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 | After 10 years on Prozac my symptoms of depression reemerged. The dose was gradually increased but unfortunately produced side effects similar to depression. I recently tapered off after 12 years total and I feel much better. It was the right drug for me for a decade, but now has "pooped out". Side effects were marked loss of short-term memory function, fatigue, insomnia (waking too early), anxiety, and muscle twitches. | Very glad this drug was there for me when I needed it. Wish it would work forever. | F | 42 | 12 years | 8/29/2006 | 4 | Depression and Anxiety | Weight gain (+30lbs in three years)--weight gain didn't start until second year, Constant feelings of exhaustion no matter how much I slept, difficulty waking up in the mornings, numbness, inability to cry. | With all of the negative side effects I experienced, I would still recommend Prozac and believe that it has truly helped me with the depression and anxiety I was suffering with. | F | 28 | 3 years | 8/26/2006 | 5 | Depression | Short term side effects were insomnia and reduced libido. Compared to other drugs (Sinequan - sleepiness) and (Paxil - Acute panic attacks) and (Others - no help), this was bearable. | Depression runs in my family, I have had it all my life. Until I took Prozac, I had no quality of life, and was miserable. I quit taking Prozac once and promptly crashed and burned. It has helped me maintain my positive outlook thru two bouts of cancer. I am so glad I kept taking this med thru the initial side effects. They do go away. | F | 63 | 15 years | 8/19/2006 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | Barely any, slightly resless and hard to fall asleep at first | As a young child, i always had slight to moderate anxiety and depression, the anxiety was more profound than the depression when i was a kid. I may have been depressed also but it wasnt as profound because i wasnt really in touch with my feelings as i am today. My anxiety was usually centered around things the average kid would find slightly or not even stressful at all, such as school and homework, i was extremely claustrophobic and very fearful of being on elevators. I would really freak out whenever my family was out and didnt get home on time. I would assume the worst, maybe they got into a car accident and died? My parents thought i was more depressed than anxietic, it IS hard to tell with kids, because like i said kids arent very intouch with their feelings and emotions. So anyway, i was put on a couple different medications form when i was 8 til about 11, including Ritalin (i was assumed to have ADD also, but i think i was more or less just compulsive due to my anxiety) but Rita | M | 20 | 6 years | 8/18/2006 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | i went over the text limit, okay this is the 2nd part. i took ritalin for apparant ADD and gave me mood swings and depression. wellbutrin didnt do much, neither did st. johns wort. I was put on prozac at 12 yrs old and within a week or so most of my feelings of anxiety were greatly diminished and i had almost no feelings of depression. My fear of elevators went from 8 or 9 (1-10) to about a 2 or 3 at the most. I continued it for 6 more years til i was about 18 1/2 year old, with fantastic results. I decided to discontinue it though and i had no withdrawal symptoms. no depression or anxiety, until about 6 months ago, about a year after i stopped taking it. Since then my depression and anxiety has been taking over and ive tried lexapro and im currently on paxil for the past week, neither seem to work, they only seem to worsen it. I want to be on prozac again :( worked wonders for me and hope it will if i take it again. | M | 20 | 6 years | 8/18/2006 | 2 | depression | A tingly feeling in my head, usually felt right after waking up. | I have taken the drug for a month, with no real change in my mood. I'll try it for a little while longer before giving it up. | M | 41 | 30 days | 8/12/2006 | 5 | Bulimia | Initially - minor headaches, loss of appetite, fatigue. Currently I tingle/shiver a lot when air touches me. Sleepiness. I sleep from 10 pm to 8 am...which is a lot of sleep for me. | After one week, the binging and purging both stopped. I lost weight on prozac - about 8 lbs in one month. The sleepiness feels good, but the shiver tingling feels strange. | F | 24 | 1 years | 8/9/2006 | 5 | Bulimia | Initially - minor headaches, loss of appetite, fatigue. Currently I tingle/shiver a lot when air touches me. Sleepiness. I sleep from 10 pm to 8 am...which is a lot of sleep for me. | After one week, the binging and purging both stopped. I lost weight on prozac - about 8 lbs in one month. The sleepiness feels good, but the shiver tingling feels strange. | F | 24 | 1 months | 8/9/2006 | 3 | Depression | Stuttering | Prozac was something I had been on before, so taking it again was of no major concern to me. However, after several weeks of taking it, we discovered that it was causing me to stutter. A very frustrating side effect if you are depressed and trying to talk to your therapist about. | F | 38 | 2 weeks | 7/31/2006 | 1 | PTSD, GAD | extreme migraine headeaches | Worst drug out there. The side effects were horrible, and when I switched back to my old drug that is $3.00 a pill I was perfectly fine. Well worth the money, Lexapro 10mg, and it has zero side effects, couldn't ask for any better. | F | 27 | 5 days | 6/27/2006 | 4 | Depression, anxiety | Twitchy muscles, jiggly legs, compulsive yawning. At first I felt edgy and racy but that went away. I had to stop taking it because I developed severe pain and stiffness in one side of my jaw. It didn't affect my libido much, but it made it nearly impossible for me to orgasm--my clitoris just felt numb. | I really loved the effect Prozac had on my mental state. I have tried just about every SSRI and hated them all. Prozac didn't make me feel weird, and it helped me not overreact to things. I had less of a tendency to take things personally that I knew were not personal. Incidentally, it only took a week or so after quitting Prozac for me to get my sexual ability back, and my libido is better than it was before I started the Prozac. :) | F | 26 | 1 months | 6/26/2006 | 2 | depression | only 20 mg's; trying to see why its not working | F | 67 | | 6/26/2006 | 4 | depression/anxiety | Negative side effects for me included weight gain and significant decrease in libido. | Without question, helped my depression and anxiety. I take 30 mg. now and have very few severe episodes of clinical depression. I still cry sometimes, but don't feel the absolute despondency, fatigue and spaciness I used to have. Very few anxiety attacks and am generally sleeping better. | F | 44 | 8 years | 6/17/2006 | 5 | suicidal thoughts | none at all | Prozac has saved my life. I have gone off of it twice and both time ended up with a gun to my head. Thankgod I didn't pull the trigger! I will never go off of it again. Before I started on it I was alway mad and yelling, crying and just felt bad all the time. It took about a week to start making me feel better. Try it- you'll like it. PS. My husband just started taking it for depression and it has made a difference in him also-not always down about everything. | M | 52 | 5 years | 6/15/2006 | 1 | Depression, bulimia, OCD | Third time taking Prozac in my life, I was on it for three years, 20mg/day. Came off of it completely 3 months ago. For several months prior to coming off of it: weight gain; irritability to raging anger, spewing venom at friends and loved ones for little to no reason. Blood pressure went from routine normal to mid-range high and doctor couldn't find out why in tests and physicals. Headaches. Lethargy so bad that I could not even get up to go to work and eventually lost my job. Knew I had deadlines, love the work, absolutely could not even get out of bed, not due to depression but to lethargy and fatigue. By the time I was pulled off of it I was sleeping 16-18 hours a day and desperately willing to sleep more except needed to go to work or fix dinner, etc. No desire to see people most of the time. Instead of taking pride in a clean house, barely did minimal requirements. Had desires at times to hit people due to anger, though I never hit anyone. Stomach problems that became so severe, | 3 months later, hair is growing back on my eyebrows and eyelashes. As of a follow up 2 days ago, my BP is normal, and I've never taken meds to correct the BP. I'm off Protonix and all other stomach meds. I sleep normal hours. Looking for work. Sense of humor has returned. If I get angry, it's appropriately handled by me and it's for a legitimate reason. Been doing spring cleaning on the house, a little each day. No OCD. No stomach pain or bloating. Life has problems for everybody i.e., I'm not Pollyanna, but I can do anything if I put my mind to it. That's a huge plus for me. Started walking again outdoors and taking more interest in my health. It's like I woke up after being asleep for several years. | F | 46 | 3 years | 6/1/2006 | 1 | umm, i think depression... | umm. at the time i was on 7 meds, when i got put on prozac i noticed my face breakin out | i wouldnt recciment any one take it if they want to have a acnefied face | F | 15 | 4 months | 5/30/2006 | 5 | chronic depression, bulimia nervosa | Almost complete loss of libido. Nausea, particularly in vehicles (ie. car sickness). Vivid dreams. | It has made my life liveable again. I dont think it has reduced the bulimic episodes yet (research says it can), i may have to try a higher dose to get this effect. i wish i was prescribed it before i tried every other AD with no positive effects. | F | 22 | 6 months | 5/29/2006 | 4 | borderline personality disorder | total loss of sex drive(boo)I have been on many different meds and I think Prozac has been the best...at first I started losing weight but now I feel like I may be gaining it....I feel so much better and like my old self-no wonder this med has been around so long...good luck to anyone that tries it..... | F | 26 | 1 years | 5/29/2006 | 5 | pmt/depression | extreme tiredness to begin with - like early pregancy - but it passed in a week. only problem i have is if i drink alcohol (which i enjoy most evenings i'm afraid) then i have a bad tummy the morning after. | i feel more like the old me again...thank god. i get happy about the little things in life like i used to. still have bad days but not as frequent or severe. wish i'd had the courage to take it yrs ago. i don't want to run away anymore. | F | 37 | 10 weeks | 5/22/2006 | 3 | High anxiety and panic attacks | increased feelings of panic, wobbly jittery legs, feelings of impending doom, numbness to hands, feet and face, tearful. | Been on it for approx 5 weeks now and they still haven't kicked in completely although I do sense a slight improvement. | F | 46 | 5 weeks | 5/15/2006 |