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Hi I hope you all had a good Christmas, or as good as it could be because I know this time of year is particularly hard if you're depressed and/or anxious.
I wondered if anyone had experience with the liquid form of Fluoxetine? After trying many anti depressants I've decided to try this.
I was on 20mg Prozac years ago for anxiety but I had to stop taking because of awful dizziness and some weight loss, but it was the dizziness that I couldn't cope with and since then I've avoided this med but now I've decided to bite the bullet and try it again. My gp (a different one) agreed to let me try 10mgs, but unfortunately the pharmacist couldn't get those but got the liquid form and I have to take 2.5mls for 14 days, then increase to 5mls, and I'm really scared to try it, so I wondered if anyone had experience with, a, the liquid form and b, the 2.5ml dose.
Any advice will be gratefully received, and thank you for reading.
Take care,
Lynn
Hi. I have had the liquid form before. It's ok, minty and sweet. In the end the sweetness did me in, I can't have too much sugary food as it causes me problems, but as a means to an end to get the lower dose then it's worth a try.
Could you take one every other day (capsule that is) .... the drug has a long half-life (stays in your system a long time) and I have done that when I am coming off it.
You've been unlucky with side effects. I don't really get any. I was paranoid before going on it... Convinced it would make me I'll but it didn't, it gave me more energy and made me more even in terms of emotions.
Hope this helps.
Hi Tessar, thanks very much for your reply.
I've had my bottle of Fluoxetine since Christmas Eve but not taken any yet, I've opened it and smelt it and it smells like indigestion stuff! I hope it's not too minty, I've read that it is very sweet not keen on sweet things but I'll try it and if I can't get on with it then I'll ask my doctor about the capsule every other day.
That's exactly how I feel about this stuff, paranoid. I'm considering getting a medicine syringe so I can go even lower than the 2.5mls.
I've had Prozac twice, the first time was due to post natal depression, and after about a week I felt great! The second was for anxiety and that's when the dizziness happened and to be honest I'm not completely sure it was due to that, but I'm sure you know how it goes, any little thing happens whilst on this type of med, the med must be the cause!
Thanks agin for your reply and take care,
Lynn
Hey Lynn, let me know how it goes..... And yeah, do try not to focus on the meds. I know it's soooooo hard but you want to try & get on with it & try to forget you're taking it, hmmmnnnnnn, like I was like that first time round? I don't think sooo!!! Fingers crossed 4u
Well, I went to the chemist and got my medicine syringe and I took my first dose at about 6 last night.
I only took 1.5mls mainly because of the time as I've read it can be stimulating and sleep can be difficult. I had prepared myself for the sweet, minty taste BUT it was horrible!! Very bitter like if you get a tablet stuck in your mouth! No sweetness just very slightly minty. Not sure I'd be able to take 5mls though, we'll see.
As fas as side effects go, well I'm not sure, I felt slightly queasy and my head felt woozy, but other than that, nothing. To be honest I think I made those up myself because i took such a tiny amount. I'm going to stick with the 1.5ml for a couple of days, then go up to 2.
Sleep was okay I struggled a bit but then I sometimes do.
I'm still very worried about taking this, hopefully it'll be alright.
Lynn.
i used to take the full dose; i think i must have had it before cleaning my teeth but i suppose if you had it just after, the taste probably wouldnt be so bad as the toothpaste would mask it? re: side-effects, i reckon its too early for those.... i thought with fluoxetine it would take a while to build up. but of course since i havent had side-effects (lucky me) i am not an expert. in my case the fear was a million times worse than the actual event of taking it. these days it doesnt have any side effects. best of luck still.... and keep at it. you never know it might just work & then you'll feel lots better.....
You're probably right as far as side effects go. Why is it so easy to convince yourself you feel bad? I wish it was just as easy to convince yourself you feel good!
I've read somewhere you can mix the Fluoxetine with cranberry juice, if I stick with the liquid I might do that because if the side effects don't get me, the taste surely will!
