Triumeq, Paxil bad side effects

[Dale]

I was DX in 1987. I was on atripalia. Started taking Triumeq in December little nausea and gut thing no big deal. I am also on Paxil,Lmictal.

January felt amped up. joints and muscle sore, just thought it was from working out, but kept going on and my shoulder neck was so uncomfortable it was all day and night.

February I'm getting more amped up and having waves of being really high/ out of it/ confused..Then a tingling sensation going through my body like withdrawals  not bad just weird

March 1st see Dr. great labs I just assumed I was anxious about getting my first labs since starting Triumeq the next morning I woke up really amped up kept getting worse. On March 4th I could not take it anymore feeling weird and Amped up.

I cut my Paxil down by a small dose the next day I felt better not as Amped up.
week half later the same thing happened I cut the dose it again and felt better
I was out of town during this.
 
The March 30 saw my new Psychiatrist told her I started tapering off my paxil. She was shocked I was not having withdrawals we continued to taper me off. April 15th was my last dose of paxil...again before I tapered down my doses I felt Amped up and out of it.

April 27 7:30pm I had a major panic attack....again on the 29th at 3:30 am I flew out of bed it was bad and the feeling being amped up and out of, 31st had another during my morning swim.

Felling Amped up and very high/out it. kept increasing
June 2nd saw my ID told him how I thought my new meds was pushing out the paxil and let him know of my bad experience he told me he did not think that the Triumeq was not causing the side effects. We decided to take me off Triumeq.

I started feeling better my joints were not sore or my muscles, neck, shoulders as days went by my body felt like it was crashing on years of Meth...I was no longer Amped up...looking back I can not believe what I just went through it was really bad to the point I should have not been driving.

It was the most HELL I have went through since being DX in 1987

[xunil]

Can I ask what you switched to from Triumeq?  I made a post yesterday about increased anxiety and ADD/ADHD-like symptoms since the time I started Triumeq.

I spoke with my pharmacist at length about it and he said I'm not the first patient to experience it with Triumeq and he feels it is likely the Tivicay causing the issues.  He said it is known to increase restlessness and sleeplessness in general and those things tend to exacerbate anxiety and other ADD/ADHD symptoms.

I've always had anxiety issues so its hard for me to say for sure it is the Triumeq and I'm hesitant to switch because I have no physical side effects that I can tell.  The anxiety, restlessness, and inability to focus seems to be getting worse while nothing else in my life seems to be aggravating or contributing to anxiety in general.