Increased Dose now on 60mg

Each time I've upped or downed my meds, I've had similar side effects; its your body adjusting to the changes and they will ease over time. Its difficult to tell what's direct side effects and what's a result of your anxiety naturally increasing for a while when you change doseage. Stick with it, it will get easier. Remember your doing well coping with all this and will get better!

Rox

hannah, ive had a similar journey i took lexapro 10mg for 6-7 years and it worked like a charm until it pooped out. I have been on prozac 20mg for 8 weeks and dont feel much better. i did feel significant progress in weeks 3-5, but then a stressful work thing set me back. im going to up my dose to 30mg for a couple of weeks and see if that helps. if not im going to try something else. I have had very little side effects so i should be thankful for that

hi hannah. I do feel for you. that sounds awful. I was on prozac 20 a few years ago and it was amazing. this time it's slower. just finished week 8. up to week 5 I was very zombified but I pushed through. week 6 all was good. the anxiety evaporated and remains gone.however the last two weeks ie 7 and 8 I'm very ugggggghhhh and demotivated and a bit fragile so am seeing the doc in the morning to see if I can increase it to 40. I too have the heat at night ie quilt on quilt off maybe 40 times but I'm just used to that and will suffer it gladly if it means I can get back to normality. I do know it's important not to lose hope and faith

Hi everyone, thank you so much for your replies. im feeling slightly better and then worse and better again its been coming in waves. 1 thing I have noticed im not sure if anyone else experienced this but now that ive become slightly more level headed im looking back on past situations and experiences and cringing. I think in social situations the depression was causing me to take offence to things a lot easier and I would dwell too much on anything negative that happened in work or with friends or family. i always had the impression that people didnt like me and I would also let people walk over me a lot because confrontation would give me anxiety. I dont think I have been confident in myself and have allowed people to be rude to me and always second guessed any decision I made. I have started cbt which is helping build my confidence but I just wondering if anyone had any advice when you are shy dealing with loud personalities?

hi hannah ive just read ure post about prozac.i have taken it before with good results but then found the weight igained lead me to believe i would be better off not taking it(iwas also taking lithium 60 mg with it which worked really well for a few years)but again weight was a constant problem so i gradually came off them both over nearly a year.i tried to manage with vitamins and diet which i thought would help, but i went down to rock bottom.just before xmas i was losing wieght quickly but didnt feel any better and was so down i didnt go out the door for wks in the end the gp came out and put me back on 20 mg prozac in creased to 40 mg after 4wks had slight lift then i went back down again,saw the pschiatrist who reluctenly put me up to 60 mg,but it still took 17 wks to start to feel brighter its been a hard slog have had 3months feeling great till this wk when ive suddenly gone down again nothings changed at home so im at loss why its happened, i can only hope its a blip which will correct its self and i will get back to being happy cos at the moment im anxious and start to lose faith in the meds.i know this has happened to me but it does affect people in different ways ,i aslo had a lot of side affects earlier on when i started back on them and i agree recovery seems to be a long way off sometimes.the 3months ive just had was great and i felt better than i had for months,so hang on in there thats all we can do.but we are here if u want to chat thats the good thing about this forum,we are all in the same boat.take care bazza xx