Posted by Elizabeth on July 15, 2001, at 16:48:32
In reply to Re: Prozac AKA Benadryl???, posted by Sharon Renee on July 14, 2001, at 11:23:29
> It seems that if it is making you tired then it is not the right medicine for you. I took prozac and
> I felt more awake and alive than ever. They started me on something
> else and I could hardly keep my eyes open. It may be that you're chemistry just doesn't respond to the prozac.How come you changed to something else? It sounds like the Prozac was doing you good.
I've read speculation that people who get tired on Prozac might be metabolising it either too rapidly (so the fatigue would be caused by the active metabolite norfluoxetine) or too slowly (in which case the tiredness would be the result of too high a ratio of fluoxetine to norfluoxetine, the assumption being that fluoxetine is causing the drowsiness). I don't know if anyone has investigated this further.
-elizabeth
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