Date:  Tue Feb 20, 2001 0:28am

Response from Barb to Lucille (below):
Lucille, I am new to this group so bear with me. I am also weaning off of Paxil
and am having some pain, swelling, stiffness in both hands and wrists.
Coincidence?  I thought it was just me. Let me know how it goes with
you.

Barb

Date:  Mon Feb 19, 2001 1:47am

<In a message Lucille wrote:>
Have a question for everyone in the group:
It has been about two weeks since I started having tremors in my hands.
(over 4 weeks since I stopped taking paxil).  The tremors have pretty
much stopped but I have a whole bunch of other symptoms in both of my
hands.  My fingers get extremely cold for no apparent reason and this
can last for minutes or hours before they warm (raynaud's disease)?  I
also am getting transient pain and stiffness in my fingers and hands but
no swelling (so rule out arthritis).  I also have had wrist pain
(suspect carpal tunnel syndrome) in both hands.    My fingernails are
slightly discolored as well.  These symptoms have been going on pretty
much most of the time over the past 2 weeks.  My question to all of you
is:  Can these symptoms have anything to do with paxil
withdrawal/residual effects?.  Or do I have something unrelated now? 
Has anyone in the group had these symptoms, or heard of them being
associated with SSRI's?  I am still on Ativan & Zyrtec daily.  (Possible
drug interaction?)  I'm going crazy trying to figure out what is causing
these symptoms.  My Dr. can't figure it out and I wore a heart monitor
for 24 hours--the results of which were normal.  I did not get the
results of my blood test yet.  My panic attacks have gone away and I
feel back to normal in every other way (except when I try to wean off
the ativan, then I get withdrawal anxiety).  Guys, let me know what you
think.

Lucille