fluoxetine/prozac

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I just started taking Prozac a few days ago for my anxiety. I'm still on a small dosage (5mg daily) so I haven't noticed much yet besides nausea and trouble sleeping at night.

Any tips for the nausea, or advice in general?

I am now on day four of prozac and its funny; I take it when I first wake up (usually about 9.30 am), feel sick, miserbale and despressed for most of the day. then around 5-6pm I start to feel much better, can eat as I don't feel sick, lot less deespressed and can actually do a few things for myself.

I slept fine on it for the first 3 nights but was a bit fidety last night. Still its only day 4, got to give it a chance to work. Was on Mitazpine for 4 days but it made me so sleepy I just couldn't funtion.

Anyone else had a simular experience?

I've been on it for about 6 years . The meds I had before made me feel sick (unfortunately, I can't remember the name, sorry), so Fluoxetine was a blessed relief! Only side effect I've ever had is forgetfulness. Seriously. I can't hold anything in my head.

Herbally speaking, I've always found adding sage and rosemary to meals helps with nausea and digestive problems. Might help?

I tried it for about 3 and a half or 4 weeks once and it was horrible........I ended up throwing out the rest of the pills because at the moment I did not care if it would be harmful to immedietly stop taking them I just wanted it out of my system. It made me feel nauseous and a bit weird, I got the whole hyper and drowsy at the same time effect to. And yeah the day I stopped taking them I got all over emotional and paranoid which was rather embarrasing because then my dads family who I was staying with got to see me totally freak out.......uhh I was close to killing myself that day. But yeah maybe that works for some people but I found it to be pretty much the worst drug experiance I've ever had.

I just stopped prozac, it didn't really seem to be doing very much. I started it for my turbo PMS but it didn't do anything for that and made me feel only a little better when I wasn't ragging

I've since been put on Pristiq and the jury is only starting to trickle in but so far so good I think. I feel stable. pretty blah (though there are external contributing factors) but stable