Hey People , im a new user , anyone here an ex-seroxat user?

[redking]

Hi everyone

Im an ex-seroxat(paxil/paroxatine) user from ireland, i am part of a class action against GSK(the makers of seroxat), and was wondering is there anyone else in here a current user or ex-user of seroxat? Or anyone part of the u.k. or u.s. seroxat/paxil class actions?
Cheers........

 

[jakejohnson007]

Hi

Hi,

I am an ex-user. I took paxil for 5-6 months and it helped me a lot. It reduced my social anxiety and depression by half. It may have helped significantly more if I had not been taking Accutane during that same time frame.

Paxil definitely helped me, although its effect seemed to plateau off before fully eliminating the problems. I quit paxil cold-turkey (yes, stupid, to not gradually taper off it), and experienced lightheadedness and blurry vision.

While on Paxil, I noticed emotional numbness and sexual dysfunction as main side effects. The emotional numbness, I am not positive if that should be attributed to Paxil or not. The sexual side effects were definitely there, but in my opinion were minor compared to the benefits of the medication.

Why are you suing the company? For my situation, Paxil has got to be one of the best medications out there, although I have left it and am seeking a more potent one at the moment.

 

[POB]

hi there

I m so glad i have met someone i can talk to about wot happened to me after using seroxat. I was on them for around 3-4 months about 3 years ago after my doctor prescribed them to me for depression. They sent me psychotic, i felt like i was goin mad so i told my doctor who advised me to keep takin them which wasnt wot i wanted to hear, so i stopped taking them. 24 hours later i was in bed with the most horrible side effects shakes sweating high heart rate and then came wot i can only describe as a fit or convulsions and unimagineable pain from my brain which felt like i was havin electric shocks to my brain. Sometimes i wld pass out unable to control the pain. This lasted for about 5 days in which times i thought i wld die. I went back to my g.p. who said to start takin them again but i told him i didnt want to they were sending me insane and i was gettin psychotic thoughts.

 

[POB]

I had no choice but to take another tablet hoping to take the fits and pain away, within an hour they had stopped. Anyway i enjured 2 weeks of these withdraw symtoms with no help or support by not taking anymore seroxat. My life has never been the same. I have attempted suicide 3 times resulting in an overdose, lost my wife my daughter my home my personality through taking this medacine seroxat. It has destroyed my life. This is the first time i have told anyone. I remember later the bad press about it and how so many young people had taken thieir own lives which was out of character and i could relate to it all. Please get in contact with me i hope we can help each other.

Thanks ian u.k.

 

[POB]

PEACE IS DECLARED !!
EVERYONE RETURN TO THEIR HOMES, THE WORRYING IS OVER.

 

[J]

I'm technically an ex-Paxil/Seroxat user, but not really-- I only took it for two days. The immediate side effects I got from it made it totally not worth it for me. It does help some folks a lot. Some folks can take it or leave it. And other folks, as I have so often read, got utterly f*cked up by it.

The withdrawal syndrome is not unique to Paxil. I've read that it has been known to occur with all the SSRIs. It also occurs with Effexor, an SNRI. My experiences with Effexor withdrawal (not a fun experience!) included many of the symptoms already mentioned (most especially the "brain zaps"), but less intense and for a longer period (weeks, in some people, months, even with weaning-off).

But is Effexor useful? You bet! All medications have risks, too. The emotional numbness mentioned IS definitely a major effect of antidepressants--that's one of the reasons they are useful. They clear away all the emotional junk and give you a chance to look at things in your life without them in the way. This effect can be taken too far, though, and is one of the reasons I don't take it anymore (I found my utter inability to be sad at a funeral or otherwise react with normal emotions to normally emotional things--the opposite of being overemotional--to be not-so-good.).

 

[Michael07]

Yes, I took seroxat for four months and found that it reduced my social anxiety. However, I had a lot of suicidal thoughts while on this drug and cut myself on several occasions (completely out of character). Needless to say, my doctor took me straight off this drug when I told him this...