Insomnia??

Hi Kirk. 1 month completed of Prozac and don’t feel too different yet. I can’t sleep decent. But bad anxiousness throughout the day and my appetite isn’t their. So my stomach is bleh. Hard for me to connect to meds. 

Exactly the same for me Tina .. did have a good run between week 4/5 then back to square one 😔. I didn’t have my flu yesterday and slept a lot better last night ... other than my husbands snoring! Xx

Yes. / little better. I use 2 Xanax at night with lavender. I wake up and watch tv then go back to slee again. My extreme panic and chest pain and stomach issues are what’s the most annoyingly know. I left you another message about the second meds I’m goinf to take. You don’t need to take my advice at all but at least research it. Doxepin.  Did you get any sleep last night? 

I don’t feel like I’m improving I feel like the meds made me even worse! I was bad before but the Prozac made me s million times worse! Which was to be expected I also think I’m suffering from adrenal failure which is caused my stress and anxiety.  Well I have Kaiser which sucks. I’ve had to beg through every requests I have had so far! And my psych is retiring so I haven’t even SEEN him face to face since this whole episode started! I do everything through his assistant. So I wises up and asked to switch psychs. BUT I probably won’t get an actually apointment for a long time. Can you switch docs? Usually they are pretty open to adding meds. Again not telling you what to do. 

We will get through this even tho it’s terrible. 

It's like the Dark Ages here Tina. I'll stick with this doc for now as to be honest the ones I see when she is not available are very dismissive. One said to just stop all my meds and "sorry if that seems harsh". Maybe it is time to go private ...

The Prozac is starting to reduce my stress and anxiety in the afternoons (day 18) but monings are grim and sleep still terrible. We will get there!

 

I don’t know how health insurance is their in the UK but here doctors love to medicate you so I guess it’s a bit  easier.  But same as you very difficult for me to see a Doctor face to Face. I’m hoping you can get some answer or another med to help with insomnia- it can be terrible. Hoping you get more sleep tonight. 

IM adding my doxepin tonight. SO we’ll see. But so far I had to take 2 Xanax today just to calm my extreme anxiety and heart pounding down this morn. 

Hope you slept better with the doxepin Tina. Please let us know how that went for you. My sleep was as awful as ever.

Hi Dom, 

I took prozac in the morning. Then a Xanax around 10 when I was at group therapy. Then took one more Xanax at 7 (cuz my anxiety is bad at night!). Then took my first doxepin last night at 9:30. I woke up at 8:30 am!!!! That’s like 10 hours! I tossed and turned a little bit nothing for me to complain about. I use to be on doxepin as you know so I knew it would help me sleep but I’m hoping it’ll help with the other stuff so I can feel like myself again. But I really hope maybe you can get it or something like it. 

How are you feeling? 

Wow! 10 hours!? I can only dream of that much sleep Tina. Mine is still dire. I have a choice of Lorazepam, Diazepam, Zopiclone or OTC Antihistamine stuff. All pretty useless. My doc is in Thursday so if I am still the same I might go ask her. So glad you are getting some sleep. You'll soon be on the road to recovery with a few good nights behind you.

YA lots of rest. Thank god. I’m hoping it will help with my crazy panic and my lack of energy. I’m suppose to go back to work soon and s not feel ready are all. 

Those meds you mentioned-didn’t the doc already prescribe those?  Did you have insomnia before Prozac? I know I slept fine until I started Prozac. We just have to keep at it. 

No, before Prozac I slept like a baby

The Prozac has blocked my anxiety and panic pretty much, and I was hungry today. All good signs ... but ... the sleep ... urgh.

Yeah got them off the doc but she is despairing at giving me different meds as I always go back and say that they don't work

I may just try Melatonin tonight, at least that is the plan. So terrified of getting hooked on Diazepam but I think that helps me best for sleep.

Nah you won’t gdf hooked. Once you start getting sleepy on your own you’ll slowly stop the pan. It’s true it’s easy to get jokes on them but when your mind and body feel better you just naturally stop. Hope you get some kind of sleep. And hopefully ask the doctor for doxepin!