Before I start I just want to say that I was always an outgoing, extroverted kid. I was always nice to everyone and always had many close relationships with friends. I loved life as a kid. With that being said, here’s my story. When I was 13 my parents got divorced.
Fluoxetine
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Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 2 corroborating sources
- no dose data
- 28 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Encyclopedic
Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 2 corroborating sources
- no dose data
- 28 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Aliases: Prozac, Zactin, Sarafem
Summary
Fluoxetine is a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) which is widely prescribed in the treatment of depression. It is also used in the treatment of alcohol dependence and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Tolerance
Build-up
therapeutic effects take 2–6 weeks to stabilize; this is receptor adaptation, not traditional tolerance
Reset
discontinuation effects can last weeks; taper recommended
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
3d
Half tolerance
18d
Baseline
~30d
Effects
Aggregated from 11 single-substance Erowid experience reports; 64 Erowid reports where another drug was taken too are left out
Each bar shows the share of analyzed reports whose text mentions that effect — a mention is not always a first-hand experience (fear of an effect or something witnessed can count). Mentions saying the effect did not happen are left out; that check reads keywords, so it can miss some. The shaded band on a bar, and the small range after its number, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind. Fewer reports, wider band. Tap or hover any number for details. The second value is the Bluelight extractor's per-effect confidence; a dash means the row is Erowid-derived, which has no confidence measurement.
Too few reports for bars: these effects come from 11 single-substance Erowid reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?
Effect glossary — · full glossary
Positive Effects 2
3 of 11
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3 of 11
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Adverse Effects 2
5 of 11
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4 of 11
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Also reported in combinations. In the 64 Fluoxetine reports where another drug was taken too, 13 (20.3%) mention hospital, emergency services or an overdose, 2 (3.1%) a seizure and 3 (4.7%) psychosis. In the 11 single-substance reports: 3, 0 and 0. These are not in the figures above: they cannot be put down to Fluoxetine alone, and a mention is not always something that happened to the writer.
Combinations
Cross-Check Fluoxetine with another substanceCommunity Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, Bluelight, and Dose.wiki. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance. Tags summarise each author's own verdict — how reports are classified.
Erowid 8 reports 1 neutral 7 cautionary visit
I had been battling depression for about a year, and my doctor had prescribed me 40mg of Prozac (fluoxetine) daily. I was fighting regularly with my parents and friends, and one night after a particularly bad argument, found myself kicked out of my house with nowhere to go.
I take a few of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and herbs to be high or enhance my mind for some situation, like work or study. I'm a pharmacist, and I studied the role of catecholamines (serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine specially) and brain function, translating to how these substances take people high in different w...
It was just a normal summer night. My buds decided to come chill at my house for a lil bit and they were interested in trying some methylphendiate (generic ritalin). so i went inside to the medicine cabinet and got 2 small pills. As i rummaged around through the cabinet I noticed my mothers depression medication.
The year that my parents decided that I was depressed was when I was 15; a sophomore in high school. They didnt really know me, and I suppose I preferred it this way, but eventually they came to the conclusion that I was anti-social and depressed, so they set up a meeting with a counsellor for me.
I was put on 20 mg of Prozac daily at the age of 16, in an attempt to lessen the effects of bulimia and bipolar disorder on my life. At first, everything seemed to be going fine - the only problem I ran into was the obvious problem of a bulimic taking oral medicine - the medicine induced cravings, which would make me b...
Eleven months ago (September) I went to a psychiatrist and was diagnosed as having a severe anxiety disorder. The psychiatrist prescribed me 25mg of prozac daily and sent me on my way. Over the next few months I had very little contact with him, approx. 15 mins every 3 weeks or so and recieved no real counseling.
I was diagnosed with depression in December 2002, and given a prescription for Prozac for 9 months. I took the Prozac between Dec 2002 and May 2003. It made me feel slightly 'disconnected', but I didn't think this was noticeable until my brother mentioned it one day.
Bluelight 1 thread 1 cautionary visit
As many of you may know (because I've talked about it so much lol), I've taken virtually every antidepressant drug on the market today. Here's a partial list of some of the tricyclics, antipsychotics, SSRIs, and other psychiatric meds I've been prescribed: Effexor Lexapro Prozac Luvox Anafranil Risperdal Cymbalta Elavi...
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