It's been a roller-coaster ride, 1st few weeks had bad nauseous sickness, feeling tired lots, high anxiety insomnia,, gurgling tummy bowel problems,and fuzzy foggy head, end of week 5 into week 6 started to feel good seeing light at end of dark tunnel. Now last 4 days feel so down no motivation depression feels worse than ever, the side affects have returned with a vengeance, just wondering does this happen at nearly 7 weeks in, I'm thinking this is not going work for me I just feel horrible, should I stick with it?advice greatly appreciated
I wish I could offer advice. I'm in a similar boat; four weeks at 40mg and still have intrusive thoughts, agitation, spacey, foggy, tearful, anxious....I've heard it takes awhile but it seems ridiculously long. I hope you find your answers...I'm still waiting too.
hi , i am also on fluoxetine , small dose, do not feel well, more than a month, loose faith in this one,i am sorry i cant really help you as i feel the same, i see Kim has also replied to you, we are having discussion about this...
Yes! You should stick with it. The good days mean the medicine is working. It's not a quick fix, 1 step forward 2 back. End of my 5th week had two good days followed by 3 bad. For some, it can be anywhere between 5 and 2 months before you have mostly good. I'm not there either and feel the same , but don't give up! You've come so far and are about to turn a corner. Hang in there you'll have good days and unfortunately still some bad days, but the Ned is working, it's just very slow.
Hi Bigmant, I'm exactly the same! Just seven weeks for me & had had a few ok days but the last few have been horrible!! Really bad anxiety, fuzzy foggy head, feel sick and like I'm losing it!! You're not alone! Hang in there, we'll get through this!
Hi Chris26026,this is all I needed to hear, thought it was just me and the meds were not agree with me, il keep at them, today when I went for Christmas dinner I felt sick no appetite, it's not me lol I love my food, managed to pick through, keep in touch let me know how you get on, many thanks
Thanks RonVis il hang in there, keep up the good work, keep in touch how you get on
Thanks Hope it works out well for you anne92030,seems to take a long time to settle in system and work
Thanks Kim31778,hopefully you feel well soon, did you try reduce the dose to 20 mg, starting at 40mg seems a bit much see if symptons lessen a bit, I know it's not easy now, never thought I'd have to go through this, I'm going keep on fighting get through this, just read through lots of other posts on here, nearly everybody has to go through it
Hi...I did start at 40; was put on it at this dose at a clinic I went to to try and get meds stable. I never dreamed of going through anything like this either. I was in graduate school, had a panic attack and was placed on Klonopin...returned for an ssri to help get off the benzo; had a reaction...then placed on the same med again at higher dose...never worked; made me worse...now, the prozac. I feel shakey every day, super anxious and unlike myself, foggy, unable to function...It's just a living nightmare...I pray it does work b/c this is inhumane suffering.
I stopped after 3 weeks...same things were happening to me. Once that anxiety hit me, I was like, no thank you!!! I was SO unmotivated it was crazy...foggy head was bad too..I'm like, who can push through this crap to gamble on feeling better?? So for ME, I quit. I felt better right away after stopping and I guess that was the test. I will stick to a bit of Ativan when I need it. Doc quit my Ativan as I thought I was getting relief from my anxiety. But I read that the dose just keeps increasing and increasing and the anxiety keeps hitting...not for me. I was on 10 mg a day for anxiety. Ativan doesn't take weeks or months to MAYBE make me feel better, so I won't put myself through the GAMBLE of will this drug work or not for me. Not for me. I guess you have to ask yourself the same question: are you feeling better or not? Take care. X0
I'm nearly week 6 - had a bad 3 days - feeling anxious all day and 2 panics today . Felt fine this time last week , I'm hoping tomorrow will get better . we gotta stick this out on fluoxetine .
thanks bigmant, never suffered like this before, sorry for my "optimistic" post.....
Hi Bigmant, how you feeling? I was a bit more relaxed last night but think it was just because I was so exhausted with it all! This morning woke up feeling really low, then I get panicky, like a pit of doom! Horrible! Hoping it passes soon and I get a good day!! X
Hi Andrea, how you feeling? It's so strange how we can feel ok for a little while and then worse again! X
have you been on other antidepressants?
Hi Chris last night I felt OK just relaxed in front of TV 📺 had a good sleep last night even lay to 9.45 this morning, got up did some my daily routine feeling 6 out of 10 score this morning, fingers crossed all be good today just have slightly nauseous feeling now,hopefully face my dinner today better than yesterday,, keep up the big fight my friend, we will get there
Keep up the good work Andrea, it's not easy I've been finding it so hard at times just find it hard to understand how we can feel well for few days then crash bang it's like back to start again just feeling horrible again, if it wasn't for this forum I would probably stop meds, but now I've decided stick with it, there's light 💡 at the end, it's just time and patiance, hope you're day is going good today tc
Feel spaced out today and very low . Hoping today will be ok . Gotta look after the kids but got my husband to help also . No panic attack yet . Don't know why my symptoms have gone worse . Only a few hours sleep for me last night .U ok ?
Stick with it Anne, you should get some ok days soon!! It definitely is a rollercoaster, I'm 7 weeks and had a couple of okay days where you think you're coming through it and then bang you feel like you're back to square one and that you want to stop them! I've felt like this for a few days again now and it's so disheartening but I'm determined to stick it out! What dose are you on? Xxx