Has anyone here tried Prozac for depression and anxiety?

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Please tell me what happened? I'm heading out to the Drs soon but will be back later this afternoon. Its for my teenage son with AS, thanks

I'm currently taking it for depression. I've got no lasting side effects apart from tiredness, yet it has helped quite a bit with the depression.

My son has been taking Prozac for several years, for anxiety. It has been very helpful. We've seen no side effects.

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It sort of worked, but not all that well. I got rid of my depression mostly through physical exercise.

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I am currently taking 10 milligrams a day (half a pill).
I have changed a bit recently but that was before I started taking it, so it is not related, unless Flouxetine Sandoz has time-travel capabilities.

My grandpa started taking it when he was about 70 and one of the results was he stopped pounding back the vodka - and not only at breakfast, either. Really though, all its effects were positive.

It worked for me, 20 mg a day, it helped me with anxiety and obsessions provoked by the stress of my Ph.D.

Soon I was so positive and cheery that my mother thought I had a secret girlfriend, she didn't know I was on Prozac.

Only side effects were tiredness and weight gain, perhaps a difficulty in remembering things after I stopped taking it (or alternatively prozac gave me a memory boost when I was on it, that I lost when I stopped taking it).

Same as Zoloft I'm on, for the most part.

It helps with the panic attacks, which means it obviously lowers my overall level of anxiety. I've never been depressed. It usually takes a higher dose to work on anxiety compared to depression.

It just increases the level of serotonin your body has.

Other psyche medications just add more things to the mix--adding dopamine, lowering the effects of adrenaline and/or histamine, increasing gamma-blah blah acid (benzodiazepines), and/or whatnot.

It's good to look at what the specific neurotransmitter it affects, and then you can do some research on what function that has on the body. The leaflet in the medication packet will describe the specific neurotransmitter (serotonin in this case).

Prozac for four years. Has worked for the most part, but I now think I need a medication adjustment. No side effects.

Thanks everyone of you, its so good to hear how your experiences were. Son is dealing with AS, social phobia, OCD (mild) and depression and anxiety. All this because of an awful school.

That stuff knocked me out . . . along with having a rapid heart rate (wound up taking3-4 hour naps in the middle of the day). Course, anything that keyed to Serotonin messed me up.

I've had bad experiences with Prozac and other SSRIs. They make me more depressed, sobbing for no reason and even suicidal. Only some people are affected in that way, but it's something to be on the lookout for.

Long-term use of SSRIs actually diminishes your body's sensitivity to serotonin and causes your brain to produce less of it.

When people say that it 'increases serotonin' what they mean is that the immediate effect is that already existing serotonin acts longer on the receptors in the brain because the reuptake (removal) of serotonin is inhibited.

But in fact SSRIs don't work by 'increasing' serotonin and they never have done.

Long-term use of SSRIs causes the receptors to become desensitized to serotonin and signal to your brain to produce less of it. That's why long-term use of antidepressants turns people into 'zombies'. You become numb at the best of times and suicidal at the worst.