r/Fluoxetine

I have been taking prozac in addition to my vyvanse for my PMDD and I love the prozac. It has made my mood so much better. The only problem is I can't cum! It's not the end of the world but it's definitely a bummer! My psychiatrist told me about Trintellix and said that it doesn't have sexual side effects. Im hesitant because the prozac has been amazing beside that 1 side effect. Dose anyone have any experience with Trintellix? Im curious about it's effects on mood, and anxiety

I’ve been on Prozac for about a month and a half. First 6 weeks, no fatigue at all, actually felt more energized. Then out of nowhere it flipped and now it’s making me tired.

I recently switched my dose timing to nighttime, so I’m trying to figure out if that’s the cause or if this is just something that happens with fluoxetine even without a change. Tonight I took my dose and started feeling tired pretty quickly after, so at this point I’m fairly convinced it’s the Prozac itself and not a coincidence.

Curious if anyone else had a stretch of feeling totally fine and then suddenly started feeling wiped out, and if so, did it go away or stick around?

After suffering with panic disorder for most of my adult life, I had not had a full blown panic attack in many years. Recently my primary care physician prescribed 20mg cymbalta to help me through recent heightened anxiety. After three days on it I could feel my anxiety rising and ended up having a terrible, full blown panic attack that evening. I immediately stopped taking it. I’m very susceptible to the normal side effects of SSRI’s.
A psychiatrist has now prescribed 10mg Prozac daily with instructions to halve or quarter the tablet to ease any possible side effects. But I’m still terrified to start it.
Does anyone have any advice or experience with Prozac? Anyone have any real success with therapy?
After that one full blown panic attack I feel like I’m on the verge of another one constantly. I’ve been taking about .125 mg of Xanax every few hours to ward off anxiety/panic attacks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

About 3ish weeks ago i went down from 20mg to 10mg because i had insanely bad anxiety and dissociation. I even ended up going to the hospital twice while on 20mg and once the day after my first 10mg dose because i was so terrified that there was something seriously wrong with me physically (there wasn’t.). I think im experiencing withdrawals because im VERY dissociated, tired all today, my legs have been aching for no reason, and ive had the feeling of anxiety in my stomach around 9-11PM every night (i take my prozac at 9:30PM)

The plan is that i’m going to go off 10mg soon and stop prozac completely because it just isn’t for me but im scared of the withdrawals i will continue to get.

My dissociation today especially has been the worst and it kind of freaks be out sometimes which causes anxiety.

How much longer will I have to deal with this?

Hi so I was on paroxetine for a few years and slowly tapered off from December last year and finally came off it completely in May this year and I started fluoxetine a few months before too and I’ve been struggling a lot. Some days are great and I get loads done and then some days I’m so tired and feel dizzy and nauseous and my anxiety gets really bad. I don’t know if there’s still side effects from coming off paroxetine (paxil) because I’ve heard it’s hard to come off or if the side effects are from the fluoxetine, I also get a lot of floaters in my vision since starting fluoxetine - has anyone had a similar experience and if so does it eventually get better

I very rarely desire to have sex and it’s starting to frustrate me. It’s impacting my relationship because I’m just not interested at all more so than ever!

I am on day 1 of about 10mg (from a 20mg capsule). I have been through every antidepressant so am anxious about them all the time. Hence starting a lower dose.

How did it affect your sleep? If at all?
Everyone’s different obviously but this is something that makes me anxious (as a bad sleeper).

Did it have a stimulant type of effect in the beginning?

How far in do you think you could feel benefits from it?

Sorry for all the questions, just interested in others experiences. :)

Luckily for me I have access to a psychiatrist so I’ve recently been upping the dosage of my fluoxetine, 10mg per week from 30mg up to 60mg.

The three weeks in general I’ve felt pretty okay, I’m far from fixed but I’m going to work daily and getting on with life despite the anxiety that comes with my OCD which is more than I was doing beforehand.

I just wondered, does anyone have experience from a private psychiatrist that allowed them to stay on the same dosage even after stopping psychiatric care with them? Like will the private prescription he gives me be able to be transferred over to the GP and then I can continue on this dose for good?

I only started on 60mg today and I’m due to see him again on Wednesday, today’s probably been my most anxious day in the last 3 weeks, so I think the early side effects are now kicking in sadly, which I expected.

