PROZAC Reviews (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

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PROZAC  (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Fluoxetine is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, a certain eating disorder (bulimia), and a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. It may also reduce the urge to perform repeated tasks (compulsions such as hand-washing, counting, and checking) that interfere with daily living. Fluoxetine may lessen premenstrual symptoms such as irritability, increased appetite, and depression. It may decrease binging and purging behaviors in bulimia.   FDA Approval Date: 2000-07-06 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  Major Depression horrible depression I was taking prozac for depression. It made me get so bad, that I had to go to the hospital for being suicidal. My depression was getting progressivly worse, and the Doctor thinks that the prozac made my depression worse. I would not recommend this drug. M 14 1 months
30mg 1X day
10/11/2010
 5  Depression/Anxiety I haven't had any side effects at all yet. I'm still the same woman as I was before taking the pill with slight improvement. My depression isn't as bad and neither are my mood swings. I'm still irritable but not as bad. The best thing so far is that I still have my sex drive! I'm hoping as the weeks continue, everything will just get better and better. Will update later..until then, Goodluck to you all! Loving it so far :) F 25 1 weeks
20 1X day
10/3/2010
 5  yes Started taking prozac for anxiety connected with menopause.No major side effects to speak of. My Dr. prescribed it to help wean me off of paxil which I absolutely hated !! A little nausea when I started it, but that went away in 1-2 weeks. On very rare occassions I might get a brain zap, but other than that quite happy with it. No axiety or sadness, just feel normal. F 46 90 days
1X day
9/14/2010
 1  depression Initially, I felt marvelous and wished I had started it earlier. But that did not last long, and soon enough, I was experiencing incredible amounts of anger, rage, feeling out of control. I was doing things I've never done. I realized I needed to come off of it when I found myself pointing a gun at a roomate to make his shut up. I can not explain how out of character that was for me to do anything at all like that. I quit the pill, and became myself again. I did work through my depression without medicine after that. I am afrade of mind altering pills now. M 42
1X day
9/12/2010
 4  Anxiety and OCD I don't want to drink alcohol as much or smoke cigarettes. It takes away a lot of the obcessive thoughts, has slightly turned me into a zombie, but I am not as hyper which is good for other people. I do feel less passionate. F 47 17 days
20 1X day
9/4/2010
 1  Anxiety This stuff is same ingrediant as RAT POISON. Fluoride-look at your toothpaste people-its poison. I kept gaining weight till I quit taking it. I put on 30 lbs. Wrecked 2 company trucks. Hitler put this (fluoride) in water to dumb people down and it is in 66% of city water in the U.S. Your cerael and totillas are thoughly contaminated with it, Its sprayed (cryolite)on grapes to kill insects.Do your reseach. M 52 120 days
30 1X day
9/3/2010
 1  anxiety Massive inner restlessness that only xanax could stop. M 52 5 days
5-10 1X day
8/18/2010
 5  depression none Prozac has helped me tremendously. With this drug I was able to think rationally instead of just reacting to people or situations that otherwise would have bothered me and brought me to tears. It has helped me with self confidence, motivation, physical energy and has stabilized my moods. Before Prozac I was oversensitive almost to the point of paranoia, feeling hopeless all the time and suicidal, and self medicating with alcohol. After all these years, I feel Prozac isn't working as well as it used to and my doctor has switched my to Cymbalta. I hope it does as well for me as the Prozac did. F 42 15 years
20 mg 1X day
8/12/2010
 1  Depression. Suicidal thoughts, even more depressed, increased anxiety, fatigue. I do NOT recommend this med. All it did for me was make everything worse a great deal. I was not suicidal before I was on this, after a few weeks of being on it I started self harming and really considered ridding of my own life, these side effects even lingered a while after stopping it. F 18 6 months
1X day
7/25/2010
 3  Depression and anxiety insomnia (which I got over after my brain adjusted to the new chemical) initial restlessness/weight-loss (10 pounds) long-term weight gain of 40 pounds (impossible to lose this; body wants to stay at that weight due to SSRI changes to metabolism) delayed ejaculation throughout After 13 years, I am experiencing the so called 'poop-out' effect. I tried increasing to 40mg but at that dose I feel too drugged out. Have to find a new drug of drug combo now. During my years under the influence of prozac, I was more relaxed and at ease socially. Every day things wouldn't bother me; I didn't feel any ups & downs - everything just felt OK and level. In retrospect that was a problem as I was happy to stay in situations that would normally bother/annoy me such as jobs where I didn't like the people I worked with. I would just be on cruise control and had a didnt-care attitude. So even though I didn't have unpleasant feelings, I felt I did not truly grow as a person with all that I experienced. It was sort of like time that just went by. In retrospect I wish I just dealt with raw life without this chemical barrier and used other means to cope. But it was very easy just taking a pill each morning. Now I'm stuck on these types of drugs for life. M 40 13 years
