Paxil Withdrawal

I'm wondering if anyone else has or had experienced worsing withdrawal symptoms when switching from Paxil CR and Liquid SOLELY to the Liquid Suspension? I have been tapering slowing Since January by the following:

(1 Pill = 12.5 CR)

Starting dose of 2 (12.5 CR'S) = 25 MG OF CR

Jan 21st: 1 Pill + 10mg liquid (2 weeks)
2/4: 1 Pill + 9mg Lq (3 weeks)
2/25: 1 Pill + 8 mg lq (1 week)
3/4: 1 Pill + 6 mg lq (2 weeks)
3/18 1 Pill + 4 mg lq (2 weeks)
4/1 1 Pill + 3 mg lq (2 weeks)
4/14 1 Pill + 2 mg lq (2 weeks)
4/29 1Pill + 1 mg lq (16 days)
5/15 1 12.5 mg Pill ONLY (9 days)
5/24 12 mgs liquid (8 days)
6/1 11mg lq (12 days)
6/13 10 mg lq until today 7/10

I have a feeling that the liquid isnt nearly as....either effective or has as long a HALF LIFE as the company would have me believe. When I first started the taper I was taking the 1 pill and taking all the liquid at 9 pm at NIGHT. Within 16 hours of the night dose I was having bad symptoms until I took the next dose. This went on for a week. i then experiemented by switching the timing of the liquid to the morning at 9 am. Withing 2 days the withdrawal syptoms had switched from the evening to the morning! What clearly was happening, is the liquid was NOT staying in my system anywhere near as long as the CR. After a week of suffering the withdrawl syptoms at the new time, my doctor suggested taking half the liquid dose every 12 hours, since it obviously had a SHORTER Half life than the CR Pill, since my syptoms crresponded to ALMOST EXACTLY 16 hours after the last Liquid dose. With 3 days the symptoms had mostly resolved. Everything was going ok (not perfect but much better than the horrible symptoms when only taking the liquid once daily) UNTIL I recently finally got below the level of the pill and am ONLY on the liquid. Since I switched to the liquid ONLY I have been taking it every 8 hours -or 3 times a day but the worsening symptoms have returned. Not as bad as when I was only taking it every 12 hours, but worse when I still had the CR for the majority of the dose.

I THINK THIS LIQUID IS CRAP. I've only dropped 2.5 mg's in almost 8 weeks and I'm having WORSE symptoms than when I was dropping a 1mg every 2 weeks no problem. (Again with the CR pill as most of my dose. )

Any ideas? I mean, the fact that I had horrible symptoms correspnding to 16 hours AFTER the liquid dose, regardless whether I was taking it at 9am or 9pm, tells me it has to have a much shorter half life than they are saying, expecially since once I started taking the liquid 5mg ever 12 hours instead of 10 all at once things cleared up within 48 hours. And now that all I have is the liquid, I'm worse even though I'm dropping at only half the speed of when I still had atleast 12.5 CR. And! I'm taking it EVERY 8 hours: 3 mg AM, 3 mg Afternoon, 4 MG Night.


HELP!

Dear Karen,

thank you for your quick reply. Since yesterday I have been in contact with some people in another forum who also had troubles merely switching from the CR to the Liquid Suspension, even WITHOUT dropping the dose level! It seems that Half life studies were conducted merely on new patients. My Concern-Theory is the possibility that the brain "remods' itself to accept the medication in a certain "form", and then has trouble "absording" the same med in a different "form". Enjoy your day!