What are the Paxil side-effects for breastfeeding mothers?
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Paxil has low blood plasma levels in the mother, and a low transfer rate to human milk. It was undetected in the blood plasma of 7 of 8 breastfed infants in one study, all 16 of the infants in a second study, and all 24 of the infants in a third study. For babies exposed to paxil in utero, there is evidence that withdrawal may occur 24-48 hours after birth.
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It is the only medication of its kind that quickly brought depression/anxiety under control (for me and other members of my large extended family), perhaps because it impacts both Serotonin and Norepinephrine levels.  Slight dryness of mouth and some fatigue were the main side-effects ... minor compared to the alternatives ... this medication has probably saved lives in our family.
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My dear Friends. Don't use any chemicals to control your MIND. For one thing there are side-effects; really bad ones. YES Prozac and klonopin  will effect the baby. You need some breathing exercise. Please consult your local chapter of The Art of Living Foundation (A non-profit organization for social change) . The course teaches you to control your emotions through breathing. It will reduce your stress and anxiety and give you a healthy body and mind. Your children will thank you for giving them a quality of life that every new born deserves.
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I know the sensation you're talking about. I was on Paxil for a while and when I was comming off it I got rushes through my head (felt like electricity), plus I'd get dizziness along with it that felt a little bit like vertigo. I cut my dose down gradually over about a month or so. Have you tried 75mg for a week then 50mg for a week, then 25mg for a week, then one every other day for a week?
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when i was pregnant my dr. told me about paxil,and it didnt hurt my child.
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well have you notice any differences since you started taking paxil? heres a website:www.seacoastonline.com/news/06082006/communit/106849.htm
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SIDE EFFECTS: The most commonly-noted side effects associated with escitalopram are agitation or restlessness, blurred vision, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping, drowsiness, dry mouth, fever, frequent urination, headache, indigestion, nausea, increased or decreased appetite, increased sweating, sexual difficulties (decreased sexual ability or desire, ejaculatory delay), taste alterations, tremor (shaking), weight changes. Although changes in sexual desire, sexual performance and sexual satisfaction often occur as a result of depression itself, they also may be a consequence of the drugs used to treat depression. In particular, about one in 11 men given escitalopram report difficulties experiencing ejaculation.\n\nSome patients may experience withdrawal reactions upon stopping SSRI therapy. Symptoms may include dizziness, tingling, tiredness, vivid dreams, irritability, or poor mood. In order to avoid these symptoms, the dose of SSRI can be slowly reduced instead of abruptly stopped.\n\nIt has been suggested that SSRIs may cause depression to worsen and even lead to suicide in a small number of patients. These potential side effects are difficult to evaluate in depressed patients because depression can progress with or without treatment, and suicide is itself a consequence of depression. Moreover, the evidence supporting these potential side effects is weak. Therefore, no conclusions can yet be drawn about the relationship between SSRIs and worsening depression and suicide. Until better information is available, patients receiving SSRIs should be monitored for worsening depression and suicidal tendencies.
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This is a difficult question to answer. In Australia, prozac is not recommended for use during pregancy or breast feeding. However, this is because there is a lack of data. Currently there is no information to suggest it has been dangerous for thousands of pregnant women who have taken the drug over the past 15 years during it's time on the market, apart from that in animal models. The women who have used it have shown no adverse effects but there may be some which have not yet been identified. \n\nDiscuss this with your doctor BEFORE stopping your medication. This is a personal choice you need to make. Ensure you are informed. Your doctor may feel it would be best for your health as well as your child's that you stay on the medication. Alternatively, he may also indicate you're doing well and may be safe without it. The best thing to do is not be alarmed by the comments above. Seek professional medical advice before making your decision.\n\nBest of luck!
