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Have faith in fluoxetine - it works!

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dave94994
dave94994

Hi everyone. I'm 12 and a half weeks in, and wanted to share a nutshell version of my story, in the hope that it may help someone out there.

Depression for me didn't really hit until turning 50, when my life as I knew it began to unravel.

I started taking the medication on advice of a local Doctor - 20mg a day. At first it did nothing at all, as expected. Then the night sweats, shaking hands, raised heart-beat and sweaty palms started. Oh and the body twitches! It got so horrible that I phoned the Doctor twice to check that this was normal! It's hard to explain just how bad I felt physically!

Since then my life circumstances have worsened considerably. I won't go into details, but the change in my life has been staggering. But I'm coping. And even with a different family health emergency, the pandemic and my life unravelling, I'm coping far better than I would have believed was possible.

Some of it has certainly been down to other things I'm doing to help myself, but without a doubt this medicine helped me enormously. Ten weeks ago I wanted to die, but couldn't because of my two young children. Today I can't believe I felt that bad - despite today's circumstances being worse.

There isn't a miracle cure as such, but the medication definitely takes the edge off the pain, and makes it easier to bear and cope with.

I found this forum when I was desperately looking for reassurance. I hope this post helps someone out there looking for the same thing. Hang in there -- it gets better.

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  • suzanne68414
    suzanne68414 dave94994

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    What a lovely post to read, I'm on week 8 and still got all these symptoms, went away for a few days but now back again 😢, also have terrible acid reflux on fluoxetine that worries me. Hope your journey keeps getting better.

    • dave94994
      dave94994 suzanne68414

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      Thank you Suzanne. Yes I can certainly relate to that. But it's incredible now - the side effects really just faded away. Thankfully! Good luck too you too. Hope you feel better soon.

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