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 |
| 1 | Anxiety Depression | Tinnitus, insomnia, gastrointestinal bleeding, low sodium & chloride, 0 emotions, 0 labido, brain zaps, cognitive issues. Kidney issues. | Biggest mistake in my life starting SSRI's. I'll be tapering off for years from a remodeled brain. Very difficult long tapering to get off at 2-5% every 4+ week's. | M | 57 | 23 years 40 | 8/2/2019 | 5 | Resistant depression/Social anxiety | Minor reduced libido, weight loss (15 pounds) | I take generic fluoxetine for treatment resistant depression, dysthymia, social anxiety disorder, and borderline personality disorder. I took a long time to start working (9 weeks) on depression, but was faster on anxiety (4 weeks). I was going to change back to Pristiq, when finally I noticed that my self esteem increased drastically and social anxiety disappeared, it was like a miracle. I started to go back to a crowded gym that I was avoiding 6 times per week, I stoped drinking, binge eating and taking drugs, because my mood was lifting. After 4 months, my life is changed for the better, I'm back to school, my addictions are gone, I am able to make some new friends, I fell happy and I live my life at the present moment and to the fullest, and dont care what other people thinks. I have ADHD and PTSD so I take with Wellbutrin XL 300 mg, Lamictal 200 mg, Adderall XR 20 mg and Concerta 27 mg and I feel great!! I think that people that give bad reviews are these that takes 20 mg. It's too small of a dose, you can raise to 80 mg. | M | 40 | 4 months 40 1X day | 2/18/2019 | 5 | Depression | I take 2- 20mg caps as the 40mg cap gives me heartburn. Other than this, no side effects! This is a great RX for me. I became more positive, upbeat, not as sensitive, emotionally/ mentally balanced & rational when ppl act crazy and behaving rude or mean. Experienced trauma throughout childhood and as an adult. Went to Counseling for few yrs while on Prozac, consistently. 5 yrs ago, restarted taking due to MS Disease and has helped me with memory big time! No longer have fog brain when I have MS relapse. My Aunt has taken 5 yrs due to strokes and has helped her greatly as well with zero side effects. As with any medication, it affects ppl differently, just as an allergy med does. DO NOT be fearful from these negative posts as most tend to only vent negatives and not positives in life in many levels. This is old school medicine and far better than newer meds with horrific side effects. Takes approx a month for full effect. | Took for 8 yrs in my 40's, going thru divorce, obsessed abusive ex & a rebellious teen. Restarted when diagnosed with MS for 5 yrs. Restarted a yr ago. Never discontinue suddenly. You MUST taper off. Best of luck to you all in your journey for healing and finding peace & happiness. It is never too late to seek help or assistance. God bless | F | 57 | 14 years 40 MG 1X day | 7/25/2018 | 5 | Depression | At first, increased herat racing, racing thoughts, sweating and loss of any type of desire(s). | This is a follow up to the below post. At that time, I was on Prozac for 5 weeks. Its is now 2 months and it has fully kicked in. I am feeling like my old self. Crying spells are gone, racing thoughts are gone, I can function and am feeling fine. My problems are still with me but I can cope. If you are reading this please hang in there. Prozac saved me - its not a happy pill but it will get you back on track if you give it time. | F | 55 | 2 months 20mg 1X day | 11/3/2017 | 5 | Depression, Anxiety, Crying Spells | Initially increased my anxiety, internal shaking, loss of appetite and racing thoughts. Yes, this drug makes you feel a tad worse in the first 3-5 days but it goes away. I can't say it killed my sex drive since I didn't have any drive due to depression. | I have taken Prozac 2 times before when I had life changing events that I could not handle. Each time I took Prozac for a few years and then stopped when I was able to deal with was going on or until the situations ended. I