Posted by Bonnie_CA on June 23, 2006, at 15:55:48
In reply to Re: Is five weeks long enough to decide if it work, posted by pulse on June 23, 2006, at 7:09:53
Thank you, I'm happy to hear from someone with GAD also. So Prozac was alright for you? My doctor just called in a 10 mg dose of Prozac (I need to go pick that up soon) because he thinks it'd be better for me than taking 20 every other day. Yeah, I suspected that it was too high because of that floaty feeling. It's like, it made me hypomanic for the first few weeks, and then that finally subsided (thank goodness, that was really annoying!). Then I just started feeling floaty, sort of high when I took 20 mg everyday. When I skipped my dose on Monday and Wednesday, yesterday when I took my 20mg dose I felt just fine, no floaty feeling, no anxiety, just ok. Sooo perhaps I was right in thinking it was too high, and hopefully the 10 mg dose will be just the ticket. I don't want to change meds again (for a third time this year!) because I'm afraid that will screw me up more than just trying to find the right dose of Prozac. Anyway, at least I have a really cheap drug plan, so it's no problem trying different doses.
I have tried BuSpar alone before (worthless!) but I have read online and in other posts that it's good with ADs. I had Wellbutrin when I was taking Paxil, and I didn't notice that it made the sexual side effects subside, and it just made me bounce off the walls. I haven't had any sexual side effects that I have noticed from Prozac *crosses fingers*, so hopefully I won't need any of that. I didn't have any sexual side effects from Celexa either, but it pooped out on me too. Paxil never pooped out on me, but blah, those SE were enough to make me crazy (chubby AND no sex? No thanks!).
Thank you so much for your input. IMO, it has been the most valuable so far. Not to discount everyone else's contributions, but it's great to hear from someone who took it for the same condition I'm taking it for and say that it was alright.
-Bonnie
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