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Posted by lexman on June 11, 2004, at 22:13:33
I have been on prozac 20 for 5 weeks and i just upped my dose yesterday to 40mg.I also am taking klonopin .5 when needed. i took .75mg today.i think i am building a tolerance to it.I was also wondering does it make u depressed.I have been on it for over 4months.The past 2 days i have been severely depressed.I havent been eating and i have been sleeping during the day.Does prozac make u have more anxiety? i thought it was suppose to help.
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Posted by chemist on June 11, 2004, at 22:21:24
In reply to Does klonopin make u depressed?, posted by lexman on June 11, 2004, at 22:13:33
> I have been on prozac 20 for 5 weeks and i just upped my dose yesterday to 40mg.I also am taking klonopin .5 when needed. i took .75mg today.i think i am building a tolerance to it.I was also wondering does it make u depressed.I have been on it for over 4months.The past 2 days i have been severely depressed.I havent been eating and i have been sleeping during the day.Does prozac make u have more anxiety? i thought it was suppose to help.
>
> aka lexman now proman
hello there, chemist here. prozac is very activating, and i suspect that either the klonopin is overprescribed OR that you have reached a plateau with prozac. time to either reduce dose for klonopin and/or swithc from prozac to a second-generation SSRI. all the best, chemist
Posted by SLS on June 11, 2004, at 22:23:56
In reply to Re: Does klonopin make u depressed? » lexman, posted by chemist on June 11, 2004, at 22:21:24
Klonopin can definitely make some people feel more depressed. It does me.
- Scott
Posted by Sad Panda on June 12, 2004, at 0:02:14
In reply to Does klonopin make u depressed?, posted by lexman on June 11, 2004, at 22:13:33
> I have been on prozac 20 for 5 weeks and i just upped my dose yesterday to 40mg.I also am taking klonopin .5 when needed. i took .75mg today.i think i am building a tolerance to it.I was also wondering does it make u depressed.I have been on it for over 4months.The past 2 days i have been severely depressed.I havent been eating and i have been sleeping during the day.Does prozac make u have more anxiety? i thought it was suppose to help.
>
> aka lexman now proman
>Hi Lexman,
Benzos can be depressing, it's part of the reason why doctors prefer not to prescribe them. If Prozac doesn't help & you have already failed a Lexapro trial then I would consider a TCA trial. Nortriptyline would be a good first TCA to try as it has mild anxiolytic qualities while having less side effects than the tertiary TCA's. A short term option to Klonopin would be to try Ativan, Valium or Xanax.
Cheers,
Panda.
Posted by SLS on June 12, 2004, at 7:56:29
In reply to Re: Does klonopin make u depressed? » lexman, posted by Sad Panda on June 12, 2004, at 0:02:14
> Benzos can be depressing, it's part of the reason why doctors prefer not to prescribe them.Klonopin seems to be particularly so. Probably because it messes with serotonin.
- Scott
Posted by gabbix2 on June 12, 2004, at 15:37:02
In reply to Does klonopin make u depressed?, posted by lexman on June 11, 2004, at 22:13:33
Klonopin works well for some people, but made me dangerously depressed. It took different trials of it and three suicidal depressions for me to realize it was the Klonopin. I guess I was a little slow to catch on :(
Posted by SuzieWong on June 13, 2004, at 8:35:29
In reply to Re: Does klonopin make u depressed? » lexman, posted by gabbix2 on June 12, 2004, at 15:37:02
If this is of any use, you might be interested to know that I took 1mg of Valium on Friday in the hope that it would get rid of the agitation I was feeling and yesterday I was so depressed it was unbelievable.
I can only assume that it was the Valium that did that. Equally, for you it could be the increase in Prozac. I've been taking Prozac for 7 weeks and have experienced depression like I have never known (although it has got gradually better) since taking it.
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