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 |
| 4 | Moderate-Severe Depression, Anger | Fatigue, somnolence, lack of libido | I've been on/off Prozac for a couple years. I like everything about it except fatigue and have tried most SSRIs prior to Prozac and the side effects were worse with other SSRIs. Withdrawl symptoms are hell and I become a raging bitch if I quit cold turkey. Am planning on combining with Wellbutrin SR 150mg and then stepping down the Prozac. | F | 39 | 8 days | 11/6/2006 | 5 | PMDD, anxiety and depression | slight diarrhea, some vomiting at first but subsided, sometimes crave alcohol and smokes (past smoker) clench teeth, no libido. | If your appetite is surpressed just force yourself to eat a balanced diet of fresh fruits, veggies, cheese and lots of nuts to snack on. Drink more water. Your sex partner should be more patient and take the time to get u more aroused. Benefits outweigh the side effects which are easy to get used to. | F | 44 | 4 months | 11/5/2006 | 3 | moderate depression | Worst side effects for me (at 20mg/day) are difficulty sleeping, muscles sometimes ache throughout entire body, and I get extremely sleepy in the afternoon. Minor side efffects include jaw clenching at night - once caused me to chip my teeth; restless legs when sleeping; and decrease in sex drive and function. | For the most part, this medication eliminates the dark thoughts and improves my mood and energy level to nearly normal, but not as energetic as I was in the past. The medication basically works for me as an antidepressant, but does not work as well as I would like. At 20mg/day or more, drowseyness is sometimes so much of a problem for me that I really can't function. After experimenting with different doses, I found that 10mg/day provides most of the desired effects with greatly reduced side effects. Most of the time 10mg/day works, but occasionally I have to bump back to 20 mg/day for a week or two to get back on track. | M | 47 | 3 years | 11/2/2006 | 5 | Obsessive OCD | None | Worked for 9 years. Extremely minimal if any obsessive thoughts for the entire nine year period. Unfortunately, it stopped working after this time span. Only on 20mg/day dosage | M | 26 | 9 years | 11/1/2006 | 4 | Depression | Just to report on my first week taking this drug at 20mg/day - I experienced a few side effects in the first 3-4 days but they have subsided now - the main side effects were insomnia and a complete loss of appetite. 7 days now and these side effects havew disappeared. I would not say that my depression has disappeared yet, but I definitely feel less anxious than last week. I feel calm. | I would like to warn anyone who is just starting out on this drug that they should expect a brief 'low' during the first few days, but this should go away. I researched it, and apparently the drug sort of briefly 'tears down' the chemical structures that control your mood in order to 'rebuild' them, so hang in there if you actually feel worse on day 2 or 3 - I did, but it soon went away and now i am starting to feel a little better. I will post back after 2 weeks to let you know the changes (if any). | F | 29 | 1 weeks | 10/30/2006 | 3 | clinical depression | Night sweats, which were sometimes severe, and necessitated a change of t-shirt almost every night. Tingling sensation, alternating with extreme hotness up and down arms. No libido AT ALL - felt bad for my husband. Increased anxiety. | Did seem to work for a time, but not completely. Then, it stopped working altogether. Possibly the "Prozac poop-out" that I've read about? Increased dosage over time, from 20 mg to 60mg, but no real improvement. Night sweats just got worse. | F | 45 | 2 years | 10/27/2006 | 3 | depression | I am male, 6'5", 39 yrs old, and I take 40 mg per day. The negative side-effects I experience are (1) weight gain (60 lbs overweight; cannot lose weight with working out and/or dieting), (2) increased blood pressure, (3) some night sweating, (4) hands shaking (diagnosed as a "central tremor"), (5) increased irritibility, (6) reduced amount of patience, (7) anger (over small issues), and (8) worry (worried that aforementioned symptoms would cause me to lose my job). When I was taking 20 mg per day I do not believe the symptoms were as bad as they are now. Caffeine enhances the effect of irritibility. I would also crash with severe depression after drinking a couple cups of coffee. This would last less than a day. I stopped drinking coffee and this symptom went away. | I feel that Prozac has helped in general with my depression. I am generally happy and have a good outlook on life while on Prozac. The daily problems of life don't make me feel bad. The random, racing thoughts (too much thinking) has gone away. I took Zoloft and Paxil previously. Zoloft worked too, but made me feel nauseous in the morning. Paxil helped little, and I was very sleepy, where I could fall asleep sitting up. Paxil also made me have extreme flatulence. With Prozac I