PROZAC Reviews (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 3.2 (949 Ratings)

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PROZAC  (FLUOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Fluoxetine is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, a certain eating disorder (bulimia), and a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. It may also reduce the urge to perform repeated tasks (compulsions such as hand-washing, counting, and checking) that interfere with daily living. Fluoxetine may lessen premenstrual symptoms such as irritability, increased appetite, and depression. It may decrease binging and purging behaviors in bulimia.   FDA Approval Date: 2000-07-06 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  Chronic monopolar depression For the first six months severe headache, dry mouth and heartburn. thereafter just heartbun for about an hour after taking pills. Before prozac i was very suicidal with homicidal fantasies. now i no longer want to kill anyone, myself included. F 35 8 years
80Mg
7/24/2015
 2  anxiety/depression Not a lot of side effects. Fluoxetine made wonders for my anxiety and depression. 3 months after stopping taking it, my anxiety and depression came back with a vengeance, with new symptoms, with ocd.... thinking about taking it again.... Now I am not sure if I can live without it... it's like I am dependant... I think I should have done teraphy instead. F 21 7 months
20 mg 1X day
7/24/2015
 5  I didn't know I had depression Side effects sweating a lot loss weight I didn't know I had depression till me n my daughter had problems I think I had depression for a lot time n didn't even know it till it was to late so I went to see a doctor she give me flouxtine so I took it the first day I took it I was like WOW u could feel a weird feeling I been on it for 7 months now n I feel like amazing I feel like a new person I'm more loveable so much happier I never want to go back to the me my family tells me its like I'm a new person they don't know its a lifesaver every person is different may not work for everyone but for me I love it . If it wasnt for flouxtine who's knows if I would of been here or not sad but true it charge my personally I'm a better person then before thanks flouxtine F 36 1 days
20mg
7/23/2015
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 1  depression It erased my personality. I became a walking zombie. M 27 11 months
20 1X day
7/20/2015
 2  Bulimia It worked for my bulimia, but after 2 years I wanted to be off it because side effects were bothering. After stopping I got withdrawal, that was hell. Now I am 6 months clean and withdrawal is starting to ease. Be careful with withdrawal from prozac, I can only describe it as hell. F 26 2 years
20 mg 1X day
7/19/2015
 5  Anxiety/Depression None really. Maybe dry mouth, but just for the first few weeks of taking it. Prozac is amazing! I feel so much better. I'm no longer depressed and I rarely get panic attacks. I'm finally able to sleep again. Being on Prozac has made me a much happier person. It saved my life :) F 17 4 months
20MG 1X day
7/18/2015
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 1  anxiety This drug ruined my life. This drug ruined my life. It caused me persistent loss of libido. M 24 9 months
20 mg 1X day
7/18/2015
 1  anxiety Change of personality to worse. Fluoxetine/prozac changed my personality to worse, I used to be a anxious, overthinking, worried guy. Now I don't care about anything, I am irritable and agressive with everyone and I don't like it at all. I miss myself so much that I am suicidal. Stay away from this and other psycho drugs unless your problem is REALLY REALLY bad. M 18 6 months
20 1X day
7/15/2015
 1  Anxiety At first it helped with anxiety. Then I decided to come off because I just took it to help me through a bad period. 2 months after coming off, HOLY MOLY, worst anxiety of my life, much worse than before prozac. Now I am very scared because i don't want to go back on it, but this anxiety is so bad. Also I was never hungry and I didn't have sex drive while on prozac. Overall, a bad experience. M 20 4 months
20 1X day
7/11/2015
 1  Anxiety Agressiveness, anger, lack of self control. I feel like this medicine has changed myself to a worse person. It helped with anxiety but the side effects greatly overweight the benefits. M 18 4 months
20 1X day
6/29/2015
 1  Anxiety In just 4 months I completely lost myself. I went from a fearful, worried guy, to an agressive, irritable one. THIS DRUG CHANGES YOUR PERSONALITY COMPLETELY. I feel betrayed by my doctor who told me it was completely safe and with no serious side effects. The people that promote this drug have a special place in hell for them. It sucks to be so irritable that you sometimes don't stand being around people. I was not like this before taking this shit. M 19 4 months
20 mg 1X day
6/29/2015
