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20 weeks now on fluoxetine undecided if to up the dose

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abi28
abi28

Just looking for some opinions on what people would do.

As a lot of you may know due to all my frantic posts on this forum I have been suffering with anxiety and depression now since the beginning of jan and I had a breakdown which led me to start 20mg of fluoxetine and 80mg propranolol still on both.

I'm not going to say I'm not any better because I am so I'm hopeing this means the fluoxetine will help I'm just undecided to up the dose or not. It has been very up and down and I have not had one day where I have felt no anxiety and I have woke up every day with anxiety. The negative thoughts and feeling sick bother me the most and I am still suffering with both not all day but on and off each day sometimes better then others.

I think the main thing bothering me is that I feel I should be better by now and very undecided if I should up the dose I keep thinking maybe I'm not better because I need that extra dose or maybe I just need to give it more time I feel like 5 months is a long time and my gp just said I will leave it to you.

Thanks everyone

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  • julie92859
    julie92859 abi28

    Posted

    Hi abi are you still on here are you better yet I am about 24 weeks on fluoxetine still feeling so bad would like to hear if thing have improved
    • Toughgo
      Toughgo julie92859

      Posted

      hi guys . any chance i can get an update how your feeling ?

      im at 20 weeks total and 3 weeks at 40 mg and feel really horrible . no motivation, passion or life in me . i cant live this way much longer .

  • nataliya.k
    nataliya.k abi28

    Posted

    Abi

    i know it is very old post and i have read all about your journey.. How are you doing now? Have you recovered?

  • victor16185
    victor16185 abi28

    Posted

    hello everyone, I know its a old post, Im strugling now month 5, how are you now? did you setled out?

  • nataliya.k
    nataliya.k abi28

    Edited

    hi there

    i am 9 months on 20mg fluoxetine and only just recently i start to wake up without physical anxiety , but still going through rumination, lost of interest on some days and it scares me. I start thinking if i should increase the dose to have that extra boost or just keep going .? Feeling so discouraged on days like that, too much negative thinking that i wont fully recover.

    but for some people it takes longer than for others, . its my only hope

  • jo56870
    jo56870 abi28

    Posted

    hi all,

    10 weeks on fluoxetine (6 weeks on 20mg and 4 weeks on 30mg) still really struggling 😦 how is everyone doing?

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