Not Sure About This Medication
I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago that the doctor put me on Prozac. I had high hopes for it. But so far it doesn’t appear to be helping much, and it’s producing a highly undesirable side effect: I’m staying sleepy all the time.
She said it would take a couple of weeks to start working. Well, it’s been a couple of weeks, and I don’t really feel any better. I’ve read online that it can take up to six weeks to reach its full effect, but it would be nice if it would start doing something soon. Other than making me feel constantly exhausted.
But I’m going to hang in there until I go back to the doctor at the end of the month. I’ll just have to fight the urge to sleep all the time as best I can until then. Too bad I don’t have some exercise equipment to jump on and start working out when I feel myself fading. Guess I could try cleaning house when I need a boost. That’s something that I need to do anyway.
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Hang in there. Those types of meds DO take weeks to work effectively.
Those that tend toward depression usually take a Prozac-type drug.
Those that tend toward anxiety usually take a Paxil-type drug. (I’m an anxious person and Paxil works for me, but took 5+ weeks to take effect.)
Had a friend who started on Prozac and it made him worse (was not the drug for him since he tended toward anxiety). He is now on Paxil and MUCH better.
Stay with it. If you get worse, contact your doc. If not, stick with it until you go to the follow-up. It takes time for them to find the drug that will work for you.
Thanks for the advice. Normally I’m more depressed than anxious, but lately it’s been the other way around. I’m going to keep taking the Prozac until I talk to the doctor again next week and see what she says. I just hope she can find something that works soon, because I’d like to get back to some resemblance of normal.