Brief Answer: Unfortunate Detailed Answer: Hello, Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query. I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through. Paxil is actually paroxetine and it is a good drug for anxiety disorder. Manytimes when there is a good effect with drug the benefit persists. The event that you have experienced is very rare. Still i would call it unfortunate and plan ahead. The options are waiting for another one week, switching to a new anti depressant, adding it with cognitive behavioural therapy. First option is good and in case the symptoms have increased transiently due to some new stress then its prudent to wait. However even after waiting if the symptoms persist then iy would be advisable to change the antidepressant. Escitalopram, mirtazapine, venlafaxine are certain other examples. If you are a kind of person who desnot like taking medicine then cognitive behavioural therapy is a good option. It involves focussing and changing your thought process with the help of client focussed one to one therapy using weekly sessions. Hope I am able to answer your concerns. If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you. If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback. In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link: bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy Wish you good health, Kind regards Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.

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Brief Answer: unlikely Detailed Answer: Hello Thanks for the follow up. It can be a withdrawal effect. But as you are on drugs that is unlikely. It may not be an adverse effect and this effect is not common. If at all this is adverse effect then it should subside in 3 days after discontinuing medicine. Regards Dr. Srikanth Reddy

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Brief Answer: No it should not matter Detailed Answer: Hello You being on paxil for the first time should not matter. You can be assured of that. Regards Dr. Srikanth Reddy

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