Paxil sucks

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
So I'm a little edgy... angry... I'm pretty sure I've always been this way.

Well, stress at work was a little high, so I've been a bit edgier and angrier and this bothered some people. So I went to the doctor and he gave me a prescription for 50MG of Paxil to take daily.

I've been taking it for about four months and wasn't really aware that there was a change in myself, but did notice that my temper was more under control.

In June, I flew to Taiwan and mainland China for business and had a tendency to forget my pill on some days due to being incredibly busy and incredibly jet lagged. When I got home a week later, I crashed right into bed, again fogetting to take my Paxil.

The next day I woke up really dizzy with a tremendous headache and with shooting pains all over my body. I thought I was sick, or over tired from the trip, but it turns out that it was the Paxil because a couple hours after taking a pill, I started to feel better.

While I was in my dizzy state, I got a chance to see myself almost as if I was looking in from the outside. I think from my state of not being on Paxil, I came to realize what Paxil was doing to me. I was boring! I wasn't passionate about work, I didn't "get into" things, I agreed with everyone about everything. I was essentially an android.

I looked online and found that kicking Paxil is very difficult. The way I felt the day I got back from Asia would be the way I'd have to feel for at least a couple weeks as the Paxil leaves my system and my seratonin come back down. I went back to my doctor and told him I need to get off of this stuff. He cut my dosage in half to 25MG. That was about a month ago and this week I'm just now starting to feel more like myself.

I've had spells of dizziness and headaches like before, but not as bad. And they seem to be subsiding. I can now focus better and I'm now at a point of clarity where I can actually look back and see how miserable I was while on the 50MG dose (while I was on the dosage, I was just too out of it to know or care!). I'm scaring my coworkers a little bit because I'm snapping at people a bit more, but I'm ok with that because I now feel I can get things done since I'm more inclined to stay on top of things. In fact, I'm finding that I was, and am now again, quite a dick a lot of the time with bouts of downright arrogance and rudeness. But again, you know what? I'm ok with that. It's who I am. Take it or leave it.

But this Paxil stuff... holy crap. It's dangerous. Bad news. If you can live with having no personality and walking through life with your head in the clouds, more power to you. Me? I like to live life, good or bad, thank you very much.

i was expecting graphs of mood spikes under load.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

Pot is not addictive.

Nobody sucks dick for pot.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: OCguy
It is sad that doctors will prescribe powerful drugs at the drop of the hat. It is even more sad that people will take them.

agreed.

there is something morally wrong with people who take anti depressants?

Are you a scientologist or just a self righteous ass?

Who brought up morals?

Im an agnostic leaning athiest, and I probably put more substance in my body in HS than you ever will, yet I still feel sorry for people who medicate daily to feel "normal."

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: OCguy
It is sad that doctors will prescribe powerful drugs at the drop of the hat. It is even more sad that people will take them.

agreed.

there is something morally wrong with people who take anti depressants?

Are you a scientologist or just a self righteous ass?

Who brought up morals?

Im an agnostic leaning athiest, and I probably put more substance in my body in HS than you ever will, yet I still feel sorry for people who medicate daily to feel "normal."

Don't feel sorry for people.

They feel better.

It is better than feeling miserable.

You sound like an ass when you say that.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Don't feel sorry for people.

They feel better.

It is better than feeling miserable.

You sound like an ass when you say that.

Yea, they feel "better" for a short time. Read the posts of people in this thread. They have to move on to the latest and greatest to get the same high.

I'm not advocating laws saying they shouldnt be allowed to. Adults can make their own decisions and I will never infringe on that. But I have the right to call most of them* dopers.



*I understand there are people who dearly benefit from happy pills, but I also know that they are abused by doctors and patients alike.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

go to rehab and find someone who is there for addiction to weed. i'll bet you $1000 you won't.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Platypus
good for you, medication like that is bullshit in my opinion.

actually thaTS an ignorant and completely stoopid thiung to say!!

There are people who live normal lives and have full time jobs that can carry on a normal life because they take meds!

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
So I'm a little edgy... angry... I'm pretty sure I've always been this way.

Well, stress at work was a little high, so I've been a bit edgier and angrier and this bothered some people. So I went to the doctor and he gave me a prescription for 50MG of Paxil to take daily.

I've been taking it for about four months and wasn't really aware that there was a change in myself, but did notice that my temper was more under control.

