cskrone
10-05-2010, 07:47 AM
Hi -
I am a 26 year old male with anxiety disorder and depression. More recently, I began having strange obsessive thoughts that my doctor thinks is connected to the depression and anxiety and NOT separate OCD.
But, regardless, I was put on Prozac 4 weeks ago. Started at 5MG and now at 15MG. Was "tolerating" it but not feeling any better and then decided to get wasted on Friday night and Saturday and Sunday were HORRENDOUS!!! I could not function, had suicidal thoughts, etc. I took .25 Klonopin and that helped calm me down through the weekend and then decided "screw prozac" and didn't take any yesterday or this morning. I already feel "better" but, obviously, without meds, I have the obsessive thinking/depression/and social anxiety.
My doctor thinks that the negative thinking is STILL due to underlying depression and wants me to, instead, RAMP UP the Prozac to the 20mg (normal theraupetic dose) but, after the binge drinking incident, I'm super scared of trying it again because I don't wanna go there again. He thinks the binge drinking was the culprit and I still need to give the Prozac 2-4 more weeks at the FULL level (20mg) to see any benefits and I'm doing myself a disservice by quitting too early at a dose that's too low. Dose and Duration are the keys to the drugs anyway.
Need some advice. I'm going to take 2.5mg today just to "keep myself in the game" so it's still in my system but it seems that I almost feel worse on the Prozac than I do off but obviously its too soon to tell.
Let me know your thoughts!!!! Really don't want to quit too early and go through other med trials which are painstaking!!! :shock:
I am a 26 year old male with anxiety disorder and depression. More recently, I began having strange obsessive thoughts that my doctor thinks is connected to the depression and anxiety and NOT separate OCD.
But, regardless, I was put on Prozac 4 weeks ago. Started at 5MG and now at 15MG. Was "tolerating" it but not feeling any better and then decided to get wasted on Friday night and Saturday and Sunday were HORRENDOUS!!! I could not function, had suicidal thoughts, etc. I took .25 Klonopin and that helped calm me down through the weekend and then decided "screw prozac" and didn't take any yesterday or this morning. I already feel "better" but, obviously, without meds, I have the obsessive thinking/depression/and social anxiety.
My doctor thinks that the negative thinking is STILL due to underlying depression and wants me to, instead, RAMP UP the Prozac to the 20mg (normal theraupetic dose) but, after the binge drinking incident, I'm super scared of trying it again because I don't wanna go there again. He thinks the binge drinking was the culprit and I still need to give the Prozac 2-4 more weeks at the FULL level (20mg) to see any benefits and I'm doing myself a disservice by quitting too early at a dose that's too low. Dose and Duration are the keys to the drugs anyway.
Need some advice. I'm going to take 2.5mg today just to "keep myself in the game" so it's still in my system but it seems that I almost feel worse on the Prozac than I do off but obviously its too soon to tell.
Let me know your thoughts!!!! Really don't want to quit too early and go through other med trials which are painstaking!!! :shock: