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 | Depression and anxiety | Reduced sex drive, poor attention span, severe night sweats | I must say I haven't really noticed any difference in my mood since taking prozac at all, although my partner feels there has been a noticable improvement. I still suffer from severe depression, and in particular if I have been taking alcohol (which I know I shouldn't do). Only the last month or so I have started to get the most appalling night sweats that soak the bed, very distressing. I am sleeping, but very bad quality sleep and am putting my body under a lot of stress, waking up with aching body and have put my neck and back out a number of times. | M | 37 | 8 months | 12/20/2005 | 2 | antidepressant | made me feel unnaturally high | it's not the miracle drug the media made it out to be | F | 15 | 4 months | 12/18/2005 | 2 | GAD | Nausea, occ. vomiting,dizziness,increased reflux,sleepy,loss of interest in hobbies, sex drive drove off, abdominal discomfort, hot flashes, neck stiffness, difficulty in swallowing, vivid dreams and changes in liver enzymes | I have been on Prozac for 2 years and my md feels that my symtoms are part of the GAD, however I didn't have these symptoms before Prozac. Will request a med change now that I found so many others with similair side effects | M | 39 | 2 years | 12/10/2005 | 5 | OCD/stress | Delayed sexual functions, increased energy, sometimes I feel like I'm sailing past Saturn with that spaced out feeling. | Started out taking 20mg/day, helped somewhat, after talking to my doctor, I went to 40mg/day after 5 weeks. Very noticeable difference, I'm going to consider 60mg/day in Feb. I was sued in court over a road rage incident as I've never handled stress well, although driving with the morons in Pennsylvania who don't know what the left lane is for doesn't help much either. I can now handle stress very well compared to before I started taking Prozac, and I enjoy being around my two stepsons more also. Prozac, obviously, is not for everyone, judging from the comments here & elsewhere. Prozac has helped me tremendously & I highly recommend for others to at least give it a chance as it may be the happy pill you're looking for. | M | 39 | 7 weeks | 12/9/2005 | 1 | depression, bulimia | total loss of libido, sometimes suicidal, loss of appetite, inability to care about anything, mood swings | F | 25 | 8 months | 12/8/2005 | 3 | Bulimia, depression | Initially, euphoric. I thought all my problems had finally been solved. Stopped having the urge to binge and purge, and everything in my life fell into place. Only side effects at this point were: trembling, heartburn, twitching while sleeping, lack of sexual interest. All of which I was willing to trade off for euphoria and everything else going so well. | After about 4 months, I began to have urges to binge and purge, so increased the medication from 40 mg. to 45 mg. Immediately, I began sleeping only five hours a night (even with the sleeping pill Klonopin, which had always given me a solid eight hours of sleep before). Began napping many times during the day, and having little motivation. As others have mentioned, I was no longer stressing about the little things, but I also wasn't concerned about the things I should have or want to be concerned about, i.e., work, personal relationships. | F | 43 | 7 months | 11/25/2005 | 1 | major depression | initial euphoria, extreme nervousness, large appetite increase, diareah | the first day i took it my mood boosted so much that i felt practically manic and had an insane amount of energy, but then i just started feeling extremely nervous and shaky. i was so tense i could hardly talk to anyone and i felt like i was on another planet from the rest of the world. i spaced out and couldn't concentrate. i ate everything i could get my hands on and never felt full. take at your own risk, it's different for everybody. | F | 20 | 2 weeks | 11/16/2005 | 1 | depression & anxiety | PERMANENT & COMPLETE LOSS OF LIBIDO upon taking 20mg. Prozac when I was 27 for 7 months. That was more than 6 YEARS ago. Orgasms are often at around 5% of former intensity - in fact I can barely feel them most of the time. Skin and genital sensitivity is also reduced. I had a VERY high sex drive before, all the time. ALSO I AM NOT MYSELF. I cannot feel my emotions most of the time, I am just numb and smells from the past do not flood me with memories and I can't listen to music in the same way. I don't feel it like I used to | While I was on Prozac I was happy and productive and it helped my depression but at what cost? I've steadily lost so much in the six years since I took prozac and discovered the permanent side effects it left me with. Before that I may have been depressed (in a manic-depressive kind of a way) - but my life was actually full of potential and even though things felt very raw I was at least very much alive and real. if you have experienced long-lasting sexual side effects like me there is a yahoo group (mentioned by others) called ssrisex which was created to address this issue. | F | 34 | 7 months | 11/11/2005 | 2 | Depression, personality disorder | Headache, fatigue, sleepiness, numbing of emotions, more ignorant about things/matters | I have become a zombie. Although I didn't kill myself, I don't really 'live' a life; it makes me sleep bigtime! Everything doesnt matter anymore, I am living for dying. I don't see this as an improvement in my life seriously. I