Glad you're feeling better Piano. I'm coming up to 6 weeks and feeling better over all although yesterday and today I've been feeling a bit anxious and jittery for no reason. I guess these things take time.
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Glad you're feeling better Piano. I'm coming up to 6 weeks and feeling better over all although yesterday and today I've been feeling a bit anxious and jittery for no reason. I guess these things take time.
I'm on 6.66666 (recurring) mg a day and find that the intrusive thoughts are 90% better than before, and have gained more of a will to work and do things I have to. I just hope I can stay on this dose without having to go up again, as the side effects I had on 20mg were pretty bad...
this is hopeful. Thank you Emphyrio. How long have you been taking 6.6666g and prozac for?
best wishes,
Sally xxxx
I've been on this dose for around 3.5 weeks now.
I've been taking prozac for around 12 weeks (I think) - I took 20mg for most of this time and had terrible side effects - agitation, restless legs, insomnia, decreased libido etc...
I'd previously taken prozac twice before - once between 2003 and 2008, then a 9 month gap, then again between 2008 and 2011. I was on 20mg all this time and didn't have any noticeable side effects - but this time I got them bad!
The lower dose seems to be working well for now, fingers crossed. I'm taking apart a capsule every 3 days and dissolving it in juice - having a third of the juice each day. If my intrusive thoughts return I'll try upping the dose to 10mg/day and seeing if that helps, but hope I can stay on as low a dose as possible!
On day 7 of fluoxetine (20mg) for anxiety, depression and obsessional thoughts (health problems).
Everything seemed to be going OK until day 4, when I started getting increasingly more anxious. The bad/negative thoughts started picking away at me again. I didn't let them take over but I was getting quite shaky, jittery, had cold chills at times (slightly different to my symptoms before I started the medication) . Day 5/6 didn't get any better, I felt even worse, seemed like I'm hyperventilating constantly and I feel so breathless at times.
I haven't been sleeping that well either. It seems like all I'm allowed these past 3/4 days, is 2 hour blocks of sleep at night. I'm not doing anything to keep myself wired at night and am even going to bed at 9:30pm hoping that will help things, but sadly it is to no avail.
Late on Day 5 I started feeling nauseous, got worse then yesterday (DAY 6), didn't feel like eating all that much. When I did eat I would have fits of dry retching later on. Then there this morning I felt so bad/sick that I just coughed/p*uked up the fluox altogether.
The psychiatrist did say that the fluox might make me anxious and have other side effects to begin with. Reading things online, even here at NMP, it seems to back that up. It's just hard to stick with the plan at the moment when I feel so lousy.
I hope I haven't made a pigs ear of things too, by skipping a dose today?
Dear all, here comes an update on me:
At about week 14 on 10 mg fluoxetine, I convinced my doctor that I wasn't getting a very good effect. I still had blips, some of them quite bad. So I took a blood test, and my fluoxetine levels were way below therapeutic levels. I upped my dose to 20 mg two weeks ago, and I haven't really had bad side effects. I am much more even now:)
I am also working with CBT, and I am starting EMDR in a couple of weeks. I also have 100% sick leave from work for a month so I can focus on getting well.
I really hope you all are doing well :)
Here comes a big hug for you all:hugs:
Just heading toward my 4th week now.
Things have taken a decidely bad turn in the past week.
The bad/negative thoughts have come back with a vengeance. Feels like I am back to square one.
Week 2 into 3, I thought things had evened out and I had mostly good days but now everything has gone a bit awry.
I'm starting to get nervous, jittery and anxious just leaving the house.
Even at home, I'm having to keep myself active/distracted/occupied just so as to get my mind off the negative thoughts. Even then, it is a struggle at times. It feels like I am running against some invisible clock.
I haven't been doing anything too stressful or strenuous to bring on the thoughts again. Although I guess I have myself so wired for anxiety that it's hard to knock myself entirely out of SAID state.
I'm back into work tomorrow so hopefully that will bring some kind of normality to things.
I dont know what to do. I am on week 12 and I still feel horrible. I have a 2 year old and really supportive husband but i havent been a very good mom or wife because i am so sick all of the time. I cant live like this. I would never kill myself but sometimes i feel like if i did die (car accident or something) i would at least be at peace.
asgard 4 to 5 weeks was one of my worst times, i had a few better days and then felt awful again and thought the tablets would never work, I was at rock bottom, I did manage work some days or parts of days however at just over 5 weeks I started to feel like me again so hang in there it you will have ups and downs, it was reading that on here from others going through the same thing that gave me the hope and confidence to carry on so hope this will help you, take it minute by minute, hour by our day by day and there is light at the end of the tunnel.
They have changed my tabs so hope to get results this time. Xx