Well, I'm almost 99 percent sure I'm currently having prozac "poop out". I've been on it for about a year with amazing results. I have worked my ass off dealing with anxiety and behaviorally, improved without drugs. But i still always had this feeling of the engine revvvvving within myself, an awful feeling that occurs pre-panic attack was pretty much a constant in my life. I tried exercise, diet change, meditation, prayer, everything, and still it persisted, until I started prozac. I'm on a super low dose but it seems as if it kicks me down to a level of tolerable anxiety. Now after a year of being on it, I'm back to panic attacks out of no where. I feel like the prozac had simply stopped working, which is sad because it worked soooo well the past year. Has anyone else experienced an SSRI that simple stopped working? What did you do? I want to stay on prozac because it as been great, but does that mean I should wean off of it for a while?
I found Prozac to be completely ineffective...it did absolutely nothing The solution I have found for these problems Is simply think about them. I think about the reasons behind depression and anxiety. Elaborate, specify and describe your feelings. Examine your thoughts carefully and try to determine a reason. If you think that there is no reason for your unhappiness, that you are just a victim of circumstance, that the anxiety has no cause, then it's going to be hard. You need to express this energy in some way I doubt your going to find answers with drugs. Do you really want to depend on some person or some substance to bring you happiness? Or do you want to develop your mind and control your emotions, and become responsible for your feelings.
I never played around much to effect the SSRI, Paxil. Seems that a lot of family spying was going on, they didn't know how to face me and I sure didn't know what to tell them. It wasn't great weed, nothing special to tell your mom to eat it.
First I was on zoloft, then it stopped working, so I went to prozac. It worked well for a long while but then it stopped working. I just tried other medications. I'm still a teenager and my brain is always changing; my therapist thinks as my brain changes medications may not work anymore.
that sounds like ptsd. the medical treatment for that is beta-blockers and ssri meds. prozac works best if it is combined with a low dose of buspar. you stated you are on a low dose of prozac. what do you mean by "a low dose?" a "low dose" is 20 mg. or below. a "low-medum dose" is 40 mg. or below. a "medium-high dose" is 60 mg. or below. a "high dose is 80 mg. above 80 mg is toxic. more then likely, what you need to do med wise, is see your psychiarist for a re-evaluation of your meds. if your gp has been treating your condition... HE/SHE MUST REFER YOU TO A PSYCHIARIST RIGHT AWAY! GPS' DON'T HAVE THE SKILL OR TRAINNING IN THIS AREA! if you are on a dose of 20 mg. or, 40 mg. most likely all you need is to have your medication dose adjusted. most likely you don't have prozac 'poop out.' one year on prozac or, any other ssri, is not enough time to find the long-term therapeutic dose! it sounds most likely that you have only been on a VERY short-therapeutic dose. see the psychiarist and, let us know how things are going for you.
About every anti depressive I have taken has given me adverse reactions. For example the last five. Wellbutrin, a constant ringing in my left ear and a severe thought and attempt of suicide. Zoloft and Prozac, non stop yawning(quite annoying). Celexa made me sick to my stomach and has seemed to permanently worsen my anxiety and panic attacks. Paxil made me very angry and near violent. Now I am on Mirtazapine and feel neutral with very little side effects, but it is supposed to act as a effective sleep aid and I am not seeing why they claim this, due to It has no effect as a sleep aid for me at all. Lorazepam I have found works well for my panic attacks. It does not get rid of them but makes them tolerable.
I had the same problem and change to Zoloft. It works very well with few side effects for me. Good luck
