early prozac side effects
sorry this will be long to read if i just get one response i’ll be happy tho!
I’m a 17 year old girl (18 in a month) and i’ve recently been prescribed prozac for my intense anxiety. my anxiety stems mostly from medical anxiety or from fear of death anxiety. my doctor put me on 10mg of prozac to help with anxiety and i was on that for about a week but i also was prescribed extended release ritlian. i was on 20mg but it wasn’t enough apparently so i got it raised to 30. admittedly, i wasn’t really paying attention to how the ritlian was making me feel i just wanted more of an appetite suppressant since i do have a history of an eating disorder. That dose of ritlian made me have to go to the ER because everytime I would stand up my heart rate would sky rocket to around 160. I don’t allow myself to wear my apple watch anymore and since then I have lowered my dose back down to 20 and it helps with focus and doesn’t make me as extremely anxious as the 30mg did. but i got prescribed a higher dose of prozac because when we had a bad storm after school i didn’t do anything but pace around the house for hours listening to the weather channel. i got over 15k steps just pacing around the house. so then my medication was raised and since then i’ve been on 20mg. i didn’t notice much at first but recently i’ve been having a lot more trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. on Monday night I didn’t sleep the whole night. Then I was awake for over 40 hours till I fell asleep from the help of my dad but even then I would fall in and out of sleep and I still didn’t get nearly enough sleep. I missed two days of school. I didn’t go yesterday or today. I also had no appetite yesterday and could barely eat and felt really nauseous i felt nauseous this morning. also i didn’t take the ritlian yesterday or today because i didn’t see why i should take something to make me awake or anxiety worse. i’ve lost a lot of weight but i’ve also been in a calorie deficit for awhile. been putting a lot of strain on my body walking 15k steps a day and eating 1200 calories. been doing that for about three weeks or a bit more. my body has been in constant flight or fight mode and it is exhausting for not only me but for my familt and i feel awful for them and i want to get this under control. does the prozac eventually get better? i desperately want it to which is why im determined to ride it out but i hope that it will soon get better. has anyone else experienced something similar? any advice? i’ll take anything. i feel rather depressed right now.