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[Celticmandy1972]

Hi i have been given fluoxetine from doctors for anxiety to do with menopause but i am waiting to see if i notice a difference with my changed and upped patches first as i have only had the patches changed 3 weeks, i am not an anxious person for anything but hate the feeling from menopause and can anyone tell me if they were fine when they started fluoxetine because they gave me setraline before and i felt horrendous and told them to put on my records i never ever want that again and just wondered if fluoxetine would be the same and i know sometimes these take a while to settle but just need a wee bit advice from someone who is on fluoxetine.

[Losingtheplot]

Hi CelticMandy1972,

I have just read your post and have only recently started coming back on the forum. I am also restarting Fluoxetine as my anxiety has come back with a vengeance!. I noticed the hot flushes returning weeks ago but also the mood swings, irritability, brain fog then more recently the panic attacks and early morning dread and fear. Its all crept up on me and I had put it down to work stress!
Obviously when the hot flushes appeared I recognised this was peri symptoms resurfacing after a good 2.5 year stint on HRT.


I have a history of anxiety and depression and it is abit of trial and error with which Ad will help you. Fluoxetine has helped me greatly in the past, however can take a few weeks to work. Other Ad's such as Seroxat which I took aged 18 were horrendous and made me suicidal.

I stopped Fluoxetine in June 2025 as I felt in a great place and had done for 2 years. I am 12 days in to restarting it with an increase in HRT too. Its only been 3 weeks for the increase so early days but some symptoms have settled hot flushes went after a few days. The anxiety and panic are still here.

Did you start the Fluoxetine and if so how are you getting on?