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.