LUVOX Reviews (FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE)Average Rating: 3.2 (319 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LUVOX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LUVOX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Clinical depression, OCD, anxiety | Nausea, jaw clenching, hightened anxiety, odd taste left in mouth, 'the runs' and then constipation, hightened appetite... | Nausea from day one, then jaw clenching started about 3 days after. I have been constipated, then all of a sudden I'm living on the toilet. I am hungry ALL the time, no change as of yet with mood and depression. However, I am starting to feel good about the OCD (Mostly triple checking doors, even at 4am: has slowed) | F | 18 | 1 weeks 50mg 1X day | 2/27/2012 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Worst couple of weeks of my life, cant focus, cant think clearly, constantly groggy, itching constantly, depression got worse at times, crying, anger (never had it before) violent dreams... etc, etc.... feel completly awful. Am coming off this medication myself as i literally cant function. | F | 41 | 3 weeks 100 2X day | 2/12/2012 | 1 | Depression | I feel the urge to walk,canīt complete tasks, no focus, need to move all the time.Also high anxiety all the time, feeling on the edge. itīs awful! | F | 41 | 7 days 50mg 1X day | 1/25/2012 | 1 | Horrid sudden headache, throwing up 12 times a day . horrid dreams seeing things wanted to sleep all day long. Muscle pain meatle taste in my mouth zero sex drive . No intrest in things I loved or family and friends. | AWFUL HORRID NO ONE SHOULD TAKE THIS. | F | 35 | 28 days 150 1X day | 1/18/2012 | 3 | ANXIETY,OBSESSIVE THOUGHTS, | funny taste in my mouth, some nausia,just started clenching my teeth today and its only day 4, | im also taking lunesta to sleep 3mg but i noticed my pupils dialated yesterday so my psychiatrist said to only take half.Ive been on so many different medications since 2005, that about 1 1/2 yrs ago i just stopped! the side effects always get the best of me (hives, lower back pains, clenching my teeth together, stiff neck, lower back pain, exessively sleepy,blurry vision) and i drive for a living!!!! im trying it again because i cant deal with my anxiety racey thoughts jumping out of my sleep. Gotta keep trying till something works for me. | F | 37 | 4 days 100MG 1X day | 1/13/2012 | 5 | OCD, Depression | Restless nights and sweating while adjusting to meds. Bouts of paranoia and anxiety while adjusting to meds. | Started at 100 mg/day and went to 300 mg/day within two to three weeks. Side effects were intense with the higher doses. I backed off the higher dose and worked my way down to the 50 mg/day and my emotions stabilized within a week or two. The obsessions had left within a couple weeks of starting the medication, but I had to deal with the side effects. So far, so good at 50 mg/day. If the obsessions start again, I'll ratchet the meds up to 75 mg/day. The longest period of time dealing with the paranoia and anxiety was about 2.5 weeks. Those bouts would come and go. (Note: I'm also taking 20 mg of prozac / day {morning} and 7.5 mg of Deplin per day.) I take the Luvox at dinnertime. | M | 53 | 2 months 50 1X day | 12/4/2011 | 4 | OCD, PTSD | Excessive sweating | The sweating is sometimes bothersome; however, Fluvoxamine does work for me! I take this in conjunction with Ritalin LA | M | 57 | 16 years 150 mg 1X day | 10/29/2011 | 4 | OCD | I recently noticed that I occasionally have trouble reaching climax. (I don't know if it was always like that or not, being that when I first started, I just hit puberty and might have thought it was normal). If I forget to take a dosage, I become severely depressed. I also saw somewhere that some side effects could cause sexual interests in young children.. Unfortunately, I have those interests, but thinking back, I only started having them about 4 years ago, when I started. So yes, pedophilia. | M | 18 | 4 years 200 MG 1X day | 9/30/2011 | 1 | Depression | dizziness, sore eyes, headaches, sweating, disturbed sleep. | This drug is a nightmare. Have tried to taper it down and come off it 6 times. Withdrawal is horrendous. I would never recommend this to my worst enemy. | F | 34 | 1 years 50mg 1X day | 9/23/2011 | 5 | ocd/anxiety/depression/aggitation | Other meds that I'm on give me some of the same side effects.. so the only new side effect that I haven't been dealing with for years anyway is excessive sweating. | Its has changed my life for the better..after being treated for mild depression(with paxil,lexapro,cymbalta,ect..) for years and still not feeling any better..then being treated for bipolar disorder(with geodon,abilify,lithium,ect..) for the last few years and still having a lot of anger and aggitation issues..they started treating my ocd with luvox mixed with the lamictal I have been on for the major depressive disorder and my life did a complete turn around..I feel tons better and my relationships got 100 times better...and currently they are wheening me off the lamictal and putting me on zoloft..so I can deal with the sweating because the perks of this med are more then worth it! | F | 32 | 6 months 100mg 2X day | 9/19/2011 | 5 | Anxiety,OCD,depression | Tiredness, headache, insomnia, night sweats...these were all very mild and mostly occured right after an increase or decrease in dosage. | Luvox has helped me so much! I can still feel human and have emotions on this medicine! | F | 31 | 2 years 