On 2/27/2026 at 8:32 AM, Fullhealing said:

Was brief but if onces, will many more times, for all of us, thanks @Finni 💞

Those wonderful windows! ✨✨

On 2/28/2026 at 2:05 AM, Fullhealing said:

et's just hope it ends quickly, war and withdrawal is ugly!

Oh, wow- one of the least desirable combinations, I’d say …. To put it mildly. 
 

Let’s hope it’s short-lived. 🙏 

💪🏻❤️

35 minutes ago, Haa said:

@Fullhealing I am happy for you, that you are feeling a little better. We cherish each minute of this “not totally awful” state. 
I been on the road a very long time. And I found, that I didn’t do longer holds often enough. As soon as I felt better, I made another very small cut. 
What happened to me last fall was a combination of several things, amongst that the WD must likely accumulated and the last tiny cut tipped the bucket. And I paid the price… 
So I second what @Raymond said. 
Just my humble opinion from my own experience. 
How would you rate your day on a scale from one to ten?

@Chippy introduced this simple way of summerising the days status. I liked it. It gives me a clear picture of the fluctuations from day to day. 
Keep on keeping on. All the best to you. 🙏💕

thank you @Haa definitely grateful for the relief, every second is squeezed to the fullest when it comes 🤗

I appreciate your opinion and agree with the majority opinion that the right option is to wait but in my case, even on a full dose of 20 mg I felt terrible, in fact I had long bouts of depression out of this world, not something I had ever experienced but only in recent years including flare-ups similar to now only less intense and much shorter so I think the drug itself lights a fire and yes, also sharp reductions that must have added quite a bit, so I am still conflicted, in any case the reduction will only be done if there are no severe flare-ups or stressful environmental conditions and in a tiny tiny cuts, for now I'm definitely going to hold.

How are you? hope you are doing well in the last few days 💞

28 minutes ago, Finni said:

Oh, wow- one of the least desirable combinations, I’d say …. To put it mildly. 
 

Let’s hope it’s short-lived. 🙏 

💪🏻❤️

Thank you @Finni we really hope so and most importantly that the soldiers return safely and Iran will be free from the brutal ayatollah regime as the good citizens there deserve! 🤞💞

That's it for politics here (;

@Fullhealing I think I had one episode before I started tapering . The burning sensation started in my left breast and spread out across my whole chest with great intensity. It was coupled with panic and I ended up in ED thinking it could be my heart. So I think that episode could be poop out. When I was tapering the sensation became more frequent until I held and subsequently slowed down. I occasionally get a very slight feeling. Others on SA have reported similar experiences. It’s a neurological symptom so it makes sense to me it’s withdrawal.

17 minutes ago, Fullhealing said:

Thank you @Finni we really hope so and most importantly that the soldiers return safely and Iran will be free from the brutal ayatollah regime as the good citizens there deserve! 🤞💞

That's it for politics here (;

Sending love and light and peace! ✨✨✨

1 minute ago, Finni said:

Sending love and light and peace! ✨✨✨

@Finni 🙏💞

33 minutes ago, Catbird said:

@Fullhealing I think I had one episode before I started tapering . The burning sensation started in my left breast and spread out across my whole chest with great intensity. It was coupled with panic and I ended up in ED thinking it could be my heart. So I think that episode could be poop out. When I was tapering the sensation became more frequent until I held and subsequently slowed down. I occasionally get a very slight feeling. Others on SA have reported similar experiences. It’s a neurological symptom so it makes sense to me it’s withdrawal.

@Catbird I also had that in very low intensity while on full dose but nothing as monstrous like now.. so as you I think it was a poop out and now withdrawal although there's still tiny doubt that something else cooking there..

have you found anything that helps? I've heard that physiotherapy can be helpful, if you have any tips I'd love to hear, thanks.

Edited March 2Mar 2 by Fullhealing

Hi FullHealing, I am playing catch up. I hope that you can get some good rest and glad you are holding.

 

It is just awful these wars. It is not the little people on the ground or in the houses...it's the blasted govts. But let's not get too into that here. Just do what you can to remain calm and I will pray for you, the rest on here, and in war areas for absolute peace and healing.

 

Be well, my friend. 🤗

39 minutes ago, namastejen1 said:

Hi FullHealing, I am playing catch up. I hope that you can get some good rest and glad you are holding.

 

It is just awful these wars. It is not the little people on the ground or in the houses...it's the blasted govts. But let's not get too into that here. Just do what you can to remain calm and I will pray for you, the rest on here, and in war areas for absolute peace and healing.

 

Be well, my friend. 🤗

Appreciate it @namastejen1 thank you ✨

Edited March 3Mar 3 by Fullhealing

3 hours ago, Fullhealing said:

@Catbird I also had that in very low intensity while on full dose but nothing as monstrous like now.. so as you I think it was a poop out and now withdrawal although there's still tiny doubt that something else cooking there..

have you found anything that helps? I've heard that physiotherapy can be helpful, if you have any tips I'd love to hear, thanks.

