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my ex, now ex-wive got off her prozac after having our baby, every three months, she wanted a divorce, i asked her if she was taking her meds, she yes. a year later, and a happy family is now destroyed!!!!!!!she thinks theres nothing wrong.

I TOOK PROZAC FOR ONE MONTH, THEN HAD TERRIBLE ANXIETY, PANIC ATCKS,SWEATING,ETC. NO ONE WARNED ME ABOUT ANY OF IT. RECOMMEND IF YOU ARE GOING TO TRY IT, RESEARCH IT FIRST!!

I have been on different anti-depressants for the past 16 years...ever since my first child was born. I want to stop taking them (currently been on Prozac for two months). Can you be on SSRI etc for so long that you can have too much serotonin and maybe they begin having the opposite effect, becasue that's how I feel now. Any feedback would be appreciated as I am through with medical doctors! Thank you.

agitation/sleeplessness only side effects experienced

I am just recently off Prozac for the first time in a year and a half. I have a history with the drug since the time I was first prescribed it at age 16.

Today I feel wonderful (only day 6 off Prozac). I slept more soundly than I have in months. I have been nervous and agitated on the drug. Today I feel a calmness.

Something I've never told anyone: I went on a hypersexual binge when I was married while taking the drug. I didn't understand this at all. I blamed the binge on not being happy with my then husband, but now I know that it was most definitely a manic phase -- brought on by the Prozac. I couldn't sleep. I was hyper-spending. I can't tell you how uncharacteristic any of this is for me. I will regret that time in my life until the day I leave this earth. It was years ago, but I still judge myself harshly over this ordeal.

I was diagnosed with severe depression and started prozac. I was up to 80mg a day. It helped pretty well for my depression but it also, in the beginning, induced suicidal feelings and harming myself ( burning and cutting myself and reckless behavior including alcohol abuse and promiscuity). I recommend to all parents and teens, do not consider Prozac for treatment of severe depression, I believe it can lead to intense suicidal feelings and suicide, for the first few months on it.
It did NOTHING for my anxiety so I switched to Paxil and I have been on it for 5 years. Doing ALOT better, especially with the anxiety.

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in my teens. I have been on and off medications for the past twenty years now. I am currently taking 40 mg of prozac everyday. No other meds. I have experienced the most unusual of side effects: Lactation!! yikes. Hypomania, bursitis, headaches, anorexia, bruising. So I have most of the common and not so common side effects of this drug. However I continue taking this as I feel the benefits outweigh the negatives. Has anyone else experienced lactation?? I also feel I am on the edge of a manic episode, cannot figure out if it is prozac related or just my normal behavior.

I now have drug induced Lupus from taking Prozac for 5 straight years. Symptoms are..flu like, tiredness, major achy joints! Possible heart/chest pain. I feel like a 90 year old and thought I had Rheumaoid Arthritis, but nope, just LUPUS! Be careful!!!

HI! I need help, I have a younger sister she is 18 she has had no issues before, but all of a sudden she is really sad and throwing temper tantrums. She says she has no friends, and that (me and my middle sister left her, we both left to go to college). My parent are very concerned because none of us had ever been so sad so they took her to a specialist. He said that my sister has a depression. A girl that is tall pretty, has no obligations, is happy, has traveled, has a car, has all going for her, has depression? He wants to put her on Prozac for 9 months. I am trying to convince my parents not to do this I think this solution will be worst than the actual problem. We were all teenagers and growing is painful but prozac? I’m so scared that it can lead to my sister actually believing she has a major issue than a minor depression.
I would appreciate any suggestions this matter is urgent they al ready have the prescription!

