Anxiety feeling in the morning, on wakening

You are like me, I am sick with anxiety in the morning I can barely eat.

I have my review this week with my GP, I am hoping that a further couple of weeks will be better.

Hi ,just stopped taking Prozac.Feel much better  now .dont know if it is a good thing to take.x

Hi Denise, it takes time for fluoxentine to work. Give it a few more weeks. what dose are u on ? How's your sleep quality ?

Hi Denise,hope you are feeling better.i took Prozac 20 mg per day and initially it worked ok.have just stopped taking it and feel  a lot better now.still collecting my perceptions though just in case the depression comes back.the worst the I found when taking Prozac I was hyper and if I had alcohol it just went off the scale.it was like I had no inhibitions at all!loud and shouty and could no recall it next day.think they are probably a good short term fix just to lift you up . But when you feel ok stop.

Regards David x

HI there, hopefully i can give you some encouragement!!!

I also woke with overwhelming anxiety in the early weeks of prozac. At week 6 is started to diminish, so hopefully that is happening for you now, but it did take more weeks for it to disappear completely. I do not have the morning anxiety anymore. However, I am also at a very low dose (10mg) and plan to increase, so i will experience this again.

I just want to say that you are on a relatively high dose, 40mg, in which you are bound to experience much worse side effects (like the overwhelming anxiety in the morning) than if you were on the lower dose. The bright side of this is though, as they soon begin to fade (for some people at 10 weeks) you will feel much much better than if you were on a low dose. 

i also really feel for, cutting yourself from family and friends. I am exactly the same and it is just a terrible feeling to feel so disconnected, I am sorry that you are suffering. However, as I have reached week 14 on the 10mg, I have found myself more capable of reaching out to friends and family. 

No i am not back to my normal self, and no i cant hang out with my friends whenever i want, only in rare moments when i start to feel more normal, but i am a lot more functional than before i started Prozac. However, I have faith that with an increase, this will change and things will only get better. I also have faith that as you pass more weeks, around week 10 or so you will find the morning anxiety gone and, around 12 weeks, you may start feeling like your old self. 

Please keep in touch and update how it goes it helps to have support on the site! (it also helped me a lot to have a large calendar where i crossed off days and weeks as i passed them and got to where i am today. Good luck xx

This is exactly how I feel too and I stopped taking after only 8 days, 20mg. . The side effects of anxiety and dread and panic and sweating and worry and crying I can’t take it. I won’t take any benzos either as I took them for far too long for the years and had terrible withdrawal coming off. Don’t want to go through that ever again. Cutting myself off from everyone is awful. I feel your pain. Everything is sad. This isn’t working for me so I had to stop. The reason I began is because of my high anxiety in the first place. Chest pain every day. The mornings are the worst! I’m hoping to feel some relief soon. I’m on day 3 of no more. I hope you begin to feel better. My heart goes out to anyone who has to go through this.