Help please

Thanks Amy I’ll keep plodding on 

Thanks for your reply you just feel so alone and unable to see ahead was on it a good few years ago and to be honest can’t remember how bad things were at the beginning but they did work for 3years and came off them which was a big mistake xx

Hi Brenda, everything Dawn said is spot on. We have supported each other through our healing process and I can say the people on here were a big part of my healing. This is also my second time on Prozac. I took it for 25 years before I had a drug interaction and it stopped working for me. I had no side effects the first time I took it but when I started again I had every one of them. It can be exhausting, frightening and discouraging when you are dealing with this illness and praying for results. I was week 12 before I started to feel a difference but it did happen. Hold on hon and don't give up. You will get there. 

Big hugs ????

Hi Dawn, glad to hear you are doing well. I hope you had a good holiday season. I think I'm going to increase to 60mg when I see my pdoctor next week. Just need a little more push to get things right. But we know the drill, slow and steady. It will come. 

Take care. ????

Hi Laurie thanks for the support I feel I’ve lost 10month of my life I did have worse side effects on sertraline but after 7 months and up to 200mg I felt worse than I did I ended up in a&e thinking I was having a heart attack but all ok my gp was very supportive and prescribed diazapam which did help but unfortunately she is on long term sick and new doc refusing to give it so I have started using Bach’s remedy pastals which I do think help is it normal to have chest pain at times that’s the most frightening health anxiety I’m 66 and think is this my life x

Hi there Laurie ... how’s things going there for you chic?? Yeah I’m good thanks and things have settled down great now, other then the bloody menopause lol.. 

had that bad flu/cold that’s going around after new year, which was pretty bad this time around, never had a cold that bad 🤧..

Your ready now then to up to 60mg ? Good I’m glad you feel ready, you know In your self what’s best for you, and when your ready to go higher, for ME it wasn’t untill I hit 60mg that it all finely settled down and each day felt good... lovely to here from you, keep intouch 🤗x

You live in the UK?  Many people have had the chest pain and it settled for them. I know some of them had an ecg to make sure they were ok. I tried to think of it for me that this time I was recovering was just a drop in the bucket of my life. I would get through this and enjoy my life so much more. I know many doctors don't like to use benzos but I don't know why they created them then. I have clonazepam that I take only if I'm having a really difficult day. I used to take 2 mg a day in the beginning but was easy for me to wean myself off. I drank chamomile tea which helped to calm me and ginger tea to ease my stomach. 

Know that you are not alone. There are so many of us that have gone through what you are and have healed. 

Im here to help.

Take care

I still have a few which I got in October so I don’t abuse them but when things a tough I take 1/2 of a5mg onwards and upwards x

Ugh! Menopause. 🙄😡. I'm ready for that to end. I'm doing ok but know I can do better. I had a relapse during Christmas and am still struggling a bit. I was on 60mg before and have heard that often people need to go back to their previous dose. 

I had the flu/ cold for a month before I finally got rid of it. It's terrible this year. They say the flu shot is not effective with this strain. I won't take any cold meds as I'm too afraid of an interaction. 

Im glad to see you on here giving back. Everyone here made such a difference in my healing. I feel blessed to have found you all.

I'll keep in touch and you too lady. I'm so happy for you that life is going well a you deserve it. 

Big hugs. ????

Is that why you dropped down to 40 mg then, as having a blip???

Yes Iv had enough of the crap menopause now, 4 yrs down the line, and enough is enough, I want my life and body back 😩

I some times can’t beleave what us woman have to put up with, giving birth ( which is good any way ) sodding periods, then this crap what they call the menopause😫 I’m sure we can’t go through any thing eles now lol...

Can’t beleave how Xmas as been and gone already, don’t seem as tho we’ve been there, life could do with slowing down a little now days, hope you have a good day and things do improve for you Wen you go back up to 60mg, take care and talk soon 🤗x

When I was on Prozac for 25 years I upped to 60 mg. We decided to stop at 40mg as I am also taking lamotrigine. But I still believe I need to go a bit higher. We'll see what he says next Wednesday. 

Darn menopause, at least in the frigid cold weather we've been having I could sometimes appreciate them. Of course I haven't had any for a few weeks. 🙄  They will probably start again when the weather gets warm. Ugh! 

You take care too my friend. ????

Hi Stacey at first coming off sertraline and changing to prozac I felt good but this last few days the anxiety is back nausea aches pains crying I just can't see an end health anxiety through the roof always feels like something else is going on

I felt good at first too, then the anxiety came back.  It is awful.  I have a couple different medicines to take for it, but I don’t want to take it because Dr wants me to try to ride out the anxiety.  Antidepressants seem to give me panic attacks as a side effect.  The Dr says you have to go through that to lift the depression. I feel like I’ve been dealing with it forever, and want it to go away.

I find it harder the older you get it's when you're mind works overtime it's exhausting x