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I went to my family doctor a little over two weeks ago to talk to her about my anxiety problems. My anxiety was nothing too alarming-- in general, I was a more anxious person who tended to worry about things beyond my control. When I told the doctor this, she immediately suggested Prozac to me. She briefly went over the list of side effects, told me I had to take the medicine every day, and told me that she would evaluate me again in 4-6 weeks. Mind you- I was not, nor have I ever been, depressed. The doctor specifically asked me this-- if I ever felt depressed or suicidal and the answer was a resounding "no". Still, she felt that daily Prozac was the answer to my anxiety problems. I started taking 10 mgs a day for 7 days, then my dosage was increased to 20 mgs a day. I didn't feel much at first-- well, I would say I felt a bit emotionally numb and probably less nervous, but no drastic changes that I could pinpoint. Then, at the start of my third week taking the medication, I had a horrible panic attack and stayed completely anxious for hours following the "attack". I had never before had a panic attack in my life, but this attack made my heart race, my body feel tingly, I was sweating, and just felt like I was completely losing control. Today, 4 days after the initial "attack", I still feel anxious. During some points of the day, I feel okay, but then out of nowhere, my heart will start racing again. I went back to my doctor (a different one at the same practice) and this doctor told me she had no idea why my doctor would've chosen Prozac for someone with slight anxiety problems. She told me to take 10 mgs for one more day and then to stop. I stopped taking Prozac all together 2 days ago, and I am still feeling the side effects. For me, Prozac was a nightmare. It changed the way I look at mental health medication as a whole. I have learned relaxation techniques online and am considering seeing a counselor to help me learn to further relax. I can say one thing for certain: I will never take Prozac again and I urge anyone who is considering it to seriously weigh the costs against the benefits. Having never suffered from depression, I can't vouch for or discredit Prozac's usefulness in this area, but taking Prozac for anxiety was simply not a solution for me.

I have been taking prozac for 6 weeks it only made me have more severe headaches that would last for days, my head felt like it was burning i was miserable. I was feeling shaky, sweating palms my axiety was worse! I was told by my doctor that it takes at least 6-8 weeks for it to work i called to tell him that it made me worse i was told not to take any more. I am awaiting for a new prescrition, i will never again take any form of prozac! I do take an axiety pill only when i have an panic/axiety attack this is not a daily pill only when neded.

I was on Prozac for 5 weeks and developed a tic which affected the trunk of the body and shoulder. This is also accompanied by vocal grunts and swearing. One year on and I am still suffering. I have had brain scans and blood tests which show no underlying cause for this to happen to me. I am currently awaiting a liver biopsy. This is thought to be Tardive Dyskinesia Tourettes which is a rare adverse reaction to prozac. There is no apparent cure and not all doctors are aware this can happen. I am 23yrs old and devasted.

I am on Prozac. I started 28 days ago. I feel like a new person. I am me again.

For a couple years I've had horrible panic attacks at first i was precribed to paxil and couldn't wait to get off of it because it made me a zombie.So after a year of treatment I quit the medication. Then about 7 months later the panic attacks returned with migraines and more severe. My doctors prescribed me to Prozac this time because they said it wouldn't make me feel so tired all the time. I felt fine taking 10 mg then when I moved up to 20 mg I had sever panic attacks with dialated pupils. I immediately went to the doctor and they told me to take more (30 mg) of the drug along with clonazepam. Then after a couple days of taking 30 mg I was awakened in the night shaking uncontrollably with dialated pupils and horrible panic and etc. I was hospitalized with all these heart tests done and everything came out fine the doctor then told me that I had serotonin syndrome and to immediately stop the medication. These were the same symptoms i had earlier when i bumped up to 20 mg and the doctors passed it off as just panic. I read up more about the serotonin syndrome and it's apparently very severe and could have killed me. It's been about a week and I still haven't fully recovered from this. I have to take clonazepam or valium or some other benzodiazepine just to not go back into that state. I am only 21 years old and was a completely healthy athletic male and my life has been reduced to laying in bed and wondering whether or not Prozac has given me severe brain damage. I strongly feel like these drugs are horrible things and are overprescribed. I urge ppl to question their doctor's advice when they try to put you on Prozac or another SSRID. Hopefully my life will be back in order and this shit hasn't permanently screwed me up

Marry!! I have experienced lactation!!! and a friend of mine did too

I just started Prozac 20 mg a week ago and I already have weird symptoms. I feel lightheaded and fuzzy, and have vivid weird dreams and I am very jittery. Is this normal for anyone else?

what are side effects when teenagers take prozac?

i have been on prozac 60mg for 3 months. it immediately got my bulimia under control and within the first month i was no longer feeling low. however, i did feel strangely happy and energetic, needing less sleep, and couldn't figure out if this is how i'm supposed to really feel. the second month, things leveled out for me more, and i actually started to feel even and stable. this third month has been different. i am not sure what is happening. i am not sure if i am having a manic episode but i have been unable to control my urges to do reckless things because they are exciting. if i resist the urges, i quickly fall into sadness. if i follow the urge, i am elated. i have been talkative and daring, have been drinking excessively, and spending so much more money than i should. i want to say, yes, i am manic because the last time i experienced this was when i had a manic episode. i just didn't think it was possible to have a manic episode while taking prozac. perhaps something else triggered this, but wouldn't the prozac keep me stable no matter what life threw at me? isn't that the whole point of being on meds?

Would Prozac have anything to do with this knot on the back of my head that enlarges from time to time? Why can I tell when I am NOT on Prozac (I can't stand myself even), but I cannot feel better, like I used to when I first started taking Prozac?

When will someone in the right position do something about these meds?
I recently got divorce and my family life with my kids is destroyed, all because off a little pill called Fluoxetine(prozac). My now ex-wife started taking this drug in 2003 after suffering a mis-carriage. In 2006 I really saw the changes in her and when I tried telling her, she reply that I did not know what I was talking about. finally in 2007 I made a phone call to her parent too speak with us, that phone call was the door to hell.
After 11 years of marriage and 3 kids this woman destroy our family because she refuse to get help.
After reading the horror stories from the side effects of this drug, I realize that I myself had just become another family destroyed from this drug.
My ex went all out too destroy my life so as to hide what she was doing. Having an affair, drinking and who knows what else. How do you deal with a situation like this? Everyone says to move on and my question is what is the difference between this drug and crack? because anyone on this drug will do anything to keep taking it.
When will husbands and wives be heard and given the right help in situations like this? who is the ideal person too see the changes in their spouse and why are we look at as the wrong one?
When will doctors be held accountable for giving this drug so easily as if it was candy.

Do not take prozac! It has messed our family up in more ways than one. My husband started to take prozac 2 years ago and he changed. He was up to 40 mg a day, becoming more and more distant from our family. He had the racing heart beats, the panic attacks the hallucinations, not to mention the sexual side effects we have been through. He had a hard time with his coordination, he was always off balance. I thought our marriage was over. He was saying things and doing things that he would never normally do. He even asked me for a divorce after being together for 11 years. He almost looked like he was a "demon". The pupils of his eyes were so big and he was not himself. On top of everything he started to drink and it made things even worse. He was even seeing things in the middle of the day that he thought were there and they were not. We started to read about the side effects of Prozac and he had 99% of them. He has been off of them for a week and he seems better. Not to mention his blood pressure has dropped dramatically. He use to be 153/98 and today he was 112/84! Please save your family the heartache of what happened to us. Stay away from this drug! God Bless

i am takin prozac and when i take it in the morning bout afternoon i start to fidget and shake is the a side effect?

I met with a lawyer last week, feeling like I need to protect my family assets as my marriage is crumbling around me. My husband has found new passions and has no time (or interest) in his family anymore, traveling most of the time and investing large sums of money into a start-up company that will "make him a billionaire." As I think back to when things started to fall apart, it's when he started on Prozac. And I've recently found out that his doctor put him on Aderall, too, because the Prozac made him tired. I should also mention the sleeping pills he takes to be able to sleep some nights. I'm sure he tells his doctor he's doing great, achieving more than ever, and oh, by the way, that pesky family won't be in the way any more...

