prozac

[annag]

I've just finally been to the docs for my a.d's and he has given me prozac(fluxetine). Just a quick question if I start taking them tomorrow is it ok to have a few drinks in the Evening cause it's New Years Eve or is it best to avoid drinking altogether you get conflicting info off the net and I didn't ask the doc. I'm pretty scared about taking them as when I went on citilapram I got very suicidal and there in the same family I think. I'm the one who reads to the end of the contraindications for words and in some cases may cause death and decide that Iwill be the one in a million. I've got to take something cause I can't carry onlike I'm going getting all agrophobic etc. The doctor was really lovely not my normal one but young and sweet and he really seeemed to listen.My husband made me the appointment for me rang me up and told me to get ready and he took me and brought me home. Now I feel really bad for slagging him off so I take all the nasty things I've said back.

[francoise]

hi anna

i was on prozac for years actually and then they made me come off it a while back this is but it suited me so well , i wanted it this time but they wouldnt give it me , im on the citilapram now and it doesnt feel anything like prozac to me but we are all different , actually i was just asking my h.v about taking anti d,s and drinking and she asked how much i was drinking and i said a few times i had about five cans spread out through the day though and then i said usually i was just having a couple and she said it was fine but with prozac it was when i didnt drink , it was in those non drinking ten years as the last time i got drunk before that i really showed meself up at aclub and refused to drink afterwards , if i was you i would get an advice call tomorrow or tonight as they are open tomorrow i think , well ours is , im sure it must be , so ring to make sure hun ,

love francoise xxxx

[Vonda]

I think that I would ring your local chemist and ask the pharmacist if it is ok. I know when I first started on my anti~d's, they told me that it was a good idea to let my system get used to them before I thought about having a drink. i.e. give it a while first. You can always call NHS direct and ask them.

Have a great new year, whether you decide to drink or not.

Vonda

[scrumpy]

H Anna,
As Vonda says it may be best to ring Nhs Direct and ask them. I have a friend on prozac, and she does drink, but whether she did at the start I don't know. The info I was given while on citalopram was to avoid alcohol, but another friend of mine who is on that (not all my friends are on Ad's, Honest!) told me she drinks on it, so I did and felt fine.
Yes citalopram and prozac are the same group of drugs, SSRI's but the effect of the 2 will still be different. It's like there are hundreds of antibiotics that work on different bugs and have different side effects. Try not to worry too much about the possible side effects, they are very rare, but have to be written on the info to cover the drug companies. I'm a nurse and in my job I give tons of weird and wonderful drugs out to the kids I look after. To date not one has had any of the nasty reactions that are possible. I think the thing with the AD's is to take it slowly, and let them get into your system. Some of the nasty reactions such as suicidal thoughts only happen until your system gets used to the drug.
Good luck, hope the prozac works for you.
Love Toni.

[francoise]

ah there was a time when you would ask me what i done to get put off drink so much but i bet its a case of you can guess eh.....am i soo predictable

and anna your doc sounds quite dishy really

[annag]

fran
Whats with the new name? So what did you do I was being patiently polite in not asking but if your prepared to tell.

[francoise]

the new name is just me messing about really ...
i best put what i did on the sex thread i think.........drum roll .. tune in next thread to see what happened when fran got rat arsed on a night out with her mates ....

[francoise]

anna what happened with the anti, d,s then hun?

[annag]

I've decided not to start taking them till tomorrow then My husband will be off. I think I'll give it a few weeks before I even think of having a drink see how they kick in. Thanks for the replies.

[annag]

I just can't stop crying since I went to the docs yesterday about 3 hours solid this morning and I look very atractive. Is it because I've admitted how bad I feel and now it's overwhelming like it's swamping me. Who will do everything I wonder if I lie in bed for a week and refuse to participate. I think i know the answer to that one nobody at all so I don't have an option. To that end I feel really trapped like I am forced to live a role I don't feel capable of performing. Does that make any sense. How can I look after 3 children if I can't get myself washed and dressed or leave the house alone. I know I will have to and you all probably feel the same and you also have to. There are no fairy God mothers are there. Even reading this I feel really selfish like I need to get a grip. I feel really guilty for having a third baby when I new how I had been after the second. Especially when I had managed to sort myself out and the kids had a fully functioning mum again it was a very selfish thing to do. Not that I wish him away I don't at all I just wish I'd thought a bit more about what I was doing.