am currently on week 5 of Prozac due to a family member taking ill and I am having trouble coping; I fell apart. I couldn't eat or sleep. Lost a ton of weight in 1 month. Couldn't sleep. Cried all day and shaking. I had to give up coffee and all caffeine because of the shaking. I felt sick with a dark black feeling in my bones, felt as if I was drowning in death and had racing thoughts of everything bad happening to the point I could not function. These feeling got so bad that I called the shrink and went back on Prozac. The first 1-5 days, I felt worse. Everything I had been feeling was increased but then it stopped. By week 3 my crying was not as bad. It is now week 5 and my crying is almost none existent, the internal shaking has almost gone away, I do not have racing thoughts. I feel as if I can cope and get back to life. I know that by weeks 8, I will feel even better and more like myself. This is how I felt the other times I took Prozac. Prozac is the only drug I am taking - I am not taking any anxiety drugs ( Valium or Atavan). Prozac does work, you must give it time. Prozac has given me back my life - it may not be a rosey great life but at least I'm no longer a basket case sitting and crying and shaking and feeling BAD all day. | F | 55 | 5 weeks 20mg 1X day | 10/15/2017 | 1 | depression | vicious nose bleeds, shaking, insomnia. | made me worse. and gave me awful side effects. | M | 48 | 3 weeks 30mg 1X day | 9/25/2017 | 3 | Anxiety | Very drowsy. Sleeping a LOT. Sex drive lower. Lost weight due to not eating as much. | Prozac helped me, but eventually we realized it was the reason I couldn't move for hours on end. I had initially thought it was thyroid related. Prozac, for me, was not the right match with the side effects | F | 33 | 2 years | 5/23/2017 | 5 | depression, anxiety, | BIT OF INSOMNIA AND SELF HARM IN FIRST FEW WEEKS | I HAD A BIT OF INSOMNIA AND SOME SELF HARM RISKS WHICH WERE NOT MADE KNOWN TO ME BUT DOCTOR SAID THEY SHOULD PASS BUT AFTER THAT THEY WERE A GODSEND TO ME. THEY HAVE SAVED MY LIFE AND WILL SAVE COUNTLESS OTHERS NO DOUBT. PLEASE GIVE PROZAC A FEW MONTHS TO SEE THE REAL EFFECTS. BESIDES WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE DEPRESSION IS BAD ENOUGH . RONNIE O SULLIVAN SAID HE USED DRINK DRUGS AND PROZAC TO TREAT HIS DEPRESSION AND SAID THE FIRST TWO WERE NO GOOD BUT PROZAC WAS THE SIVER BULLET FOR TREATING HIS BOUTS OF DEPRESSION. | M | 24 | 1X day | 2/26/2017 | 4 | Lifelong Anxiety since I was 5 | No side-effects when taking it. | Doctor has recently suggested I start weaning off the medication as I've been on it since 2012. It has been wonderful for me! If I didn't take it for a week or so, I felt anxious and down. Scared to start weening off it as don't want to feel like that. Doctor is suggesting as I'm really not losing weight and always tired. | F | 22 | 5 years 10-20 mg 1X day | 2/20/2017 | 1 | Anxiety, depression, and OCD. | Lethargic, increased depressed and binge eating. Which I didn't need as I am still battling off weight from last antidepressant. la | F | 69 | 7 days | 2/9/2017 | 3 | depression and self medicating with | Just recently I have felt extremely nervous. Prior to this new set of symptoms, it helped me immensely, with frequent crying and a sense of hopelessness. | I was extremely depressed, crying easily, a feeling I was just existing in life. | F | 64 | 2 months 20 mg 1X day | 12/28/2016 | 5 | Depression | Sometimes I take a nap (something I didn't before) weight gain about 20 pounds because it gives the sensation of hunger. | It work! Does the job. Is not a happy pill, but normalized me. Even at 25 mg after two weeks I began to feel myself again. | M | 38 | 1 years 25 1X day | 12/21/2016 | 2 | Depression, anxiety, ptsd, bipolar | Side effects for me while taking the drug were low to no sex drive,my anxiety never changed but i started to not feel suicidal which is good and had more confidence | I stopped taking it because I felt as if it wasnt helping me for any of my illnesses anymore like i built a