I started taking Paxil (not Paxil CR) on 12/23/04. My doctor started me at 12.5 mgs. I'm starting to feel better and it's easier to eat now (I can't eat when my stomach is nervous). I still get nervous at times and my OCD thoughts will wander but they're starting to curb. I'm wondering if I should take more mgs??

What symptoms have you all experienced? I seem to have only a few but want to know if anyone else has experienced these. My legs and arms feel shakey, like I've just ran a marathon or lifted leg weights. I don't see any shaking, but my legs feel "wobbly".

Also, I'm forgetting things. Little things, kinda flighty. I'm not a genius or anything, but I can tell I'm slightly off upstairs.

I know that Paxil can affect your libido, but can it make you look at your spouse in a different light? I know that I'm in love with my husband, but it sometimes he'll do things that annoy me that in the past wouldn't, especially now with what I'm going through. I'm so irritable too. We've been married for just over a year but have been together for over 4 years so I know him thoroughly. He's been very understanding about all of this even though we're total opposites when it comes to stress.

I've never had a doubt in my mind that he is my husband for life. But my obsessive thoughts just take over sometimes and I think in such negative ways. Why am I sabotaging everything thats good in my life? Would it be the anxiety and depression making me feel irritable? Even guilty? I know guilt can be a big factor because we tend to feel guilty about our anxieties.

Plus, we just moved into our house last summer after living with his parents for 4 months so that was stressful (even had a flood the first month in the house). Or is it just the natural course of marriage?