Prozac a bust

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Prozac a bust
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Tue, 07-03-2007 - 7:24am

I haven't updated in a while, since I started the Prozac after my liver hypertotocity from all my meds I had been on. Well, after six weeks of trying it, the Prozac hasn't made things better. If anything, I've been having more depression. Since my pdoc and I agreed I'd go off it if there were problems, I stopped it two days ago. I see her again on the 12th.

My biggest issue are that I am having trouble with thought processing. I am slow which drives me nuts since I know I know it! I lose words. I lose my thought in the middle of talking. I can't concentrate well at all.

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Registered: 04-27-2006
In reply to: amcanmom
Tue, 07-03-2007 - 8:51am

Hi Step,


I am sorry to hear about the liver hypertocity. I don't know what mgs you were on of Prozac but I know for me I need to be on at least 40 mgs for it to work.


About the slowness and having a hard time with your thought process. Have you

     ~ Tina ~

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Registered: 09-01-2004
In reply to: amcanmom
Tue, 07-03-2007 - 1:32pm

Steph,


Sorry the Prozac didn't work-BTDT, it used to be my wonder drug, now does absolutely nothing for me!


I can definitely relate on those memory problems--I have modereate to severe problems--it's the main thing now that's keeping me on disability.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: amcanmom
Tue, 07-03-2007 - 5:19pm

Two of my kids have had neuropsychological evaluations and were diagnoses with premorbid Bipolar and ADD-Inattentive Type. I have just assumed since then that that is one of my problems.

I have had blood tests for all the things you are talking about and cl-kcsis talked about, too. Nothing there. As for blood work lately, well, yeah, a lot because of the liver thing. It was definitely my meds. Two weeks after I stopped my meds, my liver levels were back to normal from being seriously high. (I hate having blood work. I was one of those really lucky rare people who had a tech hit a nerve when drawing my blood. I was lucky because it didn't have the lasting effects or more serious affects that that can cause. It is extremely painful, though. The tech didn't even realize what had happened at the time because she was unaware of that being possible due to how rare it is to happen. >eye roll< It isn't like she's a newbie at it. I know her pretty well, and she's been doing this, and doing it well, for years.)

The docs have wanted me to have a sleep study for two years now, but I have no insurance so that's not happening until I get immigrated into Canada.

The problem is that when I was on all my meds and semi-stable, I wasn't having this problem. I guess I might have been having it before I got on the right meds, but I don't remember it being like this AT ALL. It seems new to me to feel this way. If it was something I'd always felt, I wouldn't be as concerned, but it's not.

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