did not have these symptoms and I generally felt much better about life; I could get out of bed. However, the negative side-effects have made me not be able to work well with other people, and consequently I have lost my job. So I am considering lowering my dosage to 20 mg or switching meds, maybe Welbutrin? | M | 39 | 2 years | 10/23/2006 | 3 | depression | I am male, 6'5", 39 yrs old, and I take 40 mg per day. The negative side-effects I experience are (1) weight gain (60 lbs overweight; cannot lose weight with working out and/or dieting), (2) increased blood pressure, (3) some night sweating, (4) hands shaking (diagnosed as a "central tremor"), (5) increased irritibility, (6) reduced amount of patience, (7) anger (over small issues), and (8) worry (worried that aforementioned symptoms would cause me to lose my job). When I was taking 20 mg per day I do not believe the symptoms were as bad as they are now. Caffeine enhances the effect of irritibility. I would also crash with severe depression after drinking a couple cups of coffee. This would last less than a day. I stopped drinking coffee and this symptom went away. | I feel that Prozac has helped in general with my depression. I am generally happy and have a good outlook on life while on Prozac. The daily problems of life don't make me feel bad. The random, racing thoughts (too much thinking) has gone away. I took Zoloft and Paxil previously. Zoloft worked too, but made me feel nauseous in the morning. Paxil helped little, and I was very sleepy, where I could fall asleep sitting up. Paxil also made me have extreme flatulence. With Prozac I did not have these symptoms and I generally felt much better about life; I could get out of bed. However, the negative side-effects have made me not be able to work well with other people, and consequently I have lost my job. So I am considering lowering my dosage to 20 mg or switching meds, maybe Welbutrin? Working out makes me feel much better, so I need to start adding into my lfe a regular work out routine. Email me with any comments or suggestions. | M | 39 | 2 years | 10/23/2006 | 1 | Depression | Sexual dysfunction - which turned out to be permanent. On 4th day ejaculation was very different - the fluid just ran out instead of spurting, it didn't feel nearly as good, and I felt pressure in my prostate. I knew something was wrong and quit taking it. The ejaculatory reflex and normal sensation level never returned to normal (3 years now). | If you are male - DON'T take this. | M | 32 | 4 days | 10/23/2006 | 5 | Fibromyalgia | Initial side effects were nervousness and anxiety for 1-2 weeks. After that the only major side effect still occuring is loss of libido and dry mouth/eyes. | Was in despair and lost control of my life due to fibromyalgia and the 24/7 pain. 3 days after starting Prozac I noticed a 100% improvement in my phsical and mental well being. I still have pain but not 24/7, I sleep well most nights and thank god for the drug. It does not work for everyone but it works wonders for me. As to the decreased libido - I will take that over the 24/7 chronic pain that was leading me towards a wheel chair! | F | 47 | 12 years | 10/19/2006 | 3 | depression/anxiety | thi is day one and i feel like i am on speed ...is this normal? i can deal with this if its the only side effect but we shall see..... | F | 27 | 1 days | 10/12/2006 | 2 | Depression and anxiety | Constant jaw tension and pain in masseter muscles which led to tooth sensitivity. Increased neck muscles tightness because of the aforementioned and therefore, headaches. Significant increase in facial acne. Nausea that warranted taking Dramamine (meclizine). | I was on 10mg of generic Prozac for 2 weeks to help me get off Paxil, and then dropped the Paxil and have been on 20mg of the generic Prozac for another few weeks. This is when, after a lot of web searching, I realized all of these effects were "rare side effects." Go figure I get the rare ones. Paxil had significantly less side effects for me than this did. | F | 37 | 8 weeks | 10/6/2006 | 1 | Depression / Anxiety | Prozac caused the following side effects: complete impotence, complete loss of labido, drowsiness, dry mouth, sleep disturbances, problems breathing, dry eyes, numb emotions and more. When withdrawing from the medication, the side effects did not go away and my depression worsened. This was 9 years ago. I am now in the disability cycle where I am thrown on an off different medications to try and "cure" this mental illness that was caused by the Prozac. My life is ruined because of Prozac. Please go to ssri-side-effects for support about how to recover from this disabling toxic drug. | Prozac and all psychiatric drugs are overprescribed by careless and greedy doctors. The pharmaceutical companies only want money. They do not even know if these "mental illnesses" are caused by the chemical imbalances they describe. They also have no idea how their drugs work. They cause chemical imbalances, not cure