Posted by therese desqueroux on January 30, 2002, at 18:46:36
In reply to Re: Prozac akathisia driving me nuts » Noa, posted by MB on January 28, 2002, at 22:26:12
Isn't liquid Prozac available in smaller doses (I understand it's more expensive)?
Unless the Prozac is helping you tremendously, I would vote to ditch the Prozac. Prozac is the only other drug I've taken in 12 years that worked
but ultimately I had to quit it (I think I had reached a 60 mg dosage) because the akathisia was unbearable. I kept wondering if this was like having St. Vitus' Dance (which I've never actually seen), or I would compare myself to the little girl in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes." A woodcutter has to chop off her feet to put the poor girl out of her misery and the feet still go dancing off into the wood. By the time I stopped, I was seriously considering whether I should tie one of my legs to my bedstead at bedtime because, in addition to jumpiness, it made me keep visualizing jumping out of a window, and I was rehearsing it repeatedly in my mind . . . one . . . two . . . three. . . .I'm taking a small dose of Prozac in a cocktail now and fortunately have not experienced similar problems.
> I'm already on such a low dose of Prozac (10 mg) that it wouldn't really work to lower it any further.
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> MB
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