Fluoxetine Health Feed

Dear Shantanu,
Please let me know since how long you are taking these medicines? Flunil will take at least 2-3 weeks to act. Please mention to your doctor about not getting any help. She/he may add another drug or change the dose or add therapy. All the best.

In every pregnancy (irrespective of you being on any medications) there is almost 3% risk of baby having malformation. As for fluvoxamine (fluvator) and flunil (fluoxetine, not much research is carried out on its effects on baby during pregnancy so it’s difficult to say if it will harm. However fluoxetine is considered one of the safer drugs. If possible contact your doctor and see if these medications can be stopped or atleast dose reduced to minimum during the course of your pregnancy. There...more

When was the last time you had an audiogram done? Please visit your audiologist and ent. The ent will check your ears and look for any pathology that may contraindicate the use of any hearing aid. If it's all clear, the ent will give you a clearance for hearing aid trial. Then visit your audiologist for best options in hearing aids. Yes digital hearing aids are better than analog hearing aids as the technology has improved. Kindly visit your audiologist for the best options among digital and ana...more

Dear user. I can understand. You are HEALTH ANXIOUS, it seems. Hypochondriasis is an Obsession with the idea of having a serious but undiagnosed medical condition. Health anxiety is not a serious mental disorder but without proper treatment the person affected could be depressed and continuously engaged in negative thoughts. I suggest online counseling, cognitive Behavior Therapy and Relaxation therapy. Take care.

Yes, you should go for cbt in tandem with the medication. You must go for counseling soon. Counseling will help in training you will skills and techniques to cope with the daily challenges in life and will give you a fair chance to manage your life. You must also develop your constitution to make it fit enough to cope with fear, felt many times unnecessarily. You may be taking normal fear and converting it into abnormal fear like anxiety and so on. Take care of the following: mental stability ca...more

Yes, you are right. You need cbt therapy to manage your intrusive negative thoughts which are the cause of your anxiety. I have treated many clients with this approach.

Yes you can combine cbt with medications, the improvement will be much better. Try it, but go for proper cbt specialist, as many do not now what cbt is and claim they can do and start giving advices, which is not cbt.

You have been on antidepressants and you may have to try Oxytal or Sodium Valproate along with current medication.

Hi, data on use of these medications in pregnancy is limited but studies have not found an increased risk of malformations in the baby with their (fluoxetine, chlorpromazine and risperidone) use in pregnancy. A detailed scan to look at the baby’s body parts should be performed between 18-20 weeks of pregnancy. The medicines should be switched to single instead of multiple if possible after review by the psychiatrist. Also, the baby needs to be observed after birth as it may show withdrawl symp...more

Can you please write a detailed history of illness and medication memory emotion and mental status and motivation since 20 years?