r/Fluoxetine

Hello Reddit! I recently got diagnosed with OCD and a couple of other things and have probably about 2-3 months ago began on a 20 mg dose of fluoxetine. Relatively shortly after I started this dose for the first month, my psychiatrist recommended bumping me up to 40mg. I was having a seriously bad episode for about 2 months but now I am beginning to feel significantly more comfortable and secure again. Unfortunately, there have been some side effects to the medication and I kind of just wanted to get on Reddit and ask if maybe they’re common within the community or actually a cause for concern. I get like, really really realllyy tired in the middle of the day. Naturally before the medication I had no noticeable issue with my energy but nowadays I actually feel it somewhat necessary to have to take a nap in the middle of the day if I’m not doing anything because I am just that tired. Additionally, when I’m just chilling in pretty much any environment, I feel the need to exert my energy in some manner, most commonly being done by Restless Leg Syndrome. My leg is straight up bouncing and I don’t even realize that it is and once I catch myself, I pretty much just start up again.

So to pretty much summarize, I am unbelievably tired randomly in the middle of the day. I genuinely feel like I need to take a nap almost daily + I feel like I have Restless Leg Syndrome and if it isn’t my leg bouncing, it’s my body randomly twitching throughout the day. Is this common with 40mg fluoxetine? This is the only medication I’m taking at the moment

I left my parent's house 2 days ago and forgot my prozac there. They live far so they cant send it

I have an appointment with my psychiatrist on Friday

Are there any risks to skipping 4/5 days of prozac? Yesterday I felt very anxious and today I have a lot of headaches so I'm a bit scared

I’m really struggling mentally at the moment, I feel deeply depressed and finding it so hard to even be alive at the moment. I know it’s situational, but there’s nothing I can do immediately to get out of it, I have liquid fluoxetine that was prescribed a while ago for anxiety, I took about 5mg for a week and felt good at first then felt like I was outside my thoughts after like 5 days of taking it. I don’t know if this is a thing, I am thinking of trying to take it again as living feels so painful currently, but I’m feeling a bit scared. Has anyone else experienced this or has positive stories they can share? Thanks 🙏🏻

I have booked a docs appointment for today to try Fluoxetine. Reason being I have severe PMDD and ADHD and I just feel so depressed and low a lot of the time.

I struggle with being a good parent to my son, a good girlfriend, and i struggle so much at work too. In regards to home life, I am irritable, angry and I feel so sad and overthink absolutely everything to the point where I just don't want to be here. I just want it to end. My brain is always so noisy but it's so much worse before my period. I just feel like I'm ruining everything for everyone and that people would be better off without me. My partner is very supportive but I cause a lot of arguments and he said there is just no room for his emotions.

At work I hate constantly serving customers. It's too much social interaction and I feel so mentally burnt out, and physically because this job has caused physical issues for me. I was at a different job previously and I got on so much better there and was surrounded by people similar to me and there was just so much more support. But where I am now isn't like that. I only changed jobs because we had to move house. Thing is it's so difficult for me to find a good paying job with the right hours and support as a mum.

I just feel so stuck and every month I progressively get worse and out of control before my period, so now all I can think of is to try Fluoxetine as many people have had good experiences with it. I hope I'm one of them because I can't go on like this.

I've been taking fluoxetine since like 2020 and when I first started taking it I felt nauseous afterwards, which I was told is a normal side effect and would go away eventually. It did, but now it's been years and all of sudden I'm starting to feel nauseous taking it again. I was supposed to of mentioned it at my latest doctors appointment but I unfortunately forgot so I thought I'd ask here, have any of you ever dealt with this before? I'm thinking it could be my dosage but I've been taking four pills for about two years now so I'm honestly not too sure

I have been on Flu for around 6 months, 40mg for 6 weeks.

I’m still worrying and overthinking and I’m fighting it everyday. I work and living a kind of normal life I suppose but I’m always living in fear, mainly due to my health anxiety.

Do you think the next step is 50mg? I plan to speak to my GP tomorrow. Thank you

Im all good right?

I am ADHD — totally and completely! And somehow, I made it through life as a school teacher of elementary, middle, and high school private school students in the US. All the while never realizing that I was the most ADHD person in the room. It’s actually why I was an amazing teacher and coach.

I’m on Vyvanse and Prozac because my therapist correctly diagnosed that I was depressed from lifelong internal belief that I was strange, an imposter, and totally alone. My life completely imploded at 51 (now 58M) when my father passed away. I’m still learning to love life again and in a totally new way. Not instrumentally, but for life’s intrinsic offerings.

Hi everyone,

Looking for a little bit of reassurance. I struggle with OCD and it has worsened over the past 2 years. Mainly for intrusive thoughts and checking behaviours. I also have periods of depersonalisation/derealisation.

I don’t really suffer from low mood, more just OCD causing my mood to be low when it is at its peak

I started in 20mg fluoxetine almost 2 weeks ago and the first week felt great, the thoughts were still there but the rumination did decrease. However, as week 2 has hit i have felt an increase in side effects.

- less rumination but more frequency in intrusive thoughts, new ones i haven’t had before. However the grip they have on me passes much quicker than previously and they aren’t overly dark in nature

- uptick in checking behaviours, scared to throw of medicine packets etc so i can count i have taken them correctly

- so tired and overall more lethargic, i have to nap for up to 3 hours a day at times

- blurred vision, its hard to focus

- brain fog

- feeling generally more “spacey” and light headed and a bit disconnected

I just want to know if anyone else has experienced similar? I am really hopeful this is a peak of side effects and i should see and feel some relief in the coming weeks.

