Paxil is part of a class of SSRIs where the medicine doesn't really linger in your system at all, so there's that much more of a difference when you stop taking it.
Right, that makes sense.
Have you ever had heat exhaustion? It was like that, with less sweating. All of a sudden my equilibrium was fried. It hit me pretty suddenly, and it having been a few weeks since I'd talked to my doctor, it really freaked me out at first. I had symptoms for more than three weeks, and it wasn't always a steady climb upward.
That sounds *miserable.* I remember what heat exhaustion feels like all too well, and to feel like that for more than three weeks -- yikes. (Heh--if you figure out how to get rid of those assmonkey-related headaches, let me know. :))
I can certainly understand why you didn't go the Prozac route! Thank you for telling me this. I'm going to do some reading and see if our pain management doc knows about it. (We see a lot of his patients who have chronic pain, for pain management, depression, and anxiety.) Mostly he prescribes Cymbalta, because it's approved for nerve pain as well as depression, but sometimes he prescribes Paxil. I'm not sure how fast Cymbalta clears your system; it's an SSRI and also works on norepinephrine. I'll find out, though.
And here I thought antidepressants were benign compared to the stuff our pain management doc prescribes for pain and anxiety.
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Right, that makes sense.
Have you ever had heat exhaustion? It was like that, with less sweating. All of a sudden my equilibrium was fried. It hit me pretty suddenly, and it having been a few weeks since I'd talked to my doctor, it really freaked me out at first. I had symptoms for more than three weeks, and it wasn't always a steady climb upward.
That sounds *miserable.* I remember what heat exhaustion feels like all too well, and to feel like that for more than three weeks -- yikes. (Heh--if you figure out how to get rid of those assmonkey-related headaches, let me know. :))
I can certainly understand why you didn't go the Prozac route! Thank you for telling me this. I'm going to do some reading and see if our pain management doc knows about it. (We see a lot of his patients who have chronic pain, for pain management, depression, and anxiety.) Mostly he prescribes Cymbalta, because it's approved for nerve pain as well as depression, but sometimes he prescribes Paxil. I'm not sure how fast Cymbalta clears your system; it's an SSRI and also works on norepinephrine. I'll find out, though.
And here I thought antidepressants were benign compared to the stuff our pain management doc prescribes for pain and anxiety.