sparksense
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I have been experiencing the jerks for about a month now. Out of curiosity, did you recently start any medication for anxiety? I started to experience the jerks a couple days after I started paxil
Experiencing Jerks After Starting Paxil?
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melyssa221
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when i first went to the doctor for twitching he gave me paxil and told me to take 1200 mg of calcium a day.. well within a week i had the myoclonic jerks and seizure like expierences in my sleep and alll kinds of weird buzzing and virbrating... so i stop taking paxil and went to the neuro .... she put me on neurontin,,, but that didnt work so she put me on klonopin and that worked.. she also is the one who diagnosed me with BFS. i do believe there is a cause and effect with paxil bfs and myoclonus. from my expierence
I can tell you FOR SURE that Paxil WILL make you have extremely bad jerks, tremors and twitching 10 fold when you first start taking it.
Now, the up-side of that is that with Paxil, the symptoms always get worse before they get better. The down side is that most people (including myself) that tried it, took it for about 3 or 4 days and simply HAD to quit because it was SO bad.
Now, everyone is different, so you may have different results, but if you are experiencing jerking and you are taking Paxil, you sound like you are already on the same path as a lot fo us were.
Try to stick it out and see how things get in a couple of weeks, just remember what I said, with Paxil, it is common to have symptoms get worse before they get better, so just remember its BFS... a benign condition, so if it gets worse, don't start freaking out, OK?
Now, the up-side of that is that with Paxil, the symptoms always get worse before they get better. The down side is that most people (including myself) that tried it, took it for about 3 or 4 days and simply HAD to quit because it was SO bad.
Now, everyone is different, so you may have different results, but if you are experiencing jerking and you are taking Paxil, you sound like you are already on the same path as a lot fo us were.
Try to stick it out and see how things get in a couple of weeks, just remember what I said, with Paxil, it is common to have symptoms get worse before they get better, so just remember its BFS... a benign condition, so if it gets worse, don't start freaking out, OK?