Posted by bleauberry on October 13, 2013, at 17:24:42
In reply to It's Prozac for this guy!, posted by Christ_empowered on October 8, 2013, at 18:16:11
I was on prozac for quite a few years. It was the best of all the household name antidepressants. It hits some norepinephrine and dopamine in ways the others don't. It combined really well with zyprexa, and I think pretty much any antipsychotic. It did have some of the emotional numbing, but not as bad as the other ADs. And it had sort of stimulating side to it that sort of counter balanced that a bit. Best of the bunch in my journeys.
Being very sensitive I started with the orange juice trick, mixing the prozac powder from the capsule into juice and drinking a measured custom dose of any desired size. I started at 2mg and worked up. 20mg was my highest. I know someone who takes 60mg and they barely feel it, but someone else like me would feel overdosed on that.
Mileage varies so it is hard to say. I wouldn't worry about any interaction between prozac and any of your other meds. If there is your body will tell you and then you can adjust doses but I doubt that will happen. If anything, the interaction could likely be a good one.
The emotional numbing thing is something that almost all the psychiatric meds do, can do, or have done. But it varies from person to person. I think it is because the meds force excess serotonin to be taken up by dopamine receptors, thus either crowding out dopamine or corrupting the whole mechanism.
But I've had emotional numbing from too much ritalin or too much nortriptyline, which don't involve much serotonin, so who knows. I think emotional numbing maybe is just a sign that there is not a deficiency of something, but rather too much of something? I dunno.
Anyway, rambling, yeah, prozac, good.
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