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Re: Paxil, Lexapro and hitting rock bottom

Posted by ProzacPuppet on July 22, 2003, at 22:05:20

In reply to Paxil, Lexapro and hitting rock bottom, posted by roxannamarie on July 22, 2003, at 18:40:42

I know how you feel. but A pill is used more as just a band-aid, something to help heal while you are going through hard times, but if you take the band-aid off before you fully heal, the scares are still there. There's no doubt about it they can make you put on weight, but usually that will happen in the first few weeks and then after the cravings have slowed down going on a good diet and exercising will help you get back to your weight. But that said, thinking a pill will solve everything is not a good idea, it's only really to help aid you get better. And my experience with Paxil wasn't that great either, it made me very mentally foggy and tired all the time, so did a lot of the others, and I just wanted to give up on the pills as well, but then I've had severe depression for a while now and my brain chemistry got to screwed up that I also had a lot of anxiety and social phobia stuff, and without the help of what I'm taking now, which is remeron with a small dose of celexa, I probably would have gotten worse. Remeron and celexa feel like their in a league of their own for me. No more night sweats, and no more foggyness. I would suggest that you talk to your doctor about Remeron, or celexa, because they seem to have way less irratable side effects, but for the first few weeks remeron may make you wanna eat! but the appetite thing does go away after a few weeks and it's usually at the lower dose on remeron that brings it on. But after you've built up a therapeutic dose, exercise and diet will get you back to your normal weight.

And another thing you could try is something like St johns wort, or 5-htp, those you can get at your local health store and they are natural anti depressents that may help, if you don't want to try prescription meds again. Or maybe just talking and therapy will help.

Anton.


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