Starting Luvox

[reb38]

I'm taking 100mg of Luvox in the AM tomorrow. It's for anxiety; and probably other things the doc noticed out of me in a 30 min session. I take Prozac already, aswell as lithium and clozaril and given my rations of klonopin.

I know it will take weeks to really take effect but is there anything good or bad I need to know? I'm fine with side effects, they all go away.

 

[daturetard]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, no, the side effects of long term use of psychiatric medicine do not go away. They become easier to deal with, but antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is one of the worst withdrawals due to the fact that it is essentially never ending. Research 'brain zaps'.

I think if you're already taking an ssri, then the doc should either up the dose of that, or switch it. (That or try add on therapies with different moa's) Mostly I'd recommend switching it entirely. If you're needing additional antidepressant meds, your SSRIs aren't doing what they should be.

Time to explore new options. TCAs, atypical antidepressants (ie: welbutrin/dxm, ketamine, debatably buprenorphine/samidorphan and there is even a scopolamine treatment for depression [at least in trials], surprisingly. Not tianeptine, that shit is fucked), even MAOIs.

Ssri's are really not the best drug for anxiety anyway. Benzos, gabapentin, carbamates, another good one most people don't think about in the first place for anxiety is clonidine. Hope this helps.

 

[reb38]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, no, the side effects of long term use of psychiatric medicine do not go away. They become easier to deal with, but antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is one of the worst withdrawals due to the fact that it is essentially never ending. Research 'brain zaps'.

I think if you're already taking an ssri, then the doc should either up the dose of that, or switch it. (That or try add on therapies with different moa's) Mostly I'd recommend switching it entirely. If you're needing additional antidepressant meds, your SSRIs aren't doing what they should be.

Time to explore new options. TCAs, atypical antidepressants (ie: welbutrin/dxm, ketamine, debatably buprenorphine/samidorphan and there is even a scopolamine treatment for depression [at least in trials], surprisingly. Not tianeptine, that shit is fucked), even MAOIs.

Ssri's are really not the best drug for anxiety anyway. Benzos, gabapentin, carbamates, another good one most people don't think about in the first place for anxiety is clonidine. Hope this helps.

My prozac is at its highest dose. I feel like shit everyday and think I'm gonna take it.

I was thrown off Zoloft years ago by a terrible doctor and the withdrawals were unbearable. Absolute the worse thing that's ever happened to me in the psychiatry world.

 

[reb38]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, no, the side effects of long term use of psychiatric medicine do not go away. They become easier to deal with, but antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is one of the worst withdrawals due to the fact that it is essentially never ending. Research 'brain zaps'.

I think if you're already taking an ssri, then the doc should either up the dose of that, or switch it. (That or try add on therapies with different moa's) Mostly I'd recommend switching it entirely. If you're needing additional antidepressant meds, your SSRIs aren't doing what they should be.

Time to explore new options. TCAs, atypical antidepressants (ie: welbutrin/dxm, ketamine, debatably buprenorphine/samidorphan and there is even a scopolamine treatment for depression [at least in trials], surprisingly. Not tianeptine, that shit is fucked), even MAOIs.

Ssri's are really not the best drug for anxiety anyway. Benzos, gabapentin, carbamates, another good one most people don't think about in the first place for anxiety is clonidine. Hope this helps.

I've fought through several side effects and have come out the other side ok miraculously

 

[MedicinalUser247]

Luvox is primarily used for OCD. Does your doctor consider you Obsessive Compulsive ?

 

[emkee_reinvented]

Fluoxetine a long lasting SSRI and Fluvoxamine its predecessor, with some CYP enzyme inhihibitions addited.

Why prescribe them both at the same time, 2 SSRI s.
One a contraindecated one many time due to enzyme inhibition. along Fluoxetine. Weird dr. i myself would at least check for interaction.

edit: checked but Luvox is just brandname fro Fluvoxamine, you got a real weird dr.

 

[kreativsniks]

Have some experience with Fluvoxamine, took it for ~4 months or so. First of all, I suggest starting with 25-50mg, then titrating the dose up, if necessary, till you reach desired dosage (which is 100mg's for you).

While it made some of my anxiety better, overall it made me feel weird & had some side effects I didn't like (sexual dysfunction, low libido, couldn't stop bleeding if I cut something).

It has reputation for being a drug which restores cognitive defects, but as with all AD's, I didn't feel like it helped me apart from numbing me. I guess I'm just like many other people on here - a strong dislike for SSRI's for whatever.