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The adverse effects of Prozac can be traced to the drug's effect on brain chemistry. As Peter R. Breggin, M.D., explains in Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren't Te...
http://www.encognitive.com The adverse effects of Prozac can be traced to the drug's effect on brain chemistry. As Peter R. Breggin, M.D., explains in Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Today's Most Controversial Drug, Prozac acts as a stimulant to the nervous system.6 Therefore, it can produce side effects that mimic those of amphetamines and are exaggerations of the desired effects of Prozac in relieving depression.
According to Dr. Breggin, the FDA psychiatrist who wrote the agency's safety review of Prozac stated that the drug's effects--including nausea, insomnia and nervousness--resembled the profile of a stimulant drug, rather than a sedative.7 Dr. Breggin adds that nearly all of the side effects of Prozac listed in the Physician's Desk Reference "fit into the stimulant profile." Among others, these stimulant symptoms include headaches, nervousness, insomnia, anxiety, agitation, tremors, weight loss, nausea, diarrhea, mouth dryness, anorexia and excessive sweating.
In short, a drug that acts as a stimulant also can overstimulate the body systems. In his book, Dr. Breggin offers the example of a person who takes Prozac to relieve depression (the beneficial effect) and suffers from agitation and insomnia (the negative effects). These adverse effects "are inherent in the stimulant effect that produces feelings of energy and well-being," Dr. Breggin writes. "In this sense, the difference between 'therapeutic effects' and 'toxic effects' are merely steps along a continuum from mild to extreme toxicity."9
With that in mind, what follows is a discussion of some of the side effects that have been associated with Prozac:
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When I first started taking prozac after 2 weeks I was really irritable and aggresive and every now and again out of nowhere I became fixated on suicide, it would just pop into my head. I have thought about suicide before but never like that.
I was put on Prozac when I was 17 but stopped taking it after only 2 weeks as I was getting a horrible feeling at the back of my head like it was in a vice!! put me off taking any kind of anti depressent. The doctor found it all to easy to put me on prozac when really I think at the time I just needed someone to talk to
Prozac is a bag of balls, been on them for a long time- sure didn't feel suicidal anymore, but they've messed me up massively, i'm changing pills- good luck everyone else.
listen, genius, that's a big NO DUh. stop taking it. but if you reduce it and reduce over about 2 years, you can wean yourself off the psychiatrical, new world order, big pharma tit -- the drugs you're on -- and you won't feel like shit.
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good luck on it