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Fluoxetine crazy thoughts?

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rebecca76002
rebecca76002

OK so I feel like I'm over posting abit here. I'm on day 4 of fluoxetine been taking them at night as they make me tired. I've had an ok day today however the last couple hours I'm having the most crazy thoughts Eg was in the shop and thought a woman looked like pure evil? I'm due to take another now so I'm not sure if I getting these thouhts because I'm due to take another or is the fluxotine making me funny, I'm sacred as to where these thoughts could leave? Don't know wether to take another tonight? These have been prescribed for anxitey depression and obsessive thoughts. So I did have some strange thoughts before not sure if I'm being over paranoid here? Help please

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  • lookingonwards
    lookingonwards rebecca76002

    Posted

    What dose are you on?
    • craig05866
      craig05866 rebecca76002

      Posted

      Hi Rebecca 

      I too had crazy thoughts and I believe it's side effects from the medication. Im now at the start of week 5 and although these have improved, I still get wandering thoughts pretty much daily. Everyone is different though. 

      Take care

    • kirstie_92875
      kirstie_92875 rebecca76002

      Posted

      Hey Rebecca I'm on week 4 and I still have good and bad days.. they will disappear in time it took about 2 weeks before I started feeling full effect.. I take it for being diagnosed with emotional dysrgulayion and general anxiety disorder but I still have days where I wake up and feel so badly anxious and racing thoughts too stick to it hun and they will subside it takes 6.8 weeks for full effects but I've known people that have taken them for 6 months and still have part anxiety and depression they will work in time hun

    • rebecca76002
      rebecca76002 kirstie_92875

      Posted

      Hi I took another tablet was up all night with the craziest thoughts woke up horrendous so jitters heart palpitations more anxiety than i had to begin with . Doctors now took me off then and put me mirtazapine. This is the 4th one I have tried really had enough of this now. Do people normally take this many before finding a suitable medication?
    • lookingonwards
      lookingonwards rebecca76002

      Posted

      I am unsure why your Doctor stopped them after only 5 days. I am just going to give it to you straight up. None of these medications work instantly just like a diet... they all have side effects and some of them have a new side effect every day or week to start off with. You need to be strong and push thru them or nothing will change. Changing medication constantly has to be messing with you big time. My doctor would never consider switching my medication after less than a week. I think you are expecting miracles but that is not the way these work. It sucks with side effects and you may feel worse but that is just your brain feeding you a crappy story. You are stronger than you give yourself credit for. Things take time.. I have been on them for 7 months now and only in the last month have I felt no glitches with them.
    • rebecca76002
      rebecca76002 lookingonwards

      Posted

      Hi he stopped them as I was having suicidal thoughts in the night. I've had these before but they was out of control also was thinking alot of other crazy things. I was surprised he gave me something else straight away also. He's told me to start them tonight but I am abit hesitant with all the other stuff I've had over the weeks im not sure whether to have a few days brake or to listen to what he's said and taken them . Would be alot easier if doctors explained things about medication taking months. I keep getting sent of with things and there telling me a week and come back of you have reactions ect ect it's really messing with my mind I know a lot of this is my anxiety but I just want to get better it's completly destroyed my life.

    • lookingonwards
      lookingonwards rebecca76002

      Posted

      I am unsure what country you are located in but I often find going to the drugstore and talking to the pharmacist better sometimes. They will know the best way for you to switch. Only yesterday my pharmacist told me that prozac has a long life and that I could probably go a week with no tablets and maybe have a few minor side effects from withdrawl but nothing huge.

      Maybe you need something to just take to get you over the anxious humps.

    • luci11
      luci11 rebecca76002

      Posted

      Hi Rebecca, lookingonwards is right, best not to keep switching or give up early. It would be good if you could try to continue with the same medication, it doesn't matter you missed one or two doses of fluoxetine. Best if the doctor gives you some other medication along with the fluoxetine for instant anxiety calming, and some strong sleeping pills for the first month. Those got me through the anxious nights... Please do not give up and temper too much with different meds every week, you are likely to make yourself sicker this way. It takes really long time to get used to them.

    • kirstie_92875
      kirstie_92875 rebecca76002

      Posted

      Hi love I've tried 7 Meds before trying fluoxetine and now flux is the right med for me I really hope the new one works out for you

  • luci11
    luci11 rebecca76002

    Posted

    Hi Rebecca,

    that sounds so awful, I am sorry you feel that way.

    But unfortunately in many cases this medication in early weeks even heightens the anxiety and obsessive/negative thoughts before you get any better. I went through the same for whole 4 weeks before starting to feel a little better at times, it was the worst 4 weeks of my life. I was constantly scared of everything, shivering with anxiety in mornings and evenings, and even suicidal. Not sleeping, not eating. From week 5 things started to improve, from week 7 I was about 50% better, and from week 9 I started being maybe 80% better. It all seems to me like a bad nightmare now, the first few weeks. 

    So you are definitely not paranoid, and you are not mentally getting worse. It is a side effect of the medication. It will be very hard for many weeks, but I hope you can find some reassurance on these forums, seeing that most of us have gone through the same, but we do recover eventually...it just takes really long time.

    Hugs x

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