What is Paroxetine?
Paroxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant used in the treatment of depression as well as anxiety disorders.
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Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat my mood condition(s) | 93 |
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19 | |
| Depression | 55 |
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22 |
| Anxiety | 17 |
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5 | ||
| Panic attacks | 16 |
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5 | ||
| Other | 13 |
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2 | ||||
| General health | 6 | 0 |
See all 154 patients currently taking Paroxetine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Paroxetine. See all 20 dosages ►
| 10mg/5mL as needed | 40 mg all the time (24/7) | daily | 8 mg daily | 10 mg/5 mL daily | 10 mg daily | 12.5 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 1.5 x 10 mg/5 mL daily | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 37.5 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 4 x 10 mg/5 mL daily | 45 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 60 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 80 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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33 | 46% |
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Side effects too severe
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30 | 42% |
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Doctor's advice
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23 | 32% |
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Other
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15 | 21% |
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Personal research
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9 | 13% |
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Course of treatment ended
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5 | 7% |
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Expense
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1 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 52 patient evaluations
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- FlipFlop
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Severe
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Low
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- FlipFlop
- since Nov 11, 2000
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Panic attacks
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Side Effects
Severe
- See full evaluation
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- avaquaint
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 20 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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- avaquaint
- 25 mg daily
- since Nov 08, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
Moderate
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- Mazin Z
- Sex: M
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 4
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 38 M
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
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- Mazin Z
- 40 mg daily
- since Feb 15, 2000
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Efficacy
Slight
for Depression
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
See all 52 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.