Paxil Pang
May. 29th, 2011 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deaneOne of the joys of paxil is that the side effects while your body adjusts to it often mirror and amplify the very feelings that you're taking the damned stuff to get rid of. In my case that means that my gut is knotted up like a B&D sub, I get flashes of adrenaline running through my system and a little voice in my head telling me how worthless I am. Lovely.
The paramour and I refer to this as paxil pang, though "pang" really doesn't do it justice.
The pang is at its worst in the morning, starting shortly after I wake up. Most mornings I'm able to get about an hour of work done before it gets to be too bad. Then I take a break, curled up on my bed, feeling sorry for myself. Sometimes I can distract myself by reading or playing mindless games on my phone. If I'm not too dizzy then I can get out for a walk which is great as that really seems to help.
After about two hours the nausea eases off enough for me to have breakfast, though I have to be careful. I'm only eating about half of what I normally would and space it out over half an hour to keep my stomach from getting too upset.
About an hour after that the pang fades away and I feel fairly good, albeit exhausted from the battle. It's then that I can get 3-4 hours more work done.
In the evening the pang returns, but at nowhere near its level in the morning. If I eat dinner early enough I can enjoy a full meal and keep it down. Leave it too late and I'm back to half-rations. If nothing else the pang ought to help me lose some weight. :-)
I can get more work done in the evening, just so long as it's not too challenging.
Fortunately the pang doesn't stop me from sleeping at night, otherwise I'd really be screwed as far as work goes.
Yesterday was the worst day so far. The pang did not go away during the afternoon but continued throughout the day, eventually tailing off later in the evening. I was afraid that this might be the new pattern, but today it returned to "normal".
It takes 2-6 weeks for the body to adjust to paxil. My recollection from the previous time that I went on it is that I was over the worst of the pang after just two weeks. I've got my fingers crossed that I'm equally lucky this time around as that would mean only another 3-4 days of agony.
The paramour and I refer to this as paxil pang, though "pang" really doesn't do it justice.
The pang is at its worst in the morning, starting shortly after I wake up. Most mornings I'm able to get about an hour of work done before it gets to be too bad. Then I take a break, curled up on my bed, feeling sorry for myself. Sometimes I can distract myself by reading or playing mindless games on my phone. If I'm not too dizzy then I can get out for a walk which is great as that really seems to help.
After about two hours the nausea eases off enough for me to have breakfast, though I have to be careful. I'm only eating about half of what I normally would and space it out over half an hour to keep my stomach from getting too upset.
About an hour after that the pang fades away and I feel fairly good, albeit exhausted from the battle. It's then that I can get 3-4 hours more work done.
In the evening the pang returns, but at nowhere near its level in the morning. If I eat dinner early enough I can enjoy a full meal and keep it down. Leave it too late and I'm back to half-rations. If nothing else the pang ought to help me lose some weight. :-)
I can get more work done in the evening, just so long as it's not too challenging.
Fortunately the pang doesn't stop me from sleeping at night, otherwise I'd really be screwed as far as work goes.
Yesterday was the worst day so far. The pang did not go away during the afternoon but continued throughout the day, eventually tailing off later in the evening. I was afraid that this might be the new pattern, but today it returned to "normal".
It takes 2-6 weeks for the body to adjust to paxil. My recollection from the previous time that I went on it is that I was over the worst of the pang after just two weeks. I've got my fingers crossed that I'm equally lucky this time around as that would mean only another 3-4 days of agony.
