My love hate relationship with Seroxat

I'm currently on seroxat and have been for 3 years after my panic attacks got so bad I became agraphobic. Anyway much better now. After a year I slowly reduced my dose and came right off it, there was the zappy electric shock side effect of coming of it but eventually that stopped too. Everything was great for a month and then slowly the evil dark little world surrounded me once again so I went back on seroxat. I'd like to eventually come off completely, when I reduce the dose to less than half a 20mg pill my bad days start to out-number the good. I've recently decided to just keep my dose at half a pill. This dosage keeps me level. I have loads of confidence and people would never know I had an anxiety disorder but I can't drop the feeling that the higher my dose the more of my true personality is being traded in. I lose apart of myself and sometimes feel like I'm taking a back seat in my own life. I don't mind being medicated for the rest of my life but not this way.

ANyone else feel the same way about Seroxat. I'd love to change my meds to something better if it was out there...

Another thing I notice as I raise my dose is the change in body shape. I eat well and excercise regularly, I don't change my diet but the higher my dose the more I put on weight around my middle, unsightly flab I just can't shift.

So yeah... there's all my drama laid out for you lot to comment on and please do. I'll be sure to check this post regularly.

I'm also open to any non med treatment or therapy or therapy group if anyone has any good info.

Cheers
J

Well you aksed the question so I am answering it!

Have you concidered trying The LInden Method? I guess I would aks that though!

Seriously, if you really want to get better, naturally, this is the solution. I have treated over 27000 sufferers using my method and MOST get completely well again.

I know you will benefit from it and sincerely hope that you will give it a go.

Charles

I really liked the way you put it - "a back seat to my own life" Seroxat is just that. I have been taking Seroxat/Paxil for the last 10 years because I simply canīt get off it. ( My advice to you is this: Youīve been on it for 3 years so, get off off it now while you can! Donīt let G.S.K. take any more years off your life ) Itīs no fun not being able to cry or feel emotions anymore. I feel like a God damn robot. My sex drive is gone. Iīve wasted what should have been the best years of my life. I lost a friend in a car crash and I was put on Paxil at the age of 18. Wow! Man did it improve my life. I forgot all about that friend and the pain vanised. I became an outgoing hilarious person to be with. Nothing could stop me. Then after the first six months, I was told to come off it. I thought - NO WAY - so, I didnīt. I was doing all sorts of crazy things. I felt so powerful and in control. However, there came a time when it was suggested again that I leave Seroxat. And so I tried. I would give anything to go right back to the day before I took that pill for the first time. I would love to cry and cry and cry for the loss of my friend autil my tears run dry. I have never had such a bad experience as I did while trying to come off Seroxat. It is hell and it happens to everyone so I askyou now, PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE SEROXAT AND PLEASE WARN ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS ABOUT IT AND EVEN THE NEIGHBOURS THAT YOU CANT STAND BECAUSE I WOULDNT WISH THE WITHDRAWAL SYMTOMS ON MY WORST ENEMY. - ITīS THAT BAD - BELIEVE ME.

I plan on setting up a website to start cyber begging like www.savekaryn.com in order to raise money to check myself into a rehab clinic to get off this crap once and for all. I find that trying to juggle work and go through withdrawal is impossibl and as Iīm not a wealthy person by any means, I have no other option but to leave my job for when that day finally comes ( and I look forward to it. ) Withdrawal symptoms in my xase include huge loss in weight, lack of appetite, bouts of non stop crying, inability to sleep, violent outbursts of rage and anger, insulting people and screaming blame at people. A person going through withdrawal isnīt a person but an animal out of control and its very very scary. I have lost what I had of a relationship with one of my sisters due to this drug and Iīve even written to Michael Moore to try to get him to do a documentary about Seroxat and Paxil.

contact me at: balletyeah@hotmail.com

My GP prescribed Seroxat about 6 years ago for a bout of depression. 2 days after starting the course I phoned my GP in a panic as the side affects were just awful - he said it was early days and to pursue with it. I gave it a further 2 days and decided the depression was better than the feelings the Seroxat was giving me and vowed never to touch the stuff again! I did take Prozac again though

I agree the stuff is poison. Ruined many years of my life. Took one and a half painful years to kick off it completely. Never felt quite the same either. Weight wont shift and memory terrible..oh well. Still good luck kicking it, you will feel better than being on it.. eventually.

great. Not quite what I was hoping to hear... perhaps I'll give this Charles Linden fella ago!