100 mg 1X day | 9/8/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | Dizziness and mild drowsiness | I was very apprehensive to take this drug because of all the side effects listed. I had been on other medications but Luvox seems to be helping the best. The side effects are minimal and do go away with time. I am personally very thankful for this medication and if you experience some side effects, just be patience it does go away and you will feel better again! | F | 42 | 30 days 100 1X day | 9/4/2011 | 1 | Obsessive thoughts; anxiety | I have not slept since first taking this medication. I was on Lexapro for years, which made me groggy, then on Buspar, which made me insane, now on Luvox, which has turned my nights into hell. I am stopping all medications because their side effects are worse than my original problems. | F | 25 | 3 days 100mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 1 | Severe Depression | Aggression, Nausea | I went from a shy polite girl who loved animals to kicking my dogs and swearing when I saw them. I also kicked a hole through our kitchen wall for god knows why? I felt nauseous for the entire 5 weeks and was just so angry at the whole world. I felt withdrawn and sad becasue of the depression before starting Luvox so it wasn't the disease that was making me aggressive, it was this horrible drug. I have now been on effexor for 7 years and haven't looked back. You have to find the drug that is compatable with the patient. | F | 14 | 5 weeks ? 1X day | 8/19/2011 | 3 | OCD, PTSD, GAD | EXTREME tiredness, jaw clenching, loss of appetite, watery diarrhea, constipation, nausea | I have gone from never napping and trouble sleeping at night to having to lie down for a nap 3 times a day and going to bed as early as 7:30pm. I am a 5'3" woman and went from 132 lbs (weighed at dr two days after starting Luvox) and am now 125 lbs less than three weeks later. I don't know that it's helped my OCD and axiety - I'm just too tired to care about anything anymore. I'm exhausted all the time. It's hard to say what's better - always being on edge, constant racing thoughts, & insomnia or being completely apathetic and exhausted all the time. Going back to psych for follow-up in two days. | F | 30 | 3 weeks 100mg 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 3 | Anxiety & Depression | Nil - perhaps a lttile more tired. Havent had the full effect of Luvox as yet hence only a rating of 3. | Only on a low dose to start. Had to go off Tofranil because of severe constipation and wight gain. I also take Zyprexa 5mg at night and Xanax 0.25mg 3 x per day. From reading some others comments perhaps Luvox will help with my not wanting to socialise - find social situations boring. Think I will reduce Zyprexa to 2.5mg at night also because of weight gain. Please feel free to email if you want to discuss medications further. | F | 53 | 6 days 50 mg 1X day | 7/15/2011 | 1 | OCD | Hallucinations, Insomnia, Agitation | I'm allergic to this. I had to go to some program that didn't even help, but it was all because of this damn Luvox! I still have bad memories of this, 5 years later. | M | 14 | 7 months 1X day | 7/5/2011 | 4 | Anxiety and mild OCD. | Vivid dreams, occasional night sweats, loss of appetite. | I am a 19 year old female who has had anxiety and mild OCD for about 5 years. I suffered badly from obsessive thoughts which caused insomnia and was very tiring and stressful. I found luvox has worked for me. I am on a higher dose-100 mg 2xper day but I really love it. I don't get social anxiety anymore or obsessive thoughts. Also, I don't pick at my skin or clean for hours like I used to. A week ago I missed a few doses accidently and I found myself craving sugar and fatty foods like I used to when I was stressed. I know it shouldn't be used to control your diet. But Luvox has given me the ability to control my sugar cravings (probably related to my old stress habbits). Be careful as it is a strong drug but for me it has worked! And I love it! | F | 19 | 2 months 100 2X day | 6/29/2011 | 1 | OCD | THIS IS A VERY WICKED DRUG!!!! AS ALL ANTI-DEPRESSANTS ARE I HAD EVERY SIDE EFFECT POSSIBLE I HAVE STARTED AN NATURAL SUPPLEMENT REGIMEN AND I FELL LIKE THERE IS A WHOLE LIFE TO LIVE NOW I CAN SPEAK LOUD ENOUGH ON HOW THESE DRUGS ARE KILLING PEOPLE.DR'S SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR EVEN PUTTING PATIENTS ON THESE HORRIBLE DRUGS. | F | 44 | 4 weeks 150MG 1X day | 6/16/2011 | 4 | OCD & PTSD | I currently take this medication in conjunction with Adderall. Once my body and mind became acclimated to the medicine (for me, 2-3 doses), I noticed immediate improvement in both my levels of anxiety and repeditive behaviors. Adversely, however, though I have experienced NO erectile disfunction or lack of sex drive at all, I have turned 180 degrees from frequent premature ejaculation candidate to "rowboating across the Pacific," and just about losing interest in the expedition before reaching a normal climax. Still, this medicine seems to work where others either worsened my symptoms or had no affect whatsoever. | Hopefully, my trouble ejaculating will work itself out as my regimen of medication and therapy sessions progress. I would imagine that there exist some mental exercises that will aid in that respect. However, if it never works itself out completely, I can at least be thankful (as well as my significant other) that I do not reside at the other end of the spectrum. | M | 39 | 30 days 100mg 1X day | 5/24/2011 |