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Fluoxetine Buddies!! - there will be a group for every AD at this rate!

170 replies

NattyThomasandEllen · 21/01/2008 17:58

hey guys
saw there were some other "buddie" groups but couldnt find one for Fluoxetine. if there is one point me in the direction and i apologise for taking up cyberspace lol

i went on these a week ago, and was told they take three weeks to kick in, anyone else out there on the same ones?

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kkkkatie · 21/04/2008 12:50

Feel ok. Bit strange as I keep going from high as a kite to feeling wiped out. DS just gone down for snooze and i am shattered. got appoint with doc to check up on how they are going. its difficult to know really, the side affects are not helping me though, its ironic as i said to doc that i am not sleeping and shattered and he said that was a side effect of depression, now i am ad one of the side effects are insomnia, when does that stop. keep waking in the night, either starving hungry or twitchy ready to get up, and its only 2 o'clock in morning?????

LittleCheese · 21/04/2008 13:57

feeling a little nauseaus today and woke up around once every half hour in the night which wasnt great, seem to have had a massive burst of energy this morning though it must be a psychological thing as i know ad's wont be working so soon

VickyPea · 30/04/2008 22:17

Hi, its so helpful to find thread like this, it makes you realise you are not alone. I've just gone up to 40mg after 20mg for five months, the 20mg just seemed to have stopped having any effect. Im just now going back through more side effects, sweats, shakes, weird dreams and dry mouth - better than screaming at my DSs, crying at everything, and feeling like I just wanted to give it all up. I finally found a doctor who look at my medical history of short bouts of 'feeling a bit down' over the last 5 years and diagnosed PND from my ds1 who is 6 this week! I've been a horrible mum, shouting and losing my temper all the time I just wish it had been diagnosed earlier. Even then, it was diagnosed in August last year, it took me three months to open the packet (just like you Sherby, you're not the only one), its nothing to be ashamed of, you just have to admit it to yourself!

LittleCheese · 07/05/2008 21:38

how is everyone feeling at the moment, i have been taking these for 2 and a half weeks now and not really had any side effects that ive noticed, this makes me think that perhaps they arnt going to work for me. Also just wondered if anyone has any experience of missing a day on these ad's. I missed my tablet on monday and then just took my tablet as usual on tuesday and today but this evening i felt so sick and had a really upset stomach and i wondered if it could be the ad's

ditavonteesed · 09/05/2008 16:34

Hi, sorry you are feeling sick, it could well be the ad's, I am in a right fing mess at the moment.

LovelyDear · 02/08/2008 09:05

Can i resurrect this? I contributed to this a few months ago (namechanger!) as an enthusiastic advocate, but i was feeling SO fine that in april i took myself off them. I was ok for about 8-10 weeks, during which time we moved house (ho ho great timing) and since about week 11 i've started having the doomy, panicky anxiety feelings which put me on them in the first place. Last night was particularly bad, i was shaking uncontrollably with fear but my husband is a bit of a cold fish in those circumstances and this becomes a problem in itself. anyway, i've run out of diahorreeeaarh and i'm still in despair. I KNOW an outside observer would say - start taking them again but i can't bring myself to. 1) i think i should be able to cope with my 'real' self 2) my DH points out that i came off them partly to see if i lost some of the 2 stone i put on since starting, and partly to enjoy sex again .

I'm getting better at controlling the symptoms of panic but it's the everyday sense of doom and pointlessness that i can't bear. i should be looking forward to the summer holiday but instead im thinking 'what if i'm like this all the time?' just looking at my dcs makes me want to cry at how i'm wasting their youth.

oh god. someone sort me out please.

LovelyDear · 02/08/2008 09:46

I've just sobbed to my dh, having decided i should give him a chance before turning to the internet.. he was nice, considering i'd woken him up, and said that i was of course welcome to go back on the prozac but his view is this: he drew an analogy to p being like waterwings which will always work, but maybe i should be learning to swim. And then he said - you are expecting to become something which can float, and that's not possible for anyone. i understand what he means - everyone has to cope with ups and downs, and maybe i could accept i'm a panicky person but learn how to deal with them. i do realise i'm already better than i used to be. so maybe i should give myself longer to keep practising?

