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Tips for tapering off Paxil (paroxetine)


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For information, called GSK France today, they said they don't have any official information about a discontinuation of the oral suspension here, nor anything about if and when the product would be back in stock.

December 2020 : got prescribed 20 mg paroxetine (paxil) for an anxiety disorder

Tried tapering in July 2021 by taking 20 mg every other day and failed.

 

Started tapering with the 10% method in January 2022 and switched to an oral suspension. 20 mg = 10 ml

Turned out to be a bit hard. Continuing with 5% drops approx.

 

25 January 2022 : 9 ml / 24 February 2022 : 8,1 ml / 06 April 2022 : 7,3 ml / 2 June 2022 : 7 ml / 11 July 2022 : 6,5 ml / 09 August 2022 : 6,3 ml / 26 August 2022 : 6 ml / 18 Septembre 2022 : 5,8 ml / 17 December 2022 : 5,7 ml / 04 January 2023 : 5,6 / 17 January 2023 : 5,5

 

Xanax from december 2020 to January 2021 / Omeprazol on and off for GERD since december 2020 : 20 mg / Birth control pill since february 2021.

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  • 2 months later...
On 11/10/2020 at 12:39 AM, ChessieCat said:

  

  Rachelina posted this elsewhere:

 

Diluting concentrated Paxil liquid:

 

 

 

Thats a great post. They've told me too that paxil liquid solution for some just doesnt work and actually isn't tested for tapering. This might be the reason.@Rachelinacan you tell me how exactly it is that you dilute the liquid? 

  • 44 years old male
  • job in business and economics
  • into sports, animals and nature
  • Started using 20 mg Paroxetine (Paxil) in 2004 for stressrelated anxiety
  • Attempted several times to stop, starting a few years after 2004
  • I found out in 2015 about paxil withdrawal symptoms and the 5-10% taper
  • Started using liquid paxil in 2015/2016
  • From 20 mg to 12 mg, I went down 5-10%, it took approximately 1.5 years
  • From 12 mg down I was forced to take smaller steps (0,2 ml/4-6 weeks)
  • Since 2018 at 11.2 mg of paxil (5.6 ml)
  • 11/2018 Switch back to 11,4 mg (5.7 ml)
  • Started brassmonkey micro-taper method end dec 2018
  • Developed severe food- and other product sensitivities (anti imflammatory, anti oxidant, food colourings, oils, herbs etc.)
  • Currently on strict diet
  • Had a covid infection twice
  • August '23-november '23 switch from paxil liquid to compounding pharmacy to original tablets and dissolving 1.2 mg in water
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  • 8 months later...

Hey fellow Paxil users. 
What is the half life of this drug and went dies everyone feel
the effect of a drop. I'm trying to figure out a pattern for me and I haven't been able to see a pattern yet. 

1995 started Paxil 20mg slowly increasing to 50mg until 2014

-2014 I decided to tapper myself not knowing how too and crashed , DR added 50mg Seraquel

-2015 tried tapering again and crashed

Seroquel Taper

2/11/16 43mg  1/09/17  37.5mg  10/03/10 36.25mg. 17/3/19 35mg 26/3/19 33.75mg  4/4/19 32.5mg  21/4/19 30mg

16/7/19 28.75mg  5/8/19 27.5mg. 19/8/19 25mg   4/8/20 23mg 18/8/20 22.5mg  12/10/20 18.25mg  10/1/21 15mg  3/8/21 UPDOSE 16mg 2/2/23 15.5mg Brassmonkey Slide Methode 21/08/23 15.24mg  18/08/23 14.98mg

Paxil Taper

2/11/16 40mg 12/10/17 37mg  28/10/17 36mg  10/1/18. 35mg  24/05/18 33mg  28/8/18 31mg 16/12/18 30mg 20/10/19 29mg  17/11/19 28mg 7/1/20  27mg 12/2/20  26mg 7/3 /20 25mg  11/4/20 24mg 4/5/20 23mg  5/6/20 22mg 23/6/20 21mg 15/7/20 20mg  Started Brassmonkey  Slide Method 14/5/23 19.70mg  21/05/23  19.40mg 28/05/23 19.11mg 4/06/23 18.83mg 25/06/23 18.54mg  16/07:23 17.72mg 6/8/2317,46mg 13/8/23 17.19mg 20\8\23 16.94mg 27/08/23 16.68mg

 

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