Please help :Paroxteine side effects dose based

Mental health
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I took paxil for five days only 20 mg dose but i stopped it when i read about the side effects especially the sexuall dysfunction . 

I have toke it last year for 1 months with supervision and didn’t had any side effects neither sexually .

Now because of my acute depression i am suffering from erectile dysfunction ( not totally ) , loss of libido , no any genital numbness or pain .

Is it because of my depression or because of the five days of paxil although i toke it last year for one monty and nothing happened ..

Is this short dose of paxil mqy cause this sexuall disturbance even if I didn’t experience any when i was on it previously , or its just the depression and the anxiety causing this as serotonin needs weeks to start workin and producing side effects ..

Please help me and try to make it better for me and calm me down i have heared terrible stories about permanent paxil sexual side effects ..

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Those alleged 'side effects' are mostly myth. I'm a 63 year old man and have been on 20 mg of Paxil since I was diagnosed with chronic depression at 38.

I had a few side effects early on, but ED was not one of them. The only sexual side effect I can recall is delayed ejaculation. My erection was just fine, but it took me longer to reach climax. And my wife rather enjoyed that.

And those side effects are only temporary. As I recall I have vivid, colorful dreams as well. Nothing major and certainly nothing that outweighed the benefit of beating the chronic depression. 

If I were you I'd get back on the Paxil and you will DEFINITELY feel better about your depression and you'll probably feel better sexually as well. Give it a try and don't stop because of rumors. It takes 6-8 weeks for Paxil to really be effective anyway. Give it that much time.