Debra, I am catching up and wanted to see how you were doing. I learned the very hard way that some meds have severe, really severe affects that docs just perhaps know about yet or seen enough, perhaps get lost in the system.

I have tried to report what happened to me thru channels of the FDA 2 times and was unimpressed. It took me years to get off Paxil. Years! I was down to half of a pill of the lowest does every other day yet when I stopped it I knew I had to not have anything to do but stay home and be prepared for the consequesnces for at minimum a month. I think it was 3 months before I started to really feel faily normal. Some of it was physical things especially the first 6 weeks. Strong physical stuff. But the most surprising was, and blessing, that I completely escaped the agoraphobia that the Paxil caused. That pill stole several years of my life. My brain wasnt made for it for sure.

I had asked my shrink for another antidepressant because the Paxil demanded I be on so much valium or lorazepam to sleep and not be constantly thrown into a state of anxieity over nothing. I asked if changing me to Serzone would help. He did and told me to go off the Paxil one day and over the next 5 days slowly increase the amount of serzone. By day 3 I was on the floor of my apartment buidling crawling out the door calling for a neighbor to take me to the ER. I was wretching over and over tho there was nothing left in me. My head was in horrific, explosive pain. I was hospitalized.

Annie59