Eye Problems (Day 80)
Saturday, November 25th, 2000 (25th day off Paxil).
Someone said, “It is the pressure in my head and behind my eyes that gets me down. I feel as if I must force myself to focus.”
I should have had those words stamped to my forehead for the past 80 days since I’ve been weaning off the Paxil.
Because I’ve taken multivitamins up the gazoo, I haven’t experienced the Paxil Flu. But right now I seem to have the body aches, and I’m in a mood. I don’t know what kind of mood, but it’s a mood alright.
Anyway, that’s just me. Trying to walk it off. No major brain zaps anymore, but the pressure behind the eyes is still there. That’s the one constant throughout all of this.
This is a serious impairment on my brain function.
There is not a curse loud and long enough to express my anger and frustration.
P.S. (Sept. 2006): The pressure behind the eyes mentioned in this post is part of the brain zaps or electrical surges that, for me, began in my eyes and then went through my head and the rest of my body. There was always that weird pressure inside my eyes that made it feel like a brain zap was about to hit me any second. I’m sure the hypersensitivity to light was connected this insane electrical pressure in my eyes. (I just added Vision / Eye Problems as a category, though for the most part eye problems will be convered by the categories for the electrical surges and hypersensitivity to light and sound.)