PROZAC Reviews (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (949 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PROZAC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PROZAC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | bipolar depression | Mania | It didn't work for me because of my circumstances it could work for you. Any anti depressant made me manic but I think prozac is one of the better ones. | M | 21 | 2 years 30mg 1X day | 1/25/2012 | 1 | Depression | made my depression worse, didn't want to get up, layed in bed, couldn't sleep, didn't want sex, didn't want to live, didn't care about anything. | Nearly lost my marriage and kids because of the way I acted toward my family on this stuff... I know it has helped many but for me was a horribly choice! Make sure you have open contact with your Dr while taking any kind of depression meds. If they don't have time for you, find another Dr.!!! | F | 45 | 3 months 1X day | 1/15/2012 | 4 | Depression/Social Anxiety | Minor nausea after eating while I was taking the drug, extreme nausea at all times of the day once I stopped taking the drug. | For me personally this drug worked wonders the first six months of taking it. I was started out on 20mg My confidence was high, I began to love social events and meeting new people however larger groups still tended to raise slight anxiety just not nearly as bad as before. Before starting prozac I was about 150lbs and five feet tall because I would turn to eating to try and help my depression. After starting the drug I lost 30 pounds. My severe fatuige and constant emotional numbness and lack of motivation vanished after a month of taking Prozac. However after about a year I began to feel the effects of the medication wear off. Over the next four years I increased my dosage to 40mg and added Wellbutrin, I never felt nearly as amazing as I did those initial six months however the medication did help tremendously. I quit cold-turkey and have been off Prozac for about 3 weeks now with no emotional side effects but SEVERE nausea. Personally, my experience was great, but everyone reacts to anti-depressants differently. | F | 19 | 4 years 40mg 1X day | 1/12/2012 | 1 | anxiety, bpd, depression, ocd, | hot flashes, insomnia MORE ANXIETY then I already had, night sweats sexual side effects, tingling in hands | THIS DRUG IS AWFUL the side effects were a nightmare. I would rather be depressed, and wash my hands 50 plus times a day then be on this crap it really didn't do much for my depression or ocd anyways... I would have anxiety attacks in my sleep, thankfully I didn't go through withdrawl because I didn't take it long enough… | F | 42 | 21 days 20 mg 1X day | 1/6/2012 | 2 | severe depression/anxiety | headache, upset stomach, insomina (woke up many times during night) sweating, hot flushes in body, nervousness, more anxiety, suicidal ideations (worse) | It might work for some people, but it didn't work for me. I know they say it takes time, but it seemed to be working opposite for me than it was supposed too. Had to go to a crisis stabilization center to be changed to something else. Prozac not my favorite drug. But you have to try what your doctor says -- if you have problems - let them know ASAP!!! | F | 41 | 2 weeks 40 MG 1X day | 12/16/2011 | 1 | anxiety | Nausea, neck, shoulder and back pain, constipation, blurred vision | I stopped after 3 weeks due to side effects and have been miserable. I still have neck and back pain, stomach aches, hot flashes, chills and mild nausea and dizziness | F | 61 | 3 weeks 20mg 1X day | 12/6/2011 | 3 | depression/anxiety | At first I lost about 10 pounds when I started, but after 8 months I gained 20! Probably because it increased my appetite a ton after my body got used to it. I also had shaking, anxiety, agitation, fatigue, constipation, SWEATING, stronger obsessive compulsive feelings,nervousness,and antisocial behavior | In a way it seemed to help with depression,but not enough because I still had crying spells,anger outbursts and felt easily annoyed. The withdrawal symptoms were NOT pleasant,and I did cut the dose down gradually to 10mg.I have been off it for two months now and still not feeling all that great. | F | 34 | 2 years 25mg 1X day | 11/6/2011 | 1 | grief, PTSD | Increased anxiety | This stuff has made me much worse. At first, I thought it was anxiety over upcoming colonoscopy but I now think it's the Prozac. I'm worse than I was before I started taking it. I take it in the AM but it still disrupts my sleep (not good). I wake up wishing I was dead. I fight the anxiety all day long, it has affected the efficacy of the Xanax I take throughout the day. I took one this morning after not taking it for the past two days and now wish I could throw up to get it out of me. I don't know why doctors think they can medicate grief. I lost my 23 year old daughter 7 months ago, how am I SUPPOSED to feel? This stuff is making my life a living hell as if it wasn't bad enough to begin with. It is going into the garbage. | F | 64 | 2 weeks 20 MG 1X day | 10/27/2011 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | It didn't help my depression/anxiety. I don't remember my exact dosage, but I was on it for almost a year. I stopped it abruptly, without tapering. This was terrible and made me want to kill myself, violent, extremely angry, agitated. I was a senior in High School at the time (so, 17-18 when taking Prozac) and it also made me moody and unmotivated. During the withdrawal, I cursed at everyone, rocked back/forth, and sat in a corner and cried. | F | 21 | 1X day | 10/4/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Headaches, stomach aces, emotional rollercoaster | Don't take it | M | 17 | 1 weeks 1X day | 9/29/2011 | 5 | OCD Symptoms | Feeling hyperactive, trouble sleeping if taken at night, but other than that it has really helped me with my symptoms. | Not | F | 32 | 2 years 40 mg 1X day | 9/25/2011 | 4 | OCD, Anxiety, Depression | I keep forgetting my password so I cannot edit my previous rating; I am the 28 year old male who did a review on 08/08/2011 complaining about long lasting drowsiness after my last dose. I also did a review on 07/23/2011. To correct my