20 1X day
7/18/2010
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 4  Depression I was prescribed Prozac when I became depressed due to another health problem I was having at the time. I started out taking 20mg per day and when it didn't help, the doctor increased it to 40mg. I think it did help, but it's hard to tell because I was much happier once my other health problem was resolved. I think Prozac did help somewhat in getting me through that time. F 19 1 months
40mg 1X day
7/17/2010
 5  OCD, depression, BDD. inesistent sex-drive. i've tried many many med, like Celexa, Wellbutrin, Lamictal, but before or after i had to quit taking them for increased anxiety, anger, mood swings, irritability, lack of response. Prozac, the original one is the only med that works very very well for me, deleting anxiety symptoms and let me to organize my thoughts. i'm on it in combo with Gabapentin, 600 mg three times a day. it's a new life. i'm ready to dance now. M 24 2 weeks
60 mg 1X day
7/7/2010
 5  clinical depression-major F 58
60MG 1X day
7/6/2010
 5  GAD, Obsessiveness, mild depression Increased energy at first, possibly low libido, but after taking a long prozac vacation I believe it is just my mental history regarding sexuality causing the problem. Perfect at 40mg, anxiety at 60mg Last year I tried going up to 60mg (for the obsessiveness and anxiety) but it made things worse, DON'T take a higher dose than you need SSRIs are just as ineffective at too high of doses as they are at too low of doses. that being said, at 40mg (my perfect dose) Prozac calms my obsessions, makes me able to let things go, gives me a more energy to do things I love. I recently tried zoloft (thinking prozac wasn't working, when it ended up just being too high of a dose) and zoloft was awful at even 25mg. I know to each his own, but for me, this is my perfect drug, makes me feel like me, no added effects. F 26 5 years
40mg 1X day
5/14/2010
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 2  Anxiety and Depression No side effects (not even sexual). I've been taking Prozac for just over three weeks now. For me, taking Prozac is exactly the same as taking Lexapro - absolutely no side effects but no benefit either. I'm not sure if I've become immune after years of successful treatment with Effexor, or whether Prozac wouldn't have worked for me anyway. I'm off to try clomipramine or imipramine next. If they fail, I'll consider Parnate or Nardil. M 34 3 weeks
20mg 1X day
5/14/2010
 3  severe depression and anxiety Severe nausea, weight loss. I tried this back when it was new, am trying it again after severe stress-induced panic attacks and severe depression. Definitely feeling better but still wake up feeling anxious. Makes me sleepy, so I take it before bed. The weight loss is a bonus for me but the constant nausea is draining. Still not working like I hope but maybe the recent higher dose will kick in. Also kills my libido somewhat but it's hard to gauge because one of my symptoms of depression is compulsive sex. I can still achieve orgasm and it is not muted like on some of the other drugs I've tried over the last 20 years so I am not sure which is the root cause of lowered libido, I'm not depressed so bad, or the Prozac (generic fluoxetine) M 49 4 weeks
40 mg 1X day
5/12/2010
 3  Depression, anxiety Delayed/difficult orgasm, felt jittery at first, tremors. Maintained weight loss following severe depression (positive effect). Once the drug kicked in I felt great. Too good. I eventually crashed, went on this ridiculous drinking binge in which I drove my 7 y/o son around with me while I was drunk. I then had a horrific panic attack after throwing all of my Klonopin away and ended up in the hospital where they raised my dosage from 20 to 30 mg. Once again I began to feel on top of the world, spending money, happy to be alive, etc. My psychiatrist told me to stop taking it and now I am back to my melancholy self. I want to keep taking it even if it did make me manic! I also take Lamictal and Klonopin. F 33 6 months
30 mg 1X day
5/11/2010
 1  Depression/Anxiety Extreme nausea, migraines, fatigue, became even more anxious than I was before taking this medication. F 26 18 days
20mg 1X day
5/8/2010
 1  'fibromyalgia' I wish I had never taken Prozac!!! It actually gave me the symptoms of fibromyalgia: poor exercise tolerance, low energy, flu-like symptoms, feeling sleepy all the time, extreme fatigue plus no sex drive and yawning alot. Then when I decided to come off of it I realized that you can't just quit, you have to wean very carefully and take suppliments to help you handle the symptoms. I wouldn't have been able to make it through the withdrawal symptoms without the book "How To Get Off Prozac Safely" by James Harper. It has been 2 years since I started to wean off and 7 months since I completely quit and I still have withdrawal symptoms. This drug is crap. F 53 7 years
10 mg 1X day
5/6/2010
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 1  insomnia, pmdd Fine at first, then increased anxiety, feeling heart fluttering, restless, even missed work, poor appetite I don't think I do well with the ssri's in general. This was way too stimulating to me. Felt like I was drinking coffee all day. F 38 15 days
10 mg 1X day
4/30/2010
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