Hiya, long one I fear, but please plough through of you can!
(my)GP one, told me swap from 40mg Prozac to 15mg Mirtazapine overnight.
Took the new one in the evening, felt drowsy within half an hour. Woke this morning totally spaced out and struggling to compute. Still don't feel undizzy now.
Rang surgery today and was lucky enough to speak to duty doctor (old school guy been there for donkeys) who said don't take another one tonight, take 20mg Prozac tomorrow and review in two weeks.
Is it normal to swap directly from one medication to another anyway, without withdrawing as my original gp said to?
backstory- having been on Prozac succesfully at 20mg for 5-6 years I had major mental trauma start of the year, and went downhill sharpish. Prozac upped to 40mg, but it's made the anxiety worse, or maybe I am just worse generally after the 'breakdown of sorts'.
After/during this bad bad time was looking for something to help the panics etc... so (my) gp firstly suggested Citalopram. I took this for a few days. She asked me if i felt any better, and i said no not at all, then she said it's not working then.
Surely it would have taken longer??
So anyhow, this same gp is the one who has told me to swap directly from Prozac to Mirtazapine yesterday, bang bang.
Feeling she is not good with this.
thanks for letting me go on, just a bit confused on top of it all. Would appreciate any info or experience of swapping, timings etc.
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Confused! 2 GPs, 2 views on changing from Prozac to Mirtazapine.
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piratecat · 17/10/2013 19:47
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