Topic Title: Paxil should be taken off the market!
| |  "Paxil should be taken off the market!"
, Wed 2 Oct 08:39
It seems that Paxil has more negative effects than positive. You couldn't pay me to take Paxil!! It seems like the worst of the worse anti-depressants. And the psychiatrists act like they don't even care about people complaining about the side effects. I really think they should just take this stupid drug off the market.
Posts: 25 | | Registered: Tue 10 Sep 2002 15:9 |
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| |  "Re(1):Paxil should be taken off the market!"
, Mon 14 Oct 15:29
Karla, I have read about the side effects of Praxil as well as the other SSRIs - Zoloft and Prozac. I have generalized anxiety disorder which can lead to periods of depression - if you're always worried about everything it doesn't take a genius to figure out you can become depressed. Thank God I did the research - it convinced me to take SJW first. So far its working - I still have periods of uncontrolled worry but they don't last as long and I don't get as depressed nor does the depression last.
Because I only read about the side effects I don't know if I have a complete picture. I read the drug information in the Physicians Desk Reference (basically the literature all drug manufacturers are required by the FDA to publish). Because Praxil is the drug most often prescribed for anxiety, I would have probably been on it.
thanks, Leo
Posts: 31 | | Registered: Wed 13 Mar 2002 8:58 |
| | "Re(1):Paxil should be taken off the market!" , Thu 3 Oct 16:17
I too took paxil for only 3 and a half weeks and I hated it...gave me more anxiety. I do seem to have more headaches than before and i never used to get many headaches at all.
I noticed after I got off paxil, my anxiety went into more depression and bizarre thought patterns...
I have tried going with nothing but am just tired of the runaway depressive mood.
Today I started St John's Wart and am hoping for the best!
I feel good about going natural
Harry
Posts: 3 | | Registered: Tue 13 Aug 2002 17:40 |
| | | "Re(2):Paxil should be taken off the market!" , Thu 3 Oct 16:39
I heard the withdrawal symptoms are horrible! It's really a shame that there isn't one prescription anti-depressant drug out there that doesn't have all those terrible side effects. Thank God for herbs like SJW, 5-HTP and Sam E.
Posts: 29 | | Registered: Tue 10 Sep 2002 15:9 |
| |  "Re(1):Paxil should be taken off the market!"
, Thu 3 Oct 04:20:
Yes totally agree Karla, I took it for 3 weeks and that was enough for me - luckily I escaped any withdrawal ordeal as I had not been taking it for very long. These GPs hand it out like candy.
My friend was also prescribed it by her GP - she has a history of manic depression and it specifically says in the Paxil leaflet to use caution if the patient has had mania. Guess what? After 4 months of taking Paxil, she is back in the psychiatric hospital.
Suling
[this message was edited by Suling on Thu 3 Oct 04:22]
Posts: 9 | | Registered: Sat 28 Sep 2002 23:37 |
| | |  "Re(2):Paxil should be taken off the market!"
, Sat 5 Oct 12:34
Hi,
I took Paxil for about 9 months. It took me 6 months to wean off.... While I can say that it may be the devil in disguise (sp?), it got me thru a really bad time. I have been on a website for paxil for about 2 yrs and i would venture to say 0% hate it and 30 % love it.
george
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Sat 5 Oct 2002 12:31 |
| | | "Re(3):Paxil should be taken off the market!" , Thu 17 Oct 13:07
uh, that should have been 70% hate 30 love....
Posts: 1 | | Registered: Sat 5 Oct 2002 12:31 |
| | | "Re(3):Paxil should be taken off the market!" , Thu 17 Oct 13:05
I must disagree even though I hate taking medications of all sort. I was on paxil for almost 2 years after having tried Paxil - SJW - Paxil in that order. Reason I gave up SJW erlier was that it left me a little bit on edge.
Details: Started on Paxil 20 mg in May 2000, hated it first week, but then body got used to it and only side effect I ever had was sleepiness. I needed almost 10 hours a day and getting up in morning was very difficult. For that reason I tried SJW (starting in Jan 2001). I was on 600 mg a day of hypericin and was doing ok except that I was anxious and on the edge and scared of people and situations. So I got back on Paxil in April 2001 and since have been on it (15 mg a day). I have no sexual side effects (luckily!) , maybe slight weight gain of 15 lbs, or 7 kgs (for Non-US folks), very little anxiety in social situations and barely any depression.
So I am back on SJW now for last 2 weeks and slowly weened out Paxil. Now am taking 750 mg of SJW and feel ok except for the weening off effects of Paxil. head feels funny as if chemicals and nerve firings were paying hvoc. But am ok albeit scared.
Now I read that SJW was proved to be ineffective in a large US study and am scared if I am taking the right steps. Biggest problem is that the docs are no help in managing SJW.
Any insight will be appreciated
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Thu 17 Oct 2002 12:56 |
| | | "Re(4):Paxil should be taken off the market!" , Sun 20 Oct 07:45
Hi, for what its worth: I checked out the actual studies on sjw being 'ineffective' that were conducted by the FDA. Its worth checking, sorry I didn't keep the urls but they should either be on this site or check on search engine.
Basically, the news media and FDA played up the conclusion that sjw was 'ineffective' when the results would have been characterized as 'inconclusive'. In the study I read, patients with major depression (the medical term for what we would call clinical depression), were given two tests which 'score' their depression. Based on the scores, the patients would be considered 'severely' depressed. Note that sjw is recommended for 'mild to moderate' depression. None the less, the study compared sjw, zoloft (with its generic name used), and a sugar pill. Three trials were run. On two of the three trials, sjw and zoloft were almost identical in the percent of patients whose test scores showed improvement. BUT, the SUGAR PILL was almost TWICE as effective in releaving symptoms in these trials. In only one of the trials did zoloft do better than sjw and the sugar pill. With the sugar pill a close second by the way.
So, with this type of result,most honest researchers would say the result was inconclusive, not that it 'proved' sjw was ineffective.
Lastly, given the cost and side effects of zoloft vs. sjw, and the fact that there is only about 10 years of use for zoloft vs 1000 (that's right one thousand) years of use of sjw - I would say that sjw is a good first choice. If you take the recommended dose of .3% standardized at 900 mg per day and don't get relief in 6 to 8 weeks, then you could see an md about zoloft or other ssri's. In posts, some people find that the ssri's are great, but a LOT of people have very severe problems. As for me, I'm sticking with sjw for now.
Sorry for the long post, but this 'study' is a pet peave of mine.
Leo
Posts: 44 | | Registered: Wed 13 Mar 2002 8:58 |
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