Posted by Laney on April 21, 2010, at 12:22:16
In reply to Re: Are Psychs avoiding helping with Paxil withdrawal?, posted by tcv on April 21, 2010, at 9:41:02
Well I've had some experience with trying to discontinue paxil. It's damn hard. I'm still on it. 10mg. after 13 plus years. I say try to get down to 20. I can take my 20 and pretty quickly go down to 10. But going down below ten is much harder and below 5 for me seems impossible. So far it has been. If you feel fine at 20, I'd re-evaluate the need to go off. I basically should have stayed on paxil as it was working fine. Katgirl has had horrible problems after getting off paxil. Then her problems really began. I hope I'm stating this correctly.
Some people seem to have no problems and others, it's pure hell. I'm of the latter. I think it's the amount of time we've been on it.
There's a site called "Paxil Progress" that says to go down 10 percent every 2-4 weeks which would take absolutely forever to do it from 40. They're a little too anti-med for me.
Doctors don't know what the hell to do about those of us that have such severe w/d. At least that's been my experience.
I wish you the best. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones.
Laney
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