@Fullhealing the thing that works for me is acceptance, acknowledgment and stepping back from the sensation so I can just observe it. I say to myself - I can see it's to the left of my breast toward my armpit and it's warm/hot, I'm familiar with this sensation I know it will pass, it doesn't appear to be spreading. Things along that line - and importantly no judging or wishing it would go away. Others find distraction helps or cool packs or whatever. maybe try a bit of everything and see what works for you. It's difficult and I understand. Over time I've found it's diminished and I think the hold and slowing the taper also played a role.  I haven't tried any physical interventions which I'm not saying they don't help. For me the mindfulness approach has helped and it's certainly taken the fear out of it.  Similar to treatments for chronic pain I think the psychological approach is very powerful.  I hope this helps somewhat 🤗

4 hours ago, Catbird said:

@Fullhealing the thing that works for me is acceptance, acknowledgment and stepping back from the sensation so I can just observe it. I say to myself - I can see it's to the left of my breast toward my armpit and it's warm/hot, I'm familiar with this sensation I know it will pass, it doesn't appear to be spreading. Things along that line - and importantly no judging or wishing it would go away. Others find distraction helps or cool packs or whatever. maybe try a bit of everything and see what works for you. It's difficult and I understand. Over time I've found it's diminished and I think the hold and slowing the taper also played a role.  I haven't tried any physical interventions which I'm not saying they don't help. For me the mindfulness approach has helped and it's certainly taken the fear out of it.  Similar to treatments for chronic pain I think the psychological approach is very powerful.  I hope this helps somewhat 🤗

Thank you very much @Catbird change in perception is indeed a powerful one, glad it works for you, in the making here 😊

Edited March 3Mar 3 by Fullhealing

You're welcome @Fullhealing. I once heard something along the lines of … turn towards your pain/fears and …. I can't remember the rest but it's positive. It's also incredibly difficult and scary when you feel like you're drowning and clinging on.

On 3/1/2026 at 10:07 AM, Fullhealing said:

upper body burning sensation

This is one symptom that bothers the most.  It's being on and off.  I am getting it in the morning hours.  It sometimes comes on my left side, or back, etc.  during my first months on this journey, I had it in my entire body.   Terrible!  

 

Now, it's a lot less intense and on and off but not in the entire body ... sometimes, I feel it in my left arm.  Other times in my chest area,.  It just fluctuates and gone in the afternoon hours....

 

I developed the headache at month 12, but is being gone so far.   Like you said, it's like a migraine headache and usually on my left side of head around ear area...

 

You are at a low dose.  I wish I was at 2mg now, but being at 4.79mg than 20mg, it's a lot better.   I have had few positive symptoms coming back too.

 

I'm trying to focus on those positive symptoms than the bad ones.  Eventually, the body will stabilize and the ride down should be better.

 

You are doing great and I see you are a strong person.    Hold your dose more and allow your body to stabilize a lot more ...

 

Keep up.....

20 minutes ago, Raymond said:

This is one symptom that bothers the most.  It's being on and off.  I am getting it in the morning hours.  It sometimes comes on my left side, or back, etc.  during my first months on this journey, I had it in my entire body.   Terrible!  

 

Now, it's a lot less intense and on and off but not in the entire body ... sometimes, I feel it in my left arm.  Other times in my chest area,.  It just fluctuates and gone in the afternoon hours....

 

I developed the headache at month 12, but is being gone so far.   Like you said, it's like a migraine headache and usually on my left side of head around ear area...

 

You are at a low dose.  I wish I was at 2mg now, but being at 4.79mg than 20mg, it's a lot better.   I have had few positive symptoms coming back too.

 

I'm trying to focus on those positive symptoms than the bad ones.  Eventually, the body will stabilize and the ride down should be better.

 

You are doing great and I see you are a strong person.    Hold your dose more and allow your body to stabilize a lot more ...

 

Keep up.....

Thanks @Raymond the fires, oh yes, horrible, at least it's not permanent and there is some room to regroup in between, same goes for the other symptoms.

You are strong and as time goes by you get to know your body and its capabilities and to make more knowledgeable decisions moving forward based on that.

So let's just keep moving, we'll reach the end, maybe at different times but we will, no doubt in my mind!

18 hours ago, Catbird said:

@Fullhealing I think I had one episode before I started tapering . The burning sensation started in my left breast and spread out across my whole chest with great intensity. It was coupled with panic and I ended up in ED thinking it could be my heart. So I think that episode could be poop out. When I was tapering the sensation became more frequent until I held and subsequently slowed down. I occasionally get a very slight feeling. Others on SA have reported similar experiences. It’s a neurological symptom so it makes sense to me it’s withdrawal.

@catbird.... reading about this, and I'm wondering why the left side feels more burning sensation as I feel the same.  Last year, I had it more on my right arm, but things change to left arm up to left chest area.  Sometimes, I feel it on my back.

