i am on 8.4mg of paxil now after being on 20mg for 12 years.

i didn't know then but these are bad drugs that change the brain chemisty.

i have only got down from 20mg to 8.4mg - by doing the 10% taper every 3-6 weeks. when in the past if i missed a dose or tried to come off seroxat too quickly by dropping from 20mg to 15mg the head zaps and bad thoughts were so bad - so i would have to go back up to 20mg.

this time round by doing the 10% i have none of that - just my anxiety which i have anyway. i would be rather anxious off of seroxat then anxious on it!

i started tapering last july. i am looking at getting off it completely by next march.

a nice slow taper, where the brain can adjust back to baseline and i can still function and work, etc.

19 months taper in total.

lets get this done

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Quote Originally Posted by dan1234 View Post
Meds don't claim to cure anything.
yes they did.

the advertising campaigns in the 1990s' were criminal by telling us how wonderful these drugs could be.

we got lied to.