HELP FLUEXOTINE

[Els92]

HELP im currently 21 weeks pregnant and recently been put back on fluxeotine due to my mood dipping low and anxiety starting to creep back in. im on day 16 of taking fluexotine and really struggling with the side effects. do i keep going ? do i stop the medication ? 1 day i think im improving and the side effects are settling...the next i feel just as bad as when i first started them. shakes, sweats, dry mouth, trembling hands and legs, foggy confused feeling in my head unable to concentrate for long, constant nervous feeling, spouts of heart sinking and total fear and dread rushing over me. ive noticed the increased anxiety is 1000 times worse on a morning when i first get up. im taking propanonol 10mg on a morning as soon as i wake to prevent me getting so anxious. just looking for reassurance others have also experienced this. im worried i wont get better and this is me becomming really poorly and not the side effects of the medication. i feel like a pest keep ringing the GP because they keep saying 2 weeks is still early ride through it till at least week 4.

[Clonazepam05]

Well Fluoxetine takes time to work: about 4-6 weeks. Side effects are normal in first few days. But don’t worry they’ll go away. The symptoms you listed sounds more like symptoms of anxiety than side effects. What you need to do is believe that you can overcome the anxiety. Ik it’s hard but you have to tell yourself you are stronger than your anxiety even if you don’t believe that now yourself. The first few days are going to be hard. There will be days when you will feel overwhelmed but you have to keep on believing that you can overcome your anxiety. You have to fight; drugs will help you fight but they won’t fight your battle for you. So stay strong and believe in yourself. I have been where you are now and believe me you can win.

[Els92 in reply to Clonazepam05]

thankyou so much for your reasuring supportive reply it means alot to know im not alone. ive been here a few times with anxiety and know ill eventually get back to having it under control i suppose im just wanting a quick fix which i know isint the case its a slow process. i also think most of the physical symptoms im feeling are infact anxiety but this has increased massivly since starting fluxoetine and some of them are infact symptoms of the tablet e.g dry mouth sweats increased anxiety etc. Just really wish it would stop i want to enjoy my pregnancy not be crippled with anxiety every day dreading getting out of bed. ive been taking the fluexotine for 16 days now and feel no further foward. so frustrating.

[Clonazepam05 in reply to Els92]

Yes keep strong. Don’t worry my anxiety also escalated when I started the pill. It can happen. I still have some bad days. But everything will get normal soon.

[Els92 in reply to Clonazepam05]

what tablets esculated yours and how long did it last ?

[Clonazepam05 in reply to Els92]

The Dr told me Fluoxetine will take time to work. For the time being he put me on clonazepam (SOS)