I was just wondering if anyone has been prescibed anything to help them sleep during the first few weeks on prozac? I haven't been to bed for a week, instead i lie on the sofa watching DVDs all night until I hopefully drop off for a bit.
My husband understands that this is necessary for me to get any sleep at all, as I feel sick when I get into bed and think about sleeping.
My main side effect to the prozac so far has been really bad anxiety in the morning as I wake really early about 4.30am, usually with a start. My heart immediatel starts racing and I begin to panic. It's like I'm desperate for the day to begin so I can get it over with. I end up taking a diazepam to calm me down which I don't want to do.
I just wondered if I took something to help me sleep it might reduce the early morning waking and so reducing these horrible symptoms in the morning.
I have an appointment with my GP on Wednesday so I might ask. I'm really cross with her as I asked her if the drug would make me feel worse before it made me better and she said definitely not it would just take some time to work. I can't believe she has no experience of other people's anxiety going sky high when they start taking this.