Fluoxetine & sudden extreme tiredness

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Like iz I have been prescribed Prozac for PMT and feel totally drained, I am so pleased to read other people have these side effects too. I work full time and when I get home all I want to do is sleep. I have had to explaintoo my family how I feel so they understand. The Prozac has lifted my mood 100% and I feel so much better than I did which is great but not sure which is the better of the two evils the PMT or the chronic tiredness.

I have been on prozac continously for the past two years now. Both times i have reduced or cut down the dose i have had a return of depression symptoms. I have now become accustomed to the tiredness and try to manage this as best as i can, like always having a nap when i get home from work. It helps a lot. For me, the tiredness is way more manageble than the depresson, but it has taken me a while to get here as i found the tiredness really difficult to cope with at first.

Terri

I have put on alot of weight as my appetite is really weird. I cant seem to stop eating once I start. I feel dizzy at times, no interest in sex at all. Thinking I would rather be depressed without the side effects!! I am going to go cold turkey now after doing 20mg every other day for a while, then every third day. See how it goes. Yes, I am worried about the depression, especially with Winter coming up but I hate feeling this way. Also my memory has gone down hill and my organisation is poor. And my bones ache. I am 51 feeling 81!!

Hi all. Alot of people hve said the tiredness may be caused by depression but this was not the cause in my experience. I was taking flu for ocd and the associated anxiety difficulties that accompany it. After the first 2-3 months (I increased the dose from 20 to 60mgs in this period) I initially couldn't believe how amazeballs I felt. No more anxiety attacks, paranoia was at an all time low and I was able to concentrate alot better throughout the day. It was about another 2 or so months later that I realised I could barely make it through a single day without napping after lunch or dragging myself around barely able to keep my eyes open and having around a tenth of the energy I had prior to taking flu. I dropped from 60 to 40 with not much noticible difference. Then a month and a half later down to 20. 20mgs wasn't really cutting it when it came to controlling my symptoms so about 3 weeks ago i ceased taking them. As people have said earlier in the thread it really is a catch 22. I am starting to feel like a functioning humam again energy wise, I can't nap during the day now even if I try, but everything it was helping me control is back and feels so much more horrible after living without it for the past year. The hardest part now is working out what the lesser of 2 evils is. I know my comment isn't really a solution but I wasn't suffering depression and I still felt the same way and hope it helps others to work out what it "is" and "isn't " for them.

I strongly urge you to have your thyroid tested again. Speaking from over a decade of my own research and personal experience, doctors are neither testing, analyzing, or treating the thyroid appropriately. GET YOUR LAB RESULTS from when the doc tested and told you everything was aok, if your TSH is not between .8 and 1.8, you have an underactive thyroid. In addition, another key indicator of thyroid performance is FREE T3 level (research shows that the Free T3 level should be in or approaching the upper third of the lab reference range to feel optimally). You see, most doctors prescribe levothyroxine (which is T4-thyroxine), but if your body is not converting the T4 to the active form T3, you will continue to experience underactive thyroid symptoms (including fatigue). Therefore, adding a time release T3 to the regimen along with T4 is usually the golden ticket. Some women choose natural thyroid which includes T4 and T3 but that is difficult to tweak dosage because it is combined, make sense? Please consider another doctor if your levels aren't in the ranges I described, and the doctor refuses to treat. In my personal experience, having been diagnosed with Autoimmune Hashimoto's Thyroiditis AND Fibromyalgia, a properly treated thyroid is the cornerstone to regaining your wellness. Everytime I see people diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, I think undertreated thyroid.

Hi I'm the same.  Totally shattered I seem to wake up on e or twice in the night.  It's helping me mentally feel so

Much better but drained.  Find myself falling asleep all the time.   Pauline.