Ever since the dose has been upped four weeks ago, I’ve been either sleeping 12+ hours a day, or feeling like shit because I got less than 12 hours of sleep the previous night. Before Paxil, I was depressed, but more or less functional; now, the depression has gotten better, but I can’t function.
I am meeting with a psychiatrist this week, and I think he’s going to put me on another antidepressant (probably Effexor). And the timing is just wonderful; I will get to experience first-hand the Paxil Withdrawal Syndrome, various bizarre Effexor side-effects, and, if I am really lucky, serotonin syndrome just as the midterm season rolls around. Fuck.