 

How long have you been on this journey with the burning sensation?  It's one of the bad symptom for me.  If I don't get burning sensation and fear sensation, I don't lot better....

Update 8:30pm

Significant relief from last night without a change, there was also a hormonal factor that I didn't foresee that subsided yesterday which likely helped quite a bit.

No flare-ups today, headache including tight neck/shoulders, chest pressure and air hunger are gone as well as joint pain, tinnitus are still very loud but I can live with it.

Mentally, not all clear, on thorns still but the mindset is mostly positive, no depression or terror/extreme fear/strange phobias so everything that comes is tolerated well.

surprising how things flipped especially in triggering circumstances but no complains, I'm riding it in a hope it will continue, if not I'll do my best to keep the memory of it, it will return, as it always does, well, likely not at my desired pace.

 

27 minutes ago, Fullhealing said:

headache including tight neck/shoulders

Same as what I had...I had it for three months and then, it was on and off. Now, it's being days or a week that I haven't had it...

28 minutes ago, Fullhealing said:

tinnitus are still very loud

I still have it, but I don't pay attention to it and it seems it works for me...

9 minutes ago, Raymond said:

I still have it, but I don't pay attention to it and it seems it works for me...

This has been with me since almost the beginning, so it has become "annoyingly normal".. If that's the only symptom left, I will be more than pleased.

Edited March 3Mar 3 by Fullhealing

Update 5:30pm

Withdrawal coin flipped again.

Night passed relatively quiet except for the early morning, sleep however was awful with nightmares and lots of awakenings, maybe 4 hours sleep in total.

Nasty wave formed from the moment I woke up and has stuck with me until now, so again, burning sensation upper body, head pressure, loud tinnitus, air hunger with a recurring catastrophic thoughts, fear, phobia and what not, withdrawal mindset in short.

yesterday's relief disappeared as if it were nothing, as did the memory of it.

Hopefully it will flip ones again very soon.

32 minutes ago, Fullhealing said:

Hopefully it will flip ones again very soon.

Hi @Fullhealing  I am so sorry you’r in a wave again. And I know the feeling that the good periods get absorbed by the wave. It is hard to recall the windows, when the wave takes up all the space. 
I know, you do what you can to hold on to the memory of the ease, you had yesterday.
This wave will pass and more windows will come. Just reminding you, as part of your brain already. knows it. 
We are on this journey together, and the support here help us carrying the load. 
May you find peace and rest. 
May we all. 🙏💕

 

1 hour ago, Haa said:

Hi @Fullhealing  I am so sorry you’r in a wave again. And I know the feeling that the good periods get absorbed by the wave. It is hard to recall the windows, when the wave takes up all the space. 
I know, you do what you can to hold on to the memory of the ease, you had yesterday.
This wave will pass and more windows will come. Just reminding you, as part of your brain already. knows it. 
We are on this journey together, and the support here help us carrying the load. 
May you find peace and rest. 
May we all. 🙏💕

 

Thanks so much for the reminder and support @Haa hopefully your you day goes well 💞

Edited March 4Mar 4 by Fullhealing

5 hours ago, Fullhealing said:

yesterday's relief disappeared as if it were nothing, as did the memory of it.

Hopefully it will flip ones again very soon.

@Fullhealing it looks like you’re holding from what your signature says. I think this is an opportunity to let the cumulative symptoms do what they need to do. The lack of sleep is especially hard on your body and nervous system. I know myself when I don’t have enough sleep and WD symptoms seem amplified. I know this must be so difficult and I feel for you. From all accounts Paxil is one of the most powerful drugs and so hard to taper. You’re approaching this with grace given the degree of symptoms you’re experiencing. Remember time is one of the greatest healers. Take care, this will pass at some stage 🧡🤗

5 hours ago, Catbird said:

@Fullhealing it looks like you’re holding from what your signature says. I think this is an opportunity to let the cumulative symptoms do what they need to do. The lack of sleep is especially hard on your body and nervous system. I know myself when I don’t have enough sleep and WD symptoms seem amplified. I know this must be so difficult and I feel for you. From all accounts Paxil is one of the most powerful drugs and so hard to taper. You’re approaching this with grace given the degree of symptoms you’re experiencing. Remember time is one of the greatest healers. Take care, this will pass at some stage 🧡🤗

Thank you @Catbird appreciate you! yes, sleep deprivation, so brutal, challenging healthy logic that is already shaken to the core, I know so many suffer from it here, terrible, non of us deserve it.

white night is looming here, we have been awake since 2:30 due to alarms.. my mind is all over, still blurry and not at all sure what I am writing, I'm just pissed, letting off some steam I guess and truly sorry for the negative tone, can't seem to be on the positive atm.

It will pass, like you said time, lots of it and well hopefully a good quality sleep..

hope you are doing ok 💞

Edited March 5Mar 5 by Fullhealing