Posted by minimal on March 27, 2006, at 17:51:53
In reply to Less depressed OFF Prozac, posted by Maxime on March 27, 2006, at 15:53:04
> I stopped taking Prozac last week (80mg)
I am not sure if enough of 80 mg/daily of Prozac is out of your system in just a week to judge whether your feeling better is a long-term effect of Prozac withdrawal. It has such a long half-life (9 days?) that it seems from 3 to 6 weeks in necessary to gauge how you are faring in withdrawal.
> I swear I am less depressed. Is this possible?
I do think it possible that you could be less depressed off Prozac, especially when it reaches its threshold of effectiveness. After I was on it for a year, so many of the bad side effects became really harsh: daytime sleepiness, lethargy, a sustained low level depression, weight gain, haziness, etc.
I am in the process of a slow withdrawal now. I recently dropped from 7.5 mgs to 5 mgs after 4-6 good weeks on 7.5 mgs and my first days at 5 are only ok. Slight return of some sypmtoms of depression. Let's hope they subside like they did after 2-3 weeks at 7.5 mgs. But indeed, at 7.5 mgs (augmented with fish oil), I was less depressed than at higher doses (15-20 mgs) of Prozac alone.
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