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gnomexxx
Member Posts: 2,920
Do any of you guys take Prozac?
The reason I'm asking is because I went to the doc for headaches and he prescribed it to me along with another med called Zomig.
I'm kind of scared to take the Prozac though. I've bought the medicine but everytime I go to take it I chicken out. I'm afraid it's going to make me weird or something.
I've got to get rid of these headaches though. I've tried everything and nothing works. Tylenol are about as effective as Jolly Ranchers along with all the other meds I've tried.
If anyone else is taking Prozac, let me know how it makes you feel. Maybe if it's working on others then I will go ahead. Actually, I probably will since my head is hurting everyday and effecting my work and sleep. I just have to get the balls to swallow the first capsule.
The reason I'm asking is because I went to the doc for headaches and he prescribed it to me along with another med called Zomig.
I'm kind of scared to take the Prozac though. I've bought the medicine but everytime I go to take it I chicken out. I'm afraid it's going to make me weird or something.
I've got to get rid of these headaches though. I've tried everything and nothing works. Tylenol are about as effective as Jolly Ranchers along with all the other meds I've tried.
If anyone else is taking Prozac, let me know how it makes you feel. Maybe if it's working on others then I will go ahead. Actually, I probably will since my head is hurting everyday and effecting my work and sleep. I just have to get the balls to swallow the first capsule.
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I've heard it kills your sex drive and makes your weenie stay limp.
I have a friend who is a girl who takes it though. She says it works. She said at first for a couple of weeks it made her muscles tight but then that went away and now she is able to relax and concentrate better.
Those brain meds scare me too.
Funny, I would say that, considering all the illegal crap I've taken. LOL.
I generally stay away from any sort of pain killers. I have to have really bad pains if I'm going to take them. They all have bad sides. Liver injuries, depression, suicide thoughts and so on. No thanks.
Alot of doctors are too detached to tell you or care what kinds of side effects you'll face, which is why I suggest the independent pharmacist's opinion. By all means excercise every precaution dealing with drugs of this nature, but at the same time don't let fear destroy something that might help you.
But she's taking something else. Effexor. Sorry.
But she said that the first few weekso of Effexor were really weird. She said she felt like someone was shocking her every once and a while. But that her doctor told her to stick with it and it would go away. And it did.
She says it's helping her now. She's always been depressed. Even when we were little kids like around 4 and 5 years old she was sad about stuff for no reason and really shy, no matter what my parents tried to do.
She's a lot better now.
I think maybe anti-depressents work for some people and for others they don't. She is enjoying her life now though. And I'm happy for her.
Give it a shot. You can always stop taking them if the don't work.
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It all seems so stupid
It makes me want to give up
But why should I give up
When it all seems so stupid
Tell us what happens after you take them though.
And after you take it go here http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf
I got this from a different post on the other page..
Blorg
Effexor is actually a rarely prescribed med now. My sister's husband was on it, and help him, but it is physically addicting. They didn't know this until round a decade ago though. Prozac is also generally a semi last resort now also though. People go into withdrawl from it also, but not as bad and not as long term. Also has lower success rates than newer meds.
Now days lexapro and such are far more common to prescribe due to fewer side effects. (there are other similar meds, just probably the one people recognize the most) they are the latest tier drugs.
As far as headaches though, that kinda makes no sense. But there are 2 general types of headaches and one type called vascular could benefit from the med combo listed...but kinda a half assed way to treat it.
Things like proponal for vascular headaches have fewer side effects, are available generically, lower % of population is allergic, and is generally covered by all insurance and avilable from most sliding scale care. Makes little sense to me.
So if you are a happy well balanced person who is suffering from bad headaches or migraines you should not be taking Prozac. It is possible to get headaches as a side effect of taking Prozac.
And if you have your bad headaches or migraines and suffer depression, try the migraine meds and seek counseling.
Better still, google these medicines and read up on them. The problem of private health care is that they get money from you having problems, so it isn't easy to tell if your doctors are being overzealous with prescriptions for financial reasons.
In that case why did they prescribe a more costly and less effective medication thatn the standard vascular headache medicines?
"Off label usage" is basically the same BS they used saying Zyprexa was an effective anti depressant and manic...guess what it wasn't FDA approved (and by other countries) for those uses for a reason....it has a high tendancy to give people diabetes.
Off label usage means it is not approved for that use. Many meds used for off label are often later matters of law suits for a reason.
If your doctor is not a psychologist/psychiatrist and is prescribing prozac for anything you need to find a new doctor. I'd suggest he should probably lose his licence but unfortunately this kind of thing has become very common the last couple decades.
Your doctor may have no clue about prozac and is just trying drugs at random for your headaches (do you like being his guinea pig?)
Or they know a little about prozac (but not it's dangers) and have decided your headaches are psychosomatic, not real, and should have given you a referral to the aforementioned specialists and not prescribed it themselves.