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, ocd, panic | SEX ALERT: SEX DRIVE STILL GREAT! :) I have wonderful orgasms and a powerful sex drive!!! | I totally forgot to mention this in my rating! I am female (maybe different for men) and where i did loose clitoris sensation, orgasm strength, and my orgasms were "delayed" when FIRST starting Prozac, that is no longer the situation whatsoever only 5 months later. In fact, i swear my sex drive went way UP! I have no problem reaching orgasm, and actually find i get horny easier, i think this is due to the prozac lifting the heavy burden of stress and depression off of my back! Maybe i am in the minority, but i can't be the only one who's orgasms are STILL perfect, if not better!!! | F | 27 | 5 months | 1/2/2007 | 5 | Mild Depression | Headaches, heart-burn, insomnia, muscle aches, wired, loss of appetite, diahrea, loss of sex drive, dizziness, lost ability to concentrate and couldn't work, anxiety, severe depression (only mild depression before the start-up), nausea. Just wnated to die! Maybe would have been better to start off at 10mg instead of 20mg? | I started taking prozac in 1997 for mild depression after a breakup and it worked great! I went off a few times because of the sexual side effects but went back on everytime, eventhough I was not really depressed, because I was less angry and moody on the drug. I went off earlier this year due to pregnancy then went back on after miscarriage. I never had start up side effects in the past, but this time I had to stop after 4 weeks because the side effects were getting worse, not subsiding. I was literally disabled for for the entire start-up period and I am still recovering 5 days later. I gave Prozac a 5 rating because it was so helpful for so long. If I were to rate it based soley on this experience I would give it a 1. Prozac had always been a good friend to me, but not anymore. I am going to miss it! :-( | F | 43 | 4 weeks | 12/29/2006 | 1 | ANXIETY | weight gain, depression, horrible thoughts, just awful, lack of energy, felt like a zombie | F | 29 | 30 days | 12/25/2006 | 3 | PMS | Weight gain, excess forgetfullness, confusion, headaches | I have mild irritability during pms which the prozac does help but it's the other side effects which I am not happy with. IMO it's not worth taking for mild irritability, I would rather try higher doses of B vitamins etc rather than take this stuff. I may also have to search for something else to help mild irritability that comes with pms. I have been taking this stuff since spring 2004. | F | 42 | | 12/19/2006 | 2 | dysthymia/moderate depression | Bursts of anger. Felt jittery. Felt better the moment I swallowed the first pill (placebo effect). After several months did not feel better. (I took it for about a year when I was about 20.) Other minor side effects. | You will (typically) have to increase the dosage every so often to experience its positive effects. It will eventually stop giving you benefits no matter how much of it you take. I was very lucky to take only 20mg a day for a relatively short period of time. Be warned, it will not live up to its promises. Additionally, I don't want it to sound like the side effects I experienced were minor. My aggression and anger increased and I could very well be sitting in a jail cell today or dead from suicide because of the unpredictable, powerful effects of Prozac on the brain. USE SPARINGLY AND AS A VERY LAST RESORT! | M | 33 | 1 years | 12/19/2006 | 5 | bad Depression | constant wakenings at night. a lot of gas :-( loss of apetite ( which is a good thing for me since im overweight), and frequent headaches. o and decreased sex drive | ITS A GREAT DRUG! i feel like life is an adventure and u hafto go for it... im taking 30mg and i usto be really messed up... i cut myself, had suicidal thoughts, and cried everyday... prozac definatlyey gives you more energy to the point where you feel like yourconstantly on speed ( which is good, i can focus better in school) ITS GREAT! | M | 15 | 2 months | 12/16/2006 | 5 | ANXIETY,PMDD | TREMORS THE FIRST FEW DAYS, FLEETING | TONS OF ENERGY, I FEEL LIKE I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD | F | 34 | 14 days | 12/14/2006 | 5 | OCD, ADHD, Paranoid Ideation | Headaches for the first few weeks, but tapered off. LOW sex drive. A little weight gain, but don't seem to be eating more than before? | I love this drug! Combined with Dexamphetamine for my adhd, it works brilliantly for me. I can see so much GOOD in my life now. | F | 37 | 3 months | 12/2/2006 | 1 | Anxiety | Insomnia. Sexual side effects. Hostillity. Disinhibited. Rapid speach, interupting everyone. After 1 year developed full cognitive impairment and amotivational behaviour. Extremely horrific withdrawal reaction that took two months to subside | Sent me manic, psychotic, and cognitively impaired although initially it helped my concentration. Made me anxious yet disinhibited so i didn't care what others thought of my behaviour. Withdrew due to frontal lobe syndrome which it, although very rare, can induce. Withdrawal was hell. Electric shocks memory loss, suicide and violencent personality. Back to normal now except for some neurotoxic damage that may take years to correct | M | 21 | 11 months | 12/1/2006 | 2 | anxiety | Photophobia, Extreme dry eyes, bad sore throat...just dried me out. Could not sleep--had insomnia. Brought on more anxiety. | Just not the right medication. I was more agitated than without the medication. | F | 29 | 4 months | 11/30/2006 | 4 | Depression | Mild Sedation | F | 36 | 1 years | 11/28/2006 | 5 | ocd and mild bpd | lowered sex drive, trouble sleeping ONLY if i take it in the evenings | wonderful, helped me feel like myself again. I don't feel anything 'extra' no crazy euphoria or anything....just ME, the happy real me | F | 22 | 6 months | 11/27/2006 | 2 | Depression / Social Anxiety | OMG - I am so tired all the time and achey as well. | Have not really experienced any elevation in mood...but am very tired all the time (on 20mg) | F | 28 | 30 days | 11/26/2006 | 2 | depression | Initially, it helped, I had more energy, was talking very fast, getting a lot more done, lost 6 lbs in a couple weeks. But then, the bad dreams began, I'm talking really bad, images of war, fire, death, just awful stuff. I got so afraid to go to sleep at night, I had to stop taking them. I began on 10mg, then stopped. | My doctor seems reluctant to put me on anything else. When I told the doctor that 10mg gave me nightmares, he wanted me to try it again at 20mg. I did for two days, but the nightmares came on right away. Guess I'll just have to be depressed. | F | 52 | 2 months | 11/20/2006 | 5 | BPD and Major Depression | For the first week or two I experienced headache,nausea,loss of appetite and insomnia..Most of these symptoms went away as I got further into therapy however I still have loss of appetite,weight loss,decreased sex drive | I am very impressed with tthis antidepressant!So far its the best one I have tried so far(and I have been on so many)..I am starting to feel like my old self again..I have more motivation and a overall feeling of just being better than the pre prozac days! Very few side effects on this medication and the few that I do have are very toleratable! my family, friends,and boyfriend say they see a BIG improvement in me..I am more outgoing and less anxious! I highly recomment this antidepressant to anyone suffering from Depression! | F | 21 | 2 months | 11/19/2006 | 4 | depression, OCD | slight headache, jitteriness, mild upset stomach | Upon getting pregnant with my first child, hormones freaked my brain chemistry. I became depressed and showed signs of OCD (always singing a song in my head, counting things, etc.). After much debating about taking it (since I was pregnant), I started taking it at 13 weeks of the pregnancy. After about 3.5 weeks, I was back to my old self. It absolutely saved me. My son is now 9 years old and shows no ill effects my taking Prozac while pregnant with him. | F | 39 | 9 years | 11/17/2006 | 5 | Depression | Week 3, 20mg/day: I am definitely noticing a change now in mood. I have more energy and have not cried in 2 weeks. I am starting to feel that I am becoming what 'normal people' are like. I am not saying I am buzzing 'high' or anything, but this is not placebo - a subtle strength has started to grow. I am now making necessary changes in my life - having courage to do stuff that before I was just hopeless and in despair. There is only one side effect I still have - insomnia. I wake up after 3 or 4 hours and sometimes need a sleeping pill to get back to sleep. But apart from that, no negative side effects. I am feeling very positive now about this medication - it really does take about 3 weeks at least before you start to notice the change - stick with it. | FYI: I am actually taking the generic Prozac "Fluox" | F | 29 | 3 weeks | 11/15/2006 | 1 | severe anxiety and depression | gain 30+ pounds in less than a year. became "numb" | while i was on prozac everything was great. i thought my life had finally turned around. i was no longer afraid to leave the house. but one day about 10 months in i went to a doctors appointment, was weighed and told i had gained 30 pounds in just 11 months. i was shocked and devestated. i initially took prozac for anxiety related to self image issues. i then realized i had ruined many close relationships and now a year and a half later i am still paying for it. I would never recommend it to anyone. hopefully it has a better effect for others. | F | 16 | 11 months | 11/15/2006 | 3 | complex PTSD; recurrent depression | Not sure if side effects are from prozac or one of the other 3 I take; adderall, xanax, or Lunesta. | I thought I was better when I was only on 10 mg. On 20 mg. I think I need more xanax for anxiety; and Xanax can cause more depression. I am not sure if anyone else is on prozac for PTSD; I also have adhd, depression and obsess about suicide. The suicidal thoughts are a little bit better than when I was on Cymbalta, which made them worse. I don't think anything can help as much as a really good psychotherapist who understands PTSD and really studies this and cares a lot.I have that good fortune; I do think I am a bit more stable on prozac (generic) than without; I don't know why cymbalta was so horrible for me though since most people like that one. | F | 50 | 3 months | 11/14/2006 | 4 | Major depression/chemical imbalance | Initially, heart palpatations, drymouth, decreased libido...after 11 years of use, recurrence of acute depression. | Prozac saved my life, it really did! I was on 60mg/day initially then tapered to 40mg/day since 1995. This year, I started experiencing similar thoughts, anxieties and 'fuzziness' I had back at the start of my treatment in 1995. I went back to counselling, and counselor sees loss of effectiveness in Prozac at current dosage. She is now increasing dosage back to 60mg/day to see if it lifts me out of black funk. Next item on protocol agenda, if this move isn't effective, is to move to next anti-depressant (Zoloft?). Even if I need to change meds, Prozac will always have my thanks. | F | 42 | 11 years | 11/9/2006 |