In June, I flew to Taiwan and mainland China for business and had a tendency to forget my pill on some days due to being incredibly busy and incredibly jet lagged. When I got home a week later, I crashed right into bed, again fogetting to take my Paxil.

The next day I woke up really dizzy with a tremendous headache and with shooting pains all over my body. I thought I was sick, or over tired from the trip, but it turns out that it was the Paxil because a couple hours after taking a pill, I started to feel better.

While I was in my dizzy state, I got a chance to see myself almost as if I was looking in from the outside. I think from my state of not being on Paxil, I came to realize what Paxil was doing to me. I was boring! I wasn't passionate about work, I didn't "get into" things, I agreed with everyone about everything. I was essentially an android.

I looked online and found that kicking Paxil is very difficult. The way I felt the day I got back from Asia would be the way I'd have to feel for at least a couple weeks as the Paxil leaves my system and my seratonin come back down. I went back to my doctor and told him I need to get off of this stuff. He cut my dosage in half to 25MG. That was about a month ago and this week I'm just now starting to feel more like myself.

I've had spells of dizziness and headaches like before, but not as bad. And they seem to be subsiding. I can now focus better and I'm now at a point of clarity where I can actually look back and see how miserable I was while on the 50MG dose (while I was on the dosage, I was just too out of it to know or care!). I'm scaring my coworkers a little bit because I'm snapping at people a bit more, but I'm ok with that because I now feel I can get things done since I'm more inclined to stay on top of things. In fact, I'm finding that I was, and am now again, quite a dick a lot of the time with bouts of downright arrogance and rudeness. But again, you know what? I'm ok with that. It's who I am. Take it or leave it.

But this Paxil stuff... holy crap. It's dangerous. Bad news. If you can live with having no personality and walking through life with your head in the clouds, more power to you. Me? I like to live life, good or bad, thank you very much.

The problem with drugs like paxil is you need to ween yourself off of them very slowly.
I have a friend that was using zyprexa and zoloft and abulify who decided he didn`t want to take zyprexa. It took the drs almost 2 weeks to ween him from that drug without any side effects.

Good Luck!@!

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
took them years to figure out that prozac was about as good as placebo
its the dodgiest area of "science" around.

you are so full of BS!!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
took them years to figure out that prozac was about as good as placebo
its the dodgiest area of "science" around.

you are so full of BS!!

yea i'd need to see data to believe dat shit.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Platypus
good for you, medication like that is bullshit in my opinion.

this. it should only be taken in cases of *severe* depression. too many people take anti-depressants. these drugs alter their brain!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Platypus
good for you, medication like that is bullshit in my opinion.

this. it should only be taken in cases of *severe* depression. too many people take anti-depressants. these drugs alter their brain!

or severe anxiety.

 

[Modelworks]

If everything in your life is going great, you have a good job, no money problems, loving family and are still miserable then I would talk to a doc about depression. If your job sucks, you are having money problems, and your family life is nothing but arguments, then no antidepressant can fix that, and that is what most people seeking them seem to think.

When someone could have given me $10 million and I wouldn't have cared, clearly something was wrong.

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Yea, they made our place "drug free" back in may, tested all 350 employees on the same day too. Now those (like myself) who used to enjoy a toke or 2 to relax have moved to alcohol, overeating (mine), pain meds or Valium (by going to a Dr. and whining). It has done nothing for the accident rate or productivity, nothing..

 

[surfsatwerk]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

go to rehab and find someone who is there for addiction to weed. i'll bet you $1000 you won't.

As someone who's been involved with 12 step programs for almost 10 years I have seen a lot of young people who have walked through the doors of the meetings I attend claiming pot as their "drug of choice". If memory serves I would say more young people (I'm speaking of kids younger than 20, any older than that is mostly meth and booze) seek recovery for pot than alcohol or other drugs. Granted this is only my personal impression and it may only reflect the local drug culture where I live.

Granted I believe it should be legalized and comparing the effects of pot to meth or alcohol is absurd, but it is a drug and people can and do become dependent on it.

 

[allisolm]

"I've been a bit edgier and angrier and this bothered some people. So I went to the doctor...

I'm scaring my coworkers a little bit because I'm snapping at people a bit more,

I'm finding that I was, and am now again, quite a dick a lot of the time with bouts of downright arrogance and rudeness. But again, you know what? I'm ok with that. It's who I am. Take it or leave it. "

So that, when you shoot up your workplace, we can find the red flags that predicted it.