Hiiiiii, well to cut my story short. I quit nicotine 8 months ago (yay me) it’s been hard considering my nervous system became so sensitive and that includes towards medications, foods… luckily I feel a lot better now but it’s been about 5-6 months I’ve been on Prozac 20mg. It helped my depression so much and anxiety however it does cause me to feel jittery and shaky once it hits my system and it’s uncomfortable… i also get dizziness, floaty weird feeling. I get that it’s common plus it’s not vertigo so thank goodness. I contacted my psychiatrist to see her input on lowering my dose to maybe 10mg if anyone has experience on lowering your dose (side effects) or who are on 10mg how is that going for you?

I’m considering trying fluvoxamine, but I experienced intense hunger and weight gain on Lexapro and Prozac. Have others had similar side effects with other SSRIs but found that fluvoxamine suited them better?

I have been prescribed these for excessive stress, for two weeks, once I start these, do I have to continue for long time? And can i take nsaids along with this occasionally?

I’ve started taking Prozac about 4-5 weeks ago and the first week I had an insane migraine and a huge loss of appetite. My migraines have decreased and are not as severe but I’m still not feeling 100%. Does anyone have a similar experience? Does it go away? I’m debating getting off of it.

My dog is an 11KG spoodle who is 10 years old who is an anxious boy. About 6 months ago we trialed him on 10MG of fluoxetine which worked really well until it didn’t. 3 weeks ago we decided to increase his dose to 15MG and energy and anxiety wise he has responded really well but he’s lost allllll of his appetite. He used to run to his dinner bowl and now most of the time he never really eats and if he does he just eats a tiny bit. Does it get better or should we look at lowering the dose?

How long if i missed a dose would it take for depression/ptsd shit to start kicking in

Ive been a depressed mess the last hour and i have just realised i dont think i had my fluoxetine today, i have adhd so i sometimes forget if i have or not

Would a missed dose hit me that same day or is this just trauma surfaceing I cant tell because i tjought fluoxetine wouldnt leave the system
So quick

I have a very fast matabolism if that matters

EDIT: I am a woman
I have just started fluoxetine I’m on day 4, not feeling much different just yet. But I looked at side effects and one was affecting the sex drive. I’m quite worried about this has it affected anyone? My boyfriend and I have such a good relationship I don’t want this to get ruined and if this has happened to anyone, any tips on helping it?

I started taking fluoxetine in the beginning of march. I took it up until the end of march. Between that time period i gained 16 pounds. It has been just shy of a month since i stopped it. Has anyone had a similar experience? If so was it easy losing the weight after?

Last March lang ako nagstart magtake ng Fluoxetine 20mg for my MDD and OCD. Meron din ako Quetiapine 25mg as needed for sleep pero madalang ko itake lalo na grabe kasi antok ko the next day, groggy talaga.
Ilang gabi na hirap ako makatulog at hindi nakakatulog ng maayos (parang on and off tong cycle na to). Tulad kagabi parang binantayan ko ang magdamag. Ganun pa man nay energy ako at hindi ako inaantok kahit na kulang ako sa tulog which is ang weird. Napapaisip ako kung side effect ba to ng Fluoxetine yung hirap ko sa pagtulog pero may energy pa rin kinabukasan kahit walang maayos at mahabang tulog.
Iniiwasan ko magtake ng Quetiapine hanggat kaya kasi nga grabe antok kinabukasan kahit sapat ang tulog o magaba ang tulog.

*Meron po ba sa inyo ganito ang experience? :(*

**Mamayang gabi iinom na talaga ko ng half na Quetiapine para makatulog ng maaga at maayos. Hay.**

I’m a month in on 10mg. I am peeing so much and it’s starting to affect my daily life/activities so im considering getting off. It just sucks because it’s the first medication to help me.

Did anyone experience this AND it eventually got better? I know it’s a side effect, but no one ever mentions if it got better for them or not

I really need some advice from anyone who has been through something similar.

I’ve been taking Prozac 60mg for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and overthinking. I’ve been on Prozac for about 8 months now. I started at 20mg, then 40mg, and eventually increased to 60mg.

The problem is that I don’t feel like I’m getting better. I’m constantly exhausted, unmotivated, and my mood has actually been getting worse instead of better. My sleep is poor, I struggle to focus at work, and I’m falling behind because I just can’t concentrate like I used to. I have no motivation to do anything anymore.

I also take Xanax 0.5mg almost daily just to reduce the anxiety enough to get through the day. In addition, I’m doing CBT therapy, but I still feel like I’m not making much progress.

My psychiatrist recently suggested switching medications, but I’m honestly terrified of changing because I had a very difficult time when I first started Prozac, and I’m afraid of going through that adjustment period again.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Did switching medications help when Prozac wasn’t working for you? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences or any advice.

Thank you.