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<<Dear , thank you so much for replying. I have not been on the site

recently to reply. Since the original post I have had to increase my dose of

Seroxat to 15mg per day and I feel better again.

My reductions had been from 20mg to 19mg to 18mg etc, every 5-6 weeks. I guess

that makes it more like 8% if the last withdrawal was from 14 to 13mg.

I will be trying again, soon, to come off again so may try 3-4% withdrawal as

this seems to be a better way to go.

The doctor recently suggested that I try Docusepin to help me with the

withdrawal, but it made me feel feverish, agaitated and really quite weird, so I

came off after 4 days.

Are there any other safe drugs that I could use to help me withdraw?

Thanks

Dan>>

** Hi Dan,

There is no such thing as a " safe drug " . Any drug you take in an attempt to

ease the withdrawal of another will end up being a drug from which you will have

to withdraw after you've discontinued the first drug. There are no short cuts.

It would be a good idea to do 2-3% reductions. For information on the

frequency of these reductions, just take for the post I'm sending titled

" Withdrawal Explanation " . This is for psychotropic drugs, not for drugs a person

is taking for pleasure or taking more than has been prescribed.

At some point, because of the short half-life of Seroxat (Paxil), you may

want to switch over to a longer-acting antidepressant. But you don't need to

think about that now. It is also not without difficulty to do that so shouldn't

be done unless absolutely necessary.

If you have too much difficulty it merely means you need to make smaller

reductions or you're not paying attention to what your body is telling you.

Occasionally in endeavor you'll find as you get on lower doses that sometimes

you feel stuck and can't seem to move on without more of a withdrawal reaction

than you should be having. The solution is simple but prone to misunderstanding

if I tell you about it now. Instead, if you run into any problems, just post

here and I'll tell you how to handle it. Be sure to include all the details of

how large your reductions have been and how long you have been at each dosage.

Regards,