I could write pages, but I am at a library, and my time is limited. Plus, I would need to cut my comments down anyway.
My sister has been on Prozac for about fourteen years, and it has been terrible! It is now like her mind is going and I am having a lot of trouble communicating with her. It seems like she has no empathy for others and she is very hostile. She doesn't think there is a problem, and she tells me that I need help, because I have got feelings!
I would be pleased if someone could help me. I am going to have to cut off contact with her altogether - if the situation doesn't change. My sister drinks too, so that adds to the problem, and I don't judge her for what she is doing. We come from an abusive family, so it is all a way of coping, but the Prozac seems to be causing brain damage!
That is all for now as I have to go. Thanks!

Help! I feel like I am going crazy.. I can't stop thinking obsessive thoughts. I feel sadder and more worried on Prozac than not. This is taking its toll on me

I started taking anti depressants when i was 16 only because my granparents who i was living with at the time kinda forced me so i took em against my own free will to shut em up bassically eventually they kicked me otta the house so i stoped taking them thought it was healtheir not too take em any more. now im starting to wonder about the side effects cause im noticing some unusaul behavavoius thoughts that i may have not had before kinda feelig really helplees and careless needles to say i felt the same way preety much when i was on the pills. but i just feel different almost like im not the same person im not any better than i was before i kind of feel worse its hard to explain. im wondering since i was so young when i took them maybe it did dammage to my brain thats just how i feel is it possible nobodt\y told me this was a risk before i took the meds.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. I have been on effexor, welbutrin, paxil, zoloft and the latest prozac eyes. I dont know if its me but this stuff is screwing me up. I forget everything, my patterns are off and i feel like my body isnt attached to my body. I was on acne medicine, depression medicine..too much so i recently took myself off everything. I weined myself off prozac. I feel alot better, but i cant help feel like i'll never be right upstairs ever again. i feel like these medicines have dont permanent damage to my brain.

I'v been on Prozac for 2 years and i feel like i could sleep all day and all night everyday. I do get up early for work but i only work 8 hours and off at 1:00pm. But i want to sleep the rest of the day and night.

Please share if you can. My teenager is going through alot of changes in their life. They are very depressed and the DRS have recommened PROZAC, I am terrified to put them on this drug. I have heard so much contraversy regarding this medication. I have been doing as much research on this med and the reactions, suicide etc... as possible, in fear of making the wrong/wright decision. I love my teen, am I overacting?
Thank you
Sherry

I have recently completed a research paper on the overprescribed use of antidepressants, focusing mainly on Prozac, an SSRI. It was a scary revelation to discover the little amount of efficacy and the large amount of risks it entailed. Through the marketing strategies of Eli Lilly it has created a world of unnecessary stories of tragedy and damage of innocent lives.

If you would like to be able to read more and learn about these types of medications, I would recommend Talking Back to Prozac by Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin and Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen. Both of these authors are highly reputable and have an amazing background in the research of antidepressants.

I wish I could attach my research paper. It provides alot of helpful information. As I read many of your posts, it is concerning and hope there is adequate sources to turn to to immediately treat the horrible side effects.

I have been on prozac 20mg/day for about 6 months. it was my first time trying any antidepressant, but i really needed it. at first, i thought it really helped. The naps i used to take all the time were signifigantly reduced, and i just thought i had a better outlook on life, "the dark cloud" that seemed to follow me for so long was gone. But now I feel like lately that dark cloud has been coming back. I don't know if i need to switch my med. altogether, or what. I am looking into wellbutrin. Besides this, i will say in the past few months, i sleep very hard at night...tossing and turning often, super vivid dreams. this tossing and turning isn't something i'd ever experienced before.

i have been on Fluoxetine on and off since 1995 some times it seems to help and other times .. not.. for example i don't know who i am or what purpose i have any more. ing it again since my daughter was born about a year and a half ago. i really don't think that the drugs are helping anymore. I have been put on Flupentixol as well. i have suffered side effect from the fluoxentine before and find it hard to sleep at night, wake up sweating, im nervous, im grining my teeth at night and i want to sleep during the day. these are sighns of depression as well as side effects so how do you know where one starts and the other ends. is this the depression now making me feel so bad or is it the drug?

