What does it feel like if Fluoxetine is actually working?

hi im taking prozac 20 and welbrutin 450 also zprexa will that work? im feeling less and less anxious everyday how i lnow it working?

Just thought I would share my recent experience with Fluoxetine. I've been having a really tough time due to things that happened to me in December (emergency appendectomy, Covid from being in the hospital for 5 hours total getting said appendectomy, then a close friend died suddenly just as January began).

My brain was not prepared to deal with all of that stress that fast on top of living alone during this pandemic, being isolated most of the week and sharing custody of my two teens who I see every other weekend. I have had panic disorder, illness anxiety and obsessive/intrusive thoughts my whole life but over the past year, being home alone so much really messed me up and I basically was a ticking time bomb of stress. Of course, I was scared to death of getting Covid and was being as careful as I could possibly be but I needed to get my appendix removed and of course out of all places I could have gotten infected, I got infected at the hospital 😦

My December experience just made everything worse and I have essentially been in a constant state of panic ever since. I went back on Prozac 4 weeks ago as of tomorrow and i'm currently at 40mg per day (started at 10, 20, 30 and now at 40 after the weekly increments). I went to 40mg because of my OCD and intrusive thoughts that just make my anxiety worse. Kinda wondering now if 40mg this soon was too much but I suppose there is no point in going back on the dosage now.

I ended up in the ER after two weeks on the medicine due to a fairly bad panic attack and they put on Ativan to help me sleep, though I'm worried about how long i will need to be on that. I usually take Xanax for panic “emergencies” and that usually works well but since it is short-acting, they suggested the Ativan.

My biggest issues right now are sleep (or lack thereof) and intrusive/stuck obsessive thoughts. I’m really trying to refrain from taking Xanax or Ativan at all but sometimes I give in and take something to calm my brain down.

It’s been 4 weeks as of tomorrow and I’m so tired of getting anxious and feeling like electricity is flowing through me, I think I’m still hyperstimulated because I get triggered easily by stupid things like stuck thoughts, though I will say the overall “panic” when this happens seems to be decreasing. Also, my mood has definitely improved and my appetite is coming around after losing about 8lbs in the last 4 weeks.

I am impatient by nature and I really just want to get better. I feel terrible for my girlfriend, who has been with me through all of this and super supportive. I wouldn’t wish this kind of anxiety on anyone and I know everyone here can relate to that.

And I want to wish a special thanks to Katecogs for all of her amazing input and support. I hope everyone who has posted their experiences here are doing well.

hi

is this post still active?

ive been prescribed Fluoxetine but wary of taking any after reading about the side effects as i dont want to feel any worse!

General theme seems to be that it can take many weeks before any improvement felt!

Help!

Hi there! (sorry i dont know your name)

honestly i feel what your saying. i ask my parents everyday, when is something going to give? it surely has too right?

im 8 weeks and 2 days in. it does feel like you go 1 step forward and 2 back most of the time and its strange to think that is recovery because surely taking these tablets they are to help us get better not worse. reading katecoggs on here is uplifting for me as she gives me hope, like were not alone.

when your in this even having loved ones close by still feels like they are a million miles away becuase it feels your not close to them because the depression and anxiety has separated you from the world and life itself.

yesterday i walked along a road near where i live (when im not with parents) and it all felt very surreal, i can only describe this feeling as its as if youve been in a coma for months as you havent really been living.

i hate the morning anxiety 😦 its awful, heart racing jittery and sudden jerks in arms and legs.

it still for me is a struggle to bounce out of bed like i used too 😦 everything still seems like effort.

i mean ive come along way so i know there is obviously been some improvements but i just dont see it yet.

i hope my head goes back to normal because i hate what its done to me which is question my mind, eg how does your mind remember so much, like remembering a song or how can we just read, like how can we just pick up our phone and write a text without even thinking about spelling the words. its strange to think that our life is just made up on our mind/memory like the places we go the people we meet, these things are all because of our mind. what im trying to say is, our mind plays a massive part of who we are!

ive looked into my life with such fine detail recently and thats because we cant think of anything else other than concentrating on that we dont feel 100%.

the above things when well, i would never of questioned.

not sure if you can relate to any of that?

yes im truly hoping we can all recover and like you say in time for this pamdemic to be over. ♥

brain fog seems to be normal.

i'm on my 7th day 20mg.

how do you know it's working... I'm going on 4 weeks and just feel like crap.. I'm anxious.. crying spells.. unsettled and no appetite. I'm really losing hope

hi there i have just started my journey with fluoxetine 10mg and i am wondering the same. i know everyone side affects are all different reading everyones side effects got muself a bit scared as i suffer from migraines and takeing meds for that but would hate to have headaches as a side effect of the fluoxetine

hi sorry to jump on this post but have been on 20MG and just been increase to 30mg 2 weeks ago how long roughly would I start feeling the extra 10mg start to take affect?

at the moment the increase doesn't feel like its doing much and still getting anxiety.

thank you

lewis

to start with i was crying alot and axiety was so bad week 4 fill more better then i did