Junot
13-02-13, 19:30
Hi everyone!
I found this forum while searching for information on fluoxetine side effects. As a matter of fact I've been feeling nauseated since I started the medication and I suspected it could be from it - which seems to be the case.
I suffer from panic attacks and anxiety for six years now. Everything started before a college exam while I was washing my teeth in the morning getting ready to leave for class. It was a really frightening experience especially because at the time I had no idea of what a panic attack was like nor it even occured to me that it could be it - I thought I was going to die from a sudden cardiac problem or so.
After that I suffered more full blown panic attacks and I even got to the hospital in emergency because I always feel so bad physically that I can only think of that I am going to colapse soon so I must rush to the emergency room.
Right now I am feeling like I am panicking: shortness of breath, bloated abdomen and willingness to evacuate, a sense of tightening in the chest, dizziness and vertigo, accelerated breath (hyperventilation), etc. It's weird, I was cleaning up my house, I get tired easily (I am overweight due to medications now) and suddenly I started feeling this. It happens a lot. But the thing that strikes me is that I have my health checked (including the heart) and nothing organical comes up as a possible cause. Sometimes I also experience the terrible "pounding heart" symptom, especially when a full blown panic attack comes up. Can any of you relate to these symptoms? I'm curious whether people feel this bloated abdomen/evacuate urge I so often get - this usually gets me even more anxious and the anxiety seems to escalate due to that.
Now, last thursday I went to my doctor and he changed my medication after I told him that I have been feeling a little bit depressed lately, so he changed my regimen of fluvoxamine 100mg 3x a day to fluoxetine 20mg 1x a day plus amisulpride 50mg 1x a day, which I am supposed to increase to fluoxetine 20mg 3x a day plus amisulpride 50mg 2x a day. At the peak I am supposed to take one capsule of fluoxetine plus one ampoule of amisulpride at breakfast and two capsules of fluoxetine and one ampoule of amisulpride at lunch. I've been wondering: isn't two capsules of fluoxetine taken at once a little bit two much of it?! What do you guys make out of this? Have any of you ever made 60mg/fluoxetine per day? Is it safe?
So, in a nutshell, this is my awful situation right now. It seems that I will never get rid of these terrible symptoms that stalk me for 6 years now, 7 in July this year.
I hope to get to know the forum better and eventually keep on sharing my experiences with you.
Best regards.
I found this forum while searching for information on fluoxetine side effects. As a matter of fact I've been feeling nauseated since I started the medication and I suspected it could be from it - which seems to be the case.
I suffer from panic attacks and anxiety for six years now. Everything started before a college exam while I was washing my teeth in the morning getting ready to leave for class. It was a really frightening experience especially because at the time I had no idea of what a panic attack was like nor it even occured to me that it could be it - I thought I was going to die from a sudden cardiac problem or so.
After that I suffered more full blown panic attacks and I even got to the hospital in emergency because I always feel so bad physically that I can only think of that I am going to colapse soon so I must rush to the emergency room.
Right now I am feeling like I am panicking: shortness of breath, bloated abdomen and willingness to evacuate, a sense of tightening in the chest, dizziness and vertigo, accelerated breath (hyperventilation), etc. It's weird, I was cleaning up my house, I get tired easily (I am overweight due to medications now) and suddenly I started feeling this. It happens a lot. But the thing that strikes me is that I have my health checked (including the heart) and nothing organical comes up as a possible cause. Sometimes I also experience the terrible "pounding heart" symptom, especially when a full blown panic attack comes up. Can any of you relate to these symptoms? I'm curious whether people feel this bloated abdomen/evacuate urge I so often get - this usually gets me even more anxious and the anxiety seems to escalate due to that.
Now, last thursday I went to my doctor and he changed my medication after I told him that I have been feeling a little bit depressed lately, so he changed my regimen of fluvoxamine 100mg 3x a day to fluoxetine 20mg 1x a day plus amisulpride 50mg 1x a day, which I am supposed to increase to fluoxetine 20mg 3x a day plus amisulpride 50mg 2x a day. At the peak I am supposed to take one capsule of fluoxetine plus one ampoule of amisulpride at breakfast and two capsules of fluoxetine and one ampoule of amisulpride at lunch. I've been wondering: isn't two capsules of fluoxetine taken at once a little bit two much of it?! What do you guys make out of this? Have any of you ever made 60mg/fluoxetine per day? Is it safe?
So, in a nutshell, this is my awful situation right now. It seems that I will never get rid of these terrible symptoms that stalk me for 6 years now, 7 in July this year.
I hope to get to know the forum better and eventually keep on sharing my experiences with you.
Best regards.