[lisa1234]

Hi Anna,

I took Prozac before and as far as I can remember I drank with them & was ok. Having read stuff on the web, I think the main prob with drinking on ADs is that it can increase side effects like nausea, nightmares, etc. If it's any help I drank straight away with my ADs (Efexor), then again I'm a bad girl and my lead should not be followed.

Love Lisa xxx

[scrumpy]

Hi Anna,
sorry you are feeling so low. I agree that it is probably things coming to a head now that you have admitted to the gp how bad you feel.
Please believe that you are not selfish and should not feel guilty for having had another child. wanting children is a perfectly natural thing, and you were not to know that this would happen again. Try and take heart in the fact that you recovered from Pni last time round, and you will recover again. You have made the 1st step in getting help, and that is a major hurdle to get over. I suffered in silence for over a year before I got help, so I admire you for getting help so soon.
Just don't expect too much from yourself right now. If the house work doesn't get done who cares. The main thing is that your kids know that you love them.
Once you start the AD's and they kick in hopefully things will start to look brighter.
I actually admire you for having been brave enough to have another child having been through PNI once. I am at the stage now when I really want another, but a year ago I thought there was no way I could ever have any more. All the main symptoms of my PNI seemed to centre around this complete hatred of my own child. I couldn't bear to be around her, and dreaded being alone with her. I spent hours wandering the streets, as when she was in her buggy I didn't have to have any contact with her. I just couldn't believe that I didn't love this baby, for who I had been through hell trying to conceive.
And now I want another one. I have convinced myself that next time round it will be ok. Hopefully if i do have more the circumstances around the time of the birth will be happier, I don't intend to lose any more close friends 2 days before giving birth.
I think the human brain has a huge capacity to blot out unpleasant experiences, for example no one remembers what pain is like after the event. I think it is the same with PNI. Once you have recovered it is impossible to remember exactly how you felt at the lowest point of the illness. You remember feeling crap but not actually HOW it felt, if you get what I mean.
The first 6 months or so of Erin's life are a complete haze to me. It's how the body protects itself. Otherwise I don't think any of us would ever be able to have more children after going through this hell. So it is only natural that once you recovered you felt the need to have another child. Once this is all over for you again you will look back and think 'thank god i made the decision to have this wonderful child'.
This is just my opinion, but I hope it helps, Anna.
I hope I can follow my own advice if I ever have any more!!
Take care
Love Toni

[annag]

I feel really vague this morning and sick. I really hope it's not the tablets. I do worry about driving with the kids in the car when I feel bad. If I don't take them to school/nursery then thats worse and I don't know anybody else to ask to take them. I could walk but it's at least 2 miles to nursery and don't fancy a 4 mile trek in the rain.

[jennie]

hi Anna ,
Have you done the school run?Hadn't read any of this thread before....
you know how you described having your third child that's exactly how I was when expecting and having Dylan,like what on earth was I doing risking my family by having a second child when I was so ill with my first....She was coming up for her 4th birthday and I wasn't fully recovered.....

My therapist advised me too look at the gift I had given Isabelle rather than worry about how much one to one I can no longer give her....

They have a relationship between each other which is nothing to do with me...it's so amazing to watch and listen too them!

Alcohol and antidees I was told can make you a bit manic and that's certaintly true with me.But then I've always been a bit of a secret show-off! and a bit loopy...

[annag]

Hi been out felt like my head was on another planet and wanted to turn around. Smiled like a looney at the nursery staff whilst thinking please don't let me pass out. George wanted to play a game of lets stick my head up Mummys jumper. Now I have to go out again and the babies crying on joy!