Fluoxetine withdrawl or re starting that's making me so confused...help
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Hi. I have been on 20mg of fluoxetine for a year and half and they worked fine for me.i only took them due to a bad phase in my life and was a little down and depressed.i suddenly stopped them as I ran out and then I started taking citalopram a couple of weeks later for a bout 3 weeks.in this time I suffered what felt like a young midlife crisis and questioned my life choices.i was unsure of my relationship that I previously had been so happy with,I suddenly wanted to change my new car as I hated it.i wanted to move out from my mum and dads,and just didn't want to do anything at all.i stopped the cotalopram and got another subscription for the fluoxetine again and am now 3 weeks into them. I still don't feel properly in myself and just feel I need time out from the world and have no interest in things.i love my girlfriend but feel I need space from her to decide what I want.i just want to be back to where I was 6 month ago. Is it the withdrawl of fluoxetine that is making me like this or is it the swapping and changing medication. I'm hoping now I'm back on fluoxetine I start to feel normal
Soon and will get my old self back. Any advice would be great thanks.
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sarahB2890 paul75690
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Give it time it will take a while before you will feel normal again
paul75690 sarahB2890
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katecogs paul75690
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There is no quick fix. Changing meds won't find the magic button and neither will constantly changing doses. Either of these meds will work, but you have to give them months. They are tough and you're bound to feel uncomfortable for a while yet. It takes a good 6 weeks for a broken bone to start mending, and so the same time needs to be given to these meds too. Some people take longer and some get better quicker. They will help you though.
You will get back to your old self again - just give them time to work again.
K xx
katecogs
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sarahB2890 katecogs
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but going off of it permanently is hard on the body especially adding a second medication
paul75690 katecogs
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I just want to understand what my true thoughts are. And if these thoughts I'm having now are thoughts I'm having due to side effects and depersonalisation. I'm just so confused and not me 😕
katecogs paul75690
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When you're depressed or anxious your thoughts are also affected and become irrational. The medication helps greatly, but when you first start the meds and when you withdraw your thoughts can be all over the place and become weird sometimes. It's not how you normally are. Depersonalisation happens as the result of these too. It will all settle down if you stay on one meds, one dose, and stop swapping them about. It takes a long, long time for the meds to build up in your body, so changing dose and meds makes your body not know if it's coming or going.
You will be yourself again. You can recover from this. You just have to stay on the meds and keep going - accept whatever happens (it'll be the meds) and very slowly it'll get better.
My son had a massive melt down 2 years ago, started these meds and went through hell. He couldn't work for 4 months but slowly the meds started working and within 9 months he was back to himself and is now happy again.
K x
paul75690 katecogs
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katecogs sarahB2890
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Yes adding a second medication can be tricky.
K 🙃❤️
katecogs paul75690
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What happens first time doesn't always happen the same way the second time. I've heard that from a few others on here too.
Yes, the odd decent day will happen. It's how the meds work, the those days will get more frequent as time goes by,
K xx
sarahB2890 katecogs
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It's the damnedest thing but I have a malfunction every month around my cycle I ended up having a mood disorder worst than pms
My doctor said I could take fluoxetine
To get me through this horrible problem every month and even though I only started taking it in January my friends and family noticed a huge difference in me
I'm fine all the other days so I don't need it all the time
katecogs sarahB2890
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Glad it's working out for you with these meds and that taking them how you do works for you ❤️
K xx
sarahB2890 katecogs
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but it really helped when I went on the 20mg I didn't have too many side effects after a couple of months my friend had me over and immediately said there was something different about me she said I was like night and day
Funny you don't notice it yourself but others sure do
deborah93854 paul75690
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You should have never changed the meds. You say you were fine on Flux, so why did you change them? You are getting side effects fm the new meds. It takes them time to kick in fully. 6-8 weeks.
Give them time and you shld feel better.
Good luck.
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