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Please help! How long will seroxat withdrawals last?

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amy1234567
amy1234567

ive been on seroxat (average of 10mg) for nearly 10 years now and im 28. ive been trying to wean off for a while now but sometimes id go back when it was unbearable. ive been on 10mg every other day for about a month now and i was quite wobbly in the beginning but felt better after about 2 weeks. ive started feeling really bad again, this sense of doom, hopelessness, constant crying. i feel i'm a burden on my loved ones even though my husband constantly reassures me. i know it's my mind telling me how s**t i am but it's so hard not to listen to it. i dont want to go back on it because i want to be able to have a baby and not worry about the effects it'd have on the baby.

can anyone give me any good news? can anyone tell me ill be ok? i need help, any help

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  • cher79
    cher79 amy1234567

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    Hey Amy,

    I can relate to the horrid side effects of Paxil. It is pure poison. I was on 10mg for a few months and honestly it made me feel terrible. Blurred vision and everything! So I tapered myself. I tapered to 5mg first. Well......the mood swings were so bad and anger! Crying spells, etc. It was bad! But I'm a stubborn person and I said I wasn't going back. My doctor said I should go back to 10mg and I said oh hell no. My vision is blurry! I stayed on 5mg for a few weeks and the side effects did subside but it was still a horrid feeling. Then I decided to cut down even further. I cut a little piece off of the half of 10mg (it is imperfect I know). I guess I was taking 4mg or so. I did that for a week. Then I cut back a bit more, and a bit more after each week. After a month I was down to 1.5mg a day (or around there ..... I didn't have liquid paxil so I was estimating). I still had horrid side effects of only being on 1.5mg. That stuff is pure poison. I stopped it totally a week ago. I know that withdrawl effects last at least 2 to 3 weeks. My vision is still blurry from time to time but not always. My moods are stabilizing but honestly I think this poison should be taken off the market completely. My advice is: be strong. Even when you don't feel strong. Remember the end game of getting off that crap. I do use .5 clonozapam once a week or so just to ease the nerves when I need to. But this medicine is poison. POISON. Sending strength to you and don't give up. 😃

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