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I'm really struggling right now. My meds were switched to a different manufacturer and I've been struggling the last few months especially around menstrual time. I finally upped my meds from 12.5 to 15 and I'm about to be at the end of week three since then and I'm a wreck. I feel so up and down. anyone have advise?
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kirstie_92875 Dengirl29
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What's the name of the med your taking I noticed when I got my repeat prescription I was on normal fluoxetine then the next prescription is called prozec not Prozac but PROZEC it was really strange to me when I first took it but I'm only on 2.5ml as every time I up my dose I feel 10x worse and I can't deal with it that's why my psychiatric is testing me for ADHD and other mental disorders to see if I should be on the right med I would go back to your psychiatric gp and see what they say Hun but it did take 4 weeks for me to start feeling a bit better and being able to go out I can't work due to concentration and I can't focus or listen or can't take nothing in my mind which makes me struggle bad in life.. so I have to stay home and catch stress from my kids I would love to live a normal life I was only diagnosed of gad but stick to it you should soon see the side effects get a lot better
Dengirl29 kirstie_92875
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I'm on fluoxetine right now 15mg but I asked for Brand name since the manufacturer keeps getting switched. I normally work but my anxiety and depression was thru the roof today. I wasn't sure anyone would reply since time difference I'm in US
Dengirl29 kirstie_92875
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kirstie_92875 Dengirl29
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Every time you up your dose you are gonna feel the anxiety again I did when I tried to go up to 20mg my anxietys bin so bad for 3 days.. but now I'm back on 10mg as that worked for me but give it time a few more weeks you will see a big difference soon
Dengirl29 kirstie_92875
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So your on 10mg? So that's 2.5 ml?
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kirstie_92875 lookingonwards
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Prozep it's called it's fluoxetine
Dengirl29 kirstie_92875
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kirstie_92875 Dengirl29
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Yea I'm trying so hard I gave it 3 days and I felt very very bad that I end up ringing my psychiatric up and telling them I was better on 2.5ml they have booked me in on Monday for an appointment they are testing me for ADHD personality disorder they think I've got more then general anxiety as I keep going up and down also where I can't work I can't focus I can't concentrate I can't make friends because I'm very defensive and I can't trust people
lookingonwards Dengirl29
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Did you find that the brand name is stronger than generic? I had my hormones, Vit D and thyroid checked and they say they are fine. Which I know can't be the case. I'm about to go to another hormone Dr to have them checked though. Is the birth control helping her? I'm on tablet so I have been cutting them.
Dengirl29 lookingonwards
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Also every time I try to increase I back back down because I can't handle the intrusive thoughts and anxiety. Did your depression and anxiety get worse before better when you increased?
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The birth control has been helping her as she has been skipping the sugar tablets now as well. She found that on the birth control she had to go on one where basically the tablets stay the same for the whole time and do not change each week.Â
lookingonwards Dengirl29
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Think of it like this... Â Â if a child had never had a chocolate before and it goes to a birthday party and has its first chocolate then it will come home and drive the parents crazy as it is not used to the sugar.... Â but then say the child has a chocolate every single day for 2 weeks then the child becomes less hyper each time as the childs body has started to get used to it... Â now say after 2 weeks the child starts to have 2 chocolates per day what is going to happen? well the increased dose is going to make the child hyper again as now they are having more sugar again... Â but it settles down again as the body gets used to it... Â then you guessed it the child starts having 3 chocolates per day and off it goes on its hyper party again and drives the parents crazy until it becomes settled in the system again and normal and expectant that this is what it is used to doing.Â
Now in reverse... Â the parents decide that the child is now having way to much chocolate so they decide to cut it out... they have two choices... A: cold turkey knowing the child will have mass meltdowns as it is used to its chocolate and sugar load at a certain time.... or B start cutting the child back to 2 chocolates per day so the child still gets the treat but the withdrawls from the sugar are a bit kinder... after a while the withdrawls from moving from 3 down to 2 chocolates the parents move down to 1 chocolate per day knowing there may be more withdrawls from the sugar each day... then slowly down to half a chocolate then a quarter then a chocolate every second day for a while... every 3rd day for a while... Â etc etc until they stop completly and give the child an apple
Medication is the same sort of thing... when you add something new into your body it takes time to stabilise. I am not a coffee drinker if I have a cup of coffee now I will hit the wall.... but if I started having a coffee every day for a month sooner or later I am not going to feel that same effect and suddenly need to drink 2 coffees per day as I will be complaining that only 1 coffee is not even hitting the edge to keep me awake anymore.Â
Dengirl29 lookingonwards
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That makes perfect sense and you are completely right because I am a coffee drinker and it works the same way! I use pill cutter. I have been trying to get to 20mg but always back down. IT makes me feel like I'm crazy with racing thoughts and being jittery but I know I just need to push through it. I've been on 15mg for 3 weeks just about. I'm going out of town this weekend to Tn and I hope it calms down by then. I do have xanax from forever ago but don't want to take it. I guess I'm just freaked out the medicine will make me do something that's not me
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Yeah but I have suicidal thoughts but I would never want to do that. My doc said it's OCD because I'm like "what if" I did this or "what if" I did that. Of course I don't want to act on the thoughts but they scare me to death and I went to the ER last time they were bad when I tried to start celexa. I just don't want to increase those and it does when my anxiety shoots up.
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I'm just worried I'll never get better my depression is so bad. ??
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Dengirl29 lookingonwards
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Thank you! I am feeling better today than yesterday! Do you feel like you get down still when it's time for your menstual cycle or did that never effect you?
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Dengirl29 lookingonwards
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Does your anxiety cause intrusive thoughts too? I have two girls and I didn't develop the hormone problem until I became pregnant with my second child. She is 18 months now.
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