Posted by lukeds on November 28, 2006, at 8:49:54
In reply to Life after Seroxat/Paxil, posted by MrBrice on November 27, 2006, at 15:10:25
> i am on the verge of adding seroxat to my medication-mix. For the moment, all i can think about are those horrible threads and tv-shows about how extreme the withdrawal is and how seroxat actually ruines people's lives.
There is a trick to pass the withdrawal, with the less suffering possible (own experience)
You must pass from paxil to Anafranil, in a dosage equivalent to the dosage that you were taking of paxil. I.E. 40mg of Paxil=100mg of Anafranil aproximately, then you reduce it very slowly. The first week from 100mg to 75mg, the next from 75 to 50mg, next 50mg to 30mg, 30mg to 20mg, 20mg to 10mg, and take the smallest dosage of Anafranil that is 10mg during one week or 10 days and left it. I did it and I felt some withdrawal symptomps, but they were less strong thant to leave paxil slowly directly (that 3 years ago I couldn't leave it).> My question now is: When the withdrawal has passed, are you back to your normal self? Or does it actually screw up your brains and cause permanent damage?
With the time (months) you come back to a normally state, and don't cause permanent damage to your brain (It is one of the safest drugs of all of the antidepressants). (I took it for 8 years, and it was fantastic for my anxiety, depression and OCD, but with the time lost efficacy, and it has strong sexual side effects). The problem is that if you take this drug, is because you suffer depression, anxiety or something that make you to need it, so if you stop taking it, your mental illness will appear again, and you will have to take an antidepressant again. Maybe the same or other.
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