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Here's the side effects.  My girlfriend takes lexapro and had the oh so fortunate side effect of loss of sex drive until it built up in her system, as is common with most antidepressants.  That took about a month.  There's more on the source.\n\nSIDE EFFECTS See also the Warning section. Nausea, drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, increased sweating, and trouble sleeping may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist promptly. Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects. Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: changes in sexual interest/performance/satisfaction, uncontrolled muscle movements (e.g., tremor, twitching). Tell your doctor immediately if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: unusual or severe mental/mood changes (including rare thoughts of suicide), easy bruising/bleeding, black stools, vomit that looks like coffee grounds, fast/irregular heartbeat, fainting, seizures, changes in the amount of urine. For males, in the very unlikely event you have a painful or prolonged erection lasting 4 or more hours, stop using this drug and seek immediate medical attention, or permanent problems could occur. A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include: rash, itching, swelling, severe dizziness, trouble breathing. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist
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It's different for everyone. Your body will react to a drug differently than the next person.\n\nI tried it once and it did not help. There is a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, producers of Paxil, where many patients have died due to complications with the medication.
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Please get help!\n\nWhat are common symptoms?\nSymptoms of postpartum depression include extreme fatigue, loss of pleasure in daily life, sleeplessness (insomnia), sadness, tearfulness, anxiety, hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, irritability, appetite change, and poor concentration.\n\nIt may be helpful to make a list of postpartum depression symptoms that you can take to your health professional. See a postpartum depression checklist  (What is a PDF document?) . \n\nAlthough any women with PPD can have fleeting, frightening thoughts of suicide or harming their babies, women with rare postpartum psychosis experience these thoughts as urges they feel compelled to act on. If you think you can't keep from hurting yourself, your baby, or someone else, see your health professional immediately or call 911 for emergency medical care. Other resources include: \n\nThe national suicide hotline, National Hopeline Network, at 1-800-784-2433.\nThe National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.\nWhat causes postpartum depression?\nPPD seems to be triggered by the changes in hormone levels that occur after pregnancy. These hormonal changes are especially likely to lead to postpartum depression if you've had depression before, have poor support from your partner, friends, or family, or are under significant additional stress. 1 \n\nEvery woman has a risk of postpartum depression during the first several months after childbirth, miscarriage, or stillbirth. Women with a history of depression or postpartum depression have an even greater risk. A personal or family history of bipolar disorder , also known as manic-depression, increases the risk of postpartum psychosis.
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Wild Yam is good for birth control, you take 4 capsules in the morning and 4 at night, take it at least 8 weeks before relying on it and not using other methods.  It has no side effects so it could help your problem.  An antidepressant from your doc might also help.  Do not call CPS again, once they get involved it will only get worse.  Rely on friends and family instead.  My PMDD went away when I went on a raw vegan diet.  Try livingfoods.com or rawfoods.com for more info.  Cooked starchy food (bread, pasta, potatoes) and fatty foods were the culprits.  You can also use Niacin as an antidepressant, (take an aspirin first to prevent flush ) and GABA for anxiety.  Parenting is tough.  Ask yourself how you can do it differently when you're in a no-win situation.  Give yourself time-out.  Let her go naked.  If you have to go somewhere, take the pants with you and try again later.  Also, I took resentments I had against my husband out on my kids, so ask yourself what is really going on.  Her Blood Is Gold is a great book, tho out of print I think.  It explains in other cultures how women are allowed to rest before and during their moon.  It is a time of emotional cleansing, we are usually pretty honest then.  My symptoms would start mid cycle, then improve, then hit full blast.  My main symptom was hatred.  At least you may have an easier menopause.  I did. Good luck.
