Confused about Prozac

[Alexapal]

My doctor wants me to go up to 60 mg from 40 mg. I was on 20 mg and I was ok with Clonazapam...then I tapered off clonazapam and I got back into deep depression I went up to 30 mg got worse then 40 mg and I am unable to function I have pure fear now I am confused because they said try 60 mg I said I was scared so she said go back to 20 ....now I hsve no idea what to do. I am loosing days in bed my motivation and will are not there...I really am in bad shape I am scared as I have never felt like this I go to doctor's snd I feel I sm getting nowhere.

[Hidden]

Prescriptions for depression seem to be an art as much as a science. Many medications take a long time to have an impact, and your sleep, nutrition, exercise and other factors impact how your body responds to medication. For what it is worth, my prescription for prozac was increased from 40mg to 60mg two weeks ago and I am finally starting to feel better after many months of darkness. I don't know whether the increased prozac dose helped, but I plan to stay at the dosage for awhile. Whether or not you think a medication will be effective also has a big impact on how effective the medication actually is for you of at all. So try to be optimistic even if you are in a dark place.

[Alexapal in reply to Hidden]

It has been many months of darkness too I was on 20 mg I started to feel better then when I increased to 30 and 40 mg been on it for weeks I started to bot get out of bed they wzbt to increase to 60 but I got scared so she said go back to 20 I sm so so so confused as it was working at 20. So I am not sure weather to go up or back down to 20. Thank you for answering can you tell me how you started prozac and how you got up to 60....I am on the generic brand

[Hidden in reply to Alexapal]

I originally started prozac (generic) after I suggested that I try it to my primary psychiatrist. She had me only at 20mg. Then another psychiatrist told me. I should be at a higher dose and told me to go to 40mg prozac and start bupropion. So I had been taking 40mg prozac and 300mg bupropion and it still didn't seem to be doing that much and so I suggested to my psychiatrist that I try an increased dose and the 60mg she prescribed seems to be helping, although I have finally been sleeping and eating a bit better which I think may make the medications more effective and then I sleep even better and start a positive trend. The little I know about medications I learned online, is I know very little. I have seen a number of psychiatrists and they all had different ideas of what medications to take, but medication changes and even changes in medication doses can take weeks or longer. I don't think you need to be scared about increasing the prozac dose.

[gajh]

Is your prescribing doctor a general practitioner or a psychiatrist? "I was ok with Clonazapam...then I tapered off Clonazapam and I got back into deep depression" Was it discussed to put you back on Clonazapam? I know how much you are suffering right now. Have you thought about going inpatient in a hospital to figure out your medications and get more support?