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Prozac SSRIS

  1. 2019-03-06 at 9:31 PM UTC
    #1
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I know some of you niggers take this shit. If you currently take one if them, tell me why. Do you take because your dr tells you to, or becquse it actually helps you?
  2. 2019-03-06 at 9:40 PM UTC
    #2
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    I have taken a variety over the years, but recently gave them the good ol' college try and sustained a high dose of fluoxetine (Prozac) for almost two full years.

    I only recently started tapering, though, because any improvements were kinda subtly and lacking, whereas the negative side effects were a lot more impactful.

    I just did a cost-benefit analysis and decided to taper.

    (BTW: ALWAYS taper with SSRI's... You get some really weird and scary symptoms if you don't.)
  3. 2019-03-06 at 9:41 PM UTC
    #3
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Oh, and the reason I was prescribed them was, incidentally, not for depression, but for OCD.

    It's supposed to be somewhat effective in some cases for OCD when taken in higher doses.
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  4. 2019-03-06 at 9:50 PM UTC
    #4
    GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
    Have had brain zaps. FUCK SSRIs. I mean if it works for someone then great, that's fucking awesome. But every single type of anti-depressant I've ever been prescribed has made me feel like shit and given me all sorts of weird symptoms.

    One of the strangest was I think with either zoloft or amitriptyline, where all soda felt completely flat on my tongue. I don't know how that can even be a side effect but it was.
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  5. 2019-03-06 at 9:51 PM UTC
    #5
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Originally posted by gadzooks Oh, and the reason I was prescribed them was, incidentally, not for depression, but for OCD.

    It's supposed to be somewhat effective in some cases for OCD when taken in higher doses.

    May have known that a while ago but forgot. Could be helpful for that for me, but I don't recall any reduction in those symptoms when I took them.

    Paxil wd was bad, and I only took it for a few months (took other a lot longer). Brain Zaps are real.

    Prozac seems to be a lot less common these days. Never was offered it. Drs nowadays seem to have a hardon for Lexapro and Zoloft. Paxil was becoming less common when I took it, but I had a retirement age psych.
  6. 2019-03-06 at 9:54 PM UTC
    #6
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Originally posted by GGG Have had brain zaps. FUCK SSRIs. I mean if it works for someone then great, that's fucking awesome. But every single type of anti-depressant I've ever been prescribed has made me feel like shit and given me all sorts of weird symptoms.

    One of the strangest was I think with either zoloft or amitriptyline, where all soda felt completely flat on my tongue. I don't know how that can even be a side effect but it was.

    This. Never had ami, but lexa took my appetite away. STAY AWAY from mirtazapine. Had it in rehab for sleep for a few days, and it made me dead tired the entire time, but ironically did next to nothing for helping me sleep. Same with trazodone.
  7. 2019-03-06 at 10:32 PM UTC
    #7
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by DietPiano STAY AWAY from mirtazapine. Had it in rehab for sleep for a few days, and it made me dead tired the entire time, but ironically did next to nothing for helping me sleep. Same with trazodone.

    The absolute worst meds for inducing all day fatigue as a side effect are antipsychotics.

    I've also been prescribed mirtrazapine the past few months (in conjunction with the prozac), and I noticed some fatigue during the day.

    But, after having been prescribed seroquel (which is even more fatigue-inducing / energy draining), and even olanzapine (FUCKING NEVER AGAIN!!!!1 - that shit made me sleep for 16 hours, and then barely be able to muster the energy to stand up to go the bathroom, let alone DO ANYTHING WHATSOEVER productive).

    I DO NOT envy schizophrenics who have to take that stuff DURING THE DAY.
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  8. 2019-03-06 at 10:34 PM UTC
    #8
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Originally posted by GGG Have had brain zaps.

    The brain zaps are fucking weird. Not only annoying, but kinda scary as well.
  9. 2019-03-06 at 10:38 PM UTC
    #9
    mikeyagain African Astronaut [unalterably regard the persecutor]
    Originally posted by DietPiano I know some of you niggers take this shit. If you currently take one if them, tell me why. Do you take because your dr tells you to, or becquse it actually helps you?

    I take it, cause your Doctor, told me, posting with you, would make me need it..
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  10. 2019-03-06 at 11:49 PM UTC
    #10
    GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
    Originally posted by mikeyagain I take it, cause your Doctor, told me, posting with you, would make me need it..

    Read this in Stevie's voice from Malcom in the Middle.
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  11. 2019-03-07 at 1:38 AM UTC
    #11
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    i take 50mg seroquel at night and am 2/3 of the way floored within an hour. I can't imagine taking 200-1300mg during the daytime like they do.
  12. 2019-03-07 at 1:59 AM UTC
    #12
    34nfi4w8g3wnfge4j93qrj309jg Houston [my metonymically tentacled thales]
    I used to but not anymore
  13. 2019-03-07 at 2:19 AM UTC
    #13
    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Originally posted by DietPiano i take 50mg seroquel at night and am 2/3 of the way floored within an hour. I can't imagine taking 200-1300mg during the daytime like they do.

    I took seroquel for 3 days and it made me so tired I felt worse than when I was just standard depressed. Maybe it's supposed to go away after a while? I guess I won't know since I stopped.

    Prozac is the only medication I've taken that worked, as far as I could tell. Only negative side effect for me was the lack of boner ability which was easily remedied with viagra (which is actually a lot of fun).
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  14. 2019-03-07 at 2:28 AM UTC
    #14
    Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
    I took Lexapro during my time as an aspiring murderer. I was very depressed at the time, and it didn't help. I've since stopped taking it, now I aspire to genocide. I enjoyed the brain zaps while they lasted.
  15. 2019-03-07 at 2:32 AM UTC
    #15
    GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
    Originally posted by Zanick I enjoyed the brain zaps while they lasted.

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  16. 2019-03-07 at 2:40 AM UTC
    #16
    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Yeah I got a few zaps on lamotrigine. Didn't mind em really. Little head rush basically. Maybe they weren't zaps at all.
  17. 2019-03-07 at 3 AM UTC
    #17
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I take lamotrigene but I dunno if I really feel it or not. Thought I did at the beginning, but I think it's probably helpful for stabilizing my mood. Oh yeah, that's why I take it, I forgot.

    Would like to try lithium tbh, but then I wouldn't be able to take ibuprofen and it might interact with ither stuff too so idk. Also it goes hard on organs so maybr not.
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