Side Effects of Paxil

Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:15 PM
I'm feeling a whole lot less sleepy since I'm working my way off paxil. I don't know what it could be replaced with, but really don't need to be so sleepy all the time. The actual reason I'm getting off it is that suddenly the side effects got much worse (not sleepiness). I always had scritchy feeling in my teeth and jaw clenching, and unsteady stomach, but I could put up with it, but it got worse. I woke up having the fingernails on the chalkboard feeling in stomach and chest. I felt very unsteady and nervous. I also felt downright throwupy. The medication I was on before the paxil was Lexipro. I had tried it earlier and it promptly made me feel ill, but then I thought maybe I didn't give it a long enough try. So, I was trying it again. Well, it started to give me very weird disturbing dreams every time I slept and since every med. but wellbutrin seems to make me sleepy slipping into sleep or semi-sleep happens quite a bit. I felt like I was in a strange disturbing world all the time. So I quit taking it. Anyway you're familiar with the the joys of side effects. Wheee!