Over three months I have been on 60mg and feeling worse.

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I have been on 60mg of fluoxatine for a little over three months and starting to feel worse, almost like I am in a manic state. Constantly anxious and racing thoughts. I did feel good about two weeks ago for about five days and then I had to have a tooth pulled because it was infected and feeling sick with the flu and ever since then I have been going down hill with my ocd. Please help.

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    Hi Angela, what dose was you on before 60mg? I had a similar experience when I was on 40mg and decreased to 20mg and felt so much better after 2 weeks. It was really scary to go through. hope you're ok x

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    You've posted this a while ago and I don't know if you're still looking for answers, but there might have been a drug interaction between fluoxetine and either (or both) flu meds you might have taken or sedation you were put under for the tooth thing or other medication? I know our minds doesn't go to drug interactions and we are inclined to always think it's the antidepressants either working or not but sometimes it's our reaction to drugs interacting among them. Check with your doctor if you can? And best of luck.

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