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 |
| 5 | Depression | none | This medication has saved my life. No complaints from me. I've tried other antidepressants but Prozac is the best. | F | 29 | 10 years | 5/21/2008 | 1 | Anxiety, depression | OMG! I had bad nightmares on this stuff! I woke up in a sweat remembering my nightmare of demon faces! I also had a heart racing pulse. This stuff made me jittery, not good for anxiety, but, maybe good for those depressed. | F | 34 | 3 months | 4/30/2008 | 1 | depression | Caused legs to jerk violently -- just as falling asleep. Thus NOT able to get to sleep. Thereby causing severe sleep deprivation and extreme exhaustion. Went off Prozac and on Celexa/Citalopram. Due to my side-effect, for me Prozac was an F- while Celexa/Citalopram is an A+. | I will NOT take Prozac again -- ever! Discuss Celexa/Citalopram with your doctor. | F | 55 | 1 years | 4/29/2008 | 3 | Chemical Imbalance | Signifigant weight gain, Memory loss, loss of concentration,tired & sleepy most of the time, sometimes snap at others, bruising easily | I've been taking 40 mg for 5 months now, but I don't know if I should get an increasage on the dosage because of the side effects | F | 30 | 5 months | 4/28/2008 | 5 | depression/anxiety/anorexia/cutting | mild dizziness, some nausea, tiredness | I take currently 60 milligrams of Prozac but have been as high as 80 milligrams. It has helped me with regulating my depression and sorting out the hopelessness and suicidal tendencies I had beforehand. With my anorexia, it has helped regulate my appetite which tends to increase greatly when I have bingeing periods but when on Prozac seems to help with a feeling of fullness. Overall the Prozac has been greatly helpful and has not cured my depression but has most defiantly has calmed down the more immediate symptoms and allows for alleviated living. It is a tool which I use along with personal work to try and work through daily depression and anorexia which is at times, even on Prozac immobilizing. However, it has since greatly helped my ability to sort out the irrational more manic my symptoms therefore allowing a slightly more livable life. | F | 18 | 3 years | 4/27/2008 | 4 | Anxiety | Emotional numb, unmotivated, excessive swetting | I have been taking 20mg daily for three years. I was originally taking it for anxiety while I was married. Since my divorce, I have been in a 6 month relationship with an incredibly nice woman and realized I didn't need to medicate anymore. I have more emotions now and my preformance at work has increased dramatically. | M | 38 | 3 years | 4/26/2008 | 1 | Mild Anxiety | Became impotent.Short term memory was worse, kept forgetting things.Felt tired during the day even when I had had a full nights sleep | Its now over a decade since I came off Prozac but I still have sexual dysfunction that was caused by it | M | 30 | 4 months | 4/22/2008 | 5 | deep clinical depression | dry mouth and difficulty sleeping - after 2 weeks or so, my body acclimated and I had no more sleeping problems. The dry mouth was mush less problematic, but still there a bit. | I've taken this for about 22 years. For me, it works so well. Before Prozac, I was always very depressed and cried every day. I spent a lot of time in therapy to try to "figure out" what was making me so sad. After years w/out answers, I tried Prozac and it changed my life! I understood for the first time that not every one was as depressed as I was but just handled it better - I felt what it was like to be normal. For me it has been a God send. | F | 52 | 22 years | 4/13/2008 | 5 | depression | none at first, but a very decreased appetite over time | Overall, Prozac was WONDERFUL for me. I called it my miracle drug. It made me "me" again. I started off at 10mg, quickly increased to 20mg, then eventually to 40mg which worked great for several years. I developed a little bit of a tolerance to it over the years... Still works much better than taking nothing, but doesn't help as much as I need, so I'm in the process of weaning off Prozac and starting Wellbutrin XL. So far so good. (Nauseous first few days, and very spacey but overall feeling much better.) Everyone is different and different drugs work for different people. Best of luck to everyone in finding what works for you! | F | 27 | 7 years | 4/11/2008 | 2 | anxiety, pmdd | weight gain, no sex drive, no emotion | I started taking Prozac to help with my anxiety. I lost 6 pounds at first and then started to slowly gain weight. I assumed it was because of the holidays and lived with it. Since mid January I gained close to 20 pounds. A total of 35 pounds!!! Nothing is worse then being depressed and gaining weight on top of it. Right now I am working on getting healthy and trying to get my metabolism back on track. I have gone off of this "cold turkey" and have felt like I have the flu and been a little moody. But I'd rather feel than have no emotion. I was in a complete fog for 6 months. DO NOT RECOMMEND!! | F | 30 | 6 months | 4/11/2008 | 4 | F | 