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yuujin
31-07-17, 01:57
So I already posted this in the symptons forum but I just found out that there's a forum dedicated to fluoxetine... so I thought this would be better suited here actually. Sorry if this is a duplicated post and if I need to delete the other one, I'm not sure, I just signed up here...

so anyway

Starting around June 19th, I started having stomach problems after a couple weeks of eating nothing but microwaved food and garbage. My symptoms began with no appetite, indigestion, felt bloated all the time, nauseous, after I eat I would feel super tired and light headed. I even had an episode where I woke up in the middle of the night dry heaving, it was an awful feeling.

Went to the doctor, and she diagnosed me with indigestion, and that not eating well while not exercising at all was the culprit. I was in a hurry to get better, and I started taking walks every day. Mornings were the worst, afternoons were alright.

Weeks went by and I ended up going back to the doctors literally 5 times I felt really, really bad. I was worried that I had something bacterial like H Pylori so I went and got a blood and stool test. My blood was perfectly fine except for a lack of vitamin D (from not being outside enough, which has now changed). My stool was also fine. So nothings wrong with me...?

At the start of the week I also started taking fluoxetine. At the time, I reported that I felt no side effects because I was feeling really bad in general already, so I honestly couldn't tell if there were side effects.

I also started taking pepcid AC, to help my acid feeling which it actually did help.

So fast forward to today, July 30th, and here's where I am. I used to have problems with a lump and tightness feeling in the back of my throat. That ended up going away after around 2 weeks. I still feel tight throat sometimes, but it's not as bad. I'm not feeling AS bad as a month ago, but I still feel pretty terrible.

I stopped taking fluoxetine because we decided that I'm having more of a negative reaction to it rather than a positive.

My symptons right now are: low appetite, bloated feeling after I eat kinda like my stomach and intestines are a thinly stretched balloon, car sickness-like feeling, having to poop a lot, and when I wake up I have a huge urge of needing to poop.

After researching and stuff, my mother and I both think that this could be side effects of the fluoxetine.

I was on fluoxetine for about 4 1/2 weeks. I started out taking 10mg once every other day, then once every day, to 20mg a day (for 3 days, and those 3 days I felt my symptons heighten, which is why we think it's due to fluoxetine), back to 10mg once every other day, and then I stopped.

The last day I took fluoxetine was July 25th, and I read online that it takes about a week for half of it to get out of my system. I'm hoping that what I'm feeling right now are the side affects of the fluoxetine still lingering in me...

I think I've been getting better but I honestly can't tell too much because I'm just extremely depressed and I'm very gloomy about everything now...

Sorry for typing so much, I guess you guys can just see how mental I am about this right now.

I hope my symptoms are the fluoxetine side affects and will go away after a week... are they?? i don't know!!

panic_down_under
31-07-17, 03:16
I hope my symptoms are the fluoxetine side affects and will go away after a week... are they?? i don't know!!

They can be the side-effects of fluoxetine, but may also be anxiety related. Fluoxetine can take over a month to be completely metabolized, but most will be out of your system within 14 days. If you're still having symptoms after 2 weeks it will likely be from others causes, most likely anxiety/stress.

The SSRIs may not be the best antidepressants for you if you have ongoing gastro intestinal issues as the enteric nervous system (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/health/the-other-brain-also-deals-with-many-woes.html), the mini brain which controls the gut, is often more affected by them than the brain is.

yuujin
31-07-17, 03:20
They can be the side-effects of fluoxetine, but may also be anxiety related. Fluoxetine can take over a month to be completely metabolized, but most will be out of your system within 14 days. If you're still having symptoms after 2 weeks it will likely be from others causes, most likely anxiety/stress.

The SSRIs may not be the best antidepressants for you if you have ongoing gastro intestinal issues as the enteric nervous system, the mini brain which controls the gut, is often more affected by them than the brain is.

Thank you, that already makes me feel more confident then. I was panicking because I was expecting to feel better within a couple of days... but today is only day 5 without taking fluoxetine.. so knowing it's going to take longer is reassuring. We are confident that the fluoxetine did mess with my stomach because I already have a sensitive stomach so it wasn't so helpful to me.