 2  Anxiety/hypochondria/mild depressio This drug numed my emotions a lot, the good ones and the bad ones, it also decreased my libido. The side effects were not worth it. My recommendation is to not take this drug unless desperate. Fluoxetine is a powerful drug VERY overprescribed and in most cases therapy should be the answer instead of fluoxetine. In my case I feel that I should have accepted my anxiety as a part of myself, istead of thinking there was something wrong with me and that I needed to be medicated. I am currently stopping it and hoping my emotions to come back. It numbed all emotions, also the anxious ones, that's how it works. M 21 7 months
20 mg 1X day
6/20/2015
 1  Anxiety Emotional blunting. I took it for anxiety and it completely blunted my emotions. It induced me apathy. It also killed my libido. I prefer the anxiety rather than this. M 22 4 months
20 mg 1X day
6/20/2015
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 2  Depression/Anxiety Prozac helped a lot with my anxiety and depression in the beginning. Everything was more manageable. However as time went on this effect did not last. Over the course of the year I have gained 30-40 lbs going from 190 to 230 despite being even more active than I was prior to taking the medication. I am 6ft tall by the way. My libido also dropped to nonexistence. M 21 1 years
10 mg
6/15/2015
 3  Anciety Weird dreams, sometimes scary, sometimes nice. Dry mount for 2 weeks, increased anxiety for 4-5 days. Upset stomach and nausea off and on. Pooping more frequeny recently. Cant cum but still get hard. Lazy a lot. Lost my appetite completely for 2 weeks then it came back but not 100% So far i have not had a panic attack or anythingg anxiety related in 3 weeks but the side effects suuuuck. Just hoping they go away in time. M 17 5 weeks
20mg
6/6/2015
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 3  anxiety /panic attacks Week one-Little anxious.Week two less anxious but kinda in a fog.Week three-loss of appetite,little more anxiety and sleep alot I definitely sleep a lot more and have no energy at all.hopefully it passes and things get better M 44 3 weeks
10mg
5/6/2015
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 1  Depression/Anxiety Extreme restlessness and agitation Insomnia Had been on Prozac previously and well tolerated, decided to come off so that I could grieve properly for my mother. During the course of a year of being med free, steady spiral back down to severe depression, anxiety and obsessive thinking. Restarted Prozac at 20 MG. Bad idea. I have never experienced that level of restlessness and agitation in my life. Could not sit or lie in one place for more than five minutes, Felt like I was constantly under threat Could not sleep for days and days or find any mental peace whatsoever. I know all about initial side effects, but this was a totally different level. Began to feel suicidal after about two weeks. Doctor told me to go to ER for Psych evaluation. Things have never gotten that bad before. Psych doctor switched me to Effexor XR. After a few days began to feel better than I can ever remember feeling since about the age of 13. It's weird that I tolerated Prozac before, but not this time. Maybe because I started med free at 20 mg? M 37 14 days
20 MG 1X day
5/6/2015
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 4  depression/ocd/anxiety For the first few weeks I become more agitated, loss of appetite and stomach disturbances. I have discontinued several times and had similar side effects. Loss of Libido, dry mouth, After a decade, I have not figured out if there are any long term... although I do feel I become depressive with out it. I seem to have built up a tolerance over the years. In my 20"s, I took 10mg....then 20 mg, then 40 mg. Since the birth of my 3rd child I now take 80mg. I had pretty bad postpartum depression. I am no longer crying everyday or think im totally incompetent, but unlike OTHERS, I certainly am NOT EMOTIONLESS. I still cry during sad movies and funerals, I still get upset over a dirty house, I still get anxiety (as always)....and I still laugh..I no longer feel that the world will end over a bad comment I made or worry about offending someone. I feel ok, I still have my ups and downs, and I have terrible PMS....but that's my experience F 42 15 years
80 mg 1X day
4/30/2015
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 2  Anxiety/Panic Disorder Dizziness, Zombieness, dry mouth (thirsty), constipation, stomachache, brighter vision (contrast of colors seem brighter for some odd reason), EXTREME NAUSEA, diarrhea First I was at 20mg then switched to 10mg due to side affects, and now I just left a voicemail to my doc's office that I want to be off on this med. I don't think my anxiety is that severe compared to other people (I've only had 3 episodes of panic attacks) think I can just do yoga and mediation and take things slow. Trying to wean off of it slowly so that I don't get the withdrawl symptoms. F 29 7 days
10mg 1X day
4/23/2015
 3  anxiety Fuzzy head, head ach, insomnia. Feel like normal. Except I've now been wondering about weird ways I could die. Not scared just, how bad would this hurt. I've never thought about this before. I think it'll get better. I don't wanna kill myself just I wonder about how much it would hurt. M 21 5 days
10mg
4/5/2015
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