Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Louisville
Please Read This One About Paxil And Not the Other One ! Posted: 11-08-05 04:27am
My brand new doctor prescribed me paxil
today. I am not a realy big pill person.
So I am wondering if this is worth
bothering with. I suffer from severe
anxiety most days and have for the past
few months. I am concerned about side
effects of the drug. I have been in a
state of depression while coping or trying
to cope with the anxiety and have gained
way too much weight, so I am not needing
or interested in gaining anymore. If
paxil does cause you to blow up like a
balloon, can anyone else tell me a
different alternative. I have to get
this under control. I plan on following
up with some individual therapy, which I
think will help. But, it seems everyone
wants to write a prescription for
everything now and I am not willing to
take anything that I am not comfortable
with. The doctor told me that the side
effects of paxil were possible decreased
sexual drive, and drowsiness. Is that
accurate or a total line of crap? Please
let me know anything to might about this
drug and if this drug does have a ton of
side effects, can you please tell me if
there is one that might have less? Thanks
so much! Jen
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Stu
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 39 Location: United Kingdom
Paxil Posted: 11-08-05 06:43am
All anti-anxiety/anti-depressant
medications have side-effects, and they
are all pretty much similar. That is not
to say that you will experience any side
effects at all though. The majority of
people don't, or if they do they are so
minor as to be completely untroublesome.
The best advice I can give you, and this
is from experience, is to trust your
doctor and take the tablets. Don't
research the side effects because you will
just worry yourself over things that you
most likely will not experience.
Sometimes too much information can be a
bad thing, and particularly for an anxiety
sufferer as they are predisposed to
worrying.
Consider the anxiety you suffer from and
how devastating an effect it can have on
your life. Then think that these tablets
might hold the cure for you. Surely it's
worth risking a couple of minor side
effects if you could get your life back?
Rest assured that many many anxiety
sufferers have been in the same position
as you (myself included) and you just need
to take a leap of faith, take the tablets
and see how you get on with them. Either
that or you sort of run out of options for
treatment, because like I said all the
anti-anxiety meds have similar side
effects. Some work better than others
for some people, but you never know until
you try them.
