt kind of like WD from paxil!
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stelig
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Trix
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Glad you pulled yourself out of the pernicious Paxil spiral. :thumb-up: Sounds like you've got a good plan and the ability to pull it off. . Congratulations! Let your Paxil experience comfort you in harder times.
The new era/business of psych. drugs is really insidious, nefarious, and frightening: from the big companies that stand to make billions off our vulnerabilites, to the doctors that prescribe them on whim (aware of the dangers and deleterious effects) after they look briefly at you for 2 seconds, to the brainwashing of society, to the damaging effects etc.; well it's not wholly unlike a crime against humanity  .
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stevesmith
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Perhaps this could be a "how much i hate paxil thread!"
I took it a few years ago, gained weight was still depressed & getting off of it was hell!!! Those electric shock type feelings, and tremours were awful.
I too have lost weight & taken up exercise. Hypnosis, weight watchers & phentermine helped me.
I get a little depressed when i go off the phentermine tho, (I only take it half the time so that when I'm taking it it works.)
As far as valium, i don't know much except I like any benzo I try & but am very careful to avoid tolerance. WD after 1 month of ativan felt kind of like WD from paxil!
YES!!!!!! THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN THINGS!!! those suck is it nerve endings or receptors or soemthing growing back or what is up with that? it was hell KEEP UP THE EXCERSISE!!!!!! I've lost 37 pounds since being off paxil
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stevesmith
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Glad you pulled yourself out of the pernicious Paxil spiral. :thumb-up: Sounds like you've got a good plan and the ability to pull it off. . Congratulations! Let your Paxil experience comfort you in harder times.
The new era/business of psych. drugs is really insidious, nefarious, and frightening: from the big companies that stand to make billions off our vulnerabilites, to the doctors that prescribe them on whim (aware of the dangers and deleterious effects) after they look briefly at you for 2 seconds, to the brainwashing of society, to the damaging effects etc.; well it's not wholly unlike a crime against humanity .
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THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND SUPPORT!!!!!
yes it is rediculous!!!! there's so many new psych. drug out every week. They dont care how the long term is or the bad side effects they just wanna get that $$$$$$. + the doctors are in their pockets. I saw thing on news where doctors were recieving checks for $10,000.00 and higher unsolicited from big drug companies. along witht he check was simply a contract to sign stating they would prescribe their brand drugs!!!!!! there were a few doctors outraged and mad but i think most of them cashed the checks and comply!!!!!!!! just my opinion and putting kids on psych drugs younger and younger everyday, all these politicans making too much money off the big pharmaceutical companies to care
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PPL don't argue over ideas or possible solutions, but instead argue to assert their egos and release frustration. Once U realize this, U will neither argue nor take arguments seriously
Edited by stevesmith (10/14/04 08:26 AM)
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