Prozac dose increased to accomodate anxiety

yesterday my dose of prozac was increased to help to take care of my anxiety. it is not at 40 mg. i did not know this but my doctor said that the dose must be at 40 mg in order to have any effect on anxiety. he also said that all of my extra anxiety was probably not caused by the prozac at all. i found this to be very interesting.

interesting, well, my best advice is, give it two weeks max, thats how long it should take any medicine to really get kicking in ya, and ask if it's safe to stop cold turkey at that high a dose, and one more thing, if the anxiety gets worse, flush that ###$ $#%^ down the shitter!! i had that problem with abilfy, well, somthing like it, and i lost a month and a half of my life, don't be me

moramind wrote:interesting, well, my best advice is, give it two weeks max, thats how long it should take any medicine to really get kicking in ya, and ask if it's safe to stop cold turkey at that high a dose, and one more thing, if the anxiety gets worse, flush that ###$ $#%^ down the shitter!! i had that problem with abilfy, well, somthing like it, and i lost a month and a half of my life, don't be me

thanks for the advice moramind but i am already finding that this higher dose is calming me down. every day i feel a little less anxiety now and i just started on the higher dosage a little under a week ago. i think that prozac is a very good medication and i recommend it to anyone who is newly diagnosed with depression. the 40 mg dose is great. it is improving my mood and lessening my anxiety. it is overall improving the quality of my life.

however i still am going to have to attend a new charter school that is project based due to my social anxiety disorder.

oh yeah, my bad, ur right, i rem when i had my risperdal upped, it wnet from like seeing 150-200 things a day, to like 120, then to like 100, then to like non! so yeha, upping meds can be quite wonderful, man i'm just scared though, becasue i started risperdal on .5 and worked my way up as things got worse, well, now i'm starting at 2mg, i'm just hopeing that this doesn't put me in a coma for like two days!

moramind wrote:oh yeah, my bad, ur right, i rem when i had my risperdal upped, it wnet from like seeing 150-200 things a day, to like 120, then to like 100, then to like non! so yeha, upping meds can be quite wonderful, man i'm just scared though, becasue i started risperdal on .5 and worked my way up as things got worse, well, now i'm starting at 2mg, i'm just hopeing that this doesn't put me in a coma for like two days!

yeah well i hope that everything turns out ok for you. one medication that i am in love with right now is ativan. it helps me calm down a lot and it doesnt make me so drowsy like risperdal does. it is my one little ray of sunshine.

I don’t take Prozac but would like to know more. It’s scary to me that it can mess up brain like that; I wonder why it happens and is it dangerous. I want to know more effects of Prozac so far I got:

1) Bright flashing lights hallucinations
Are there colors? Do they disturb slipping? Does it hurt?
2) Sexual drive
Does it follow any pattern? Does feeling just come?
3) Mood swings
Can it get worse than you ever wore?
4) Works for depression20 and anxiety (40mg higher dosage)
5) Addictive?
6) High like on drugs?
Happy even when you have bad day?
7) Numbness
& See people out of corner of eye
& can’t distinqush dream from real life
Isolated
You don’t want to talk to anyone? What happens?
9)Brain shocks?
Did the bright hallucinations got worse? What happens?
9) Does anyone know about long term side effects?
What are they?