Hello All - I have been on Paxil for about 3 years now. I'm a 31 ...

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Hello, I am a 51 year old femal and i was looking for some side affects for paxil and began reading some entries here on the web site. Yours sounded a lot like mine. I have been on paxil for 13 years and have gone through the last 10 years on an even keel, so to speak. I started taking 20mg a day for the first 6 years then it didn't seem like it was doing any good any more. I then began taking 40mg as prescribed by my physician because I cried all the time and didn't want to even be around anymore. Sure that helped but did curb my sex drive tremondously but that was okay because I was not in a relationship and didn't care much to be in one. About 2 years ago my physcian put me on 60mg of paxil because I just couldn't pull my act together and my two jobs were very stressful. I had a nervous break down in June this year and was scared to death. I wanted to die and die right now but I got myself some help immediately. It was hard, very hard to do that because I have always be a strong willed woman that stood indepentantly. So after some brief counseling, which I intenstive group therapy; what the hell is that? Not for me I told them. I am outa here. What a joke. I have however been seeing a shrink to help me guide my way to 'happiness', yea right. I have no feeling one way or another about anything. Nothing phases me, I could care less most of the time. I do still cry on occasion but it has to be something drastic.

A few years back one of my employers had told me that paxil was the work of the devil and I should get off that medication immediately. Well I tried to wean myself off of it as suggested by these 'bible bumpers' and oh Lord, was that a bad thing to do. I lost my temper. I screamed when not necessary and the last straw was when that employer fired me because of my attitude. Can you believe that. Hell they were the ones that encouraged me to get off of the med in the first place and "would stand behind me" what a crock of ......you know what. Just yesterday my 'shrink' put me on 80mg of Paxil. I came on this website to find the side affects but here I am writing all this down. If anyone happens to know where I can go to get the side affects please let me know. Funny thing about the 'firing' thing at that empoyment was that they had said it was the work of the devil. Holy crap I feel like I turned into the devils sidekick without it.

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Becky