My wife went through major Paxil withdrawal for weeks and she even tapered off of it very slowly and the nasty withdrawal lasted for over a month. Fever, flu, vomiting, it was terrible.
With that said, I still support the administration on this one. I support the free market and am opposed to government bureaucracy putting their fingers in the system. Everyone should be aware that any medicine, prescription especially has inherent risks involved. If you need to take the medicine, you need to deal with the side effects.
Why did your wife give up Paxil in the first place? Paxil works extremely well in replacing whatever chemical the brain was deficient in. Paxil replaces that chemical day by day, just as eating and drinking provides a neccessity the body and mind require.
Stopping Paxil once the need is proven, is as foolish as quitting food and drink. The problems aren't caused by the presence in the body and mind of supplements needed for proper function, but the denial of these neccessities.
If you think denying her system of the deficiency that was sated by Paxil was bad-try cutting off her food, oxygen and water.
Bush is trying to pin the "ambulance chaser" label on the donkey.
He's trying to flush out Edwards--trying to get him to comment on the subject...
I, too, had a horrible reaction to Paxil which I was taking to treat a colon problem. I work in the medical field and know that pharmaceutical companies provide a wonderful service, however, after taking this medication for only 2 months, I felt like I was going to crawl out of my skin. I even felt like dying (literally) would be better than what I was feeling. It was at that point that I realized I needed to stop taking it. When I phoned my physician, I was told that I couldn't "just stop taking Paxil, people get suicidal when they do that". Wow, that was the first time I had been told that by anybody. So after a month of horrible side effects while titrating off of it, the suicidal thoughts, the crawling out of my skin feeling, itchiness, headaches, and the horrible realization that it had inflammed my joints, I felt better. I voted for President Bush, I still think he is a great president, however, I believe that in this act of siding with the pharmaceutical companies based upon FDA regulations, that he is stepping over the boundaries of our American right to protect ourselves from companies, any company, that might be doing harm to the public. There are too many documented cases of these reactions to drugs for FDA regulatory commissions not to step back and take a second look at the new "research" that has been handed to them without their even asking for it. The government should stay out of this one, because the individuals for whom they think they are continuing to provide medications for do not outweigh the growing number of individuals who are paying for this pharmaceutical problem with their lives.