Re: Re: Weaning off SSRIs (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors)

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I actually lost weight on prozac! Quite a lot actually, it took me a while to ' get on this drug' and then it didnt really work

That's interesting because this website connects SSRIs with leaky gut syndrome too. It obviously has some effect on digestion.http://cellulitehelpweb.com/2011/02/leaky-gut-syndrome-symptom/Miriam> I actually read that SSRIS can induce metabolic syndrome. after 6 months of prozac, i had put on 3 stone around my abdomen.

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The anger I experienced at the time was quite frightening to me, my children we only young and I think I was quite nasty to them at the time. I couldnt understand why I felt like it.

I am on citalopram now and very happy with it but SSRI's are triky and affect people in different ways, prozac gave me panic attacks and didnt work very well

Interesting about stopping it and getting extreme anger:i'd never touch an ssri again. http://www.narpa.org/prozac.revisited.htm"A relationship, however, was found in a Globe search of US patents. The patent for the new Prozac or R-fluoxetine (US Patent no. 5,708,035), which Lilly will market after the existing patent expires in 2001, contains a wealth of information about the original Prozac. According to the patent, the new >> Hi,> I have experience of SSRI's and took Seroxat for many years. At the time when I took it I knew nothing about anti depressants, I was about 26, am now 42. No one told me it couldnt be stopped abruptly I was just given them and left too it. Seroxat worked extremely well for me and I think I took it for about 12 yrs, I did though stop it a few times, for no reason, and also missed doses, which

isnt advisable.> These drugs are classed as non addictive, what you think is addiction is actually discontinuation symptoms, same thing I think.> I do remember having feelings of extreme anger when not taking it, which I didnt relate to the drug at the time but now see it was defintly withdrawal, I also remember having the worst headache ever for months.