Prozac and paxil
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i have had major anxiety for 4 yrs now to the point were i cant be elft alone again, and it is or i am letting it control my life i c drs i have just been switched or in the process of switching from paxil cr 50 mg daily to prozac and i take clonazepam. i c many take xanax. i have heard bad things about that. but i am wondering if prozac is a good med for really bad axiety and fears of dieing..everyday.
Antidepressant medications are different from each other. "Prozac and Paxil significantly, block the metabolism, the breakdown, the effective use of amphetamine products like Vyvanse, Adderall, and Dexedrine.
Yea, Paxil is a bad one for weight gain. Fair warning... If any doctor tries to put you on Remeron and weight is a concern for you then SAY NO WAY.
I have been on both at differnt times in the past. You want to talk about weight gain? OMG! Remeron makes Paxil look like a diet pill! Taking Remeron is like wanting to be fat.
I have recently switched from paxil to prozac because of weight gain my doc told me to just stop taking the paxil and take 1 pill of the prozac for 6 days then take to full dose after 6 days everything was going go until the 5 day of taking the prozac now i am have anxiety attacks and i just feel so out of it i was just wondering if it was just withdrawls from the paxil or has the prozac even had time to kick in yet just tired of feeling so down and out.
I would like information regarding the differences between Paxil and Prozac. I've used Paxil in the past, and the truth is that it is very hard to stop taking it. Right now I'm taking only 10mg (paxil) but I don't feel that is working anymore and have been thinking about switching to Prozac.
Recently came off of Paxil and had terrible withdrawl symptons doing so. My doc put my on Remeron which helped tremedously getting me off Paxil.
Now about to go on Prozac (was on this back in 94 and it was a miracle drug for me) My doctor is going to keep me on a low dose of Remeron for about 3 weeks to help with an side effects from my body geeting use to theProzac anyone else been on both of these meds at the same time?
Paxil should be done on at least a six week taper. It's a tough one to withdraw from. The problem with shifting directly from one to another is you can't tell whether what you're suffering is withdrawal from the last drug or side effects from the new one, so it's impossible for your psychiatrist to help you adapt. Now, because Paxil is so hard to withdraw from for some people, what some psychiatrists do is put you on a little liquid prozac to ease the withdrawal.
Since lowering the dose, I have lost some weight and started feeling better until the panic started recently. Would you recommend switching to Prozac instead? I am ALWAYS sleepy with Paxil and have become a real procrastinator - not to mention the short-term memory issues and sexual side effect - which have improved with the lower dosing as well.
Said that it is not as addicting and will help me through the paxil withdrawl. ??? He said give it a month and then stop taking prozac and getting off prozac is much easier because it stays in your system longer. I am soo sick of taking pills. I went there for help and I left with more pills. Whatever..
Now that I think of it, my dr did give me Prozac once we started the weaning of Paxil. Once I finished the script I was given, I stopped that as well. I'm terrified to go thru anything like this again. It's been absolute hell! Even though I know Prozac and Paxil differ, I was so misinformed about the Paxil I won't risk it.
One other issue/fear is that I have restless arm syndrome. Started right out of high school.
In 2007 i told the doctor that this drug wasnt working for me so he put me on prozac. The withdrawls symptoms from the paxil were horrible and it took forever for the prozac to kick it. the prozac though i feel didnt really do a lot for me, i still continued to have anxiety attacks, trouble sleeping etc. It was like the prozac took the edge off. I have stopped taking prozac again which my doctor is aware of.
t know how to do this, and might tell you the Prozac will just stop any problems stopping the Paxil but it probably won't. So that's the first thing. As for the weight, when I stopped Paxil I lost most of the weight I had gained pretty quickly, but how any other medication will affect you is unknown. Prozac is more stimulating, so it might work, but only trying it will tell, but I wouldn't try anything else until you've successfully and completely tapered off the Paxil.
But the problem is, with both Paxil and Prozac, Chest pains is a serious side effect, so if you feel like its from your medicine, or that its really bad, dont ignore it as it being from your anxiety. It could be a real physical problem.
I often find it hard to determine if the problem is mental or physical because of how strong our minds really are.
Just always wanna make sure.
Also, how are you taking your ativan? every day?
I have been through it trying to figure out if this is even possible. My boyfriend has been taking paxil for over a year, and his last dose he was taking was 40 mg a day. We have moved and couldn't get to the doctor he was seeing. Since then he's been to see one doctor that he informed them he was 'not right' and it seemed the tolerance to the paxil had built up and felt that the mg should be increased... other than that paxil was working like a dream.
took me off prozac because she said it could just be a allergic type of reaction to prozac since it gets in your system faster and put me back on paxil. i was fine after 3 days on paxil and was fine for one week and now all my symptoms are back again but a little worse this time. anyone have something similar? i feel like im going to go crazy if i dont start feeling better soon. my anxiety last all day every day and has been this way for about 4 days so far.
I have a top NYC Obgyn and RE and neither one suggested I stop taking prozac while I was pregnant or trying to concieve.
I think they may wean you off if you become pregnant and move into the late second trimester, but not before then.
It will not harm the baby - only your anxiety and depression can hurt the baby or the ability to concieve. I take prozac, so check with your Dr to see if one may be better than another.
It's possible, but at this point, three drugs, three sets of problems, so no way to tell. It doesn't sound like a particularly harsh withdrawal if it is one, but it does have that classic Paxil ring to it.
I had horrible episodes with my PVC's when I came off of Paxil. I'm not exactly sure why, but my body does better with prozac than paxil. Nearly every time that I have had an "attack" of SVT it was during a time when I was trying to wean off of paxil. Mostly I would just go back on the paxil and decide, well, it's better on than off. Then I got permission to switch to Prozac and I haven't been brave enough to try coming off of that yet.
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