The first day or two I was on fluoxetine I was irritable, spacy, and had a slight headache.  The side effects were easier than the anxiety, though.  After 3 weeks it seems to be good, and I am almost weaned off of Welbutrin.  When I was on Lexapro, I think I stopped feeling full when I ate, and I've been wondering if I have a similar side effect from fluoxetine.  I gained 15pounds on Lexapro in about 3 months, so I've been paying closer attention to my eating habits this time.

Good luck.  Don't be afraid, hopefully this time is the charm.

I am three days into my third course of Prozac.The first was 18 months,the second 12 months and the doctor suggested this course should last for 6 months.

I have experienced various side effects,not least of all permenant tummy ache.
I had forgotten about this until I started taking them again!

I really dont know what to do.As it stands I am tempted to stop the Prozac and take my chances with the depression.

Can anybody help please.

Mike.

Hi Mike and Hucker, welcome to the forums :)

Hope, i was simply petrified of taking meds and had never been able to stick on one before. People kept telling me how great prozac would be for me but i did not believe it. In the end I forced myself to stay on it, at third time of trying, because I was desperate and did not see an alternative. Within eight or nine weeks things were very different for me and I am SO glad I stuck with it .. I just wish I had stayed on it before!!

Hi Josephine,Thanks for the welcome.


Mike.

Prozac is a hard drug to stay on cuz it takes so long to work and when you have depression/anxiety it's so hard to wait the side effects out.
The great thing about Prozac is that when it works for you, it really works!
I was on it for years and felt so good I forgot all about my anxiety/depression problems. I got a very rude reminder when I went off it though! :p  I tried the generic for 3 mo with little success, went to Lexapro which helped me get back on my feet but never FULLY got me back to where I was on Prozac so now I am on 5mg Lex (tapering down) and 10 mg Prozac name brand (tapering up to 20 today) and am feeling SO MUCH BETTER!! Hope to be back on Prozac only soon and back to me again. :cool:
So my advice is to give it plenty of time, try to ride out the side effects and see if it will work for you as well as it has for some of the others of us.
Good luck!

We can only get the generic here, so far as I know :) every chemist i try has a different kind. I am afraid I tend to mix n match em, which I prolly shouldn't, but *shrug* it works no matter which brand of generic I am taking.

Hello all. I was a long time prozac user (13+ years). It worked real well but seemed to stop about half a year ago. I have been on lexapro since june 1st. but like scardeycat said, not fully back on my feet. This is a new and unpleasant experience for me, since it is my longest period of depression since the starting prozac. I would usually only get depressed if i stopped taking prozac. I just feel like I'm never gonna be "me" again and am kind of losing faith in a/ds. Does anyoe think.....or has anyone heard of prozac stopping working but becoming effective again after a layoff? I really miss what prozac did for me.

BSF sorry I cant answer any of your guestions because I sitll havent got the courage to take it.  But I hope that you do get back on your feet real soon.

Josephine, I am like you, I am so hate taking these meds.  I had a really hard time on my first ad, and I got at a bad state of mind.  I am afraid that will happen again.  And unfortantly every med I start my anixety goes sky high and my pdoc wont give me anxiety meds.  So I have been delaying it.  Plus know they think I maybe bipolar.  Shoot they dont know anything.My moods since being of the meds is horrible.  I do have normal days, then the bad days follow.  That is why they think I might be bipolar.  But I have too swallow the bullot and try tomorrow.  I am not sure what time to take it though.  She said in the morning but  i am so afraid of the side effects.  Oh what to do.

Hope,
Good Luck with your course in Prozac.  If you start to experience bad side effects, talk to your doc about lowering the dose a little at first, or start out at a lower dose and gradually move up.

Hope .. I had exactly the same problem with my doctor and anti anxiety meds and it really made me angry!! I begged him to give me some sort of tranquiliser or even a beta blocker JUST for the first cpl weeks, to be taken as needed, whilst I got used to the med. He never would - and neither would any other GP I have ever seen - and consequently it took me years to actually be able to stay on a med long enough for it to work. I really think that the policy of 'no benzos' which operates in this country (dunno where you are of course, I am in the UK :)) is counter productive. It's also rather patronising to assume that I could not responsibly take an anti anxiety drug for a cpl weeks without becoming addicted or something. But oh well, it worked for me in the end without. I hope it does for you too!!

Well guys today was my first day on the 10mgs of prozac.  I finally did it.  IT took me over a month but I did it.  Is it normal to feel really spacy?  I also had some derealisation.  i havent that in two years.  IT is kinda freakin me out.  Anyone else hear of this.  Maybe it is just increasing my anxiety.  Thanks everyone.        :wave: