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General => Welcome our 'NEW MEMBERS'!! => Topic started by: DarylR on May 09, 2012, 12:24:35 PM
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Hello everyone,
Im a 25 year old guy from the south east, for years I have had low points where it has been hard to pick myself up from, only recently have I stopped ignoring it and finally done something by going to the doctors and being referred to counselling/CBT and I have also been perscribed fleuxetine 20mg which on the 7th day of taking I feel a bit better, things don't seem quite an effort anymore although i am experience side effects like blurred vision at times.
Just wondering if anyone else has been on this medication and what their outcome was :)
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Hi and welcome Daryl, I have been on prozac in the past, they worked well for several depressive episodes with no obvious side effects
Z x
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hi Zaf,
thats good to know, do you mind me asking how long u was on it for? its only been a week for me and already theres a bit of improvement, i don't want to go back to how it was. Did the prozac sort you out completely? Thanks.
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Hi Daryl, I was also on Fluoxetine at 40mg for a while, after the first 2 weeks the side effects I experienced for off.
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On and off for at least five years, for some reason it stopped working after that time and I got put on citralopram
Z xx
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I've been on fluoxantine now for 3 weeks and only just beginning to feel better for the last few days. I have had side effects, well I believe they are anyway; waking at night and restless sleep, drowsiness during the day; hot flushes; further depression and headaches. Although at the moment I am just left with the sleep problems. I always feel so tired and although I feel better the tiredness makes doing anything (like completing job applications) very difficult. Keep going though and see how the first 6 weeks go.
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ok thanks Zaf
hi Ohdaddy, yes i wake in the night sometimes and so far the tablets made me feel a little better i don't feel so guilty about my past mistakes and although i am still fragile i am looking forward to getting help.
i take it ur looking for work then? i have been also but due to my problems am quite limited as to what i can go for as i get anxious and can't handle stressful roles very well. I do temp work with agencies from time to time but thats usually fairly easy. are u having any therapy as well ohdaddy?
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I used to get terrible night waking, it did ease but took some time.
I would love to work but like you struggle to cope with a full time job, I'm not working at all at the moment. I did receive cbt for a while and it did help. Unfortunately I had to stop the fluoxetine.
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Hi and welcome Daryl.
As for meds, citalopram made me paranoid, seroxat made me suicidal and mirtazapine made me fat. But I have reactive depression and my (very honest) GP has told me that no meds will fix it
Kate x
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Hi DarlR
No therapy yet. I think the prozac gives you a short term lift, a sticking plaster if you like and the therapy provides you with some mental tools to cope without medication in the future.
I am a teacher on a short term contract. It was not renewed as I was "looking tired and stressed" and finding it difficult to cope. Don't go into teaching.
Ohdaddy
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yeh its hard isn't it Buttercup, do u mind me askin y u had to stop the fluoxetine?
ok thanks for that ohdaddy
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Hello and welcome Daryl, never been on these meds sorry so can't coment.
S x x x
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I had to stop taking fluoxitine as I'm bipolar and was having a depressive episode, the problem is that ssri antidepressants flip you into a manic episode if you take them for too long. Fluoxetine does work well once it gets going, it's just getting through the side effects.
I hope things settle down for you soon.
Ohdaddy, I second the don't go into teaching warning, I have the battle scars ;)
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thanks i do like ur profile pic pip :)
ok thanks buttercup
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Hi,
I was on Fluoxetine 20g for 6 months. It made me feel better than I ever had before and only took about 3 days for me to feel any improvement.
The downside was that after a while I got really vivid dreams; the football ones were the best but not for my Wife's shins :-) when I shot at goal, and on one occasion I landed a perfect left hook and only woke up when my fist crashed into the bed frame (that could have been her face which scared the hell out of me).
It also gave me a lack of fear (which in some ways was a good thing) but resulted in my driving becoming somewhat nerve-racking for the passenger. Sex drive went out the window too but citalopram did that to me too.
In the end the sleep/dream problems meant it had to go.
On the plus side, it was very easy to come off when the time came.
Hope you feel good soon :-)