them. | M | 26 | 8 months | 9/19/2006 | 1 | Bipolar/ Schizo-affective | Extreme anxiety, siucidal, extreme aggression, extremely bad sweating and shaking, vomiting and diarrhoea. | Absolutely the worst experience of my life, especially as it took 6 weeks to get over the symptons after stopping taking it! | F | 50 | 14 days | 9/14/2006 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | The first 7-8 days were rough, increased anxiety and depression, felt absolutely horrible. Days 9 and 10 were getting progressively better, although I was very lethargic. Today though my anxiety and depression is up again but not as horrible as before. I'm hoping this is the beginning of my road to recovery. | I Posted a 2-part comment here about two to three weeks ago, it's three comments down from this one. Just to touch base...I have moderate to severe depression and anxiety with obsessive negative thoughts which sometimes lead to borderline panic attacks. My depression started up back in January, just over a year after I was taken off Prozac, which worked wonders for me for 6 years prior. Within the past month and a half though, my depression has noticeably worsened. I've tried Lexapro then Paxil, both for a week and it seems they both just made me worse when I was taking them. I've been back on Prozac for 11 days now though. If anything there's maybe been a subtle change in my feelings, slightly less anxiety and depression, obsessive thoughts don't seem to be as invasive, my "good" days seem to be a tad brighter now, and my "bad" days (such as today) aren't as debilitating. I still do feel lethargic and indifferent regardless of how I feel though usually. Hopefully t | M | 20 | 11 days | 9/10/2006 | 5 | Bipolar II,anger,affair | trouble sleeping first 2 weeks, yawns,loss of orgasms,loss of appetite. | I lost weight due to loss of appetite, anger is gone, not depressed but not overly happy either. Kinda just there. I needed to get out of am affair, so the loss of sex drive helped with that. If you don't mind not having an orgasm, this drug is very good. Otherwise, try Wellbutrin. | F | 37 | 45 days | 9/8/2006 | 4 | OCD, Social Anxiety, Paranoia, PMS | About a week and a half into starting Prozac I suddenly felt jittery, irritable, twitchy, and my eyes felt strange, with slightly blurred vision. I increased the dosage to 40 mgs after those side effects disappeared, and as a result experienced extreme agitation, anger, and a very short fuse. | Prozac has done wonders for me- At about 11 years old was when I started getting irritable, compulsive, and low-level depressed. Then, at 13, the whole family noticed I was getting worse, with suicidal thoughts during PMS, extreme paranoia, and constantly feeling irrationally guilty. It was time to fix that- so I tried Prozac, starting on a dosage of 10 mgs. Just a few days later the effects were very slight, but already noticeable- I was in an overall better mood and worrying less. Then a little more than a week later, the side effects came, but they were bearable- by the time I had been on it for about 4-5 weeks, I had increased the dosage to 20 mgs with little to no side effects and I was feeling better than I had ever thought I could before I was on it. The side effects went away and I was feeling much less paranoid and a whole lot happier overall plus my PMS was barely noticeable. So to see if things could get even better, I requested to go up to 40 mgs. The side effects from tha | F | 15 | 2 years | 8/31/2006 | 4 | OCD, Social Anxiety, Paranoia, PMS | t were terrible, two weeks into the increased dosage I was getting worse, with added irritability, and a while later it was clear that it was not improving anything, so I went back down and rapidly got better again. I have been on 20 mgs. for the past two years, switching between it and Celexa periodically, because it can "time out" and tends to stop working every 1-6 months, and is very random with that- sometimes it will work for me for four months, and sometimes barely three weeks. So if you have a similar problem, you might want to have another SSRI from the same family as Prozac available for when it randomly decides to stop working. Other than that, I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a seretonin deficiency- but watch out if you're a dysthymic, the side effects could wreak havoc. | F | 15 | 2 years | 8/31/2006 | 3 | Migraine | Disturbed sleep,increased anxiety,rapid heartbeat | Tried this drug as a last resort after trying many migraine meds,my doc recommended anitdepressents but was slightly dubious because i wasnt depressed,would say i had 50% less migraines whilst on it,but the side effects werent worth it,have decided to try betablockers instead | M | 36 | 2 months | 8/31/2006 | 2 | Severe Depression | Weight gain (I actually fit into a bra lol), zombie-like state of mind | Kicked the depression to the curb, along with anything that made me happy. I was an emotionless pile of flesh. | F | 20 | 5 months | 8/31/2006 |