Fluoxetine Health Feed

Hello
Generalised anxiety disorder is very common and can be treated with the right intervention.
Your doctor has given you good medications. Infact all doctors have the best interest of the patient in their heart. Please try to develop faith on your doctor and only then does any mode of treatment work. Avoid googling excessively for medicines, effects and side effects. You will need to give atleast 2-3 weeks for the effect to come about.
Good luck.

Flunil (Fluoxetine) and Nexito (Escitalopram) both belong to class of SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor). They both are effective in a treatment of Depression, Anxiety Disordes and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a lot of other Psychiatric Disordes. The combination is usually safe for majority of people. These are not sedatives, however few people do feel sleepy and can be taken at night in such cases.
The best option for you may be to get back to treating Psychiatrist for speci...more

Dear lybrate-user
OCD is treatable and will improve soon
Clomipramine 25 mg twice daily
Yours is a little problem No need to worry. Have regular exercise like walking swimming cycling jogging with friends for one hour Holidays once in a week Yoga Take fish and vegetables.

Dear Lybrate user
mai apko suggest karungi ki ap medicine k sath sath counselling ki help bhi le. Counselling se ap ocd ki wajah se aane wale thoughts ko kese handle karna h sikh sakte hai. Counselling apko bhot help milegi. Thanks
divya gupta psychologist.

First of all your history has no points to suggest that you are having ocd. You seems to suffer from anxiety depression with alcohol abuse. Drug combination which you are having are probably not working for you. You can benefit by starting treatment after proper diagnosis. You may consult me or any psychiatrist for management of your problems. Take care.

There are many medications that are used for ocd and prodep 20 is one of them. Doses need to be titrated and also there may arise a need to titrate the medications or augment the treatment with other medications depending on your response to treatment. I hope that you are also using therapy in the form of counseling to help with your obsessive thoughts leading to compulsive behaviors and cbt is the preferred form of counseling. If you have further questions regarding side effects please ask them...more

I think there is need to optimise your treatment and enhance your social connections. I know it is difficult to find a meaningful reason to live sometimes. But it is a transient phase, keep calm and contact your paychiatrist for optimising your treatment and take cbt sessions from psychologist which will help you restructure your thoughts and thereby you shall know what to do for a living once you are better. All the best.

Yes you should decrease the dose of fluoxetine to 10 mg if you take ofloxacin otherwise take 20 mg.

No, fluoxetine does not decrease your bp. Headache is a temporary side effect of fluoxetine and it will go away within the first week. If the headache lasts longer, you can contact psychiatrist to change the medication.

Dear lybrate-user,
You should address your question to an Ayurveda doctor. Otherwise because of the word 'OCD' it comes to me, a psychiatrist.
Our way of OCD management is to prescribe Fluoxetine kind of medication at higher dose for many months, may be years. These medicines do not cause weight gain. Check out other causes of weight gain in your case.
We may add a psychotherapy to it, if necessary. I may take you up for cognitive therapy at your thinking level, with ERP (exposure an...more