tolerance to the prozac. I didnt feel like it was helping me anymore. i became alot more irritable and very edgy while on it too. The littelest things set me off. Havent took it in 6 months and still VERY irritable and edgy. It has become a lot worse i get angry so easily..i Feel as if i cant handle anything anymore without having a complete mental and emotional breakdown of either sadness or anger | F | 18 | 2 years 30 | 12/2/2016 | 3 | 1 days | 11/2/2016 | 1 | Dpression | Promiscuity | Teenage relative became out of character promiscuous using Prozac. When it was stopped she went back to her usual non-promiscuous behaviour. | F | 18 | 2 months 40 MG 1X day | 10/18/2016 | 1 | Depression | Hives all over body. After taking 14 tablets i noticed red patches on my legs and back. I was back and forth at the doctors for a week, with them still telling me to take it as it was unlikely i was allergic as its rare. I chose to come off it however. On the third day, i had hives on my ankle, legs, near groin, back, stomach, chest, arms, neck, chin, cheeks, eyelids. I was given various antihistamines, they didnt do anything until i was given piriton. That helped but i was knocked out cold on that stuff. After 2-3 weeks my hives reduced (being warm would cause my skin to outbreak so every day i was having 4 showers) After say 2 months, they went completely and i have been hive free. | F | 24 | 2 weeks 20mg | 9/15/2016 | 4 | social anxiety | Caffeine causes spike in anxiety/panic attacks | I have social anxiety which interferes pretty drastically with my life, so initially I started going to therapy. I went through about 3 different therapists , not being able to say a word to any of them, until determining that without medication therapy would go nowhere. After only about 2 months on PROZAC I have been able to open up to my current therapists. My only issue so far is that since I can't have caffeine anymore, I have trouble staying awake in school. | M | 14 | 2 months 30mg 1X day | 9/8/2016 | 1 | Depression, anxiety, panic attacks | I smell everything bad. My poop smells just like the taste in my mouth from the medicine. I gag everytime going to the restroom and dread that part of my life. I itch more and scratch every sore (even in my sleep) I will wake with blood stains everywhere including my face. | F | 42 | 60 days 20 MG 1X day | 9/1/2016 | 5 | Lifelong atypical depression | Agitation, grinding teeth at night, difficulty having orgasm. | Prozac is my miracle drug. Started in 1990 @ 40 mg - lifted my lifelong depression & changed my life. I no longer felt like I was dragging myself thru each day. Tried switching to other antidepressants due to side effects but nothing else works for me like Prozac so I decided it was a small price to pay. Buspar helps counteract the agitation/anxiety & is not habit-forming. Now in perimenopause and hormones are affecting my mood - upped Prozac to 60 mg - I know it's still working because I feel good on my rare days when hormones are "good." Pre-Prozac (1st 22 yrs of my life) I never had a good day. Am starting hormone therapy but that's another story ... | F | 48 | 10 years 60 | 7/24/2016 | 4 | Nervous breakdown/anxiety | Initial weight loss, upset stomachs, migraines, after 5 months of using drug massive weight gain of 30lbs in 6 months, yawning all the time. | This drug did help me. My anxiety was very bad, could not leave the house and felt on edge all the time. Had no life and pretty much did not want to be on the planet any more. However after 2 months of taking the Prozac I started to feel better. I've been taking it 16 months now and am fully recovered. I have gained a lot of weight, this weight gain only started with the use of Prozac. Long term use of this drug you will gain weight. I've reduced my MG to 20 now. In 2 weeks time I will start to come off Prozac, however I will be doing this slowly as withdrawal can be pretty bad. Great for helping recovery but in my experience does cause significant weight gain. | F | 35 | 1 years 40Mg | 7/13/2016 |