Fluoxetine Withdrawal - Day 22.

Hi All.

I'm 28, and I went on fluoxetine for my chronic fatigue, it seemed no matter how good of a night's sleep I got it still took me till around 2/3/4 pm to feel fully awake. Almost like a hazy feeling. Once it passed I'd be back to my usual energetic self. So I tried fluoxetine as this was causing me to feel really down and with work stress also it was getting hard. All seemed to go well until the 12th day when I woke at 12.55am and my heart was skipping and jumping all over the place and then my temples started this insane burning feeling and I thought my head was about to explode and I spiralled into a huge panic attack, I've only ever had 3 and have managed anxiety since I was 17/18 but this was horrendous. I called the GP at 8am and he advised to either continue or gave me the option to stop. I decided to stop as my heart palpatations were freaking me out and it took a couple of days but I started to feel better, I still do feel much better than I did however every couple of days or so I'll wake up really tired and start getting the temple burn at a random time in the day but only mildly . I have been off flu for 3 weeks and 1 day and had a full MOT of my bloods within this time which all came back normal. Spoke to a much better GP just over a week ago (he advised the blood tests, wanted to check for common physical diseases) and he said it sounds like SSRI withdrawal and that the GP shouldn't of gave me the option to just stop.

Has anyone else experienced the temple burn with this?

Thanks

Jamie.

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