Long story my friend 🙁
After 25 wonderful years in Paxil 20 it stopped helping. And successful cancer surgery fall 2020.
PCP added Wellbutrin 150 didn’t help. Winter 2021 Mayo cancer check and I had uncontrolled shaking and in deep depression-anxiety. Neuro put me on Primidone and Mayo psych said, well Paxil stopped working so he tapered me off to quickly (I found out last fall) at the same time doubled Wellbutrin. I was a basket case. Last fall until April I experienced rough side effects, and depression worsened. Said ok to Celexa and had a terrible terrible reaction.
Had to go inpatient, they put me in ambien and Ativan (didn’t tell me a thing about them) and did a 5 day detox off Celexa and Wellbutrin.
Psych talked me into trying Paxil again and I finally agreed. He did 5 then 10 then 15 in 3 days and sent me home.
I was non functioning, it was terrible. Finally psych nurse said this is not good and began tapering “5 mgs/week’ since I’d “only” been in it for 4 weeks.
Then I found out how bad ambien and Ativan are!!! 😡damn it! So now I’m 7 weeks out from inpatient, fortunately I’m doing better every day, ambien stopped working so am decreasing. I know I should only do one drug at a time but I don’t want to be on these!
So…here I am…7 weeks later, down to 2.5 Paxil and tonight 2.5 ambien from 5. She says I can just stop Paxil after a week or try to cut the pills into 1/8 😕
Then wait a week and I’m going to get off the damn Primidone a barbiturate which interacts with everything. Then the Ativan.
Damn them….
Biggest side effect now is internal vibrations all the time and constant electric head….