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Pain and depression can go hand-in-hand. Your pain and depression can affect each other. Relieving your depression may relieve your pain; likewise relieving pain may relieve depression. Pain is an unpleasant feeling. Depression is having the "blues". Pain and depression bring on similar complaints such as lack of energy, irritability, stomach problems, appetite changes and problems sleeping and getting things done. If you are an older person suffering from a painful, long-lasting disease, you are especially likely to have these complaints. If you have had the "blues" before, you may benefit from a SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) as a helper to a pain medication.
One Example of an SSRI is PAXIL
Brand/Trade Name: Paxil
Generic Name: Paroxetine HCL
Common Uses: Used for depression or the "blues". Paxil is also used to treat numbness, tingling and pain in arms and legs (neuropathic pain), cancer pain, severe headaches, eating disorders, nervousness and alcohol dependency.
Availability: Paxil tablets 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg, and 40 mg.
Usual Doses: 10-50 mg. Once a day, morning or night. If you are elderly, if you have kidney or liver disease or if you take several different drugs, take the lowest effective dose possible. Do not give to children.
Actions: Paxil works by preventing the movement of serotonin into nerve endings. Serotonin helps the nerves communicate.
Onset: Helps with pain in less than 5 days. Helps with depression or the "blues" in 1-2 weeks.
Routes of Administration: By mouth
Possible side effects: The most common side effects are headache, weakness, not sleeping, dizziness and shakiness. These side effects usually occur in the first week. If you are feeling worse, talk to your medical professional.
How do you know if it’s working? Your pain or "blues" disappear with successful treatment. Paxil can take up to 2 weeks to help with pain and up to 4 weeks to help with the "blues".
Patient & Family Version
Cindy Shipley
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