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Prozac scare
by hitman60, Apr 26, 2008 07:07PM
Ok, I go back to my doctor because I am having horrible anxiety.....mostly because I think I tried to taper from .5 mg of Klonopin too quickly...still looking for that answer.
He tells me to start back on Prozac which I have done 2 other times. The only symptom I got before was the "Yawns"
This time after day 4, I got hit in the middle of the night with horrible anxiety, agitiation, pacing and I was sweating profusely. I took my .5 mg of Klonopin which settled me a bit, but the next day, I felt like I was on the verge. My doc told me to take 1 mg of Klonopin and that settled me down. The next day I was better, but discontinued the Prozac and went back to .5 of Klonopin.
I can't believe that a medicine can react to you totally differently when you restart it.
He tells me to start back on Prozac which I have done 2 other times. The only symptom I got before was the "Yawns"
This time after day 4, I got hit in the middle of the night with horrible anxiety, agitiation, pacing and I was sweating profusely. I took my .5 mg of Klonopin which settled me a bit, but the next day, I felt like I was on the verge. My doc told me to take 1 mg of Klonopin and that settled me down. The next day I was better, but discontinued the Prozac and went back to .5 of Klonopin.
I can't believe that a medicine can react to you totally differently when you restart it.
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Try reposting it with his name...just sent you a note with his particulars...
this one i know about, you could say i am an expert. the hasty taper schedule is what caused ALL your symptoms not the prozac.
kcdem
I felt the same way when I was stopped Serzone a few years ago due to the liver problems that the drug was supposed to cause.
I will probably return to an SSRI once I finally get off this damn 05 mg, but I cannot find anyone to tell me a schedule. People have suggested RCA, but I do not know the guy.
Someone suggested that I taper using another benzo, but I don't want to go there.
Many weeks ago I tried to ween myself off of benzos----That is the scare I refer to in the post directly above, not the Prozac scare of the original message