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How to Stop Taking Paxil, Paxil CR: Your doctor should be recommending that you reduce your of the CR dosage by 12.5mg every four days. You should probably make it five days because Paxil's discontinuation syndrome is so harsh. That means putting up with the suck-ass side effects for longer, but trust me, it really sucks less this way.  Based on the 15-20 hour half-life.  If your doctor says something that's slower than that, go for it!  I'm all for slower discontinuations.  Four to five days is the fastest you can step down the dosage.\n\n\nHow To Safely Stop Taking Psychiatric & Anti-Epileptic Medications\n\nLots of people hit this site wanting to know how to stop taking their crazy meds.  That's understandable.  There are many good reasons to stop taking the meds.  There are also many bad reasons to stop taking them.  I'll try to help you sort out the good from the bad reasons.  But if you do have good reasons, you have to stop taking the meds safely.  Sudden or rapid discontinuation can lead to many problems.  This guide is just to use to make sure that you and your doctor have worked out a good discontinuation schedule for a medication, presuming you have the luxury for such. \n\nYou must work with your doctor! You are not qualified to make this decision on your own.  Got that?  What you and your doctor need to do is work out a discontinuation schedule for any medication.  This is the reverse of the titration schedule (if any, which I'm actually against), which was the plan of how your dosage was increased.  The discontinuation schedule is the plan of how you'll decrease the amount of a med you'll take.  Ask your doctor what it is based on.  There are three things a discontinuation schedule should be based on:      \nthe half-life of a drug \n\nlooking for the return of any symptoms \n\nexperience with taking someone off a med \n\nThe last one is either other people going off the same med or you coming off of the same or other meds.  Or both. \n \n\nIf you're lucky enough to get an explanation from your doctor, the half-life of a psychiatric medication is often explained like this, "It's out of your body in that many hours, but it's still in your brain." That's a gross oversimplification, but it's close enough for government work. Here's a way to picture the half-life in action. Take a glass and fill it half full with some beverage. Now fill it the rest of the way with water. OK, now empty it half of the mixture out and top it off with water. Keep doing that until you have something you'd drink and that could pass as water. The number of times it took to do that is the half-life, expressed in a quantity of water, of a particular beverage. Try it with a different beverage and you'd get a different half-life. Half-life means how long it takes for half of the metabolites to get flushed out of your system. The half-lives of meds is expressed in time because the process of adding water to the glass is more-or-less constant in your body. And in the environment for the half-lives of radioactive materials. So using Effexor (venlafaxine), if you're down to your last 37.5mg dose after 20 hours you'll have 18.75mg left in your body. Twenty hours after that you'll have about 9.4mg left. And so forth until it's gone, about 80-100 hours after your final 37.5mg tablet. Please, don't get all Xeno's Paradoxical on me, after four or five passes, as it were, a med is so broken down that the effects shouldn't be noticeable. The only real variable is not if it's four or five times the length of the half-life, but if you metabolize the med quickly or slowly. These half-life numbers are the based on the arithmetic mean averages from clinical trials and studies. Read the pharmacokinetics section of the med's PI sheet carefully to see what the known range of a drug's half-life is.\n\nAll right so where does this "In your brain bu
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Well, a well-rounded healthy diet can't hurt.  She should avoid stimulants such as coffee or cigarettes and depressants such as alcohol.  Of course, she should avoid illicit drugs altogether.  A nice, cheap course in yoga or meditation down at the Y might help and she should take half an hour a day to just be quiet and focus on herself.\n\nBut frazzled, ADD and addictive are all signs of a chemical imbalance of the brain.  And it's possible that a course of Paxil or Welbutrin or another seratonin reuptake inhibitor might really help.  With some trial and error, side effects can be minimized.
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I was on 20mg anti deppressants for 9 months, which was called Paxil.  I was running out and I had moved 10 hours away from the doctor that prescribed it to me, so I decided to get off of them.  I cut them in half and I didn't feel any different and then I threw out the last few pills I had.  That's when I had withdrawals, which was horrible!!  I've never been through withdrawals with anything and it was so bad that while I was walking to work one day, I had to turn around and go back home because I just couldn't make it.  It lasted for a good week and finally I was off of the pills for good.  I can't say that I'm cured, but truly and honestly I don't want to go back on the pills.  I was told that I did the wrong thing and I should of consulted a doctor before getting off of them, which I think you should consult your doctor before you get off of the pills for good.
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i works my daughter takes it.\n If you experience any of the following serious side effects, stop taking Lexapro and call your doctor immediately or seek emergency medical treatment:\n     · an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives);\n     · an irregular heartbeat or pulse;\n     · low blood pressure (dizziness, weakness);\n     · high blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision); or\n     · chills or fever.\n• If you experience any of the following less serious side effects, continue taking Lexapro and talk to your doctor:\n     · headache, tremor, nervousness, or anxiety;\n     · nausea, diarrhea, dry mouth, or changes in appetite or weight;\n     · sleepiness or insomnia; or\n     · decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm.\n\ndo not know about the weight gain