don't even think like a human anymore. It screwed my life up. | M | 20 | 2 months | 11/5/2005 | 4 | depression/seasonal affective disor | nausea/vomiting first week. sometimes difficulty feeling emotions on a deeper level. After I stopped taking it regularly I tried to take it the following fall for seasonal affective disorder... got insomnia. | I took this from age 22-23 for depression. It worked really well and allowed me to function again. During this time I felt happy and confident enough to start my first real mature relationship. I did not have any sexual side effects. When I weaned myself off I did not get depressed again, but I felt stable enough to begin talk therapy. My doctor said I probably also have seasonal affective disorder. I had some leftover Prozac so I started it prophylactically in the late fall but I got insomnia and had to stop taking it. | F | 26 | 1.5 years | 10/21/2005 | 1 | depression | lost of sensation in genitals. no sex drive. for 3 years. | please somebody if you have a cure for libido issues please email [email protected] much appreciated... prozac stripped away my sex drive/sexuality. | M | 25 | 3 months | 10/13/2005 | 1 | teenage phase/lack of motivation | Within 3-4 days i became totally impotent even though i was just gone 18 yrs old and never had problems with erections before.After i stopped taking prozac my erectile functioning didnt return and still hasnt over 9 years later. | While on prozac i also was drowsy and forgetful and lost weight.This pill did nothing for my mood and there was no real need to have been prescribed it to begin with. | M | 27 | 5 months | 10/8/2005 | 1 | Dysthymia | Frequent nightmares with different content but always involving gradual loss of mobility and of sight. Complete loss of libido. No sexual desire along with NUMB genitals. I tolerated these side effects for three years. But my SEXUAL FUNCTIONING NEVER RETURNED AND IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE I STOPPED TAKING PROZAC! I had a robust libido prior to prozac. Unbelievable. There is now a yahoo group [email protected] for folks who have not regained sexual functioning after SSRI's. Please join if you experienced this persistent side effect. We plan to publish survey results. | At first ifted my mood considerably but then blunted my affect. | F | 49 | 3 years | 10/7/2005 | 4 | suicidal depression | There is no question that this drug saved my life and I am grateful for it. But it certainly doesn't enhance one's sex life, as so many others have mentioned. Still, I suppose that a life with diminished sexual pleasure is better than no life at all. I agree with the person who compared the necessity for prozac for someone with the kind of biochemical imbalance that leads to the kind of suicidal depression prozac alleviates with the necessity for insulin for someone with type I diabetes. | F | 65 | 21 years | 10/2/2005 | 4 | panic attacks | I do not worry anymore. its good and bad in my case lost business clients.ANd I do not give a damn about it.But no more panic attacks. | I tried to stop it once It was worse , SO I started back. | M | 43 | 7 years | 9/19/2005 | 1 | "they" said depression | What can I say, this would be a good drug to torture people like Osama Bin Ladin with. Nasty nasty drug. Ruined me in so many ways I dont have the space to spell it all out. Physical, sexual, mental, mood - Prozac RUINED it all. Bastard of a drug. And then I quit. Wow, neuro problems in legs, still couldnt ejaculate, mood swings up the ying yang, eyesight was completely haywire and a MESS for 6 months after quitting. So one damn year of torture for me. Still had burning/tingling/weakness in legs/feet for 2 years after quitting. | Give this to Osama and Saddam. Let them deal with the 'side effects'. This is not fit for human consumption. I can't imagine giving this crap (poison) to kids. Can't imagine it. | M | 45 | 6 months | 9/18/2005 | 4 | OCD | at first i had some really bizarre dreams, but they were more entertaining than anything; sleepiness during the day, but not as bad as with other SSRIs | the prozac really helped my OCD symptoms, even at just 20mg a day, it just made me really tired during the day; i'm now on effexor xr which doesn't really make me tired (but it doesn't seem to be doing much yet for the OCD... we'll see) | F | 21 | 3 months | 9/16/2005 | 2 | mild anxiety & depression, stress | upset & crying; unexplainable irritability--I hated the world | was taking 5mg, then went up to 10mg--that's when the bad side effects started. at lowest dose it seemed to help with concentration | F | 26 | 9 days | 9/12/2005 | 1 | Depression | Increase in suicidal thoughts and behavior, insomnia, shivers, loss of appetite, mania and stomach cramps. | I've only been on Prozac for two weeks and it's caused me a lot of grief. My self-destructive behavior has gotten worse (it was severe to begin with), and just tonight I came very close to killing myself in a bout of mania. I think the side effects of this drug were worsened by the fact that I'm anorexic, and have the BMI of a child. | F | 18 | 14 days | 9/8/2005 | 3 | anger, sleepiness | increased energy, felt happy, reduced angry outbursts, reduced sleep to 6-8 hours | Started talking to other people, stopped telling myself I was ugly and worthless, felt so happy, but....could no longer concentrate, tell funny jokes, do math in my head, set goals, and stopped asking my kids to help around the house | F | 41 | 180 days | 8/31/2005 |