20 weeks now on fluoxetine undecided if to up the dose

anon53727290
Tue, 23 May 2017 17:32:24 +0000
Treatment and medication

Just looking for some opinions on what people would do.

As a lot of you may know due to all my frantic posts on this forum I have been suffering with anxiety and depression now since the beginning of jan and I had a breakdown which led me to start 20mg of fluoxetine and 80mg propranolol still on both.

I'm not going to say I'm not any better because I am so I'm hopeing this means the fluoxetine will help I'm just undecided to up the dose or not. It has been very up and down and I have not had one day where I have felt no anxiety and I have woke up every day with anxiety. The negative thoughts and feeling sick bother me the most and I am still suffering with both not all day but on and off each day sometimes better then others.

I think the main thing bothering me is that I feel I should be better by now and very undecided if I should up the dose I keep thinking maybe I'm not better because I need that extra dose or maybe I just need to give it more time I feel like 5 months is a long time and my gp just said I will leave it to you.

Thanks everyone

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