Muscle side effects on Fluoxetine

Hello Everyone,

I've had GAD and health anxiety for quite some time but it peaked after developing twitching in my calves, which led to Googling my symptoms, which led to the twitching exploding all over my body because of the fear I got. My doctor put my on 20mg of fluoxentine (liquid) which I took for 7 weeks and then we upped it to 30mg. I'm currently finishing up week 8. I went through the usually side effects of nausea, night sweats, shaking, intense anxiety, but I'm starting to feel better and expect it to go up from here. Now I only have tingling and tiny twitches in my calves and the occasional twitch elsewhere. I'm feeling more convinced that the original twitching started because of overworking my calves (I was a huge running and had some serious exercise OCD prior to the twitching). Now I expect it will slowly fade as my anxiety calms down.

I'm just a bit worried that my side effects are lasting longer than normal. Sometimes my muscles just feel a bit off, like they might cramp up but never do, or randomly sore for a day or half a day, or they feel more tired than usual. I also just feel more tired in general too. I was worried these were symptoms that were caused by a medical condition in line with the twitching, but none of these started until after the fluoxetine.

Also, I have been getting some restless leg syndrome and big muscle jerks when trying to fall asleep. Not like my anxiety twitches, but like my whole leg will move or my head. Does anyone else get these side effects, and how long did your main side effects last?

Also, out of curiosity and because I'm still an anxious human being lol, anyone else get the anxiety twitching and go through the scare? You'll know what I'm talking about if you did 😃. Any positive recovery stories would be appreciated!!

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