Fluoxetine

Hi! I was perscribed this as well but haven't started taking it yet.. I work at a psych hospital and one of the doctors there thought I should call my primary and ask to readjust the dose because I have never been on anything like thay before and she thought 20 may cause too many side affects.. she suggested that I start on 5 to ease into it.. I'm going to call my primary and see whay she thinks.. of course everyone is different and each doctor precribes differently.. I know I have given this drug to patients and the side effects typically went away after a few days.. I hope you find some relief

Thank you so much

I started this drug when I was 18 (27 now) and after 2 weeks I was a completely different person, back to my normal self again. I've had quite a tough year or so with my anxiety and panic attacks I was put on all kinds of medication but none seemed too work, so my doctor has put me back on this now and told me not to come off it even when I'm feeling better. Took me almost 2 weeks to take this as I didn't want to feel ill, but now I have even though I feel like crap, I'm feeling hopeful and with the support of my family and friends makes it more bearable. xxxx

Greetings Arya

I have been on this drug for 16 years after the trauma of having my 39 yr old partner going into cardiac arrest and dying in my arms.

May I suggest you have a chat with your Dr again and ask them to wean you slowly onto Fluoxatine , 20 mgs may to al lot to start off with and I am not surprised to hear what you are saying that even after the first dosage you are feeling unwell and a littlre warm all over.

This medication will normally take 4-6 weeks to kick in so do not pannick at this time.

if i remmeber rightly My Dr put me on like 5mg at the beginning , then slowly put me upup to 10 mg and finally 20 mgs.

My life took a trun into crisis 3 1/2 yrs ago with my housing landlord and became so bad i was told to up it too 40 mgs which is what i tale daily now.

I have no side effects from this at all infact it actually helps to keep me stable in my acute bouts of depression.

It was just 1 month ago due to the crisis and housing issues and being dragged into a court trial only to lose the right to have my home and soon (10 days away ) to have no where to live and no finance to cope with the situation the Pysc team wanted me to double the prozac to 80mgs again.

I walked out and said no thanks and no way.

The meds are there to act as a safe guard over our mental health, they should never be allowed to numb our vodies out and to be seen as the long term answer.

I have aquired acute anxiety since the last 2 1/2 years , I never had known anxiety until this time, and now i often find myself collapsed and fitting with epileptic stle fits that are very distressing and of course I am given Diazipam to calm me down , but tese meds again are quite detremetnal to our boies and one of the major side effects is killing off our liver.

Well in my current HIV status and with long term liver damage what these meds are doing is slowly killing me off anyway.

There has to be a better answer to turn too.

I take these meds out of desperation and my strong will to live, and when I dont or wont take them the worse scenario has occurred i wont go into that.

I truly believe we are all different in our bodies and the way our bodies hold together

I encourage you to do some personal wotrk and maybe group therpay to find ways to work on ones self to get a real grip and understanding of what anxiety and depression can do if whe allow it too.

Stick with us in here , and research all those posative alternative ways that can really help you to overcome the disabling that these mental health issues rob us of our fulfilling lives that should be.

Hugs, Peace and Courage to you in finding the road to your journey and road that leads to all the joy and contemntment that you could ever possibly ask for and more

PJ