Posted by 49er on April 23, 2010, at 6:14:06
In reply to Re: Are Psychs avoiding helping with Paxil withdrawal?, posted by Laney on April 21, 2010, at 12:22:16
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I wish you the best. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones.
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> LaneyHi Laney,
As one who has used the Paxil Progress Method, I can understand why you think it might take forever.
But if you read the various posts, you'll notice that the folks who cold turkeyed or tapered too quickly seem to have alot more problems than the folks who tapered slowly. So really, how long it takes really is irrelevant when you think of it that way.
As far as the site being anti drug, that is true, that is not their first recommendation:) But no one is condemned who chooses meds as the common response is that your qualify of life is what is important..
Also, please don't equate them with extreme radical anti psychiatry sites as people who post information that blames Paxil for things like a hangnail are taken to task. I am not saying you did by the way but many people will infer from your words that this is their philosophy.
Anyway, there is no way I would have had the success I did in tapering off of meds without the support of that site. I don't see any other like it.
49er
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