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GenLx

a few questions first. who prescribed the prozac to you, if it wasn't a psychologist/psychiatrist, remember that the person who finishes last in med school is still called a doctor and those people end up doing pediatrics(not saying all pediatricians are flunkies and bottom of the barrel, some doctors truly enjoy it and are great at it, its just that the vast majority dont fit that category). if you haven't talked to someone who knows about this and has gone to school for it and has been doing it for years, do so. your insurance will cover it. that is the person who can find the right meds for you. not to mention, they will know the right combinations and doses of which to make them work for you. i didn't do that for a year and it was hell. finally went to my therapist and layed everything out and boom, we had a few options to go with. talked to my family doctor who semi-specializes in this, and boom, we had something figured out. so far it worked for a solid 2 years. i got off it because i found myself not needing it anymore.

for myself i was on 300mg welbutrin because it also helped with my add and dyslexia but it wasn't quite enough so they added in 10mg of lexapro. for me, because my doc(therapist) knew my symptoms, knew which drugs and which mixes to try out that would have the highest chance of working, and it did. unlike a run of the mill family doctor who prescribes prozac and amoxicillin to everybody because the problems fit in category "A" so they get treatment "A". there is a LOT more to depression, than just feeling blue

my advice from a person whose been on and off most drugs on the market, get off the prozac. it was the worst possible thing i ever took medically, i never felt worse on it. but, that decision is up to you. because the drugs work differently with each person, maybe it will work for you. but, i recommend going to an alternative drug that has a better success rate and less severe side effects.

the not concentrating thing is a side effect of your brain chemistry being messed around with by something thats not your brain. hence, side effect. i had that with prozac for the first three months and it never went away. neither did the insomnia.

if you decide to quit it, and i advise talking to someone first about it, prozac is nice in the fact that it has almost no withdrawal affects. you can quit cold turkey and feel very very slight and short lasting withdrawal affects that will last a day, maybe two at the most. and they will not be severe enough to interfere with your daily functions. other drugs can however. effexor had me almost blinded, nauseous and in complete vertigo and phsyical pain when i cold turkeyed it.

if you feel any sort of withdrawal affects, simple solution. take half pills on your regular schedule for 3-5 days instead of full pills. after 5 days, skip every other dose. after a week or so, once a day, and so forth.

honestly, get your *** into a clinical psychologists office, one or two visits would be all they'd need to get a better baseline of what you need to get better.

RNPoo7

I went to a family doctor and he said I was showing symptons of depression. I know wasn't despressed. Granted I get upset every once in a while because of school crap getting to me but I know it wasn't serious.


He gave me Lexapro and that crap made me much worth. I got off it and won't go back.

B16CRXT

The only reall side effect I have is like I said, the headaches. The inability to focus was before I satrted the prozac. It seems to be working for me righ tnow and pretty wuick I might add. I guess I'm not extremely depresed. Working with ppl who can make you laugh is a booster as well. I have been wired and focused (Sp) all day today. Finally getting some ---- done. Thanks for the advice and concern guys. I appreciate it greatly.

B16CRXT

Forgot to mention the person who prescribed it to me, is a dr. that works at "Doctors Care". He asked me what sypmtoms I Was having then he asked if I had anythign giving me any stress and I couldnt think of anythign at first then my dad's wife came to mind. I hate her. but he said that I might also have somethign called Seasonal Affective Disorder. I think thats what he called it. Says that usually ppl from teh north get it when winter comes around and its not sunny and nice outside anymore. I dont think that had anythign to do with it is my case. Especially since its been more like a spring than a winter here this year. Cold as ---- teh other day though. MAde my face burn....crazy..

I'm just damn wired right now, but I feel pretty tired.....I need to go to bed, but I'm ------- wired....I can live with being wired and restless as long as I can focus and ----. That was getting rediculous. I couldnt even take the time to check email, or open physical mail. I still have a big pile of mail and a new maxim to go through. If anythign good or bad happens as a result of the Prozac, I will bring this back to let you all know. thanks for the encouragement guys

GenLx

to make seasonal depression go away, go tanning. clears it right up. no joke.

Tom-Guy

Any significant dose of UVA/UVB will clear SAD up. Been there, done that. Since it was near-70 today (and I'm an hour north of B16CRXT) I was out in the sun all day to combat it.

As a kid, when sick, I used to sit in a room with a UV light going for thirty minutes a day. As an adult, I left an 8 watt UVC light going across the room, to erase some windowed 27C256, for about four-five hours... and ended up with the worst case of welder's flash in my life. Sunburnt eye sockets, eyes that wouldn't lubricate, agonizing for the first couple days. I couldn't go out in the sun without it hurting my eyes for a couple days, after that bright light would just make them reflexively close and I couldn't make them open. I had to drive with sunglasses on cloudy days for the first week, and then after I got a certain amount of light exposure my eyes would reflexively close anyway and I'd have to pull over in the emergency lane while trying to crack a lid enough to see, let my eyes rest with a dark cloth over them for a while. I saw rainbows around stoplights and streetlights and headlights for MONTHS.

Uh, yeh. UVC light is some bad ----. It causes genetic damage, among other things. Primarily used to sterilize aquariums and suchlike.

B16CRXT

I'm almost 100% positive this is stress related. But it also has somethign to do with the weather, because yesterday it was cloudy and rainy all day and I was just tired all day, but the day before it was nice out and I was fine. Its supposed to clear up today and get up to 62, so hopefully I wont be tired all day again.

EDIT: I'm gonna go buy some tylenol PM to help me sleep at night. I'm a m4d light sleeper now. If there is ANY noise, I wake up and cant fall asleep until the sounds are all gone. They keep my mind racing, so when I wake up at like 4 am, and finally fall asleep at 5, and my dad gets up at 50, I'm fucked.

Dr.Boost

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DraginX

I had a severe anxiety/depression attach a while back after running my own business for a year while being right on the edge of loosing everything, and it really fucked me up. I litterally couldn't do anything, I could barely even talk without emotionally going off the deep end. I went in to see my family doctor and could barely even explain to him what was going on. He put me on Bromazepam, and within a couple days I started to feel better. A couple days after that I got a call for a job interview with a very well established company that pays well. That cheered me up big time, I eventually got through all the interview process and got the job and never looked back at the pills til now to see what the name was...
This was the worst thing I ever went through in my life and wish you the best, sometimes a small change in your life makes a huge difference. Get out of the house, go do something you enjoy, play some sports, etc... Personally I would go and get a second opinion, Prozac doesn't sound like it is helping much. Also maybe you should take your father aside and talk to him about how you feel, if that is really what is causing you all the problems simply getting it off your chest and telling him will take a huge weight off your shoulders... Also as hard as it is just try not to think about being all messed up, sometimes if you dwell on it, it gets worse. Good luck man you'll pull through this