Anxiety/Depression Episodes While on Fluoxetine

[Eugene]

hi, as the title says im currently on Prozac Fluoxetine i take 2 tablets a day. but i used to be on 1 tablet a day.. then i had a slip-back with my anxiety getting all the usual symptoms Hot/Cold Flushes, feeling nauseas anxious and generally very sad..

so i increased my dose by a little going back to liquid form.. this helped again i didnt have anxiety for a while.. untill a few months back where i had a major slip-back with rly bad anxiety/depression. so then the doctor increased me to 2 tablets a day..

once again it was working great i didnt have anxiety for ages untill 2 weeks aggo i began feeling extremely depressed and so guilty thinking... "why am i like this i have nothing to be depressed about theres people far worse off than you" and that made me feel so guilty i could hardly bare to live with it... luckily my friends were online on my game to give me support witch helped me pull fru... but i think this might be a side affect of my medication

last night i dont know why but i couldnt sleep at all last night... i was tired and calm and relaxed but couldnt sleep at all..

so i've only had about 30 mins of sleep maybe and im tired out today.. but earlier today i was eating and as i was about to finish off my meal i felt abit nauseas and that triggered an anxiety attack witch i have now been having for the passed 2 or 3 hours, could i be having an attack because of lack of sleep? i've pulled an all-nighter befor and not got anxiety so i dont know :S

i've posted on these forums before and i remember somebody saying that maybe prozac isnt the best medication for me, that theres better ones to take.

sorry if the post is to long to read but i thought it would be easyer for you to help me out if i talked about it more, please can some1 give me some advice im quite worried that once i become immune to this medecine there will be nothing to help me fight the anxiety

[Aubergine]

Hey there.

I was on fluoxetine when I was a teenager. It worked brilliantly for a good while, but stopped working eventually so I switched to something else. The first thing I tried (citalopram) didn't do anything for me, but the second med post-fluoxetine (venlafaxine) has been a life saver with regards to both mood and anxiety. So don't worry about there being nothing to help, because there are LOTS of different medications to try.

The anxiety could be due to lack of sleep. I know I get terribly anxious when I feel tired/don't get enough rest.

Other than medication, is there anything else that helps you when you feel anxious? Meditation? Relaxation exercises? Exercise? Meds will do so much, but often there are other things that you can do alongside them that are really useful. :)

[Eugene]

i do try breathing techniques sometimes, but when im having an anxiety attack i just cant bring myself to do it even if it only takes like 10 secconds or so its too hard to clear my mind and focus on the solution

[Eugene]

k, well slept good last night, just been training(exercising) witch i havent done for a long time. feeling better so hoping ill be ok