I would like to stop taking paxil, I have been on it for 3 yrs. ...

I feel for you. There is a wonderful supportive website with forum on paxil, it's called paxilprogress.org. Please chk it out, there is a lot of support there from people that have been where you are now. , I also took Paxil, and that website literally saved me, and helped me get thru the withdrawals, and decision to quit the drug. Pls visit paxilprogress.org.

Also, you must slowly wean yourself off Paxil, a very slow process, to reduce the withdrawals. This will be discussed on paxilprogress.org. Good luck to you.

I also take Paxil and have for several yrs now. The side effect I get is that I am always hot. I can't stand the hot weather and will sweat at the drop of a hat. When I first went on it I told my dr the side effects I was having and he told me to let him know how I handled the cold weather. Well the cold winters don't bother me at all now. I should move to Alaska.

I know exactly how you feel. I have been taking paxil for 6 years. I was so scared of coming off of it because I heard about all the horrible withdrawal systems. I want to get pregnant soon so I was really determined to get off this horrible drug. Well, I want you to know that I have been paxil free for 10 days and I feel great. I decided to take it extremely slow. I was on 40 mg in March of 07. I dropped down to 30mg for about 3 months and then to 20mg in June. Then in july went down to 10mg. Then I spent about 4 weeks tapering down from 5mg to 2.5mg. My last month I went down to 2.5mg every other day. On October 16 I took my last pill. The only side effect I had was that I became very angry and bitchy. I fought with my husband all the time. Thankfully he knew what I was going through so he didn't take it personally. The anger started about 4 days after I switched dosage and lasted about a week. Once my body got used to it I felt great. I also stopped smoking in April which I believed helped and I stopped drinking coffee in July. I found that caffine gave me panic attacks. I started taking a multivitamin and B12. My doctor also reccommended fishoil. That worked miracles. When I first started going off of it I felt drunk. I was very dizzy and I couldn't see straight. The day after I started taking the fish oil I felt great. All those symptoms went away. I took about 3-4 pills a day. Now that I am off paxil I still take b12, a multivitamin, and the fish oil. So far I have had none of those horrible side effects. Just put your mind to it and you will be able to do it. Just take your time. There is no rush to come off paxil. Once you do it will be worth it. I feel so incredible now and I am so proud of myself for getting off this drug. Haven't had a panic attack yet and hope I never will. Good luck. Just know that there are people out there who are going through what you have been going through. You are not alone. Remember not everyone has horrible withdrawal systems. Beat the odds. I did!!!!

hey i dont know if i can really answer your question, but want to let you know something. I have been on paxil for ten years. i had a bad death in my family when i was 9 ill be 20 in october. besides the death ive been in an abusive relationship and ive been raped. i lost a children 23 weeks along. when i was 23wks i stopped taking my paxil, and my depression and panic attacks got worse. and it caused me to loose me child. now im on 75mg everyday. although, i have tried to stopped bc i met the man of my dreams and are getting married within the next 3 months. but he makes me forget all of the bad and i feel so wonderful. but i start feeling horrible, and i have panic attacks really bad i have head aches so bad that i cant get out of bed at times. so i am back on them and will continue to. i suggest with the best of interest. one paxil taker to another please dont stop taking your paxil...

Hey i just wanted to respond to this post and let everyone my story..On paxil 4 ten yrs. and i started weaning myself (doc. recommendation) about 9mths. ago and it was hard to start but the sideeffects on it were bad to..vivid dreams, night sweats, shkiness, etc. Although i was on 40mgs. i weaned down slowly and now im at 10mgs. and the withdrawl symptoms are horrible the worst ever i have never experienced anything like this ..brain zaps, severe headaches, twitching,DIZZINESS(to the extreme), nervousness, scared this is never gonna end.. i can hardly function properly to make it through the day and to take care of my children without breaking down and crying or needing to sleep just to stop some of the withdrawls for awhile..My doc. has now put me on celexa hopefully to ease these symptoms but it has been 2wks. and so far nothing..n e advice on this shit im sooo scared... anyone know if this shit eases up n how long usually it take for it to? ..Anyway congrats on getting off n i only hope i will be back to the old me soon.....

what do you mean with electrical shocks?

When you pinch your neck and you get that shooting pain in your head? That to me is what the brain zaps are like. I have been on Paxil for 4 years. I am very angry with my Dr. for not telling me about the Paxil withdrawal symptoms. I have been on the 12.5 pills and have been cutting in half for about 8 days now. I have taken the advice of others on this site and am taking sublingual B-12, a multi vitamin and fish oil. So far I am okay. Have a selfish husband though, so sometimes the stress is really hard to handle. Tomorrow I am going to try and quarter my tablets. If that is too much, I will call my Dr. and see if he will give me liquid paxil to make the remaining cut backs more gradual. Yesterday I didn't cut my pill evenly and took the really small portion. I have that weird feeling when I move my eyes today. Good luck to all and keep posting what works for you. This medication is HORRIBLE

do not stop over night...depending on your dosage, you must taper off VERY GRADUALLY, and still, you may have swishing sounds in your head and a sense of vertigo with eye movement especially...Listen to your doctor's advice about quitting SLOWLY. Believe me, I tried to stop abruptly and for six weeks I was walking as if I had to duck from the sky. I went back on my regular dosage when I found out how much good it was doing...aside from the withdrawals...racing thoughts, repeating thoughts, evil to friends, basically, horrible...I plan to stay on it until menopause is over! God Bless!

I hope there are some of you out there still reading these post's. I have been taking paxil for over 10 years. I was started on it after suffering panic attacks in the Marine Corps that started after my experience in the Gulf War. I have always wanted to stop and on one occassion I did but no where near the correct way. I was fine for about a week and then was pounded by panic. Today I still take the medicine but no more than a minute goes by that I do not want to be free from it. The symptoms I feel arfe the same as everyone else has described. Sweat at the drop of a hat, hot all the time, dry mouth, sex is very tough, shock feeling when I miss a dose, and a weird shock sensation that feels like it is connected to my eye's some way and when I move my eye's to either side I feel the shock. The only reason that I do not stop the medicine is that I have not found a good tru alternative. I am more terrified of the panic attacks than I am of the medicine side effects!! I also heard about the multi-vitamine, B-12, and fish oil. I got all of them but have trouble remembering to tak them. I got a larger pill carrier and I plan to start on this coming Sunday. I will let you know if it makes a differance.