review on 08/08/2011 where I stated I had drowsiness for two weeks after my last Prozac dose: I think there was initial drowsiness due to taking too much Prozac. However for most of the days the drowsiness was likely due to the depression itself. I say this because I was not on any medication recently and noticed drowsiness that lasted for two weeks. I tried Celexa and Prozac this week and within an hour any drowsiness I have goes away and I feel very alert. So I think for me, taking SSRIs in normal amounts causes me to be awake; however if I take way too much it causes me bad drowsiness. So I am changing my rating for Prozac back to a 4. The minus one star is for some dry eyes. I am also experimenting with using a really small dose now - so that 0.6 mg is not a mistake. | M | 28 | 56 days 0.6 mg 1X day | 8/31/2011 | 5 | Anxiety/depression | Possible tiredness | I have been on fluoxitine for about 5 years now and its been really great. It has helped me so much with my anxiety and depression | F | 20 | 5 years 30mg 1X day | 8/18/2011 | 1 | SA, GA, and Depression | 24/7 ANHEDONIA, NOT FEELING PLEASURE EVER, delayed orgasm, increased energy the first two months, suicidal ideation on withdrawal | Prozac shut down my emotional world. Sure you feel sleepy and you feel hungry. But I didn't feel emotions that made life meaningful to me anymore such as all the different flavors of happiness. They just went away. It did have an anti-depressant effect, so I wasn't crying and sulking, which made OTHER people feel better about me, but at the same time music meant nothing to me, exercise wasn't pleasurable, sex wasn't pleasurable, nothing was pleasureable! This seems to be a VERY common effect of the drug anecdotally. There is medical literature on this issue of the drug, sadly its sparse, and many doctors don't seem concerned even if it is true that most people who take the drug don't experience pleasure. | M | 20 | 4 months 40 1X day | 8/14/2011 | 4 | actually for perimenopause | waking up 3 or 4 times a night.Sometimes my back aches. | This medicine has helped me tremendously.Not only do I have more energy, I have also lost about 20 pounds. | F | 39 | 3 months 40 1X day | 8/11/2011 | 2 | Depression, Generalized anxiety,OCD | The long half life of Prozac has made my life more miserable over the last two weeks. I was noticeably drowsy two weeks ago and I stopped taking the medication. I am STILL experiencing drowsiness today - two weeks after my last dose. I am going to ask my psychiatrist to prescribe me a different SSRi with a shorter half life. | I was the one that did the review on 07/23/2011; did not save a password so I cannot edit my rating. Thus the need for a new rating | M | 28 | 55 days 2.5 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 1 | Bipolar II, BPD, anxiety | Headaches, dry mouth, loss of appetite, lack of energy, frequent extreme stomach upsets (diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion, abdominal cramps, constipation), increased anxiety, twitching, dizziness, blurred vision, grogginess, feeling disconnected. | For me this was a terrible drug and I wish I'd never tried it. It did nothing but make me feel ill. I was very unwell for the entire duration I was on it, so I ended up with no choice but to stop taking it as the side effects were driving me up the wall. Did nothing for my mental state either. Have since returned to taking Seroquel XR, which works much better for my symptoms. | F | 19 | 3 weeks 20MG 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 4 | Depression | During the first few weeks I was noticeably more jittery; if I took 5 or 10 mg for a few days I got very drowsy. The jittery feeling went away after a few weeks; I am sure it also helps I am on a very low dose (2.5 mg). I still think that the drug makes me have a bit of a dry mouth and dry eyes. | The drug works very well for my depression; my mood is very good and my quality of life is better overall. I had thought about quitting since the side effects were bad the first few weeks but the jittery feeling went away and now I am doing well on the drug. | M | 28 | 40 days 2.5 mg 1X day | 7/23/2011 | 5 | Anxiety, depression, PMS | Virtually no side effects on 20 MG but when dosage was increased above 20 MG I experienced some anorgasmia and anxiety on higher dosages (tried 30 MG and 40 MG for a few months in last year to see if more would be even better). | I started 20 MG fluoxetine in April 2009 after being depressed and anxious for at least a year. I had two toddlers at the time and my OB/GYN attributed the way I was feeling to post-hormonal changes. I didn't know what to expect but within two weeks all I can say is my life got "easier." Things that used to bother me for years left my focus. The biggest gift this medicine gave me was relief from obsessive thoughts about food and dieting. I had been treated 20 years ago for an eating disorder and had been recovered for most of that time, but the effect of taking Prozac made my daily conscious decision to control my urges to over or undereat go away. I cannot explain the relief. It was life changing. I only wish I had been put on this medicine years ago while I was in five years of therapy. Don't get me wrong; the therapy did wonders. I recovered from the darkness without drugs. But now I enjoy not having to fight so hard. What a blessing. I briefly switched to other meds (Lexapro, Pristiq) but the obsessions came back. I don't know why Prozac works, but I am thankful. | F | 41 | 2 years 20 MG 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 4 | Cyclothymia, Anxiety, PMDD | Difficulty regulating temperature, feeling of detachment, 'zombie expression', intense sleepy spells, mild hand tremors and muscle twitches, loss of appetite. | this is my second time on the drug. my doctor has instructed me to take 20mg every other day, alternating 40mg on the other days. it is working very well for me, as i am able to function properly again. i am able to interact with people normally and not have ridiculous and embarassign anxiety. My food anxiety has also gone down and eating is enjoyable for me again, although i am not often hungry. | F | 20 | 2 weeks 20/40mg 1X day | 7/9/2011 |