increased fluoxetine dose

[Aaronc217]

ok i was on 20mg fluoxetine for years and it served me well. One day i had an anxiety fit and it spiraled and just kind of brought it back. My doc said I've probably just built up a bit of a tolerance at this point and an increase should do well. Its been 2 weeks now and I'm still having anxiety if not more and some other side effects.

Is it normal for it to take a long time for an increased dose to take effect or should it be doing something by now. I found the timetable for fluoxetine on here but i didn't know if that was for initial start up or if that includes increasing dosage.

Just wondering if i should stick it out or work on moving on to something else

thanks

[MyNameIsTerry]

Well that med has such a long half life means it takes just over a month for it to even balance to the new dose in your blood plasma.

So 2 weeks will mean getting more than normal but it won't be properly stable so I would think waiting to the 4-6 weeks we often say on here is a good way to judge it.

[georgewing]

Stay more with it dont give up so fast on it .If i was in your place i would wait at least 1 month

[Pythonian]

I switched to fluoxetine from Lexapro when that faded out after 10 years. I started at 20, then 40, before going to 60 for the desired effect. Each increase was like starting over for me. Stick with it. Takes awhile to become effective but worth the wait. Hang in there, best wishes.