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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| Depression | 63 |
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5 | ||
| Anxiety | 32 |
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3 | ||
| Other | 11 | 0 | |||||
| Emotional lability | 7 | 0 | |||||
| General health | 4 |
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1 | ||||
| Support another treatment | 2 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Paroxetine. See all 15 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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4 | 22% |
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Side effects too severe
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4 | 22% |
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Other
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3 | 17% |
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Personal research
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2 | 11% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 11% |
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Course of treatment ended
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2 | 11% |
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Expense
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2 | 11% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 6% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- Flowers
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: severe
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Flowers
- 20 mg daily
- since Dec 31, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Depression
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips My family calls this my sanity med, w/o it all I want to do is sit and cry for no reason at all. I've never had to take anything for depression before this. See full evaluation
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- morgan
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- morgan
- 40 mg daily
- since Jun 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Anxiety
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips My neuro wants to change from Paxil to some yet unknow alternative because paxil has some conflict w/ MS. Will talk to him more re this because he did not w... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.