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Ok i went to the docters today and he put me on a course of Fluoxetine hydrochloride (prozac) i'm on the 20mg doses with one to be taken daily...
i was wondering is there any side effect i might expect and has anyone been on this before and had nasty results..
many thanks if you can help...
i was wondering is there any side effect i might expect and has anyone been on this before and had nasty results..
many thanks if you can help...
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it made me suicidally depressed, aggressive (very out of character), dizzy, sick, shaky, sweaty, sleepy, have horribly vivid nightmares, scratch constantly at myself, grind my teeth, chew the insides of my cheeks....
i'm sure it works for some people, but it just made me mental.
:eek: this stuff is ment to help me:eek2:
:crying:am i gonna turn out like that???:nervous:
rxlist is an impartial site. i found loads of links to sites like 'prozac truth' where people who have been damaged or relatives of people who've topped themselves on the drug have posted stories, but that's a bit biased reading.
but, from rx list:
Body as a Whole: Frequent: Chills; Infrequent: Chills and fever, face edema, intentional overdose, malaise, pelvic pain, suicide attempt; Rare: Abdominal syndrome acute, hypothermia, intentional injury, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, photosensitivity reaction.
On the other hand, Prozac helped me... I think it all depends on the person and what help they're receiving on the side. Taking any anti-depressent feels funny at first... I think the worst I took was Zispin as it made me aggressive and put on weight.
But I never really had problems with Prozac once I got used to it.
talk tp your doc about it again if you are worried!
Thank you that was ALOT of help kaffrin...:)
i hope it works out for me...
is there any GOOD things about it...
My sister is on Prozac, but she never said that anything bad has happened since she has been on it. All I know, is by what she told me, that it is helping her, so I guess it does help with some people.
All I can say is just give it a try for a while and see if it helps you and if it doesn't then talk to your doc about switching it to something else.
he was ok about putting me on them once i decribed my condition although he wanted to speak to my mother..
I thought you said HE advised YOU to go on them not YOU asked?!
tweets, *whispers* pinch of salt
*Says nothing
my councillor advised me to go onto fanti depressents..
my doc said he will put me on a trial period for one month to see if it works and if im no better he will up the dosage and get in contact with some pyshricatic thing???that bit confuced me he was talking to my mam at that point..
Go out and buy a copy of 'Unquiet mind' by Kay Redfield Jamison to see how bad depression can be.
I would take the Prozac, see how it goes and then re-visit your doctor.
Theres nothing shameful about needing intervention of drugs to re-align your mind.
Oooo ill see into the book.. i like to read and thanks..
thanks for the helpp guys i hope it works..
In my experience doctors are unlikely to put you on ADs the very first time you visit the doctor, especially if you are only 15 years old, they would, in my experience, recommend a referral to the hospital and their teenage psychiatry department.
Also, if the tablets didn't work after one month then the doctor wouldn't "up the dosage" they would switch to another brand.
Hmmmm
aurora i was suprised aswell even though i wanted to go on the due to advice by my councillor it didnt take long for them to be prescribed. my mam has been on AD's for years and was speaking to my doc/her doc about it so my mam is pretty clued up aswell and she talked bout my selfharming.. but i was only in there for about 15min max so i think it is to easy to get anti depressents on the NHS.
They will only give you a month supply anyway, so ytou dont overdose, they only give you more when they know they can trust you.
Yeah thats like with my mam. because she has been known to overdose she only gets 1weeks worth at a time and yet because she is on a high amount of drugs (either sleeping pills or anti depressents) but they could still kill her...
i know they wont trust me and frankly i'm happy i know if i have a very low patch i'd be tempted to take them all.
no.
as someone who was a similar age when i had problems, (and i was forced to the doctors, i didn't choose to go, so it's a little different) my experiences weren't the same at all.
firstly, in my experience, prozac is not usually the first drug they try, due to the bad press mostly, but in teenagers it's due to the high suicide rate.
secondly, i was referred to a therapist as an emergency case rather than put me on the drugs, because they feared that they would not be suitable given my young age. (16)
it was only after 2 therapists and an appointment with a psychiatrist that they decided to put me on ADs.
this seems to be pretty standard among the people i have met in therapy. maybe it's just my area...
so yeah, pinch of salt.
you got a bad cough there.
i can only speak from my own experience. and what i am told by my therapists/doctors/psychiatrists.
but i have to say i am more inclined to believe my therapists/doctors/psychiatrists that people on a message board.
poor you *pats* sniffles suck.
you're right, of course.
and i think, as someone who has a 'history', you can maybe appreciate why i get fired up about certain things. maybe not.
or was this thread just to let people know you were on anti depressants?
i too am suprised that they have put you onto prozac. i would have thought they would have put you on something like paroxetine.
I went on anti-D's at 15 also, and becky is right, it takes at least 6 weeks to even get into your system, so i think the reason he is telling you to go back after a month is to collect your next packet, not to see how you are feeling, because to be honest, id be really quite suprised if you felt better after a month.