Take care,
Lynn.
yeah, its a very distinctive taste, sticks around on the back of the tongue as I recall. I switched to capsules in the end as I didn't like the residual taste the liquid left. I am not quite sure how the flavour would mix with cranberry juice but then I don't like that so for me it would be a nightmare!!! Oh well, in the end you just have to go for it I suppose. Fingers crossed for you..... :-)
Well, I've got myself up to 2mls!
And I'm now taking at night because of the sicky feeling, I thought if I could sleep through it that would be better for me, and so far it is, although I've only took it late twice. Sleep is not too bad at the moment and I'm glad about that.
Yesterday I felt very low and was thinking about how I'm going to go on feeling this way, but today I feel a bit better, so maybe I've turned a corner, or maybe it's too soon for that I don't know but whatever it is is okay with me!
Tonight I'm going to have to go the whole 2.5mls because I've broken my syringe! So not looking forward to that, and I've decided to not dilute it with cranberry juice, I just pop a sweet as soon as I've taken it and although it doesn't take the taste away completely, it masks it a it.
Take care,
Lynn
Oh no, willow, I can't believe u broke your syringe! How r u getting on now?
I know lol, well I didn't actually break it, as I pulled the plunger out to wash the thing, the little black bit got stuck in the barrel about half way down so I can't reach it it pull it out lol.
As I said I'm up to 2.5mls now and if I'm being honest I feel horrible. I'm taking it for depression and I feel more depressed lately than before, did you feel worse at all? Maybe my dose needs to be increased, or maybe I'm not used to it yet.
I'll keep going though, unless things get a lot worse of course.
Feeling very fed up with everything at the moment but trying to think positive.
Take care.
Lynn.
That's the sort of unfortunate thing that happens to me, willow!!!!
It can take time for the meds to work.... U could perhaps increase it slowly. I have 20mg daily. Not sure how that compares to the liquid as it was so long ago that I took it.
I hope u feel better soon. Are you getting any other help with your depression at all?
I think 2.5mls is equal to a 10mg tablet/capsual but I could be wrong.
I have an appointment with my dr next week so I'll probably stick with the 2.5ml and see what he says. It's just that I hate these mood swing type things, one minute I fell okayish, the next it's like I'm in blackness and very down.
Yes, I'm having counselling too, in fact it's my first appointment this afternoon since the Christmas and New Year break, so maybe that's had an effect on how I feel I don't know.
Hope everything is going okay with you.
Lynn.
hey Lynn. I hope your counselling went ok?
you are right about waiting til your appointment with yr dr next week before doing anything with your meds.
I dont know for sue but maybe your mood swing type things are just part of depression generally? I do get like that myself. sometimes its just down to something that happens to me generally. so i'll be having a good day then wham. i'm down again. but its worth keeping on plugging away because even on the bad days or when having a downer during a good day, you can still bring yourself back up.
you keep at it.
oh I often find the day after my counselling I do feel very emotional. that happened to me this week. but then the day after that usually I managed to feel a bit better. it does vary though. bye for now. x
Hi Tessar my counselling went okay thanks but I find it wears me out! To sit and talk about myself is hard work! Yes, I find it emotional too although I didn't at first I suppose the deeper you get into yourself the more emotional it gets? I think it's helping though wasn't so sure at first, but I'm feeling more confident about talking to her and I think that's why it's helping.
I'm still taking the Fluoxetine, still at 2.5mls and I think it's helping but then I get very down so then I'm back to square one and start thinking it's not! I have a doctors appointment tomorrow, I was going to cancel because although I'm taking the med for depression, I do have anxiety too and that seems to be worse and my son is back at uni so I'll have to go on my own, which I'm dreading, but I will go and if I have a wobble along the way, well, I'll wobble! So maybe he'll up my dose which means it's back to the syringe and baby steps (I hate all this)
Anyway, onwards and upwards!
Take care.
Lynn.
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