| Posted at 7:25 AM on Feb 01, 2005 by medicineroots, #7563 |
My blood pressure was perfect before taking paxil. I periodically take my pressure at a local grocery store and yesterday it was 143 over 102. I just called to ask what the proper procedure was to ween myself off of it. Let's see what the doc says. By the way, he put me on high blood pressure meds after I started getting high pressure. This sucks. I think sometimes they do very close business with drug reps. Ami I paranoid? Oh, wait, don't want to take a 3rd med.
Exactly right thing to do. If a doctor will not listen to patient then he is not a doctor worth having and must be replaced. Especially with your pre-existing condition I am surprised he wouldn't hear you on this. Ditch him, and get off the drug. If you have not researched how, SSRI's are tricky, especially this one. It has the highest rate of withdrawal effects in it's class. You're head probably felt like it was going to explode because they are very activating in the sympathetic nervous symptom. So, half it for week, maybe two, and then get off it. You haven't been on it long, so you might not have bad effects.