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Re: starting prozac today

Posted by JohnL on September 5, 2001, at 4:57:06

In reply to starting prozac today, posted by adamie on September 4, 2001, at 21:19:45

Adamie,
I just wanted to give you my support. Also a reminder, since you have not tolerated other antidepressants well, remember the orange juice trick. That is, empty the contents of the Prozac capsule into a glass of orange juice, stir it well, and drink just 1/8th to 1/4 of it to start with. Save the rest in the fridge. Next day stir it well again, and drink another custom sized very small dose. Increase your dose size as tolerated. For me, I started by taking several little sips throughout the day. This way you can smoothly get onto the drug with minimum risk of worsening or side effects. And no matter what happens, try to stay with it long enough until you can add the Adrafinil to it. Even if you are on just a tiny dose, that's fine. I say that because in my experience the combination is far better than either alone, and it doesn't often require large doses to do it.
John

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> hi. after my bad experience with some anti depressants I decided to give another a try. So far i've been on paxil, stopping it somehow created a short miracle of improvement compared to feeling quite numb and just quite bad while on it. effexor made me think of yucki suicidal ideas. turned mind torture from barable to unbearable. I just had to stop it. The first day I took it I felt worse. But thought it would pass. I also have been on wellbutrin in combination with zyprexa. I seemed to have something improved. maybe some motivation but why was the mind torture worse? so overall I didn't like it. I went off it. I felt no activating effect from the wellbutrin at all. no extra energy. my tired usual self with very poor concentration. I would have stayed on the meds longer if I hadn't felt worse. if a med makes no improvement but not worse mentally eighter then I can wait it out deffinetly. Hopefully that will be the case with the traditional prozac. my depression was caused by accutane which can be quite different from usual depressions. So my specific case wont react like expected. I dunno what it is but something those meds did made me worse. I am not supossed to go from feeling very very bad but waitable to feeling suicidal. things are better now that I am off meds. well except 5htp but I doubt it's doing anything. So tomorrow I start generic prozac. I hope this will be the last med i will need to try. It's supossed to stimulating. exactly what I need. I sleep far too easily and if there's no school I can remain in bed until I've had 11 hours of sleep. and weight gain it causes which is good for me. too thin i've been. so perhaps it will work well. if not then i will try some new classes. a revisible m-aoi. taineptine. of course adrafinil which is in the mail. so i will keep on trying meds until something works. is there anything i should expect in the first few days of prozac? if there is an initial mental worsening effect does it absolutely go away afterwards? thanks for reading. wish me 'luck'. which is a fake word.


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