Paroxetine any experiences?

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Im taking 20mg for horrible anxiety and low mood. Been on it 2 weeks now. So restless at night :( not sleeping well at all. Will this improve? The nausea i had the beginning has gone thankfully... now im hungry all the time...
Is it worth persevering with it?

I would say give it a chance. I had an awful experience with it but then I've had a good experience of one that most people hate. Everyone is different. If no improvement by 3 months, then its safe to say it doesn't work.

I took it twice for pnd. I was lucky to have few side effects. I found it worked for me. It made me able to see the light in life and was then able to do things to help me feel better. I was able to come off it without issue too, probably because my excellent doctor warned me off, really really slowly. However talk to your gp as they might be able to offer you something else if necessary. Good luck.

Just to clarify I meant for two periods of time not just two days.

I felt the positive effects after about two weeks.

My DS was on the same dose and it really worked fantastically for his anxiety and lifting his mood but he had the opposite problem to you. In the end he had to stop taking it because of how sedating he found it. He was falling asleep each afternoon, having to go to bed really early, and yet still often sleeping through his alarm in the morning.

When do you take yours?