PAXIL

July 23, 2003

DR. KAHN - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT AND INTEREST. MINDY

November 13, 2003

Hi ette,

My son did great on Paxil after the intial 2 week adjustment period,

helped a lot with his social anxiety. After a month or so more, the

positive effects seemed to decrease a bit....nothing dramatic, and no

negative behaviors, just no new progress. We're now on Celexa and he did

horribly at first but now seems to be doing better (just started 3 weeks

ago). We'll see..... SSRIS are a double edged sword, IMO.

Becky

paxil

> I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with their

> child.

>

> Our son started paxil about 6 weeks ago. We did 5 days of 1/8 tablet,

> then a few weeks of 1/4 tablet. While was on the 1/4 tablet he was

> doing very well, we saw lots of social advances, he seemed happy and had

> a desire to interact. Then Dr. G. upped the dose to 1/2 tablet -

> didn't do well, he became irritated and couldn't focus. So two weeks

> ago Dr. G. dropped the dose back to 1/4 tablet. We were expecting a

> return of the great advances we were seeing with the initial 1/4 dose

> but not so - he is very spacey, wants to roll around on the floor all

> the time, an increase in stimming, his floortime therapy has been

> useless for the past 2 weeks.

>

> I sent in an update last week and Dr. G. said to continue with the 1/4

> dose as 's body needed time to adjust to the change in dosage. Does

> anyone know how long he will continue with this dose if things do not

> improve? Also has anyone has great success with an SSRI initially only

> to have it wear off? We have had so many " down " periods with the

> protocol that it's depressing to see our son wasting precious time.

>

> Thanks for any input.

>

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