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Mental Health Clonazepam 2mg vs Prozac
- Thread starter Masa
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Quick update to anyone who is interested.
After taking 40mg of Prozac yesterday at 4.00 pm, I actually slept for about 7 hrs straight last night from 10pm (first time I slept so well in at least 2 weeks). This morning, I woke again at 5 am, took 2 x 20 mg Prozac and 2 x 0.5mg Clonazepam and slept for another 3 hours. I am awake now and only feel a little anxious in the stomach, nothing like the gut-wrenching morning anxiety I started to get all of a sudden last week. I didn't experience any nightmares (or dreams at all) or flashbacks or intrusive thoughts upon waking (thank god), which I had daily pretty much for the whole of last week.
Although I really do not want to take it, I guess I am back on Prozac...it was really like I was losing my mind the last few days...and the worse my mind got, the worse my anxiety and mood got...
Prozac makes me gain massive amounts of weight, gives me acid reflux, makes me apathetic and lazy, not to mention to the sexual side-effects At least that is what it did before. I was OK without it for the last 6 months, but the last couple of weeks (addition of a sudden massive stressor) have been hell.
Yesterday, I started at 40mg instead of the prescribed 80mg. I don't want to build a massive tolerance to it and end up having to take ever-increasing doses or something else. I'm afraid it will stop working on me...I might only take 20mg tomorrow, come to think of it. I will look into CBT when I feel a little bit better (brain is still a bit frazzled...)
After taking 40mg of Prozac yesterday at 4.00 pm, I actually slept for about 7 hrs straight last night from 10pm (first time I slept so well in at least 2 weeks). This morning, I woke again at 5 am, took 2 x 20 mg Prozac and 2 x 0.5mg Clonazepam and slept for another 3 hours. I am awake now and only feel a little anxious in the stomach, nothing like the gut-wrenching morning anxiety I started to get all of a sudden last week. I didn't experience any nightmares (or dreams at all) or flashbacks or intrusive thoughts upon waking (thank god), which I had daily pretty much for the whole of last week.
Although I really do not want to take it, I guess I am back on Prozac...it was really like I was losing my mind the last few days...and the worse my mind got, the worse my anxiety and mood got...
Prozac makes me gain massive amounts of weight, gives me acid reflux, makes me apathetic and lazy, not to mention to the sexual side-effects At least that is what it did before. I was OK without it for the last 6 months, but the last couple of weeks (addition of a sudden massive stressor) have been hell.
Yesterday, I started at 40mg instead of the prescribed 80mg. I don't want to build a massive tolerance to it and end up having to take ever-increasing doses or something else. I'm afraid it will stop working on me...I might only take 20mg tomorrow, come to think of it. I will look into CBT when I feel a little bit better (brain is still a bit frazzled...)
I hear ya mate. I tried Prozac many many years ago and I HATED it. Can you talk to your doctor about trying a different antidepressant?? There are SO many different meds you can try. Personally, it took a decade and trialling about 6 different meds before I found the one that worked for me.
Ya, I might see if there is an alternative...In the last two days, my stomach feels full of battery acid and I keep getting acid reflux...(that's the Prozac working) That's only after 2 days...