Prozac--How hard is it to get off of it?

@RhodaK (177)
United States
May 23, 2007 7:30am CST
I have been depressed all my life and have been on Prozac, which has brought me out of the darkness, since 1989. Lately I feel as if it isn't working as well as it used to. How hard is it to wean yourself and get on something different?
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MAX1966
@MAX1966 (1029)
• Netherlands
26 Aug 07
it is very hard to do but i quitt taking them just like that. i hated it
666sjr666
@666sjr666 (3)
• United States
26 Aug 07
I dont know about everyone else, but I get migraine headaches when I try and get off of my prozac.
hcromer
@hcromer (2710)
• United States
23 May 07
I took Prozac for a couple of years. I didn't have a very hard time getting off of it at all actually. As long as you are going to try to start taking something different instead I think that you should be fine with it. It took me over a month to feel any side effects from coming off of it.
sammantha
@sammantha (278)
• United States
8 Jul 07
I was on for two days and it but me into a fog so I had to stop taking it.I can't really say in your case since you have been on it for so long.I would talk to your doctor about it first.Good liuck to you.
motherof35108
@motherof35108 (192)
• United States
23 May 07
i have been on depresion pills sence 2002 and i am still depressed. i am on zoloft and it is not working the way that i wasnt them to work.i do not know what to do anymore except take life the way i am sipposed to for alls i know. i do not know what else to do anymore.