Prozac side effect ( DO they go away)

[lilpie]

Hi i have been on prozac now for 3 1/2 weeks but just upped to 20mgs last week. Now I am have insomnia real bad cant sleep and if i do fall alseep i wake up a lot throught out the night. Is this normal side effect if so how lng does it last?? I take my prozac when i wake up and even take ativan at night but still cant seem to sleep more than 3- 4 hours. I am even running to tire me out. I am so tired and work 50 hrs a week called my dr no call back yet.  But she said to give it 6 weeks though last time i her  I just feel like i am taking a lot 20 mg prozac in the am 40 buspar  am and noon and ativan as needed. And still no sleep / and some anxiety.  Should I keep taking it?? Or go back to my old meds I used to take tofranil PM and valium as needed but after a month or so cut out the valium completly and was just on tofranil did really well on it eventually weaned off and was fine but them symtoms came back I didnt to therapy tohugh this time i am .  But My Dr thinks tofranil isn't good for anxiety but i know it helped me beofre what should i do advice please I want to get better
  any prozac experiance would be appreciated thanks

[29sillygirl]

Glad post has been moved to anxiety forum...much more appropriate:).  Agree with Maddie...but didn't want to frighten you with the whole story of my experience with Prozac!

I felt just as she did on it.   Took a trip to visit my brother, as doctor said I'd be back to myself within weeks...haha.   I was a mess.  Felt like screaming with anxiety.  Honestly don't think it has ever been so bad.  Couldn't enjoy visit.  Stayed in my room most of week.  

I felt completely out of control .....so not back to myself!!!   And this was at a time when the drug was being touted as the best thing since...hmmm ....wheat bread:).

On the positive side....there are many drugs that work...systems all differ. Effexor works well for Maddie....It is your body...your choice....   best luck.

[4Maddie44]

Hi, I found Prozac was wrong for me.  I was ten times worse with it.  The anxiety was such that I was so agitated I could not settle, and shook all the time.  It was hell.  I went back to doctor, and said a psychiatrist had once said I should not take it.  This doctor had not listened to me when I told him when he prescribed it.

I took it for a month.  The side effects were bad too.  Worse drug I ever took.  I know it suits some people.  I am on Effexor 150mgs now, and the anxiety has gone.  So I found a drug that suits me.  We just have to keep trying until we find the one for us.

If you found a drug that helped you, then ask for that again.  It's your body.

[Michelle411A]

Sounds like the Prozac is too stimulating for you.. I would switch to Celexa if possible.. I took Prozac and it made my anxiety worse :(

[29sillygirl]

Kept me awake all night every night.  Have tried a couple of times ...always same problem, even when taking clonazapam with it.

As anxiety is my core problem, it is definitely not for me.  I need sleep to function.