Depression?!

[teemarie]

I started Fluoxetine 20 mg yesterday for anxiety. Today was my second day. I woke up this morning depressed and keep feeling depressed. I went to the ER and they said to quit the medication. Will I have withdraws? Why am I experiencing depression suddenly?

[Hidden]

You should be ok if you only started them yesterday. 20mg is a really low dose. Try and keep taking them as they take a good 6 weeks to kick in properly. You may need to ask for and increase in dose. Could be that the low dose has got your mood to dip quickly.

Once you get the correct dose you will be fine.

[Satsuma]

teemarie When you start anti depressants the first few weeks are often not a good time for most as they increase feelings of suicide. Strange how a medicine designed to help with depression can do this

[Satsuma in reply to Satsuma]

Good that you went to the ER

[Kymm]

Hi Teemarie 4 mths ago I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. My GP prescribed fleuxetine 20mg initially. There was no change in the way I was feeling for the first few days until about day 5 or 6 I started experiencing severe panic article, the one's experienced in the middle of the night were the worst and my depression sunk even lower. I went back to the surgery and as luck would have it the initial GP I saw was off so I saw someone different. She explained that there drugs are all all about trial and error. Drugs that work for one person may not be suitable for someone else. Because I had been in fleux. for about a week. She advised that I stop taking them get them completely out of my system and after a week start a new drug, sertraline. She initially started me with 25mg and increased the dosage by 25mg every 2weeks when I met with her to update her on how I was getting on. Firstly, there were no adverse effects when I stopped the fleux. My advice would be to go back to your GP and try another drug until you find one that won't affect you so adversely. PS Setraline has been great, currently im on 100mg and my moods have been great and I've got loads of energy the only downside for me is the slight nautious feeling after tsking a tablet, but in all honesty that for me is a small price to pay not to feel how i was feeling 4 mths ago. I hope you get sorted. Take care

[Hidden]

I've been on similar meds since january this year, depression can be a long term thing, give the meds time. stay positive, it's not easy but it is doable. good luck.

[Wolfess66]

Fluoxitine takes between 2 weeks to a month to start working. I don't understand how the hospital told u to stop taking it, wen u have only been on it a day. I'm on 60 MG's a day now. An I've been on them 13 yrs.

[honey1699]

Hi, when I started flouxotine it took 2 weeks to start working. It was worse before it got better but I'm so glad I stuck with it. If taking one dose as made you feel worse by stop taking it you won't feel any worse. Before the flouxotine each time I took a new medication my anxiety would go through the roof. I hope you find one that suits you soon. I know what its like. Are you having any help apart from your GP as I had to change drs because mine kept pushing different meds at me, so it made me feel a lot worse. Please try to get the help you need so you can start enjoying life again.