Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: sue bot on December 16, 2016, 07:01:05 PM
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Hi anyone take these tablets for anxiety I chocked on some food a few months ago was not to good eating at first but it got better I have just been on holiday and while I was there I started feeling really anxious about eating out and started to feel panics we where self catering so I stared eating in but the more I thought about the more my throat closed up
So visit to the doctor today he prescribed 20 mg of fluoxetine anyone else's take them and can they be addicted
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Sue bot- hi! I take 100mg fluoxetine for OCD. You cannot get addicted to ADs. You go on them gradually and you come off them gradually. I have to take mine for life.
You may feel worse when you start taking them,but this will pass,and if you can tolerate that, then you will begin to feel better in a few wks. X
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Thanks for reply I stared taking them on Saturday but noticed a few headaches but I will carry on with them to see if it passes
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You may feel a little 'hung over' initially ……. that should pass.
B4 this recent episode, had you been OK with eating? Anxiety makes my stomach tighten for example so I can't eat anything ….. but when I'm OK than I am OK!
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My husband has been taking fluoxetine since 2002 for severe depression and it is a life saver literally. He knows he will have to take it for life because every time he has tried to come off it the severe depression comes back so for him chemical imbalance is truly true!
He had very mild stomach effects and heaadaches for first 3 weeks but they settled down.