i've just started taking prozac after suffering with real bad anxiety and low self esteem, i've took them before 20 years ago and they made me feel a lot better, i've took my 5th tablet today and it has made me feel so down and nervy, its so horrible ..is this normal should i stop taking them ??. please reply Jim.

im 13 years of age and have been expieriencing depression my doctor put me on prozac its been about 2 months and ive been really really tired all of the time and it seems theres nothing i can do about it and my mom dosnt know whats happening either if know please tell me why im so tired

I took prozac for 5 years. was diagnosed as a bi polar 2 . immediatltly it chnaged my life for the better in everyway except
i slowly gained 20 pounds and it began to wear off after 3 years and zapped my sex drive into non-existance. i was willing to live with the side-effects because i had NEVER experienced a calm , balanced , controlled mind. Before prozac, my bi polar was ruining my career and i didn't know it. I had serious side effects from some other drugs i also tried before finding prozac ( lamictal made me uncontrollably fisgettty to the point of feeling suicidal) , geodone ( gave me heart palpitations ) . I stopped taking prozac after 5 years to see what life would be like with a sez drive and hopefuly to help lose the weight. My mind went back to it's depressive phases but without the manic part. I also tried Sam-e for 3 months and am now looking to combine Sam'e with a the smallest amount of prozac.

my doctor prescribed me prozac today and i am scared to take it. i have heard a lot of bad things about it.. can anyone give me some good or bad feedback on what they have experienced ?

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Just wanna knw what is the side effects if i took 5 Deprozans at a time??? Im struggling to reach an orgasm, it has not happen before, this is the first time and im on the Deprozans for almost 3 years now.

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I was 16 years old and I was put on 50mgs of prozac, I became extremly sick after a month. Part of my brain started to detoirate, I amalso now anemic, and have a really low immune system. I also had gotten extrem vivid violent dreams about death and even thought about killing myself in order to get away from it all.

I stopped taking it abruptly and my doctor is trying to get me to use again, but only 20mgs I will not go back on this drug it is absoltuly the worst thing I have ever taken and now i am 18 and i know my health is going downhill more than it should be.

ive recently increased my prozac to 40mg a day and i feel down tired and depressed,sweaty,sick, hungry double vision occasionally,will this pass?

hello someone please help me. my wife is on prozac for a while. She was a church girl, never spent money real loving wife. i am a truckdriver, & have been since we've been together for 18 yrs. my wife i have found out has been messing around with other men, she tells me she dont love me anymore there's just too much in our past. We loved each other unconditionally until all this.Another difference in my wife is she has been wearing low cut shirts w no bra< short shorts to church. She was on 20 mgs of prozac then was upped to 40mg when she called her family doctor. So the doctor just upped her prozac to 40mg. She wanted it upped to help her deal with the seperation. She never goes back to get checked. They just give her a new prescription. I know this drug is the heart or our problems. My wife is the most important thing in my life next to my kids. she has given me an excellent 18 yrs and i love her dearly. Is all she tells me is I dont love her. I don't know what love is. I know this hurt i feel during this seperation is like none other in my life. She dont lie, and i have caught her in alot of lies lately. She even has lied to our preacher & his wife. Very unlike her. My wife is a sweetheart. I sure miss her. someone please give me someway to get help. please dear lord. I love my wife.

I went into the docters office it was for anxiety.i was feeling anxious because i was an aranchaphobic staying in a house overrun with spiders. though i may have worded it wrong because i actually said i was up half the night trying not to step on spiders. he seemed concerned when i told him i went to a shrink once and was diagnosed with social anxiety and even more so when i started exhibiting some anxious mannerisms. he immediatly asked for a blood test and when that came back clean suggested i should take prozac. before that he asked me all types of stupid questions: had i ever been physically or sexually harmed? what did i think of taking prozac? should i tell your mom first or your. well no i've never been abused, how the hell would i have an opinion about prozac I'M 14YEARS OLD and it doesn't matter who you tell first because their both gonna find out any way. i actually felt pretty damn good the 1st day i took it maybe alittle irritable in the morning but even when i tried to feel anxious, i couldn't. as the days went by it stated working less and less. i'm now a week on prozac and i'm feeling anxious, angry, and depressed. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG.

