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It saved my marriage. I was on it for two years it gave my brain a chance to relearn what is good anxiety and what is bad anxiety and allowed me to learn coping mechanisms for the bad. I had to keep the mindset that it’s a tool not a crutch. As long as I kept that mind set, it worked great. I knew going in that there would be good days and bad days. It’s not a miracle drug there’s no such thing but it served it’s purpose and I was able to get off it in two years.
I was on it for years: 40mg Prozac and 300mg Wellbutrin. I didn’t add the Wellbutrin til later, but the combo together was life saving. The Prozac worked mostly on my anxiety and the Wellbutrin helped give an extra lift from depression. My anxiety is mostly social and would manifest as nausea which would then send me into a tailspin (emetophobia). I stopped eating and lost a bunch of weight, couldn’t go out and have fun, etc. Prozac stopped the anxiety and nausea and I could finally enjoy food again and felt capable of functioning in social settings. I loved it. I gained some weight but nothing too drastic.
After 5 years, I decided I wanted to try to come off. I’ve been off Prozac for 2 years now and honestly want to go back on it sometimes. I felt like I was able to lose weight easier after I came off so I’m mostly hesitant to go back on because of that.
Overall, Prozac was a success for me!
I’ve been on it for years and it’s been life changing in managing my depression and anxiety.
same here, 40mg has been successfully treating major depression and anxiety for years
Prozac is amazing! It’s one of the few antidepressants that actually energise you and cause weight loss. It saved my life (20mg)
I was actually able to gain weight for the first time in my life. Definitely a life saver for me as well.
I just started it last night. 10mg. Maybe it's a placebo effect but I feel great today. Have energy again. Smiling more. Tried Zoloft last month (12.5mg up to 25) and had the whole list of negative side effects so this has been a good change. My reasons for starting antidepressants was simply low energy, can't get up in the mornings, and felt sad. (Not suicidal or anything.) I usually function at a 10 and felt like a 6 lately.
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Except for the fact that I went straight from one SSRI (Zoloft) to another (Prozac), so I'm sure they're having a combined effect that didn't take weeks to establish. If I hadn't been on anything before starting Prozac, sure. After the first few days though it started giving me acne and making me want to sleep all day so now I'm done with it, too.
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I “successfully” tapered off prozac after being on it for 6 months. I think it helped me have something while going through a lot of stuff (exams, grad school admission interviews, break-up, passing away of my dad). It messed up my sleep schedule though so I decided to stop taking it when the exams & interviews were over. I was literally sleeping like 20 hrs straight and other days I was awake 20 hrs straight. So I decided to stop. But yeah, I am okay now. A lot better than before.
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20 mg. After lunch.
Helped me with severe ocd and depression episodes multiple times in my life.
40 mg here and significantly improved symptoms of my depression
Not Prozac, but I Lexapro. i started a few days ago so I'm still titrating up. The biggest change is when I wake up I don't feel an overwhelming sense of dread heading into the day and I'm starting to find small bits of joy in things again
It was the first med I was placed on in the early 90s. I don't remember any side effects, but almost on that magical 10th day, I felt better.
I started 3 months ago. Just upped to 40mg from 20mg. It was working really well but hoping the upped dose handles the remaining anxiety while I work on it in therapy. I did not have any side effects of the 20mg.
20 mg is not covering my anxiety. I wonder if the doctor will increase it.
I’ve had much more success with Prozac. I was on Zoloft 200mg having really severe night sweats (which my doctor didn’t really know what to do about - we tried a few add on meds but there’s still so little research out there and even lowering the dose didn’t help.
Now I’m on Prozac 40mg for a month and it’s been great, no more night sweats.
I was on it for 10 years. Not until my migraines came back did I need to find something new.
I've been on it since March and had to up it to 40mg instead of 20mg after 5-6 weeks, but I feel so much better. My anxiety still hits me pretty hard, but my depression is barely noticeable. I also left a toxic job after a breakdown and right before I started prozac and combined medication with therapy but I went to my doctor yesterday who prescribed it and she kept saying you look so good it's good to see you happy.
Been on it since mid November ‘22. I paired the start with 7 weeks of LOA to adjust. Started taking the medication 2 weeks before so 2 weeks in it was starting to kick in. The first month was essentially the same regarding my mental health. I still felt depressed, down and like staying in bed all day. Weeks 5-6 were a bit better and I felt more productive. Finished a house project that I started 8 months earlier. Felt pretty damn good weeks 7-9. Went back to work at the beginning of week 8 and after about 3 weeks got bored and annoyed with work again but it feels more tolerable. From a side-affects side I had issues with sleeping (switched to taking it in the AM which helped slightly). I could fall asleep fine but not stay asleep all night resulting in 4/5 hours a night for a couple weeks. I also had some looser than normal bowel movements, increased sweating, a bit of brain fog and loss of appetite. The sweating is still around. Seems pretty common and can live with it even though some days I go through more shirts than I’d like. I was prescribed trazadone for sleep trouble but have decided to not fill that prescription and use good ole Mary J to help with that portion. Ultimately, Prozac works for me right now on a low dose (20 mg a day). I highly recommend an LOA with your transition to meds if possible. One really needs about 3-5 weeks to reset their mind. Good luck!
I’ve been on several antidepressants. I just switched off of Prozac, which unfortunately didn’t work for me. It made me so tired that my doctors were concerned that I had narcolepsy.
I’m on Wellbutrin now. I can’t say it works the way I would like it to, but I’m not falling asleep all the time and did see an improvement in libido.
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I'm only a five days in and still only on 10mg and it makes me pretty tired. I'm wondering if it'll go away as a side effect after I ride out the two week mark 🥱😭
I tried different things over the years including Prozac early on. Eventually found something that worked (Lexapro) but these days it’s Pristiq. But also I’m weaning off b/c I’m really not nearly as depressed or anxious as I used to be. At the end of the day though big shout out to exercise and meditation. Todays pharmaceuticals are amazing but maybe exercise and meditation have been pulling most of the weight. It’s not either/or. No doubt the meds helped me on many occasions to get out and exercise rather than circle the drain.
I will say at first it made me sick as a dog and I lost weight because I couldn’t keep anything down but it was a literal life saver when it kicked in. I knew it did when someone cut me off in traffic and instead of having a near panic attack, I was just mad.
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Did any of y’all have loss in appetite when you first started ?
I definitely noticed it a lot more for the first month. Still seeing some effects and less eating because I am depressed/anxious/bored. I was overeating sweets and I have been able to manage it much better since starting.