r/Fluoxetine

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Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on something that’s really confused me.

I’ve recently discovered that several of my fluoxetine capsules have been completely empty. So far I’ve found 7 empty capsules, and they came from two different manufacturers. When I look inside them, there’s only the faintest dusting of powder — basically nothing.

I’m trying to understand how this could happen, and how likely it is for this to occur across two different manufacturers one after the other.

For context: my partner sorts my medication into a weekly pill organiser, so I don’t know the exact order the capsules were taken out of the blister packs, or exactly when the old box ended and the new box began. I only realised something was wrong because I dropped a capsule, caught it between my fingers, and when I squeezed it, it bent far too easily — that’s when I noticed it was empty.

I’ve also been experiencing what feel like fluoxetine withdrawal side effects for at least a couple of weeks, so I honestly don’t know how long this has been happening.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or knows how something like this could happen?

After years of putting it off, my perimenopause/PMDD symptoms have gotten so bad that I don’t even feel like myself. I’m 43. Today was my first day. I’m nervous and scared as heck. I’m a few hours into 10mg and don’t feel anything yet. Can you all send me good vibes as I’m nervous as heck 🤞🏾

Hi fellow prozac friends! I have a question. I restarted prozac a couples of months ago and decided to just finish an older bottle (like 6 months old) while waiting to get in for a psych appt as i’ve moved across the country. My old capsules of fluoxetine 10mg were green and white and when I restarted I had all the same starting side effects as normal which don’t bother me too much. I recently refilled my prescription and now my 10mg fluoxetine are blue and orange and all of the sudden after I take them I get sooo bloated, which was not a side effect I felt with the green and white ones. My psych said they are the same but i’m wondering if they could possibly have different filler ingredients? Has anyone ever experienced this before? Is it possible for me to request the green and white ones that don’t bother my stomach? Thanks sm :)

I was prescribed fluoxetine (starting at 5mg) and I cannot bring myself to take it.

This isn’t just normal nervousness… it’s like this deep, intense resistance in my body. Not even racing thoughts—just a strong feeling of “don’t do it.” It’s been about 2 weeks and every day I go back and forth.

I’ve read a lot online (probably too much), and I know that can skew negative, but it hasn’t helped my hesitation at all. At the same time, I do want to feel better. I deal with anxiety, overthinking, irritability, and feeling mentally overwhelmed a lot of the time.

What makes this harder is I have an ADHD evaluation coming up in a couple weeks, so I’m also unsure if I should wait until after that or just start now.

I guess I’m looking for real experiences from people who:

- felt this level of hesitation before starting

- either pushed through and were glad they did… or decided not to and found other ways to manage

Did anyone else have that strong “gut feeling” not to take it? And if so, were you right or was it fear in disguise?

I’m not looking to be convinced one way or another—just want honest perspectives so I can make a decision that feels right for me.

Ive been on 20mg for maybe 2 months. First 16 days was the best days of my life. Then I had a bad event woth a substance becaude my body wasnt used to the fluoxetine. I skipped a day and then went down to 10mg. I was only on it for a week before I begged my doctor to bring me back up again as I was in a worse state than before my medication.

For a couple weeks I was in a bad state but slowly got better. About 2 weeks ago I was completely used to the medication, I could use substances with no negative side effects such as serotonin syndrome. However I hate the medication I do not want to be on it. I only went on it because I could not handle living at home anymore and I needed help from medication.

Now ive just been wanting to get off it, the last two weeks I was skipping days but now I haven’t taken my dose for about 5 days. I only have one tablet left anyways of the 20mg.

I despise prescriptions I really do and I don’t think there is any that could help me. I’d rather stick to non prescription things such as ashwaghanda energy I found to help me jave clarity, be less stressed, more calm, have more energy, more uplifted.

I am too lazy to taper off the medication, plus from what I have heard all the cold turkey symptoms are the same symptoms you may get while you are on the medication, which is the symptoms i was already struggling with. So really thete is no difference.

What the fluoxetine made me feel was just not caring. It didn’t exactly numb me, I just didn’t care about anything. Didnt care about myself, my friends, my family, my future, my school work, my job. I just simply didnt care. It kind of did help me push through school however it only gave me the bare minimum. I only just passed my exams (except one) because I winged it, didnt study becaude I didn’t care. And during the exams I didn’t feel that stressed because I didn’t care.

However it doesnt give me that idgaf feeling when I’m at home which is when i need it most. As of now, i havent had any baf symptoms. At first j had a headache every day but it’s been gone now. I have felt more alive, more me, I feel that I care more. I just need to make sure I can get some medicine without a prescription to replace the fluoxetine. So if anyone has any other recommendations please let me know. Ashwaghanda energy works wonders for me, as well as taking b vitamins except apparently my b vitamins are fine.

Im just going to suck it up. Whatever happens happens. I just need to get off the medication. Not sure when I can expect symptoms or what they will be though.

I took 20 mg prozac this morning and accidentally took another 20 mg dose tonight instead of my quetiapine for sleep. Can i still take my quetiapine or should i just try to go to sleep without it?

My daughter on 20 mg of fluoxetine for past few months, started at 10mg. Felt great month ago with that dose , now this past week every day she has been waking up feeling super anxious so much that she actually vomits and her chest is tight from anxiety. She said she knows it’s anxiety because feels it her stomach is uneasy.

Usually as her day goes on it goes away but wondering if this means her dose should be increased or maybe even time to switch med and Thai any not be one for her.

She was originally on setraline for years but moved to this med due to it not being effective any longer.

She was on setraline 100ng at end before the switch.

Anyone experience this and if so did increase in dose help?

I was on fluoxetine for about 5 years, 60mg a day.

However...I was taking it whilst in a very stressful situation, and honestly I think I've blanked alot of details of that time out. When that situation ended, I slowly started decreasing it and have been meds free for 18 months.

I've been doing great up until the last two months when I've started seeing signs of depression and anxiety creeping back up on me (with a new stressful situation, yay for me!). So I have reached out to my Dr and agreed to start a low dose of 10mg to get me over the hill.

As I said before, I seem to have blanked alot of the time I was on it before out. I can't remember how impactful the medicine is, or at least the finer details of it. I know it helped overall, but I dont remember how I coped with new stress factors at the time.

The new situation ebbs and flows. Sometimes there's a few days when things are fine, and I feel ok. Then something happens and I'm having days of just disassociating and feeling extremely low, barely able to get out of bed.

My question, for anyone who has been able to follow this far, is will it make a marked difference on those bad days? I know it doesn't make sadness disappear entirely and obviously doesn't fix external factors, but in my head I'm thinking "im still going to come down with a bump on those stressful days" and wondering if it will make the difference in keeping me a little more level headed and make things a little more manageable in my head on those days?

To be clear, I will be taking it daily, on the good and bad days. I just wonder how much of a difference it will make for those bad days. So anyone who has similar "ups and downs" with life that can articulate how this has worked for them, I would very much appreciate your input!

Hello,

I made a post days about my intense dreams.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fluoxetine/comments/1siva9i/handling_dreams/

An update after 4 days:

*** Not medical advice. DO NOT TRY THIS ANYWHERE***

One for science and control experiment ;)

I tried doubling my dose for 3 days (40 mg every day for 3 days). The annoying dreams stopped! It is more of 'normal ones' now. Need to talk with my GP for sure before continuing.

Will fall back to 20 mg and report back changes. Will talk with GP as well.

Take care everyone!

Cheers!

Anyone noticed this ?