So what happens when its time to get off Seroxat or if you get the poop out effect(where the side effects outweigh any benifits)???.
For some this can be an ordeal in itself,whilst on the drug your brain has been chemically altered,your seratonin has been messed with and maybe even your dopamine too.How can this be reversed? that question still remains to be answered,for me its been 29 months since my last dose and i still have awful symptoms on a daily basis,symptoms that were not present before i started taking this defective drug.
Basically this drug has given me so many problems that have put my life on hold,i do not live anymore i exist and survive.How can any Pharma company get away with ruining so many lives? i don,t know but they sure do and then they lie about it too.
My life post Seroxat is very hard but i would,nt take the poison again knowing the dark secrets of its side effects that i know now.So what is supposed to happen now the damage is done? what if recovery never comes?is this my life now living with horrendous symptoms? these questions i cannot answer but i think they should be by the people who have put me in this position.
March 5, 2007 at 10:27 am
Hey just found your blog – good luck with it – i’m sure many will find it useful.
My situation is with effexor, but I took seroxat first and I hold my hand up with millions of others and say ‘it induces hell on earth.
I was sectioned for becoming psychotic and manic during withdrawal from effexor last year. I had to fight ridiculously hard to get the medical profession to see what was ridculously obvious – drug withdrawal.
Anyways the point of me writing is to agree and echo what you have said – where is the help for state sponsered drug addicts and victims. There is rehab and methadone for heroine addicts! I am withdrawing again at the moment – it is hell, but perhaps worst of all it is lonely – no systematic medical support or advise in the NHS at all.
I truly hope we will get help and answers, but I suspect we won’t.
Anyways I continue to try and look on the bright-side (at least I know its drug withdrawal and not a mental ‘illness’).
Best wishes and good luck with your blog
keener
March 5, 2007 at 6:45 pm
so sorry you are another statistic of this evil money making attack on humanity,i do believe that effexor is going to be running top for withdrawal problems along with seroxat.Probably because it is a newer drug it is not getting as many complaints just yet,but i am sure it will,as i hear so many times of horrendous withdrawal from that ssri too.
Yes this withdrawal is very lonely ,the only support i have found is from a site called Paxilprogress and have made so many good friends who have offered so much understanding throughout.It was through this site i found the rock i needed in way of a man going through the exact same hell,we have chatted every day and without his support i don,t think i really could of lived through this hell.
But this still has me asking……when are we going to be accepted? when are we going to get any help and support from the doctors that push this drug for big pharma,they know the truth they have done for many years now,but yet they keep denying and want to give us more drugs for the damage caused by ssris.
Thankyou so much for the good wishes,this is one fight i am fighting with passion for every one living with hell caused by Seroxat and other ssris,wishing you the best of luck with your withdrawal journey.
October 22, 2007 at 2:32 pm
No, this is not someone else’s fault. It’s ours. WE chose to trust the highest knowledge of humanity instead of God Himself. Those who made Paxil thought they did a good thing–and so did we. Remember all those times we raved about how our panic disappeared with Paxil? What a wonder drug, we claimed.
And now that we want to quit, we want to blame those who tried to help us? Sorry brothers and sisters. We choose our own destinies.
I’m quitting Paxil after 13 years. Why? Not because it doesn’t work, because it DOES! I’ve been panic-free, and it’s been great.
But as a recent newlywed, I have discovered a less-than-perfect libido, and I have a feeling the Paxil is behind it. It has deadened my fears, but also some of my natural passions. I also think I might be missing out on some of my spiritual sensitivity. I want to get back to what God created me to be.
So I know I may suffer through this. But I am not going to blame the makers of Paxil. I blame myself. Why are people so bent on avoiding personal responsibility for their “happy.” We make our own happiness through the choices we make. I choose to trust Jesus Christ to walk with me through my withdrawal. According to the Bible, which I trust fully, I will likely go through some sufferings as I turn over my allegiance, but will come out a winner if I don’t give up trusting Him.
Is anybody with me?
October 22, 2007 at 5:12 pm
no im sorry i am not with you at all, before this post did you think about the amount of people that were put on this drug for other reasons than panic?!!!, i was given it for a bad reaction to other drugs which induced akathesia, and i was given those drugs for gyne problems that my gp ignored, seroxat did nothing but make me a zombie and a couldn`t care less person.
Then you have a 3 year hell of protracted withdrawal for what?, a drug that i should never of been given.
If you ever need any help and support during the withdrawal to come, then feel free we are always here to help VICTIMS of a poison they fed us that they chose to call happy pills.
If you had a child, if that child was given a drug that caused years of severe distress, would you not look for blame? mmmm i wonder.
Sorry i do not blame myself for being fed poison for 6 years !!!
December 14, 2007 at 9:37 am
I had been on Imipramine for 20 years. I kept wanting to go off of it but my doc kept saying all my symptoms would come back if I did and said I needed to be on it. Last May I had a hysterectomy and after a couple of months wsa feeling quite depressed. MY PA told me I needed a different anti depressant. I said I didn’t want that but she said because of the hormones there wsa no other way to combat the depression. I went on Zoloft (big mistake) but stayed on the other as well, on my PAs orders. After bout a month she said I couls stop the Imipramine. I asked about how to taper it and she said I ddin’t need to, I wasn’t taking enough for it to matter. Well, 3 days later all hell broke loose! I woke up in the middle of the nigh thinkig I was dying. I had such awful digestive symptoms with terrible agitation and panic I thought must have a disease. In the AM I called my PA and she said it’s just GERD and to take Prilosec. I asked if it could have anything with the medications and she no, they can’thave that effect. Well, it’s 4 months later and it is still happening. It seems to go in cycles and it happens only at night, which I just don’t get. I have eliminated all refined flour and sugar products, red meat, all foods containing wheat, dairy, chocolate. All of these foods seem to give me flareups. They do getless intense as time goes on.
There is a great website and product I am saving up to buy that is supposed to help tremendously. http://www.labelmesane.com This woman went through it all and developed this system for helping with withdrawal.
I’m currently having an attack that is why I am up at 4:30am and searching for help. I ate 2 slices of plain roast beef at dinner and am now paying the price.
What symptoms do other people have? You talk about having symptoms but you don’t say what they are. I need to knowI am not alone in this. I can’t even hold down a job.
How long can protracted withdrawal go on? And how wll I know when it’s gone, and when ndo I dare try eating real food again?