Evil psychiatrist

[Luna-blade]

My recent psychiatrist prescribed for me Prozac or Fluoxetine with my current meds: Zoloft, venlaxifine 75 mg and depakine 500 mg chrono for my pure OCD. She did that to wean me off from venlax and zoloft gradually while keeping prozac 20 mg. It has been years I am taking the same treatment and it is working the best for me except when stress increases, then I would relapse a bit only to overcome it in the coming days. Apparently, I am her lab experiment since she likes to write articles about medical cases.

What happened is that upon administering one prozac pill for three consecutive days, I felt dizziness and unwellness so I quit it and informed her of that. She got annoyed but could not argue with me further due to my life long experience with anti depressants. After quitting the med and keeping my old treatment, I was no longer the same person. It seems that prozac and zoloft should not be given together as they create a dangerous build up of serotonin or what is generally known as serotonin syndrome. I had never had hypertension in my life! Yesterday, I could barely walk feeling dizzy confused inarticulate and checked my blood pressure to find that it is 14/9 while it was always 10/7 or 11/7.

Today, I am not well and feeling dizzy since it is said that it takes time for prozac to leave your system. I stopped all meds to decrease the serotonin level in my body.

Never been like that in my life. She almost killed me if I weren't a bit knowledgeable about meds....

[Luna-blade]

Thank you for your reply. I had to stop it because the serotonin level was very high due to the interaction between prozac and zoloft. That is why my blood pressure was wavering between high and low. Not until today that my blood pressure started to stabilize. It seems prozac takes a long time to leave one's system. I intend to start taking again my old treatment as usual once the confusion and drugged effect wear off. I was barely able to walk today due to all of the violent interaction in my system. Thank you again for your caring message.

[Joshgw]

You're right, it doesn't make sense to mix 2 ssri's. That's big nono. You were right to stop it.

[Luna-blade in reply to Joshgw]

Thank you for your reply. Yes I'm currently suffering from serotonin syndrome due to that. I hope my situation stabilizes within the coming few days.

[RayannAbbey]

how are you now? I had sertraline then stopped it and was given flouxetine. I couldn’t tolerate the side effects so had to stop. Going through withdrawals !