I have been on paxil for 13 months and this drug has helped alot, my question is, anybody having trouble with weight gain, and the last few weeks I have been really tired, anybody deal with this?????

thank

Heyu,

I was never on Paxil for very long - like a month - so I don't know about the side effects. But let your doctor know about these side effects, even if you've been on it for 13 months and then go from there. Good luck.

Illusions

my husband has been on paxil for about a year now has had a weight gain of about 60 lbs and he eats less that he did a year ago....... good luck..........

Hi heyu!! Yes paxil is well known for it's weight gain no matter how much you eat. I have been on paxil for three years now and gained 30lbs on it. I am finally starting to lose the weight now that i am weaning down off it. But the weaning is killing me. I started to wean off this drug about 2.5 years ago and i am finally down from 40mg to 22mg. I have to shave my pills every single day. If you do decide to get off paxil go very very slowly. This drug will play your friend for as long as you let it. But once you try to come off then it becomes a big enemy. A lot of people i have met from paxil sites were happy being on paxil but wanted off due to weight gain. And now well lets just say we are all in our own hell on earth. Prozac can help you the same as paxil does but with less withdraws at the end. Just please taper slowly if you do go off it.
take care

Hi heyu!! Yes paxil is well known for it's weight gain no matter how much you eat. I have been on paxil for three years now and gained 30lbs on it. I am finally starting to lose the weight now that i am weaning down off it. But the weaning is killing me. I started to wean off this drug about 2.5 years ago and i am finally down from 40mg to 22mg. I have to shave my pills every single day. If you do decide to get off paxil go very very slowly. This drug will play your friend for as long as you let it. But once you try to come off then it becomes a big enemy. A lot of people i have met from paxil sites were happy being on paxil but wanted off due to weight gain. And now well lets just say we are all in our own hell on earth. Prozac can help you the same as paxil does but with less withdraws at the end. Just please taper slowly if you do go off it. Just a thought
take care

I am on Paroxetine 50mg (which I believe is the same as Paxil) and have just realised in the last couple of days that it may be these tablets that have caused or massively contributed to my weight gain.
I have gained 1.5 stone in 2 months. I thought it was the depression that was making me sleepy and lethargic so I couldn't do any exercise and I was comfort eating but now I'm wondering if it's the tablets.
I have asked my doctor but he said the tablets don't make you gain weight (think he may have been lying to get me to take them!?).
Would love to hear if other people have gained weight on this (and lost it when they came off them) as I'm quite reasurred that it's not all my fault that I've become a fatty!

I about to come start coming down from the paroxetine, am v nervous about it from all these horror stories but am trusting my doctor and pyschologist who have both said we'll do it slow and steady and I'll be ok.

Hey CU. What mg of paxil you on? You might want to consider going on something like prozac or wellbutrin to help you wean off paxil without most of the horrifying results of the withdraws. Plus both of them drugs have helped me lose weight also.

Hey CU. What mg of paxil you on? You might want to consider going on something like prozac or wellbutrin to help you wean off paxil without most of the horrifying results of the withdraws. Plus both of them drugs have helped me lose weight also.

Hey CU. What mg of paxil you on? You might want to consider going on something like prozac or wellbutrin to help you wean off paxil without most of the horrifying results of the withdraws. Plus both of them drugs have helped me lose weight also.

Hi PennyB

Thanks for the suggestion, wondering if my doctor might do this actually, as you say swap me over to another drug.

I have been on Prozac in the past and it was brilliant, a wonder 'happy' drug, i loved it although it made no difference to my weight either way.

However, this recent spate of depression has been very severe and when I started on the Prozac a few months ago, it did nothing for me at all so that's why doc changed me to Paroxetine (am on 50mg now due to severity of my case). It has helped I suppose but nothing like how brilliant the Prozac was. Am going seeing doc again this week so will post on here again when I see what he says.