Freedom: Day 7

"It's been one week since you looked at me.
Cocked your head to the side and said 'I'm angry'" - Barenaked Ladies
(I saw them in concert last night. Great show!! Lots of fun, lots of good music. Highly recommended.)

It's been one week since I last took a Paxil.

The only side effect that I can speak of is some pretty wicked headaches. Not, "oh, my head hurts" kind of headaches but more like, "God damn by head F*#&~ng hurts" sort of headaches.

Other than that, everything is fine. Still pretty irritable and the memory is crap, but I'm not sleeping too badly either, so that's an OK trade off as far as I'm concerned.

Freedom: Day 1

First day officially off Paxil. I've missed days before, even early on (see November's posts) I did it on purpose. I'll check in around day 3 or 4 and we'll see how that goes.

Ninety-six, 97, Ninety-eight, Ninety-nine

Last day on Paxil.

Insomnia, moodiness, irritability, forgetfulness (speling?). Not much else to report.

"99 Days To Become Paxil Free". Hitting book stores this fall.

Eighty-two to Ninety-five (including 83 and 89)

I have set aside four 5mg chunks to me taken this week starting tomorrow. Those will mark the last doses of Paxil I (hopefully) will ever take.

As of today I have only really experienced four notable side-effects (again, accompanied by my completely subjective 10 point scale of how annoying each one is):

• Irritability (8)
• Insomnia (6)
• Memory Loss / Forgetfulness (9)
• Emotional Wreckedness (7)

Interestingly enough, my last dose of the drug comes on day 99 of the journey. It's really not that intersing now that I read that again. I guess I could always write a book now, "99 days to becoming Paxil free". Sounds better than "100 days to becoming Paxil free" doesn't it?