Taking prozac and xanax
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For the past several years, I have been developing anxiety which at first I believed to be a form of GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), but more recently appears to be related to seasonal changes (SAD), since the pattern of anxiety begins in September and gets worse as the days grow shorter. My doctor has prescribed Prozac, 20mg daily for about 6 months and Xanax, .5mg twice a day as needed, 40 total.
and celexa over the past two yeaars...........so is it ok to drink it with the xanax and prozac........i had a couple i and i thought i got a buzz..which has never happened when i was on ativan or klonopin.could it be my imagination? several pharmamsits have said its ok to drink some with xanax and prozac.........years ago i drank real beer with xanax every day and i mean alot of beer and nothing ever happened...
I am able to live with my attacks (which can get really bad at times) and I actually have a fear of taking meds. I think the only thing I will take is a child's dose of tylenol only when I have a fever or migrane. I have discovered that taking Vitamin B Complex capsules have helped reduce my stress and anxiety levels. Also, I still love taking Flinstone vitamins, on top of the vit B complex. I feel great when I don't miss out in taking one a day.
Hello there!
A lot of people are afraid to try medications. It's true that you don't know how you'll react to it, but honestly, Prozac has a pretty good track record. MOST likely the worst thing that will happen is that you'll experience some start up side effects, which will improve after about 2 weeks or so. Out of all the antidepressants, Prozac is one of the better tolerated.
Be careful with the Xanax.
When I first started suffering from anxiety, I was prescribed Ativan and it nearly ruined my life. I became completely numb, followed by episodes of severe anxiety. After one month, when I realized that the Ativan was making me sicker, I went of immediately. I suffered some withdrawal symptoms and later learned that going "cold turkey" was not a good idea.
I began to get better, despite the withdrawal, but a few months later I had some very stressful experiences.
Since adding wellbutrin on june 10th to my prozac which i am now up to 50 mg and xanax and adderall i have devolped a tummy...its fat i have never had this problem before Im still feeling depressed but functioning...dont see my dr for 3 months,i would like to just go off meds,im taking a vitamin b cpmplex now and emergenc hoping the vitamins will help....
I got a new dr and he says i am depressed and put me on 20 mg of Prozac...as some of u know i have had problems for some time..well today is my 4th day on the prozac and he also had me stop my ativan and put me on a high dose of xanx 6 mgs....but im not taking that much he ssiad i could play around with the xanx dose,,,but i feel kinda more depressed today and im so drowsy and dizzy and my walking is bad kinda feel like im in slow motion and just cant walk good cause of the dizziness.
I am currently on 20 mg of prozac and .5 of xanax. The insomnia from the prozac is crazy. I have a prescription for trazadone but do not want to take because of the interaction with the prozac. Ive been reading about melatonin. Has anyone tried taking it for sleep? Did it help? And will the insomnia from prozac get better and how long would that take?
I recently got off Vicodin on January 2nd. It became addictive. I've been on Xanax for 10 years and I am tapering. I'm taking 1-1/2 mg. per day and I started taking Prozac at 10 mg. per day a week ago. I am experiencing racing thoughts, discomfort with my heart beating, clammy, smoky taste in my mouth after sleeping, horrible Anxiety buzz (Which begins with the racing thoughts), sore temple, tightness in head.
Out of curiosity, what makes you want to stop taking the xanax and start taking something else like Prozac? I did opposite in my experience. I was taking several when I was first diagnosed, but really hated it - now, with therapy, I have a prescription for .5 xanax and 20 lasts me about 4 months - I take it only when I absolutely have to. Good Luck. Oh, and no matter what always talk to your doctor about your different options and what the resulting benefits/disadvantages there are.
So stopping them is the really hard part, not the side effects of taking them. Prozac is one of the easiest to stop taking but not necessarily the most effective for anxiety, but a good one to start with to see if it works. But if you have the discipline and are willing to work hard and since you are still functioning okay in life, I'd give therapy a good hard try or two first.
I've been on prozac13 yrs, my therapist retired and isn't prescribing meds anymore just got cut off prozac and xanax can't find a doctor to prescribe my Prozac until I can find a new therapist close by. I'm ADHD(just recently discovered that) I suffer from anxiety and endometriosis. Its been around 5day's or so without prozac. Withdrawals are starting they will get worse everyday. I'm terrified and why won't a primary doctor give me prozac?
hi since march 3 i have been on prozac and xanax i have depression and anxiety...im a bit bettter but my dr said prozac is very stimulating and im not finding that im still depressed and dragging around....are others on prozac and xanxax with luck.....dr is thinking of adding a amphetimine when i next go back to see him...im thinking like ritalin or something....its been almost a month shouldnt i feel better...does xanax make the prozac not help with depression or something?
My doctor prescribed Xanax and a low dosis of Prozac and said to give it a try because she feels it is anxiety and stress (eventhough I don't feel anxious or stressed out) that is causing the strange palpitations considering that they have done all the necessary tests and determined that my heart is healthy ha, ha.... I have not been taken the medicine because after I got home from the pharmacy and read all the side effects (sucidal thoughts etc.) I got scared and decided not to take it.
why would my dr put me on it knowing the xanax would affect it when he prescibed the xanax and prozac/...and i drank 6 non alkie beers the other night and felt like i got a buzz that is odd i have drank the stuff for 2 1/2 years with no effect..pharmmist said it might be that im on higher dose of xanx then i was the ativan.......or it was in my head a botttle has less thn 0.5 percent alchol by volume......
If I had to stop taking zoloft, I'm pretty sure prozac and xanex is a no-no. Talk to your doc.
I dont know whats up im feeling way dizzy and my walking is worse than ever...have been on the xanax since tuesday night and the prozac since wed morning,,,i was on prozac last year and so i dont think its if unless its the difffernt branad before i was on teh 20 mg thee pills were two tone green these ones are blue..or maybe its the xanax..i was having walking problems before but now its bad..maybe i just need to get used to the xanax im not taking the 6 mg yesterday i took 3 mgs........
I don't think you got my point. I don't think it's good to take adderall if you suffer anxiety, and you don't take speed to counter the tiring effects of taking too much Xanax. This just sounds really nutty to me, and I don't see a safe way of doing it, but that's just me. I'd like you to see a different psychiatrist and see if this makes any sense at all, but that's again my opinion.
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