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

go to rehab and find someone who is there for addiction to weed. i'll bet you $1000 you won't.

I've personally spoken and worked with clients whose primary reason for seeking treatment was marijuana abuse/dependence. The purely physiological effects and mechanisms of addiction are still being studied (although there are those in the field who believe its withdrawal symptoms to be similar to alcohol or opiates), but the psychologically addictive aspect is fairly widely accepted.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: allisolm
"I've been a bit edgier and angrier and this bothered some people. So I went to the doctor...

I'm scaring my coworkers a little bit because I'm snapping at people a bit more,

I'm finding that I was, and am now again, quite a dick a lot of the time with bouts of downright arrogance and rudeness. But again, you know what? I'm ok with that. It's who I am. Take it or leave it. "

So that, when you shoot up your workplace, we can find the red flags that predicted it.

Ha ha... I've been "this way" for a long time. Yesterday, I posted "stuck in traffic" from my mobile Facebook app. Some guys that are on my Facebook that haven't even seen me outside of Facebook for five years said "you're probably going to end up like Michael Douglas in Falling Down". I've never completely flown off the handle or have become violent nor do I ever intend to. My bark is way louder than my bite. In fact, I think it's my willingness to be outspoken and without fear to voice my feelings and/or opinions that keep me sane. I believe it's those that bottle up those emotions are the ones that eventually snap.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Works better for some than others.

As always in topics like this we have the typical "those drugs are always bullsh*t" or "people are weak" or whatever, but these people know not of what they speak.

Like my brother when he was drunk and I was telling him he needs to quit was telling me, "don't tell me not to drink when you are getting high all the time with those damn psych drugs"

I think it comes from the misunderstanding that antidepressants make people high.

Likely because the DO make people high. Just not you. You're low normally, so they just make you normal.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU

Originally posted by: allisolm
"I've been a bit edgier and angrier and this bothered some people. So I went to the doctor...

I'm scaring my coworkers a little bit because I'm snapping at people a bit more,

I'm finding that I was, and am now again, quite a dick a lot of the time with bouts of downright arrogance and rudeness. But again, you know what? I'm ok with that. It's who I am. Take it or leave it. "

So that, when you shoot up your workplace, we can find the red flags that predicted it.

Ha ha... I've been "this way" for a long time. Yesterday, I posted "stuck in traffic" from my mobile Facebook app. Some guys that are on my Facebook that haven't even seen me outside of Facebook for five years said "you're probably going to end up like Michael Douglas in Falling Down". I've never completely flown off the handle or have become violent nor do I ever intend to. My bark is way louder than my bite. In fact, I think it's my willingness to be outspoken and without fear to voice my feelings and/or opinions that keep me sane. I believe it's those that bottle up those emotions are the ones that eventually snap.

yes, you are rationalizing your attitude

am I making you angry?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: Howardyes, you are rationalizing your attitude

am I making you angry?

No. Are you trying to?

 

[hzl eyed grl]

So I'm a little edgy... angry...

You? No wai! :shocked:

On topic; I've taken that and I didn't like it.

 

[JonathanYoung]

Haven't read the entire thread, but yours was an excellent post. I'm tired of all this PC shit going on in the world. There's nothing wrong with a little anger every now and then.

Edit: It's also pathetic that there are pills to make you get along with people better.

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: Whisper

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: BudAshes
just smoke weed when you need to relax. Its the best non addictive drug you can find for stuff like that.

great unless you have random drug tests

Or you eventually become addicted to it.

you ever hear of weed rehab? NOPE!

Drug rehab includes those addicted to pot.

go to rehab and find someone who is there for addiction to weed. i'll bet you $1000 you won't.

I've personally spoken and worked with clients whose primary reason for seeking treatment was marijuana abuse/dependence. The purely physiological effects and mechanisms of addiction are still being studied (although there are those in the field who believe its withdrawal symptoms to be similar to alcohol or opiates), but the psychologically addictive aspect is fairly widely accepted.

I just quit smoking after 25 years, (no choice, had to), my daily usage was about 1/2 joint/day, roughly 1/2-1 gm./day. Didn't experience any physical withdrawal at all but physiologically, I still miss it. 5 months later and it's gotten slowly better, just my 2 cents..