I went to the Doctor today because I have pushed all my friends away, almost tore my relationship apart, and have been depressed for eight months. He put me on 10 mg of Prozac. My mother took and it helped get her life back on track, and he wants me to try it for a month and see how it makes me feel. But what everyone seems to be overlooking is that we are all different. A medicine that helped one person could have destroyed another. I am sixteen, and I am looking forward to getting my teen years back on track and no more Friday nights where I tell my friends "I'm busy" because I don't want to see them. I just started Prozac today, and I feel better than I have in such a long time.

I have been taking prozac for pms for a few weeks. I have a fuzzy feeling in my head and a weird feeling in the back of my throat like I need to yawn but can't. I definately don't feel normal, but not sure it is good. Not sure if it will get worse or better. What should I do?

I started on citalophram due to stress with job, marriage, and debt. Relized that i was stoned in mornings and wasn't productive till after 10am and I also was achy all the time. Switched to prozac and have been able to deal with wife better but she doesn't like it because I fell I don't need her as much and I'm staying for the kids. Also I've been very achy and am planning to ween myself off everything. To sum up I wonder it I should have ever tried any drugs. My wife has finally started Wellbutrin and it has been good and bad. Scarry stuff wondering if we will end up better or worse and if the effects will ever go away.

I have been on Prozac a good years 60mg aday.
The real only side affect that is hard to deal with is strange dreams.I don't mean nightmares
or anything that wakes me up however when i wake
im left with a strange feeling and a depress
feeling.This fades in time but this happens every
night.Could the 60mg be too much?

I am frustrated by loneliness

you should not be taking an antidepressant when you have bipolar. This will only make your bipolar manic episodes worse. Prozac has worked great for me.

There is So much in Common With The HUNDREDS of Posts ive read about the Behavior of Both male & Female Prozac Users............ Basically its like READING MY LIFE in A BLOG. The Behavior Changes, Where You Dont even recognize the person Anymore.......... Them Telling You They hate You & Want A Divorce, COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE ! Then You Mention that to them & They claim its Been A While...... Basically, The Person You Knew Is Long Gone......... & The Doctors That prescribed them the drug Are their NEW FRIENDS & Confidants...... If You Mention The Drug Has Changed Them "WATCH OUT "! The Doctor Is Their New Love Along With Strangers That they Meet, But You Will be Treated like Trash. Funny How the Week Before they said They Love You..... Now Its DIVORCE TIME & YOU THE EVIL GUY THAT RAISED HER KID IS NOW JUST A WORTHLESS PIECE OF TRASH THAT IS GETTING THROWN OUT. In The End, The Only 1 having A Good Time With This will be, The Doctor that so Easily Prescribeds A VERY DAMAGING DRUG WITH MANY MANY SIDE EFFECTS THAT ARE & WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM EVER WAS........ THE LAWYER THAT WILL GET PAID FOR THE DIVORCE...... THE COUNTY & OR STATE, COURT FEES & COSTS..... & THE REAL ESTATE AGENT THAT SELLS YOUR HOUSE. To Pay For it all. What a life. I Love My wife, but shes Already stated her truth, I FUCKING HATE YOU & WANT YOU DEAD & GONE ! Thanks prozap.

I take prozac and have no problem with it. I do feel much better when I am taking it and any anxiety I used to have has passed. I highly recommend them but it does take a couple of weeks to get them into your system and then you must take on every day.

Hello, my wife has. Been on prozac for a year, just after christmas, out of the blue I was informed that our marriage was over, it was my fault and she didn't love me any more, my wife was the most loving careing woman in the world, she was and still is my world. Then came the next blow , the affair, then the coldness, assigning all the blame to me, telling me details about her sexlife as if I was her buddy, no regard for anybody but herself, its too late for us now, but please anybody with a loved one starting on this " wonder drug " or on it now but still in controll, stop get off it, stay away from it, it will swallow up. You loved one and leave no trace of them behind.