mrssmith22 · 02/08/2008 10:51

hello lovelydear, have namechanged for this. i can't offer advice, hope someone will be along soon who can .

very pleased to have found this thread though. i am on day 3 of fluoxetine, i have not told dp as he is adainst ADs. wish i could discuss it all with him, as you can with your dh.

lisasimpson · 02/08/2008 11:35

mrssmith22 - tell him when you are feeling better - bet he won't be so against them then
I have been on them about three weeks now and have definitely noticed the difference. Lovelydear - I know what you mean I resisted taking the prescription for a good week because I thought 'why can't I just be normal and deal with things like everyone else does' but I am taking them for bad pmt. I have not told many people in RL as they probably wouldn't think it was a good enough reason!

LovelyDear · 02/08/2008 14:52

Thanks MrsSmith and LisaS. I'm just going round and round in my head about what to do and crying and shaking. it's no way to live. I don't even know what i'm shaking about at the moment. i always manage to bend my anxiety to whatever is the most difficult thing to avoid in the news, so today it's money, reduncancy and mortgages etc. i've just been to the shops on my bike to try to shake myself out of this mood and found every time i went to pay for something i felt cold and sick. i even found myself wishing i didn't have to buy my wonderful sister a birthday present. she'd HATE to know i thought that and i hate myself for thinking it. we're really not on the bread line i should be ashamed of myself.

BTW MrsSmith the first time i was given a prescription my DH was really against me taking them and talked me out of it. well i didn't take much persuading. It wasn't until i'd had loads of CBT and psychiatric consultations a couple of years later that he acknowledged that i should probably try them. then he was delighted when he saw the results! Now he's just hesitant because he's seen me be ok for 3 months without them....

mrssmith22 · 02/08/2008 15:11

lise s - i'm also taking mine for pmt.

i woke up on monday morning & decided that i'd had enough of living half a life.

part of me still feels like i'm failing by not coping. but on the whole i feel relief that i'm doing something. lovelyd - i feel huge anxiety also.

LovelyDear · 02/08/2008 17:01

Ive just taken one. the first since april 14. i sobbed to my dh PLEASE LET ME TAKE THEM! How melodramatic. anyway, he said of course it's your decision, and i feel psychosomatically a bit better already. unless i think about money...and then i feel sick. i could sleep for a million years.

mrssmith22 · 02/08/2008 18:53

when do the side-effects go?? i have a strange taste in my mouth, feel sick, dizzy, tired & very thirsty - all started on the first day.

hope more positive effects start soon.

LovelyDear · 02/08/2008 19:40

i don't know. i don't remember from last time having any, though i was put on tiny 5ml doses at first...

lisasimpson · 02/08/2008 20:22

My tiredness lasted about two weeks, came on in the middle of the day so I now take mine at bedtime and it has helped with that. I had a few headaches which have also gone and more importantly - no pmt this month! I have also felt a lot more calm and less irritable the rest of the month so it is worth hanging in there!

LovelyDear · 05/08/2008 22:31

Hi again. As i said below, i stopped taking my prozac in April because i had been feeling so good for so long, i couldn't imagine that i still needed thm. Now my anxiety has come back so badly i can hardly function when i'm on my own or with the kids. So i started taking them again on Saturday. I was on a 30mg a day dose (ie 1 tablet one day, 2 the next). Do you think i should build up gradually to this, or should i just go straight for the full whack? I know i should ask the doctor but i can't get there without the kids easily (all friends on hols) and i don't want to cry in front of them...

LovelyDear · 05/08/2008 23:28

Bumping - anyone have experience of restarting after a 4 month break - would you go straight to your full dose or build up? I want quick results!

mrssmith22 · 07/08/2008 12:40

hi LD, could the doctor advise you over the phone rather than you having to make an actual appointment? just a thought anyway.

lisasimpson · 07/08/2008 12:50

that's a good point mrssmith as I also have to take thyroxine and can often discuss dosage/request prescriptions over the 'phone. Good luck ld

LovelyDear · 07/08/2008 19:18

good point. i'll call for a phone consultation tomorrow. still feeling REALLY scared and down almost all the time. it's exhausting, and the children are really picking up on it. i just want it to go awayyyyyyyyy. can't eat - i've lost about 10 pounds in a week, and constant need for the loo. and now my wrists have gone all wierd.

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