Hello, anyone have experience with Prozac? I’m on 20 right now, was started on 10 initially, very uncomfortable and anxious. I know I’ll need to up it but also need to give it some time, only been on it a few weeks. Anyone find that it really helped them and at what dose seemed to be best. My ocd is intrusive/ distressing thoughts. Thank you

I had a similar experience, my panic attacks and anxiety got worse, and I had the worst persistent insomnia. I was scared of telling my psychiatrist I was suffering for almost 2 months and I realized that was way too long. Although there is an adjustment period for SSRIs, your medication shouldn’t continue to be making you feel worse. If your doctor recommends the higher dose, and it helps that would be great! Although, if it continues don’t hesitate to tell your doctor to stop it! I was also on 20, so maybe going higher would be beneficial? I’m not a doctor and these are just my experiences, but there are definitely better suited meds out there to try if this doesn’t work out 😊 also my only other advice is DON’T cold turkey it! This can be dangerous. Hope you feel better 🙏

I am on prozac for 12 years at 60mg per day. It has helped me to reduce my anxiety so that I can practise behavioural therapy. To treat OCD, SSRI must be taken at high dosage & for at least 10-12 weeks to see if it helps you.

I tried Prozac, also called Fluoxetine... I seriously didn’t enjoy it. I began having terrible anxiety, panic attacks, couldn’t sit still. I Couldn’t concentrate, I felt like I was losing my mind, I really thought my symptoms were getting worse. But I believe they were side effects of the medication. I changed to Sertraline 100mg and never felt better. I think I was on 20mg Fluoxetine, but it seemed to increase the anxiety, as it never subsided completely... I just thought this is me from now on?

Hello , thank you for your response, yes sounds similar to me it’s like a roller coaster I could be feeling great literally singing in the shower yesterday and today was anxious all day.. mine is for ocd/ intrusive thoughts. Right yeah definitely I know I need to give it time and I know it’s a super low dose, it just sucks feeling like this as we all know. But thank you for the feedback I appreciate it and hope you have positive results as well!

I am in almost the same boat. I was on 10mg for a week, then 20 mg for 4 weeks, and this is now my second week on 30mg. I was tapering off Zoloft for the first month though so it’s hard for me to tell what side effects are from which medication. So far I feel like it helped really quickly for depression but it doesn’t seem to have done much for the anxiety and ocd. I realize that I’m on a low dose still though. Before this I had been on Zoloft 200 mg for over 5 years (the equivalent is 60-80mg of Prozac). The journey to find the right ssri is a long and complicated one.

I’ve been on 40mg of Prozac everyday for about 6 months. I absolutely love it, I do still have symptoms once in a while but it’s truly given me my life back from ocd!!