Posted by utopizen on September 23, 2004, at 19:51:24
In reply to HELP!! Can't Stop Sleeping While Withdrawaling Fro, posted by love bites again on September 23, 2004, at 19:15:15
> I'm trying to go off Paxil as quickly as I can while still not going cold turkey. In the past week and a half I've gone from 2 tabs to a half a tab (not sure of the mg's at the moment) and I can't stop sleeping. I've been asleep for almost 3 days - waking up at around 5 pm just to check my email. Is this par for the course? Has anyone else gone through this? During the day when I get woken up (briefly), I can't distinguish dreams from reality - weird feeling! Really weird! Someone tell me this is normal.
> CherylAsk about Provigil. If that fails, ask about some Adderall or Desoxyn. It'll go away.
What I'm more concerned about is why people are going off antidepressants. Frankly, after being depressed for a year now, and just starting them recently, I would never think of stopping one that I found to work on my depression, hell or high water.
Give me no orgasm, I don't care-- depression is far worse than even the worst withdrawl symptoms.
Whatever doctors are telling patients to go off their antidepressants for is highly suspect. How on Earth could anyone test their fate with the throws of depression so casually? I'm sticking to ADs for the rest of my life if it means I don't have the threat of depression lurking on my back. But that's just me. Others may go their own way... as incomprehensible as it happens to be to me.
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