Paxil Review

I started Paxil CR then moved to Paxil then to the generic brand.  I was on it for about 4 months.  Although this medication helped me with anxiety issues, it started making me uncomfortably numb.  I have never had any addicitons or history thereof and I foind myself craving alcohol like an alcoholic.  There was not a day I wouldn't come home from work and want a drink.

I started behaving eratic and unnaturally hectic.  I visited my dr several times and each time he prescirbed a higher dose.  He felt it was not sedating me enough b/c I was extremely hyper and felt that drinking would calm me.  I started with 5mg and worked my way up to 30mg when I realized, "how far can this go?"  I started feeling like this drug that helped me started destroying me and changing my life.

I was scared to weane myself off of it but I just finished a 3 week process of stopping it.  With severe electric shocks to my head and nervous system, I realized how much this drug actually hurt me rather than help. 

I have read several stories of people who turned into alcoholics from this medication.  I have read how people found themselves to have lost years of their lives and not remembering what put themselves there in the first place. 

Don't get me wrong, the drug started to "help," however, I soon found that while getting off of it, it never helped in the first place.  I feel as though it burnt up parts of my brain.  You won't realize how bad this drug is for you until you go through the withdrawl naturally.

It will FREAK you OUT!!!!  Be ware!!