Posted by flipsactown on August 7, 2004, at 8:26:09
In reply to Extreme anxiety from Prozac, posted by SuzieWong on August 7, 2004, at 5:43:00
Hi, I've taken 80mg of Prozac for over 7 years until it finally pooped out. My guess is you're probably needing an increase in dosage. It sounds like your anxiety has gotten worse as your body adjusted to the low dose Prozac. Discuss an increase in dosage with your pdoc. Good luck.
FST
> Can someone please tell me if they have suffered extreme anxiety while taking Prozac.
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> I have always been an anxious person and suffered with social phobia, panic attacks etc.
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> I've been on Prozac now for 3 months, very low dose, and I can't believe the way my mind is acting which I can only put down to the Prozac I think. It seems to make me have obsessive thoughts, they get worse then better and now worst again. T
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> The obsessive thoughts are like my mind is racing, my skin prickles with anxiety. The anxiety is to do with the thoughts that I'm going mad. That all of this is really me being led towards dementia etc. Its like i'm anxious about everything but not in the panic attack style. Its like it makes me really hot, makes me catch my breath, makes me go weak in the legs etc.
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> I don't want to stop taking the Prozac because I had to take it to curtail the side effects of withdrawing from Celexa. I actually feel well physically and whereas I used to always worry about being ill I'm now worrying about going mad and that i'll be carted off to an institution while going mad etc. Its like I'm claustraphobic about being in my own body.
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> Someone please tell me this might be something to do with the Prozac rather than it being me.
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