Been on Prozac for 4 weeks and started feeling anxious and anxiety came back. What should I do?
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This is my third time taking prozac i am on my 4th week and im starting to feel panic/anxious and anxiety again. It has been a rough rocky up and down road so far.. My the third week i was starting to feel myself again my anxiety went down tremendously. Then around my 4th week i got a panic attack out of know where felt like i was going to passout and have have been struggling to shake it off ever since. i keep obsessing and thinking of it being some other medical condition wrong with me and i just feel off and worried and my upper stomach hurts and is tight. These past few months have been very rough my dad died of cancer 2 months ago and my anxiety and depression went up again so i decided i needed medication again. i know prozac is a slow working drug and the side effects always suck for me in the beginning but this time the side effects were really bad at least i think so but my girlfriend says i was like this before when i started prozac. idk what to believe i have really bad panic disorder and anxiety and depression and bad health anxiety. Its just a scary feeling ive been taking 20mg of prozac for almost 4 weeks exactly and had that bad panic attack and now i feel like im reversing in progress. I know prozac has worked for me before so why is this time so different??
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max12696 Musky94
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Hi, I'm on week 4 of 20 mg too and also had a bit of a wobble. I was doing ok, but then the anxiety, racing heart and palpitation started. I don't know why it's started but I've read somewhere that it can take longer for it to work if you've taken it before. This is my second time so I'm assuming that is what's happening.
Musky94 max12696
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Yeah thats what im hoping for... Almost on my 5th week and starting to feel a little better. Just feel like im kinda of buzzed right now ill get in really good moods then ill start feeling buzzed and kind of spaced out. But yeah this third time taking prozac has been really rough for me this time. But i am slowly getting better im starting to go out in public and fish and enjoy the outdoors. Its a slow process but im staying the course and hoping for the best! I still have my bad days but they are getting more manageable.
max12696 Musky94
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Hi! It's great that you're getting out and doing fishing again. That must make you feel good and realise that you are improving.
I'm still in the fatigue phase unfortunately, I do have some signs of improvement though, I get out of bed and can get on with things better rather than having that feeling of dread.
I think my anxiety has improved slightly, I had my covid vaccine which ramped up the anxiety but overall I've been able to cope. I've also done a self referral for CBT, I've tried it before but going to see if it will work this time. Do you think that might work for you?
Musky94 max12696
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im glad you are improving! Keep hanging on and try and be positive the best you can! im on week 5 almost on 6 and still have my bad and good days. Ive been really stressed financially and worry about work and that gives me anxiety. Im 27 and feel like its to late for me to find a career now. ive been struggling with my dads passing last winter 2021 has been the hardest year for me so far. I know prozac and medication can only do so much but it was so much harder getting on this medication this time i feel some improvement but its really slow. Still dont feel like myself 100% and im trying not to rush it but it has been almost 6 weeks and that scares me that im never going to feel like myself again. And ive never tried CBT what is it?
max12696 Musky94
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CBT is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy its a way of breaking the chain of negative thoughts. I've done it before but I was in a better frame of mind but at the moment I feel stuck so I'll have to see how it goes. Most areas allow you to do a self referral for additional support with mental health so it might be worth doing that or speaking to your GP about some counselling.
I'm so sorry you're having a difficult time after losing your dad. It's so difficult I lost my dad 4 years ago and I still struggle with it.
Also it's definitely not too late in terms if finding a career, you're still very young. If there's something out there that you're interested in, you owe it to yourself to at least look into it, you might find a way to make it happen.