Is it normal to feel better then worse then better again while the SSRIs take hold?

Thanks!

Last night/this early morning I found myself in a dream where I had enough awareness to realize I was in a dream and to test certain propositions about being in a dream state. In a previous dream from weeks ago I noticed that I was able to sprint a race (400 meters aka one lap) without feeling the burning lung exhaustion that tends to ensue such a run. I found that to be a flaw/glitch in my Matrix program. I tested it again last night by doing hill sprints in my dream. Quick Aside: I was a serious athlete in my younger days and am well familiar with the pains of high-octane training. In the hill sprints I did in my dream, I felt the familiar burning sensation in my quads that comes with such rigorous training. Throughout the dream session — which was quite revealing about my mind and emotions— I kept testing various things knowing it was just a dream. But I also became lost in the dream at various times. Interacting with a wide and unrelated group of people from my life. Thank You, Prozac/Fluoxetine!!!!

Is anybody taking these two together?

What kind of risk are we looking at here?

Got a new prescription of Cymbalta 30mg x2, however I remembered that my ED meds have a combination of Tadalafil and Fluoxetine 22.4mg.

Now im in a bit of a dilema, perhaps there is risk for Serotonin Syndrome.

Ive been taking prozac for over 8 weeks but recently they increased my dosage and now my legs are constantly restless and i feel like i cant lay/sit still. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

New to Prozac, 5 days in on 10mg. On day 2, I went to a concert that had extreme flashing lights and lasers. I physically could not look at the stage. Had to move to the very corner of the venue so the lights weren’t hitting me directly. Started having an anxiety attack and left early. When I got home, I could feel my eyes/pupils vibrating in my head.

I gotta add that I’ve been in similar environments for about 8 years now (raving) and this has never happened to me before. Has anybody experienced anything similar?

Bonjour à tous, je m etais promis que si cet AD fonctionnait sur moi je témoignerai pour aider les autres. J'en suis à ma 5eme semaine.

J'ai eu pas mal d'effets secondaires et parfois encore, mais enfin, enfin, je vois le côté positif, je revis!!!

J esperais qu'a la 3eme semaine tout irait mieux, mais il m'a fallu attendre un peu plus et chaque jour qui passe est un jour de mieux. Je peux de nouveau faire énormément de choses, ai réglé mes problèmes de sommeil (qui nécessitaient la prise d'un somnifère).

Si vous avez des questions ou inquiétudes n'hésitez pas, je vous répondrai avec plaisir; en tout cas, un seul conseil, accrochez vous.

I am a 28M and I’ve been on 200mg of Luvox for almost 10 years for severe OCD. It keeps the intrusive thoughts manageable, but the side effect is that I have 24/7 "food noise." I am constantly starving, obsessed with food, and fighting intense urges to binge eat, which is ruining my life.
On top of this, I was recently diagnosed with very low testosterone. My urologist put me on Clomiphene to try and restart it, but it has completely crashed my system—I am dealing with heavy depression, extreme fatigue, and severe mood swings. I also tried 100mg of Wellbutrin a while ago; it worked great for my motivation for a month, but then completely faded.
The Dilemma:
I have a hard deadline. I am leaving the country for a 3-month trip in exactly 4 weeks. I am desperate to stop the food noise before I leave, but my two psychiatrists gave me completely opposite advice:
• Doctor 1: Told me to instantly drop my Luvox from 200mg to 100mg at night, and start taking 40mg of Prozac in the morning to kill the binge-eating urges. (I’m terrified this fast drop/high start will cause a massive withdrawal/serotonin crash right before my trip).
• Doctor 2 (who seems more knowledgeable): Told me Prozac usually isn't as effective for OCD as Luvox, and she is worried my OCD will spiral if I switch. She suggested we leave the Luvox alone, fix the testosterone crash with my urologist first, and look into a GLP-1 medication to safely kill the food noise without touching my psychiatric meds.
My Questions for the Community:

1. Has anyone successfully cross-tapered from Luvox to Prozac? Did it ruin your OCD control, and did it actually help with the food noise?
2. Has anyone used a GLP-1 to specifically treat SSRI-induced binge eating?
3. Given that I have to travel internationally in 4 weeks, would you risk the SSRI cross-taper, or play it safe and address the hormones/GLP-1 route first?

Hi everyone after some support so I was on fluoxetine which is called Prozac for 10years at 20mg for panic disorder anxiety everything was great until 8 weeks ago like it randomly stopped working and was having panic attacks again so the psychiatrist at the hospital increased me to 40mg straight away so a 100% increase. It’s been very rocky I’ve had maybe 2.5 weeks of good out of the 8 weeks I have been on the increase anxiety/morning anxiety comes and goes but the migraines, fatigue, nausea, insomnia has been really bad. I have spoken to my dr about decreasing to 35mg and then to 30 as a slow taper to see if that helps as I’m not sure if I’m on too much at 40. Has anyone had similar side effects and decreased and be good? I’m so scared to decrease because it’s affecting my work, parenting and over all health and I don’t want it to get worse. I’m also in Australia

Hey all, I've been on fluoxetine 20mg daily since I was 18 (I'm now 23) and I would like to taper off and stop taking it since I don't find it helpful anymore (depression and anxiety have returned tenfold). Does anyone have any tips to taper down and quit without getting any significant withdrawal symptoms? I'm currently thinking about cutting the tablets in half to make them 10mg and slowly go down like that, but wanted some advice before I actually did anything. Thanks

hi does mixing fluoxetine sertraline citalopram and lil bit of xanax (14mg, haven’t took it before so 0 tolerancy) with some alcohol is gonna cause respiratory deoression i mean is that fatal