I have been on Aropax (paroxetine) for just over 30years. My max daily dose was 10mg, recently I realised that the reasons I started it, no longer existed and really wanted to come off it. During the time I’ve been on it , it has mostly been good. If I missed a day I knew fairly quickly and would have a weird sensation where my thoughts took half a second to kind of catch up to what was happening. Anyway, being that I have been on this so long, and sensitive to medication, I have done the tapering extremely slowly. Also, as cutting down tablets can be really inaccurate, I located a local compound pharmacist (after a chat with my gp) so they could break down my tablets to 2.5mg size. I basically have done 10mg and 5mg alternate days for about a month, then 5mg daily for a month, then 5mg and 2.5mg alternate days for a month and now on the last leg @2.5mg daily.
My withdrawals, even though extremely tapered, has been emotional withdrawal. This lasts a few days with each drop down to the next level. I feel like my emotions are sitting just under the surface especially irritability and feeling overwhelmed to where I just want to bust in to tears.
I have to remind myself this is going to pass, it is literally the medical withdrawal. Once I plateau to the next level it seems to come right. Anyway, long spiel but hope this may give some insight to others