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Prozac
I have a friend who recently started taking the antidepressant drug Prozac. The doctor told her she had post dramatic stress disorder and should take this. She didn't want to take it at all but her mom forces her 2 and watches her every move when she takes it. Since she's been taking this medicine(which has been about 3 weeks) she's been having severe chest pains, migraines, constant vomiting, loss of weight (20 pounds), and muscle spasms 2. I think she's going to become addicted to the drug soon if they don't take her off of it and become to the point where her body won't be able to live without it. I don't know what to tell her to do because she's just out of options. Any advice at all would go along way. Thanks
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Tell her AND her mom to go to the doctor! im guessing that you and your are teens in skool. Tell her to tell that doctor thats shes getting ALL of the symtoms. Its not goos for a teen to take something with attached symtoms. Well its not good for anyone actually but anyways.. if she's so stressed convince her mom to take her out of skool for a year so she can calm down and relieve some of that stress. Its not healthy! she could have a heart attach from it all. So have her see the doctor, and maybe if she does have all that stress help her find something natural not something medicated with attached symtoms.
good luck!
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Let me set your mind at ease. Prozac is not addictive. I have a terror of becoming addicted to anything (it runs in my family). I had a long conversation with my doctor about this when I was put on Prozac. Also, I was married to a man with PTSD. The symptoms your friend are having are consistant with severe anxiety disorder and PTSD. It takes up to three months for the full effects of Prozac to begin and that time period is every rough. Your friend will have changes in dosages depending on how the drug effects her through this time period. Also my husband was on three different drugs for his PTSD. If your friend can be helped by Prozac, it will be so much better than the narcotic and other drugs my ex was forced to take to treat his problem. Her mother is right to keep a close eye on your friend. My ex attempted suicide 3 times before we married because of his PTSD. It is a miserable soul distroying disorder. All you can do is be supportive and tell her to talk to her doctor as candidly as she can about how she is feeling and how the Prozac is effecting her.
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If her doctor put her on prozac for Post traumatic stress disorder then she'd better just remain on it until he tells her diffrent. You need to help her to stay on it and quit schemeing with her to find a way to go against her doctors orders. There are times when the benefits of a drug outweight the side effects. If she's having that many problems then her mom and her need to talk to her doctor and get the med changed. But she will probably just be put on another one. So try and help her see that she needs to let the medication help her, okay?
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does her mom know about these things? she should be told about them if she doesnt andtell the doctor about this to she if she can get a new anti-depressent drug-thingy. i hope she gets better too. let her know your worried and that you think its not a good thing for her to take prozac
Solemnstar
ps.it might also be a sideffect thats my take on this
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