2 years | 4/8/2008 | 2 | depression/anxiety | loss of REM sleep! | Yeah, the prozac helped with my depression/anxiety but probably because I was asleep all the time. Do you know prozac inhibits REM sleep (restorative sleep), so basically your body doesn't ever get the rest it needs! I had no idea! No one told me and all my doctors knew I had sleep problems! Worst 5 months of my life. | F | 30 | 5 days | 4/8/2008 | 2 | Off and On Depression Cycles | Body Pain,Nightmares,Hallucinations,SEVERE HEADACHE | Prozac does help with numbing your depression and i've heard it works for some.But unfortunatly for me the side effects were unacceptable.There come's a point where you draw the line and for me it was seeing visions upon waking up.Sometimes reevaluating your life and the circumstances around it helps to see what trigger's the depression mode.Accept your limits and learn to say NO when your feeling overwhelmed.Get plenty of rest,exercise and good diet.Don't watch movies or show's that depress you. | F | 43 | 5 days | 4/7/2008 | 5 | Depression | minor sides, they were all bearable i have noticed different sides with different generic manufacturers found a good manf that works great | Love this drug! they should put it in the water supply. too bad it doesn't work for everyone. it does take longer to orgasm, but being a male that has it's benefits. i've tried other pills over the years and they weren't the right chems for me. wellbutrin was horrible. if prozac doesn't improve your life try others, life is way too short to be unhappy! taking off/on for over 10 years | M | 29 | 10 years | 4/5/2008 | 2 | Depression, anxiety | I took 20 mgs/daily until I, basically fizzled out. No real symptoms except seeing that "tail" when I turned my head too quickly. I felt off-balance at times. | I took this med about 15 years ago for a couple of years, and the effect was so very different than today! At that time, I lost weight, had tremendous energy and my anxiety all but dissipated. I could sleep better, as I suffer from insomnia. Taking it this time, however, was ... like taking a placebo! It has had no effect. I am now starting Effexor. We shall see. | F | 49 | 5 months | 4/2/2008 | 4 | anxiety, insomnia | None, except for complete loss of libido. However, I only took it about 2 months. | I started out on 10 MG for 2 weeks, then went up to 20 MG. It was supposed to help with obsessive thoughts/anxiety, which it certainly did. (But it did not seem to help with sleep, so I took Ativan also). The main reason I stopped it is because I had no libido. Otherwise, my mood during the day was very mellow and good. The things that usually irritate me (noisy neighbors, heavy traffic, screaming kids) did not bother me at all. I had never taken any meds for moods before, and I know I'd never feel that good "on my own". I probably would have continued it if it wasn't for the loss of sex drive. You want to feel better, but not feeling THAT is a trade off I didn't want to make! | F | 46 | 2 months | 3/29/2008 | 1 | Unbearable PMS | Skull-splitting headaches, palpitations, tremors, diarrhoea resulting in losing 4lbs in less than 4 days, panic attack, inflamed gums. This drug is lethal. | My PMS had become so bad that my life was a continual bout. I am sure that my doctor prescribed Fluoxetine to get me out of his office as quickly as possible. It should have been a last resort, not a first choice of treatment. The side-effects were so violent that I really did think it would kill me. This is almost a year ago now and I'm still bitter about it. Another doctor prescribed the Pill and this has been fine. I would not recommend Fluoxetine to treat PMS, no matter how bad it has become for any patient. I have been told that Fluoxetine has a 'good track record' for alleviating PMS but I think it is completely unsuitable, in fact it is lethal. From what I have read on this site, it should only be used to treat serious depression. For worsened PMS, take the Pill. I recommend Loestrin 30. Please e-mail and I'll be happy to talk to you. | F | 42 | 7 days | 3/27/2008 | 4 | DEPRESSION | pOSSIBLY SEVERE HEARTBURN | I think it helps with neuropathy pain in my hands and legs. | M | 72 | 30 days | 3/24/2008 | 5 | Anxiety, headaches, dizziness, | Insomnia and feeling like my brain was on a motor during the first few days on 20 mg. Decreased appetite, shakiness, and some sweating at first. Decreased the dose to 10 mg and have been fine. No more insomnia. Will get shaky and agitated if I drink caffeine though. Sex drive not affected at all. | This medicine has not only calmed my anxiety but it has also helped with my daily headaches, which I came to find out were migrains. My dizziness is also pretty much gone and I no longer have crying spells. | F | 31 | 3 months | 3/23/2008 | 2 | Depression and anxiety | Felt like a corpse with no emotions. Stopped taking it for a year went back on and went completely crazy, had really bad anxiety and ocd, changed for something else | works for some but not for me | F | 28 | 1.5 years | 3/20/2008 |